"Several pages of plan drawings are provided and there is also a very nice section on the varied camouflage schemes carried by these ships." ー ModelingMadness.Com The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of popular warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book ta...

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre i...

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre i...

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre i...

A superbly illustrated history of the Royal Navy's World War II monitors – gunboats armed with a single, large-calibre gun turret – and their roles and battles around the world. When World War II broke out, the Royal Navy possessed a sizeable fleet of battleships and battlecruisers. However, these formed the core of...

James Clerk Maxwell was a brilliant mathematician and scientist, but his impact on this world goes even deeper than that. Maxwell singlehandedly overturned what was believed to be fact with a whole new outlook on fundamental aspects of the universe. Maxwell is often credited as one of the first pioneers of quantum p...

What if you could travel back in time and witness the most incredible moments in Japanese history? Well, now you can. Your child will journey through over 2,000 years of incredible history, meeting legendary figures who shaped one of the world's most fascinating civilizations. From the mysterious Jomon people who li...

Catherine the Great is one of the most influential rulers in Russian history. Though born in Prussia, she endeavored to gain the throne of Russia and went on to be the longest-ruling empress in Russian history. She ruled as an enlightened despot, promoting the principles of the European Enlightenment as she sought t...

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre i...

Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The reader includes 21 il...

A New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks Named a Book of the Year in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune and Newsweek 'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.' - Patrick Ra...

The domestic and international rules governing the qualifications for personnel serving on tank vessels have changed in recent years. To address those new requirements, the fourth edition of Tanker Operations incorporates new material by Mark Huber and other contributors, providing an updated textbook for maritime s...

"[The] definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs and their forefathers" (Master Chief Bill Bruhmuller (USN, Ret.), founding member of SEAL Team two). Written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs reveals the inside story be...

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media and digital technologies? Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander’s groundbreaking book has he...

本書由1979年李約瑟博士主講「錢賓四先生學術文化講座」的講稿輯錄而成。本書共分五章，除探索古代科學技術發展的概況和特點外，亦介紹了道家煉丹術的發展及其與火藥、火器、醫藥等發展的聯繫。此外，作者也試圖依據生物化學來解釋針灸療法，並對比了古代中國與歐洲文明中關於時間與變化概念的看法，從而透視其對彼此科學發展的影響。 李約瑟...

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre i...