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  • Nighthawk One

    Recollections of a Helicopter Pilot's Tour of Duty in Northern Ireland during the Troubles

    by Peter Shaw ...
    Flying light helicopters in Northern Ireland during the Troubles was a dangerous and demanding task. Terrorists were determined to prosecute a campaign against military aircraft operating in South Armagh and beyond, whilst roadside bombs made the security forces dependent on helicopters for surveillance and troop movements. The Westland Gazelle is one of the longest serving and most successful ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geology and Tectonics of Northwestern South America

    The Pacific-Caribbean-Andean Junction

    Edited by Fabio Cediel, Robert Peter Shaw ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geological evolution of the Northern Andes and contiguous shield areas, with a focus upon Colombia. Updated geological interpretations are supported by modern lithogeochemical, seismic, gravity and magnetic data and radiogenic isotope and radiometric age determinations. The composite data permits a detailed interpretation of the tectono-magmatic ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • While They Were Dying

    The Road to Iraq

    by Samuel Peter Shaw ...
    Samuel Peter Shaws drama of love and betrayal is peopled by the Sink Set, a group of fickle, moneyed sophisticates living in London's leafy southern suburbs. For all but one of them, the Iraq War is sobering but coincidental, a backdrop against which they shrug and carry on. Colly Wolfson, a member of the Set, is a forty-something prize-winning architect and builder; wealthy, debonair, popular. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Character of John Adams

    by Peter Shaw ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by Shaw’s penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention is given to his clash of wills with Franklin in Europe and his later relationship with Jefferson. The account of Adams’s twenty-five years of retirement after losing the presidency resolves some of the dilemmas arising from the long career of a man ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Bridge Loads

    An International Perspective

    by Colin O'Connor, Peter Shaw ...
    This book provides a detailed summary of bridge loads from an international perspective. The authors cover all aspects from the methodology behind the calculation of bridge loads and the complex interactions between loads and bridges, to economic considerations. A wide range of bridge loads are covered, including highway vehicle loads, pedestrian l ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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  • Wings on My Sleeve

    The Legendary Autobiography of Britain's Greatest Ever Test Pilot

    by Captain Eric Brown ...
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    $4.99 USD

  • Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

    Special Volumes of Geomorphology

    by Edgardo Latrubesse ...
    Series Book 13 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • A Bucket of Sunshine

    Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron

    by Mike Brooke ...
    A Bucket of Sunshine - a term used for the use of a nuclear bomb - is a firsthand insight into life in the mid-1960s on a RAF Canberra nuclear-armed squadron in West Germany on the frontline in the Cold War. Mike Brookes describes not only the technical aspect of the aircraft and its nuclear and conventional roles and weapons, but also majors on the low-level flying that went with the job of being ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands

    Science and Conservation

    Edited by Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Ricardo F. de Lima, Martim Melo, Rayna C. Bell ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the biodiversity of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, a biodiversity hotspot off the west coast of Central Africa. Written by experts, the book compiles data from a plethora of sources – archives, museums, bibliography, official reports and previously unpublished data – to provide readers with the most updated information about ... Read more

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  • At My Mother's Knee...

    and other low joints

    by Paul O'Grady ...
    Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4.Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O'Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long ... Read more

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  • São Francisco Craton, Eastern Brazil

    Tectonic Genealogy of a Miniature Continent

    Edited by Umberto G. Cordani, Fernando F. Alkmim, Monica Heilbron ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The region of the São Francisco river valley in eastern Brazil encompasses two main components of the geologic framework of the South American continent: the São Francisco craton and its marginal orogenic belts. Cratons, as the oldest, differentiated and relatively stable pieces of the continental lithosphere, preserve a substantial part of the Earth's memory. Orogenic belts, on the other hand, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD