Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. — New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc, 1921. — 272 p. Their Theory and Principles of Design. The Induction Motor, or Rotary Field Motor, was invented by Mr. Nikola Tesla, in 1888, a year so memorable for the experimental corroboration by Hertz of Maxwell's electromagnetic waves, a piece of work so shrewdly designated by Oliver Heaviside...
In partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Art History and Visual Culture. — Ontario, The University of Guelph, 2015. — 83 p. Fantasy and reality, truth and fiction, original and copy. These are the binaries that divide us and define us. Peter S. Beagle’s novel The Last Unicorn describes a “Midnight Carnival” overseen by an old witch named Mommy...
Washington: Office of Naval Researching, 1961. — 124 p. Since man has actually accomplished the historical task of ballistic flight (Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961, and Gus Grissom, July 21, 1961), and of orbital flight (Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, and Gherman Titov, August 6, 1961), a compilation of events which have contributed to these brilliant feats is considered essential....
Thesis submitted to the Faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence. — Bethesda: Defense Intelligence College, 1985. — 133 p. 'Soviet special operations forces or SPETSNAZ (spetsial 'noye naznacheniye) are often misidentified, commonly attributed with performing "super-human" endeavors, and are usually...
Mexico: Manuel Cambeses, 1887. — 102 p. The Spanish phrase-book, or, Key to Spanish conversation: containing the chief idioms of the Spanish language with the conjugations of the auxiliary and regular verbs...
Second edition. — Reston: Reston Pablishing Company Inc, 1980. — 493 p. — ISBN: 0-8359-1634-0 This is the second edition of Fundamentals of Electronic Devices, now renamed Electronic Devices and Circuits to more correcdy describe the contents of the book. As in the first edition, my objectives are to clearly explain the operation of all important electronic devices in general...
US Army War College: Parameters, 1990. — P.20-32. The Khalkhin Gol incident is best approached within the context of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45. The Japanese, having long sought to replace the Chinese and Russians as the dominant power factors in Manchuria, succeeded in establishing a puppet state there in 1931 which they called Manchukuo. With the advance of Japanese...
NASA: 1965. — 56 p. Characteristics of lunar landing research vehicle. This paper presents the significant technical details and research capabilities of a free-flight lunar - landing simulator as they existed at the time of the initial flights of the vehicle. The lunar-landing research vehicle (LLRV) consists of a pyramid- shaped structural frame with four truss-type legs. A...
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1947. — 516 p. Developments in adhesives have closely paralleled developments in high polymers. For some unexplained reasons, adhesives have been deemed insignificant in comparison with the more colorful and utilitarian molded, laminated, and cast plastics. From a quantity production viewpoint, adhesives are not far removed from the...
London: Virgin Books, 1996. — 224 p. Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) is the world's premier elite fighting force. The regiment is home to the most highly trained and deadly soldiers ever to do battle and their reputation is that of ruthless efficiency. Whether operating deep behind enemy lines in a desert or jungle conflict, or tackling terrorism head on, the...
London: Bemrose & Sons Ltd, 1898. — 242 p. Further Information relating to these Factories, obtained from Original Documents, not hitherto. It will be seen in the following pages that some dates and theories relating to the Bow, Chelsea, and Derby Porcelain Works, and their products, which have been so long accepted, must be greatly modified, and an earlier date given to the...
London: Bemrose and Sons Ltd, 1906. — 248 p. The interesting story of William Littler and his early attempt to make porcelain in Staffordshire, circa 1745, seems to have been overshadowed by the great output of earthenware — including the delicate salt-glaze, Elers ware, the useful Whieldon, and other similar wares, and by the rising genius of the master potter, Josiah...
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc, 1950. — 292 p. Do you want a position of greater responsibility? If you do, you are probably seeking to be a leader. For positions of high responsibility usually mean directing the efforts of other people. And this is leadership. If you are a young man or woman intent on advancement on the job or in clubs or other social organizations,...
Munich: The Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development (AGARD), 1956. — 420 p. AGARD First Guided Missiles Seminar. In Germany, comprehensive research and development of this subject had been started. Numerous missiles had been constructed, and various types were developed ready for active service and were built in large numbers. The considerable experience in...
The Research Department Air Command and Staff College, 1997. — 34 p. The United States war production capacity played a significant role in the Allied victory in World War II. The aircraft industry in particular rallied to mass produce thousands of aircraft to support the war efforts in both theaters. Mass production led to the dilemma of sacrificing quantity for quality. This...
Course Guidebook. — The Teaching Company, 2013. — 360 p. Much has been written about the foundations of Western civilization, from Greek and Roman antiquity through to the present day. Yet Eastern civilizations have also played a signifcant role in shaping our world, and to truly understand the modern world, it is essential to know something about the many extraordinary...
A Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Agriculture. — Sydney: The University of Sydney, 1984. — 132 p. The macadamia is a new crop species. Almost of the developmental work for its introduction as a commercial crop was done in Hawaii. However, yield of macadamia nuts exhibits a strong genotype environment Interaction and Hawaiian...
Peter Peregrinus Ltd, 1993. — 250 p. In 1930 the behaviour of the many devices and systems incorporating feedback loops was poorly understood: at the most fundamental level there was still confusion between positive and negative feedback. The crucial role of time delays-both time constants and transport lags -was not understood and engineers attempting to build control systems...
Third Edition. — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Sciences, Dept. of Family Medicine Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2014. — 93 p. Very few topics in anthropology are as exotic as cannibalism. We might like to think of ourselves as open-minded and adventurous, but we still recoil at the thought of eating human flesh. Cannibalism, as much as any other practice, still...
Paris: Perrin, 2006. — 575 p. — EAN : 978-2-262-03859-5. Parmi les généraux de la Wehrmacht, l'armée du IIIe Reich, il y avait plusieurs excellents tacticiens, mais un seul grand stratège : le feld-maréchal Erich von Manstein. La légende militaire en a fait le plus grand manoeuvrier de la guerre. D'où l'importance de cette biographie critique, la première du genre, qui fait la...
Rochelle Park: Hayden Book Company, 1974. — 106 p. — ISBN 0-8104-5934-5. My fascination with the laser began many years ago. In the summer of 1960, as a fledgling technical reporter, I attended the first press conference held by Dr. T. H. Maiman (then of Hughes Aircraft Corporation) to announce his development of the ruby laser. The device was clearly revolutionary, thoroughly...
Boulder: Paladin Press, 1989. — 96 p. — ISBN 0-87364-500-6. When we were young, my brothers and I often engaged in a bit of whimsy. We risked nothing but our ideas, and the game often went on for days. What, we liked to speculate, would be the deadliest weapon we could ever hope to own and use? Perhaps because our scope was limited by the realities of life as farm boys, we did...
Chicago: Augusta Geringera, 1896. — 559 s. Cesko-Americka literatura postrádala posud dobrého a spolehlivého díla o umění kuchařském. Sice již několikráte konaly se pokusy napsati kuchařskou knihu pro česko-americké domácnosti, avšak výsledkem bylo vždy dílo povrchní, kusé a nedostatečné. Není tedy divu, že naše kuchařky sahaly raději ku knihám1 českým, ačkoliv v převážných...
Brescia: Fabbrlcs d'Arml Pietro Beretta S.p.A. — 40 p. The AR 701.22 - rifle 's a light weigh!, air cooled, gas operated magazine fed, shoulder weapon, designed for semiautomatic or full automatic fire at the cyclic rate of c. 700 rounds per minute. The rifle is chambered for 5.56 mm (.223) cartridges and is designed to accomodate a iO-round magazine. The rifle is fitted with a...
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1950. — 436 p. With illustrations. Soviet Union: Physical geography, Botany, Zoology. The Russian Translation Project of the American Council of Learned Societies was organized in 1944 with the aid of a subsidy from the Humanities Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. The aim of the Project is the translation into English of significant Russian...
Brussels, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2014. — 814 p. These Second World War trials were conducted in different countries and in different working languages. As a result, they are not as accessible as trials whose proceedings were conducted or recorded in English. The records of some have also just been released or made widely available. They therefore very much remain...
Stockholm: The Swedish Olympic Committee, 1912. — 1117 p. The Swedish Olympic Committee for the Olympic Games of Stockholm, 1912, considered it to be its duty to publish a full report of the Fifth Olympiad and its competitions, but it was not before the beginning of 1913, when the somewhat lengthy process of winding up the affairs of the vast organization for the Games was...
Cambridge, Massachusetts, London: Harvard University Press, 2012. — 407 p. On June 22, 1941, the German army invaded the Soviet Union. In six months, 4.5 million Soviet soldiers were dead, large parts of the country were in German hands, and the Soviet capital had been evacuated. Less than four years later, Soviet troops conquered Berlin, having played a leading role in winning...
Unknown Artist. — Berlitz Publications Inc, 1965. — 64 kbps — Duration 1 h 38 min. German-english study manual 2 records plus easy-to-use verb finder. It is really much easier to communicate in a foreign language than you may think. Most people, when confronted with a foreign language, have been discouraged by the endless lists of irregular verbs, declensions of pronouns and...
Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1986. — 781 p. This course is designed as a textbook for engineering students. It embraces the topics in mathematical analysis usually included into curricula of technical colleges. The course also contains some optional material which may be omitted in a first reading of the book; the corresponding items are marked with the asterisk. There are a number...
Coulsdon: Jane's Publishing Company Ltd, 1988. — ISBN: 0-7106-0528-5. North Korea fields one of the world's largest armies, tasked with annihilating U.S. and South Korean forces and reuniting the two Koreas. At the tip of the North Koreans' spear is the largest special operations force in the world... Updating and expanding his original 1988 study, Joseph Bermudez includes in...
Croatian. — Zagreb: Minerva, 1940. — 399 s. Već sam početak Svjetskoga rata oborio je sva ranija nagađanja i predviđanja o tome kako rat djeluje na pučanstvo i na privredu, štaviše, pokazao je, da su bili pogrešni i svi vojnički planovi i računi. Čitava se Evropa odjednom našla U silnom metežu, stari je svijet potpuno izmijenio svoje uobičajeno svakodnevno lice. I ubrzo je...
