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  • South Pacific Air War

    The Role of Airpower in the New Guinea and Solomon Island Campaigns, January 1943 to February 1944

    by Richard Dunn ...
    A new history of the South Pacific campaigns based primarily upon primary source material ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Navigational Instruments

    by Richard Dunn ...
    Series Book 820 - Shire Library
    With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history.As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated. The development of instruments over the last five hundred years has ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • How I Shot the YouTube Megahit “All by Myself” on My iPhone and Why I’m Not Lonely Anymore

    by Richard Dunn ...
    This funny guide to shooting videos on your iPhone will inspire you to use your imagination and see the world in a different way. Dunn provides a firsthand account of what it’s like go from unknown to Internet Celebrity overnight. With 20 million hits and an ever-growing number of fans, Dunn traces the steps he took to create this remarkable video all the way to his final meeting with... CÉLINE ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Ships, Clocks, and Stars

    The Quest for Longitude

    An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship's precise longitude at sea.A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve "the longitude problem," the question of how to determine a ship's position at sea—and one that changed the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Board of Longitude

    Science, Innovation and Empire

    In the first book-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians of science bring to life one of Georgian Britain's most important scientific institutions. Having developed in the eighteenth century following legislation offering rewards for methods to determine longitude at sea, the Board came to support the work of navigators, instrument makers, clockmakers and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Sextants at Greenwich

    A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles and Artificial Horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

    Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum. The first section gives a general overview of the history of celestial navigation with an emphasis on the instruments that were developed and used for that purpose, between about 1450 and the 1970s. The instruments in the catalogue form the ... Read more

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  • Effective Teaching

    First Published in 2004. In the nineteenth century, teacher training institutions were called 'normal schools', because it was assumed that there was only one way to teach - the 'norm'. Today there is no single style of teaching endorsed by everyone. How teachers teach depends on factors like the age and ability of the children, their background and needs, the nature of the subject or topic being ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults

    Life-Giving Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation

    Between adolescence and adulthood is a new stage of life: *emerging adulthood.*Those in their twenties and early thirties find themselves in transition. This "provisional adulthood" is a time of identity exploration and instability in whichone's vocation, purpose, relationships and spirituality are all being renegotiated. Many emerging adults lose sight of God and experience significant confusion ... Read more

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  • Sugar and Slaves

    The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Lovers From The Shadows

    A guidebook for people in, out of or between relationships with stories and meditation exercises to help you learn about and relate to the "hidden lovers" in Cupid's plan based on the theories and principles of Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good Birders Still Don't Wear White

    Passionate Birders Share the Joy of Watching Birds

    Avid North American birders share wit, wisdom, advice, and what fuels their passion for birds.Birding gets you outside, helps you de-stress, exercises your body and mind, puts your day-to-day problems in perspective, and can be lots of fun. Birders know this, and in this collection of thirty-seven brief essays, birders from diverse backgrounds share their sense of wonder, joy, and purpose about ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus