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The Scramble for Africa in the 1880s showed European interest in Africa at its most intense and today evokes a picture of the great European powers engaged in a frantic struggle for supremacy and for control of Africa and its resources. Eve Pollecoff here tells the story of Otto Markus – ‘Pioneer...
Riverside County encompasses more than two million people and most of the width of California, from Los Angeles’s eastern suburbs to the Arizona state line at the Colorado River. Historian Steve Loch captures the vanished past of this vast swath of deserts and mountains—the eras of Spanish and then...
Pioneers of Capitalism
Halley VI Research Station is the first fully re-locatable research station in the world. It was commissioned in 2006 and its unique and innovative structure was the result of an international design competition in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The research...
Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life. This is the story of the surgeon many call the father of open-heart surgery, Dr. C. Walton...
A beautifully designed gift book devoted to the work of Christopher Dresser, one of the most influential British designers of all time.
Flying ‘Anything to Anywhere’: the life of pilot Pauline Gower, MBE, who led the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary during WW2
The definitive Rickenbacker book, featuring original and archive photography, interviews and exhaustive detail on the iconic guitar brand.
This book brings together a collection of writings over the past half century from Professor Paul Rogers. As a leading peace researcher he has gained an international reputation for the critical, independent and rigorous analysis of international security and the underlying causes of global...
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Brings the history of psychology to life.
Lists the seminal and pioneering research efforts conducted by a limited group of scholars from different disciplines that challenged traditional thought on small business and entrepreneurship – these pioneers and their specific contributions transformed our thinking about entrepreneurs.
Canine Pioneer – The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel
MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) undertook evaluation and subsequent excavation at Wollaston Quarry, near Wellingborough through the 1990s. These excavations took place in advance of gravel extraction on land to the north and south of Hardwater Road, Wollaston. The archaeological work found Iron...
A collection of stories by Australia s most significant Yiddish writer translated into English, some never before published. Goldhar was the literary voice of his generation, as well as a leading cultural and social commentator. This new collection will ensure that this wonderful writer is not...
This little book of “Pioneer Recollections” is published on the urgent solicitation of many friends; it is not intended as a history of Lansing; simply some of the recollections of the author, and dealing for the most part with the pre-historic period of the first ten years of the founding and...
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 sank or crippled almost all of the battleships belonging to the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet, but the fleet’s aircraft carriers survived to demonstrate that naval aviation was now the dominant factor in the struggle at sea, turning the tide of the...
In just seven symbols, with profound and beautiful simplicity, Euler’s Equation connects five of the most important numbers in mathematics. Robin Wilson explores each number in turn, then brings them together to consider the power of the equation as a whole.
In charting the life and times of Gordon Stretton, this text makes a major contribution to both jazz and popular music studies. By asking historians to re-evaluate the contributions made to the development of jazz by those “other than” African Americans, it proposes new jazz histories emanating...
The pioneering Halley VI is the world’s first fully re-locatable research station, and its story is told, with plenty of technical data and previously unpublished material.