A thesis submitted to Mc Gill University in partial fulfillment ofthe requirements of the degree of Doctor ofPhilosophy. — Montreal, Department of History Mc Gill University, 2004. — 525 p. An essential and critical component of the orders German front-line formations received in the ideological war against the Soviet Union was the Commissar Order of 6 June 1941. This order,...
Chicago: Producers Service Company, 1916. — 200 p. A Technical Treatise on Make-up, Costumes and Expression Containing Full Directions for the Use of Cosmetics before The Camera, The Costume Requirements and Color Schemes necessary to get the Proper Effect, togethe with 191 poser photographs of motion Picture Stars, Showing 499 Different Expressions and Emotions. The present...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1913. — 360 p. 30 plates plus diagrams. The scope of the book is indicated by the arrangement and character of the chapters. I have divided the treatment of the subject into four main parts. The first part relates to the fundamental principles of flight ; the second part is concerned with practical accomplishment ; it refers in detail to the work...
London: The Athlone Press Ltd, 1995. — 345 p. — ISBN 0 485 11447 X. During the first half of the twentieth century, Tibet began to open its doors to a fascinated West. When Colonel Younghusband led his expeditionary force to Lhasa in 1904, a team of journalists went along and in no time were producing books about their experiences. A British survey team was given access to...
London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. — 582 p. So many claims to the first invention of the motor car have been made on behalf of both individuals and countries, that it is well to go back through the early history of mechanical traction in the endeavour to discover to whom actually belongs the credit for the genesis of the modern automobile. In the pursuit of this...
Milano: Ugo Mursia, 1995. — 123 p. Le operazioni delle squadre segrete che nel 1944 combatterono al fianco dei tedeschi. Una vicenda rimasta nascosta per oltre mezzo secolo, quella del «Gruppo Ceccacci», emanazione della prima compagnia del Battaglione N.R Un’avventura che si inaugura nel gennaio del 1944, quando il «Gruppo» lascia la base di desolo e parte per il fronte, verso...
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1906. — 419 p. The accession of the young King, then only three-and-twenty years of age, brought to the City as well as to the Country, a welcome period of rest and peace and prosperity. These precious gifts were secured by the ceaseless watchfulness of the King, whose itinerary shows that he was a most unwearied traveller, with a determined purpose...
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1906. — 436 p. Before entering upon the government of London under the Plantagenet Kings, let us first ask what are the documents in which we shall find information at first hand. No city in the world possesses a collection of archives so ancient and so complete as the collection at the Guildhall. Riley, in his Introduction to the Liber Aldus, begins...
Berlin: Ministerrat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik Ministerium für Nationale Verteidigung, 1985. — 96 S. Maschinenpistole AK74 und leichtes Maschinengewehr RPK74, Beschreibung und Nutzung, wird erlassen und tritt am 01.07.1985 in Kraft. Bestimmung, Kampfeigenschaften sowie taktische und technische Angaben Aufbau Allgemeines Lauf mit Verbindungsstück und Gehäuse...
Revised from the 1971 Russian edition. — Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1985. — 78 p. Drawing a plane figure is not geometrically difficult because the image drawn is either an exact copy of the original or a similar figure, e.g. the drawing of a circle looks like the original circle. Drawing geometric solids is quite a different matter. Unfortunately, there are no "spatial pencils"...
Toronto: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1958. — 600 p. The guided missile and space slight practitioner will find here the first unclassified complete handbook in his field. Preliminary designs and parametric studies important in weapon system analysis can be made from these equations, formulas, graphs and tables.
Barselona: Sucesores de Manuel Soler, 1921. — 283 s. Algo, no mucho, he titubeado antes de consignar la palabra argot como principal epígrafe de este modesto ensayo, porque aunque el argot, según autoridades de la lengua, sea la traducción francesa de germania ó jerga que define la Academia española diciendo: «Es una manera de hablar de los gitanos ó de los ladrones y rufianes,...
New York: U.S. Army Russian Institute, 1976. — 53 p. This study examines Soviet tactical doctrine for the conduct of military operations during periods of darkness, and, to a lesser extent, under conditions of limited visibility (fog, rain, snow or the use of smoke). Soviet tactics and special techniques for night combat are developed in detail for battalion through squad level...
Chucago: Clark & Longley, 1885. — 7 p. During the last decade great advances have been made in aural therapeutics. The old remedies heretofore employed have in a great measure been substituted by others, whose introduction was actuated by the revolutionary antiseptic measures pervading all branches of medicine. Aurists were not behind hand in applying the principles expounded by...
London: Aldershort and Portsmount, 1908. — 73 p. Each sword is accompanied by a notice, and when applicable by the hypothetical geometric construction that gave the design according to Peter Johnsson’s research. A few information panels are scattered throughout the exhibition... Towards the end of the exhibition there is a beautiful room on the use of geometry for design,...