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This volume reproduces a representative selection of official plans depicting the main types of warship with which the Royal Navy fought the Second World War. Carefully chosen from the incomparable collection at the National Maritime Museum, these range from battleships and fleet aircraft carriers, through cruisers, destroyers and submarines, to examples of the vast array of specialist vessels built during the war. Concentrating on as fitted drawings...
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Caleb Carson se réveille avec le visage accueillant de Maria, qui est au ciel depuis que la Nouvelle Jérusalem est arrivée sur Terre trois cents ans auparavant. Il est d'abord très confus et surpris d'être là. Après quelques jours de rencontre avec les habitants du village voisin, il décide de partir à la recherche de ses parents. Avant qu'il ne parte, un ange arrive dans le village et annonce à tous que Caleb...
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The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the 'as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were drawn with exquisite skill in multi-colored inks and washes that represent...
6) Anxiety: 3 Manuscripts - Depression and Anxiety, Negative Thoughts and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Have you wondered if it is possible to stop intense feelings of worry, anxiety or depression without resorting to medication?Most depression related medication can have a series of harmful side effects that sometimes leave patients in an even worse state than before.There are several methods that have high rates of success when treating and eliminating depression, anxiety and negative thought patterns with little to virtually no side effects. Includes...
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The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the 'as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were drawn with exquisite skill in multi-coloured inks and washes that represent...
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In this ambitious theoretical encounter with five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces a set of richly constructed artistic thought experiments. But, in creating the work on the page these thought experiments are not thereby novelistic fictions. On the contrary, the fictiveness of each artist's work and biography is, formed from Roberts's critical engagement with the historical and theoretical determinates of the work he has created,...
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Have you wondered if it is possible to stop intense feelings of worry, anxiety or depression without resorting to medication?Most depression related medication can have a series of harmful side effects that sometimes leave patients in an even worse state than before.Cognitive behavioral therapy has been one of the most successful methods of treating and eliminating depression, anxiety and negative thought patterns with little to virtually no side...
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The brainchild of Admiral Sir John Fisher, battlecruisers combined heavy guns and high speed in the largest hulls of their era. Conceived as super-cruisers to hunt down and destroy commerce raiders, their size and gun-power led to their inclusion in the battlefleet as a fast squadron of capital ships. This book traces in detail the development of Fishers original idea into first battlecruiser Invincible of 1908, through to the Splendid Cats of the...
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This new history of the Royal Navy, published to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the White Ensign Association, is a full and exciting account of all the many campaigns, operations and deployments conducted around the world from the Cold War and the Cod Wars to the Falklands War and the Gulf Wars. It has been written and compiled from privileged access to secret and confidential Admiralty Plans and Commanding Officers' reports and contains a wealth...
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As I walked back through the City, my mood was moderately elevated. This appointment did not displease me nearly as much as I pretended. Like most Romans I abhorred the very thought of sea duty, but this was one of the rare occasions when I was looking forward to getting away from Rome.... For years I had complained of the disorder of the City, and now that it was gone, I found that I missed it. All the peace and quiet seemed unnatural. I did not...
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Decius Caecilius Metellus, this year's magistrate for cases involving foreigners, is living the good life in southern Italy, happy to be away from Rome, a city suffering war jitters over Caesar's impending actions. He thinks he is merely visiting one of the local sights when he takes a party to visit the Oracle of the Dead, a pre-Roman cult site located at the end of a tunnel dug beneath a temple of Apollo. He quickly learns that there is a bitter...
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Principles for Principals presents eight great ideas and twelve guidelines for current and future school administrators at all three levels.
Within Principles for Principals, readers gain the insight of John D. Roberts' 41 years of experience as a public-school administrator. The great ideas Roberts offers within are suggestions of what to do in specific situations. The twelve guidelines presented in Principles for Principals give new administrators...
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In this highly topical book, John Michael Roberts employs a political economy perspective to explore the relationship between financial neoliberal capitalism and digital publics. He offers an indispensable guide to understanding the relationship between the state, new media activism and neoliberal practices.
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With Eyes Wide Open is the story of Quentin Marshall, an African American man falsely charged with raping and murdering Carley Andrews, a young White woman. The action unfolds in a fictional town in the state of South Carolina in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Despite his protestations of innocence, Quentin is quickly tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death in the electric chair. With Eyes Wide Open, however, is not just another story about the...
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In SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius, things are going well for Decius Caecilius Metellus. He is Praetor Peregrinus, which means he has to judge a case or two, but those cases are outside of the City. His cases will be those dealing with foreigners, and all of Italy is his province. His first stop is Campania, "Italy's most popular resort district." Decius and his wife, Julia, are happy for a change of scenery. But, the good times end when, in a town near Vesuvius,...
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In the close-knit African American community where Eugene Lawrence Wright was born, everyone seems to have questions about his destiny, but no answers. Even Cousin Beulah, who sets him on the path in search of his destiny, left him confused. And, after her untimely death, his father, to whom he turned for clarity, only offers a warning: "The problem for most of us is not that we never find our destiny; it's just that we aren't prepared to fulfill...
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JUST BEFORE THE DAWN is a 'snap-shot' of four former African colonies as they approached independence at the end of the 1950s. It is also a travel book based on the author's experience and adventures whilst living and working at that time in Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Ruanda-Urundi (as they were then called) and Kenya. The book touches on those countries' differing histories, both ancient and recent. It also offers the reminiscences of an elderly man pondering...
20) The Maine Woods
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Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place "not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world." In Maine he comes in contact with "rocks, trees, wind and solid earth" as though he...