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Shortly before embarking on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe, Amelia Earhart confided to a friend, "I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip around the world is it." This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. TIGHAR investigators had no agenda. They were not out ...

The unusual collages of these cards take us into dream-like sceneries. With this deck the artist and Kipper specialist Christephania has created a relaunch of the traditional Biedermeier cards. While the basic meanings of the classic cards have been retained, much has been modernized and the symbolism expanded so that the images allow us to dive into deep levels of our soul. The detailed and insightful texts in the booklet offer explanations a...

Was kann das Modulheft? Der verkehrsträgerübergreifende Themenbereich "Zoll und Außenhandel" spielt in der schriftlichen und mündlichen Abschlussprüfung eine entscheidende Rolle. Viele Aufgaben erfordern Kenntnisse in diesem Bereich. Die Aufgaben in diesem Modulheft drehen sich einzig um die Themen Zoll und Außenhandel, sodass du dich beim Lernen konkret darauf konzentrieren kannst. Wie in der Prüfung müssen handlungsorientierte und praxisna...

This volume answers the question "why did the United States become a naval power?" Combining economic and political history, John Fass Morton looks at the movements, events, and processes that strengthened the nation's seagoing fighting force, with an emphasis on the years between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I"--

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This book describes how Predators, Reapers, Scan Eagles, and dozens of other pilotless aircraft have been used to fight the Global War on Terrorism. Technology developed in the latter decades of the 20th century enabled crews stationed thousands of miles away to attack targets on remote battlefields. Such long-range and remote-controlled weapons have been extensively used but are controversial from both legal and ethical standpoints. Chapters ...

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Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin cut a striking figure in the Army: athletic, quick witted, devout, and studious, he was a natural leader. Thanks to his engineering and leadership knowhow, Martin was chosen to lead the thousands of combat engineers who paved the way for 100, 000 Army troops to battle their way to Baghdad in 2003. Martin was astonishing to watch as he led this effort, his mind laser focused and body vibrating with energy. He made quick d...

This book catalogues (with extensive photography) more pieces from The Alastair Leslie Collection. The first volume of the Leslie collection covered porcelain produced at West Pans in Scotland during the third quarter of the 18th century. Volume two moves on to cover Scottish folk art as represented as much as possible by Scottish east-coast pottery mugs and jugs produced prior to 1840. George Haggarty has been extremely cautious with his attr...

This book catalogues (with extensive photography) more pieces from The Alastair Leslie Collection. The first volume of the Leslie collection covered porcelain produced at West Pans in Scotland during the third quarter of the 18th century. Volume two moves on to cover Scottish folk art as represented as much as possible by Scottish east-coast pottery mugs and jugs produced prior to 1840. George Haggarty has been extremely cautious with his attr...

Seasons of Time" is a collection of poetry, art and photographs in full color by Kelly Ann McMillin. "Seasons of Time" is about the journey of living from innocence to maturity and all it encompasses of both life and death expressed through art. The reoccurring seasons represent how our feelings are always in motion.

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Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is no mystery what he wants, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." He wants this latter objective to be largely completed by 2035. China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" g...

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While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific. In Knife's Edge Robert C. Stern provides an account of the Battles of the Eastern Solomons and the Santa Cruz Islands, the two pivotal carrier air battles that followed the initial engagements at the Coral Sea and Midway between the U.S. Navy and the Impe...

On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world's dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Ev...

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