wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Reflections of a Technocrat: Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs during the Cold War
ISBN: 9781780399683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In documenting his wide-ranging career in science and technology, Dr. McLucas offers new information and insights on the history of key private-sector and government agencies during the Cold War era-most prominently, the US Air Force. After naval service in World War II, he began a long affiliation with the Air Force as a civilian engineer and Air National Guard officer. He continued this affiliation as president of both a pioneering high-tech company and the Air Force-sponsored MITRE Corporation. He also worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and became NATOs top scientific...
In documenting his wide-ranging career in science and technology, Dr. McLucas offers new information and insights on the history of key private-sector...
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155,43 zł |
Space Commerce
ISBN: 9780674429789 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Space Commerce relates the story of private enterprise's unsteady rise to prominence as a major influence on world space policy and research. The first space race proved the technological and military prowess of the two superpowers; but since the 1970s that contest has been supplanted by a multinational struggle to command the commercial opportunities of space.
The commercial space age was born in 1965 when Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite, went into orbit. With characteristic ingenuity, American industrialists began to dream of garnering... Space Commerce relates the story of private enterprise's unsteady rise to prominence as a major influence on world space policy and researc... |
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281,87 zł |
Reflections of a Technocrat - Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs During the Cold War
ISBN: 9781479181100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Reflections of a Technocrat is an autobiography that ends as a biography. John McLucas died on the first of December 2002, at the age of 82, with all but the last chapter remaining to be started. He had been preparing to do a memoir, on and off, for many years, but only in the late 1990s, as declining health caused him to cut back on other commitments, did he devote a large part of his energies to getting the job done. To help complete this project, he engaged me-Ken Alnwick-a retired Air Force pilot and defense analyst, and my associate, Larry Benson, a recently retired Air Force historian....
Reflections of a Technocrat is an autobiography that ends as a biography. John McLucas died on the first of December 2002, at the age of 82, with all ...
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131,95 zł |
Radiological Interventions in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ISBN: 9783662520475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the technical and clinical aspects of the vascular interventional radiological (IR) procedures currently employed in obstetrics and gynaecology. A particular focus is on uterine artery embolisation for fibroid disease, which is contrasted with the main alternative uterus-conserving surgical approach of myomectomy, and with ablation therapy. Detailed consideration is also given to the role of embolisation in a variety of other less common conditions, including arteriovenous malformations, post-partum haemorrhage, abnormal placentation and... This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the technical and clinical aspects of the vascular interventional radiological (IR) procedures curr... |
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421,13 zł |
Radiological Interventions in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
ISBN: 9783642279744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the technical and clinical aspects of the vascular interventional radiological (IR) procedures currently employed in obstetrics and gynaecology. A particular focus is on uterine artery embolisation for fibroid disease, which is contrasted with the main alternative uterus-conserving surgical approach of myomectomy, and with ablation therapy. Detailed consideration is also given to the role of embolisation in a variety of other less common conditions, including arteriovenous malformations, post-partum haemorrhage, abnormal placentation and... This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the technical and clinical aspects of the vascular interventional radiological (IR) procedures curr... |
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574,29 zł |