1,227円 Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of the last hundred years. The book includes all...

1,202円 Sunday Times Bestseller As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British. It is said that for more than half the world's population, the first car they ever saw was a Land...

1,750円 Dieses Buch ist ein MUSS für jeden, der sich für alte Segelschiffe begeistert. Es beschreibt die Ära der letzten großen Windjammer und Frachtsegler, die ab dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts noch einmal eine Blütezeit erlebten. Gehen Sie mit den Flying P-Liners auf große Fahrt nach Chile in der Salpet...

1,192円 How a few women fought to board planes, then fly them, and finally to break through earth’s atmosphere into space. The story of how women in Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, struggled to win a place in the world of air travel, first as passengers, then as flight attendants and pilot...

6,234円 The Aviation Pioneers of Canada 7-Book Bundle presents the high-flying insight of Peter Pigott, in a special collection chronicling the aviators, aircraft, and drama of over a century of Canadian flight. From the Avro Arrow and the Silver Dart to the adventurers and visionaries who pushed Canadia...

9,285円 Specially commissioned to mark the 40th Anniversary of History of Education, and containing articles from leading international scholars, this is a unique and important volume.Over the past forty years, scholars working in the history of education have engaged with histories of religion, gender, ...

1,921円 Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with th...

130円 This particular short essay on P.A. Stolypin's Agrarian Reforms is part of our Continuing Education Series, which hopes to provide readers with thoughtful consideration of various books, stories, historical events and essays. In some cases, the manuscripts presented in this Continuing Education s...

3,045円 For the first time, nearly seventy of Wilbur and Orville Wright's published writings are brought together in a single, annotated reference. Spanning the decades from the brothers' turn-of-the-century experiments with gliders until Orville's death in 1948, the articles describe the design of their...

3,805円 During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men he knew and worked with on a daily basis, using his trusty Brownie 620 box camera. These unique behind the scenes images form a fascinating and hugely...

4,934円 To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country’s top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner’s v...

3,200円 Dieses Buch ist eine einzigartige Mischung aus Erzählung und fundierter Studie. Es erzählt im ersten Teil die Geschichte einer Schule aus der Perspektive einer Schülerin, deren Mutter, eines Lehrers, der Direktorin und eines kritischen, außenstehenden Freundes. Serenas Geschichte macht den Prozes...