The revolutionary battleship Dreadnought of 1906 brought together in one package the new technology of oil fired boilers and steam turbines, and all-big-gun armament; in doing so she rendered all other capital ships then afloat completely obsolete. Ten years later the V&W Class did to destroyers what the dreadnoughts had done to battleships: they set a completely new and higher standard of technology

\'Reported with skill and personal insight\' The Times Bestselling author and the most famous woman in a flak jacket Kate Adie sets out on a fascinating journey to discover just who is attracted to living dangerously - and why. Ever since her days as a reporter on the front line in Iraq and the Iranian Embassy siege in London, Kate Adiehas earned her reputation as one of the most intrepid women of

Featured in Good Housekeeping as one of 14 powerful books to read for Juneteenth You have Big Dreams for living a Big Life, but you have one Big Problem--you don\'t trust yourself. Learn how to let go of that self-doubt and change your life. You are smart, brilliant, and beyond talented, but if you\'re a woman, particularly a Black woman or woman of color, you\'re likely prone to doubting yourself.

A fascinating history of the U.S. Post Office for kids, from acclaimed author Linda Barrett Osborne \"In America, one of the first things done in a new State is to have the mail come.\" --Alexis de Toqueville, 1835 Who\'s Got Mail? is an intriguing and fact-filled look at how the mail has been delivered in the United States since before the Constitution was even signed. In the United States, the spread

As riders, we often spend many hours training independently without regular access to high quality coaches, sport psychologists, biomechanic specialists or exercise physiologists. This can be the difference between performing well and performing to the best of your ability consistently and reliably over the long term. By bringing together the science of training, coaching and psychology, Be Your Own

Since he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to fly aircraft, he just never envisaged that his flying career would be spent in the back seat as opposed to the front. Jim guides readers through his 40-year RAF career that started as a Boy Entrant at RAF Cosford, then as an air radar tradesman, before specializing as an air electronics

This book examines the frequencies of the six possible basic word (or constituent) orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS) provides a typologically grounded explanation for those frequencies in terms of three independent, functional principles of linguistic organization.From a database of nearly 1,000 languages and their basic constituent orders, a sample of 400 languages was produced that is statistically

One of The Wall Street Journal\'s 10 best books of 2021One of Air Mail\'s 10 best books of 2021Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book PrizeIn the year of the nation\'s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty

This voluminous and diversified collection contains more than 5,000 examples of two-, three-, and four-letter combinations in a rich variety of styles. Arranged alphabetically in columns, each series is grouped under an appropriate head. Crowns, coronets, and a number of ancient and modern alphabets are displayed in the final plates, with many quaint and beautiful specimens of ornamental lettering

(Guitar). This multi-volume method was developed to allow students to study the art of classical guitar within a new, more con-temporary framework. For private, class or self-instruction. Book One features an all-new format that incorporates chord frames and symbols, as well as a record to assist in tuning and to provide accompaniments for at-home practice. Book One also introduces beginning fingerboard

Penny Platypus has never been able to swim, and what makes it worse is she just doesn\'t know why. All she knows is that she\'s terrified of the water and is cruelly teased by one bully in particular. Fortunately she has a best friend Percy who is always there to help and reassure her - until the day a \'miraculous\' accident happens that changes her life

The latest French patisserie cookbook from award-winning French pastry chef C dric Grolet Op ra P tisserie marks the entrance of the most talented pastry chef of his generation, C dric Grolet, into the world of boulangerie-p tisserie. This book coincides with the opening of his new shop in the Op ra district in the heart of Paris. Far from the haute couture pastries designed at palace hotels, with

Three years after her fateful journeys through Vystrana, the widowed Mrs Camherst defies convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must satisfy her fascination with all things

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still very small, Mary meets Lanmo, a shining golden snake, who becomes her very best friend. The snake visits Mary many times, he sees her city change and become sadder as bombs drop and war creeps in. He sees Mary and her family leave their home, he sees her grow up and fall in

A new Pushkin Collection edition of this classic Zweig novella-an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and

The introduction of Li-ion batteries in 1991 created a tremendous change in the handheld devices landscape. Devices are continuously getting more power hungry, outpacing battery development. This resource offers professionals an insightful overview and in-depth guide to the many varied areas of battery power management for portable

This Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. It introduces the reader to central concepts that help define the study of disasters, then moves on to explore the relationship between cities and disasters including earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and epidemics. It asks, for example: How have cities responded in times of crisis, and what practices,

The Secret Life of Bugsis full of fascinating facts to teach young readers about everything that can be found in the world of

Tense, atmospheric and darkly funny, The Sleepwalkers is a a sublimely creepy contemporary gothic work about a relationship unravelling that asks urgent questions about a contemporary society where our basest selves are hidden in plain