The Essex-class aircraft carrier USS "Intrepid"survived combat in World War II to become the recovery ship for America's first astronauts and later returning to action in Vietnam. White and Gandt bring this history to life in a stirring tribute.
An expanded, updated, and retitled edition of HTML Bible, examining HTML, XHTML-a set of extensions to HTML to make it more like XML-and cascading style sheets (CSS), which provide a simple way to add consistent formatting to HTML Web documents Focusing on reader feedback and changing industry trends, this new edition is a major overhaul that ...
Perhaps no nation has been so thoroughly shaped by its dreams as has America, and perhaps no other dreams have been captured on camera as often and as diversely as America's. The mythic American Dream has been the subject of photographic documentation since the 1840s, when photographers first began traveling to the New World in search of subjects. ...
The political situation in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century was characterised by crisis and change. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, the prosecution of the Anglo-Irish War, the emergence of the Irish Free State, and the eruption of the Civil War over the treaty with Great Britain ensured that the birth of the modern Irish ...
Managing Change explores the processes, pathways and outcomes of change and strategies for managing it. The authors answer a number of provocative questions regarding change within organizations where the goal posts constantly shift, the cultural and subcultural mix grows ever more divergent, and people remain as inflexible as ever. This book is a ...
Sir Isaac Newton formulated the concept of gravity, devised a radically new theory of light, and created a calculus that revolutionized mathematics. White, author of an award-winning biography of Newton, captures the essence of this prickly genius.
Demands made on the management skills of Britain's 2.5 million managers increase continually. Each year 90,000 people take courses to improve their management skills. Colleges and universities are expanding to meet this demand for better qualified managers. Employers increasingly regard training as an investment in people. But companies often do ...
In this important new biography, White offers a fresh and fascinating definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity--what today's commentators are calling a authenticity--whose internal moral compass is the key to understanding his life.
The theme of this volume, a selection of papers from the 2003 conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, celebrates the productive interface between Applied Linguistics research and other disciplinary ways of knowing, forms of professional practice and issues of public concern. In the last two decades, the scope of applied ...
Almost everyone knows who Bill White is, though they may not know his name. Bill is the red-coated, dog-sledding Mountie who always gets his man. At least that's how it seems at first glance. But readers of Mountie in Mukluks will soon realise they are in the presence of one of the most un-cop-like cops who ever built an igloo. And by the time ...
Creating realistic animated characters and creutures is a major challenge for computer artists, but getting the facial features and expressions right is probably the most difficult aspect. In this book, readers will find an in-depth resource to guide them through the entire process from the history of facial animation and anatomical structures, to ...
Inheritors of modern magick, Technomancers of all kinds trade their spellbooks for powerbooks and robots -- and blast guns, and cybernetics, and.... This book overflows with technomagickal Devices, from the weird-science gadgets of the Sons of Ether to the polished hypertech of Iteration X. Loads of fun for players and Storytellers alike.
What do you get when three little boys grow up together with the freedom and adventure all boys require? A formula for adventure, danger and hilarity that comes from boys left to their own devices in the wilds of South Florida. Throw in a few choice ingredientsaa Swamp Monster, a couple of rattlesnakes and alligators, a few colorful characters, ...
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