Two outstanding personal accounts by a fighter pilot during the Second World War This special Leonaur title, our first ever book about the Second World War, contains two accounts of the war in the air as fought by the fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force. It is remarkable because its author was an American who had elected to join the battle against fascist Germany before his own country decided to enter the war. The combat patrols and dog-fights of Fighter Command's young Spitfire and Hurricane pilots are brought vividly to life as Donahue describes his ...

Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music , edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb, is a collection of writings on music that is considered aggressive throughout the world. This collection reflects the importance of aggressive music within our society and how this music effects and informs contemporary issues.

Cobbett's Tour in Scotland and in the Four Northern Counties of England: In the Autumn of the Year 1832 is a travelogue written by William Cobbett. The book was first published in 1833 and describes Cobbett's journey through Scotland and the four northern counties of England during the autumn of 1832. In the book, Cobbett provides a detailed account of his travels, including his observations on the landscape, the people he met, and the customs and traditions of the regions he visited. He also comments on the political and social issues of the time, such as ...

If any single characteristic differentiates current, neoclassical economics from the classical economics of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, it is the use of mathematics. Pointing to the critical role of William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), Margaret Schabas demonstrates that the advent of mathematical economics in late Victorian England resulted more from new currents in logic and the philosophy of science than from problems specific to the classical theory of value and distribution. Jevons's Principles of Science (1874) was the first book to take issue with ...

A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

In Victorian London, long before the term serial killer was coined, two series of murders played out that have captured the imagination of the whole world. The Jack the Ripper murders and the Thames Torso murders, so similar to each other, took place during the same period in London and have never been solved. In this book, journalist and researcher Christer Holmgren explains why the murders were never cleared up and names the East End carman Charles Lechmere as the culprit behind both series of murders. He was a man who claimed he found Jack the Ripper's ...

Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem chinesischen Philosophen Fang Dongmei (1899-1977) und seinem Religionsverständnis. Er wurde in eine Umbruchszeit hineingeboren, die vom Zusammenstoßen der chinesischen und der abendländischen Kultur geprägt war. Angesichts der bitteren Niederlagen Chinas in den militärischen Konfrontationen hielten viele chinesische Intellektuelle die westliche Kultur für die fortschrittlichere und einzig zukunftsfähige. Sie befürworteten eine totale Verwestlichung und eine Verwerfung der chinesischen ...

I film sottili svolgono un ruolo importante nello sviluppo e nello studio di materiali con proprietà nuove e uniche. I film sottili sono molto utili nel mondo moderno per il loro vantaggio di modificare le proprietà della superficie di un materiale sfuso in base alle nostre esigenze. I film sottili possono essere depositati su materiali sfusi mediante due tipi di processi: la deposizione fisica da vapore e la deposizione chimica da vapore. L'obiettivo principale del presente lavoro è sintetizzare un rivestimento a base di nitruro di tantalio ...

Carson of Venus is back in the first novel of groundbreaking Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series! When a mysterious enemy attacks his adopted nation of Korva, Earthman Carson Napier discovers his own arrival on Venus years ago may have unknowingly triggered the strike. The invaders’ trail of death and destruction leads Carson and his beloved princess Duare headlong into battle against a seemingly invincible, primordial race. But that is not Carson’s only challenge, for an uncanny phenomenon has entangled him with two strange individuals ...