Written by doctors from a major children's hospital, this resource is a clear, thoughtful, and objective guide to help parents raise a newborn and covers a broad range of topics thoroughly and in easily understood language. It covers an extensive range of topics in easy-to-understand language.
Long recognised as the most comprehensive reference work available on the subject, this guide remains the only complete reference to the weapons currently in service in ships, submarines, and naval aircraft around the world. It is the only book of its type to explain the transformation of the US Navy into a network-centric force, a transformation that has had immense consequences for choices of tactics, weapons, services, and the systems coord...
The essential illustrated guide for any new parent to care for their baby - from birth to twelve months old - written by leading paediatric experts in a friendly, easy-to-understand style. Covers all the basics from breast-feeding to sleeping.
This series offers detailed descriptions of the evolution of all classes of the principal U.S. combatant types. Each of the seven volumes is fully illustrated with deck plans, outboard profiles, sketches from major design studies, and numerous detailed photographs. The appendixes contain a wealth of information on ship characteristics and equipment.
This fully illustrated series offers detailed descriptions of the evolution of all classes of the principle US combatant types, as well as plans, profiles, and numerous detailed photographs.
An account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defence and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the Royal Navy, the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
According to naval weapons expert Norman Friedman, the U.S. Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System aircraft currently in development will transform naval aviation, extending its reach while dramatically reducing its cost. In his latest weapons book, Friedman describes the new X-47B and shows how these new aircraft offer tactics that manned aircraft cannot duplicate. He calls the X-47B a natural extension of the evolving networked form of drone warf...
For two decades Norman Friedman's account of the development of American destroyers has been a standard reference. The revised edition includes the two decades of designs since the Spruance and Perry classes. The design evolution of the Arleigh Burke class is described in detail for the first time, based on official sources. Friedman also describes the attempts to develop a follow-on class, culminating in the current DD(X) programme. Abortive ...