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Relive train travel's earliest days with this splendidly illustrated story of steam locomotion, from "teakettles" to "titans." Working from builders'...

Research in Electric Power comprises the lectures presented in the Cornell University Lecture in 1965, which focuses on the research...

In Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and Ecocide law expert Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate how our planet is...

The outbreak of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland in 1968 found many of the local police and army auxiliary units...

Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than...

An essential new account of some of the most valuable research and development in international military history. Roy F. Houchin II...

The story of 488 RNZAF Squadron during the fall of Singapore early in 1942.This gripping history has been written using...

The end of WW2 and the early Cold War years saw the need for a more powerful tank than the...

In this groundbreaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden...

Octave Mirbeau was born in Trévières, Normandy, on 16 February 1848. He had a quiet childhood, which seemingly came to...

This book is a fascinating discussion of the development of the military equipment of the earliest organized armies. Dan Howard...

After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile...

This book presents a cultural perspective on scientific and technological development. As opposed to the "story-lines" of economic innovation and...

Industrial Revolutionaries is the second volume in William Gurstelle's unique exploration of history's great inventors. Each chapter revisits the life...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Author: Batterberry, Michael Author: Batterberry, Ariane Publisher......

Originally published in 1908. One of the earliest books on bee keeping and the natural history of the honey bee....

In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide,...

They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. This is the story of...

“Engineers are titans of real-world problem-solving. . . . In this riveting study of how they think, [Guru Madhavan] puts...

The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the...