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Ikhana: Unmanned Aircraft System Western States Fire Missions
ISBN: 9781493656738 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,99 |
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Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept
ISBN: 9781493657070 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,00 |
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Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9781493657247 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,00 |
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Touchdown: The Development of Propulsion Controlled Aircraft at NASA Dryden
ISBN: 9781493785193 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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62,39 |
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Black Magic and Gremlins: Analog Flight Simulations at NASA's Flight Research Center
ISBN: 9781493785483 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,00 |
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A History of Suction-Type Laminar-Flow Control with Emphasis on Flight Research
ISBN: 9781493794324 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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62,39 |
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East Sails West: The Voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855
ISBN: 9789888208203 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a travelling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage. After quarrels on the way and a diversion to New York, culminating in a legal dispute over arrears of wages for Chinese members of the crew, it finally reached London in 1848, where it went on exhibition on the River Thames until 1853. It was then...
In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperi...
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164,30 |
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On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet 1958-1978
ISBN: 9781478255345 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many members of the Viking flight team, the early morning hours of 20 July 1976 were the culmination of 8 years of intense activity. Several of the scientists had more than 15 years invested in preparations for the investigations that would begin once Viking safely landed on the surface of Mars.
For many members of the Viking flight team, the early morning hours of 20 July 1976 were the culmination of 8 years of intense activity. Several of th...
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108,01 |
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On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet, 1958-1978
ISBN: 9781494755355 / Angielski / Miękka / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although it was only designed for a ninety-day surface mission, the Viking 1 lander ultimately transmitted science messages to Earth for seven years. This authoritative history chronicles the remarkable achievements of the Viking program during its first three decades. Commissioned by NASA, it recounts the events surrounding the first planetary landing on Earth's closest neighbor and the first on-site search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. It also portrays a human drama in which thousands of professionals from government, industry, and academia joined together to accomplish the...
Although it was only designed for a ninety-day surface mission, the Viking 1 lander ultimately transmitted science messages to Earth for seven years. ...
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80,00 |
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Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination
ISBN: 9780393349795 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World.
Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer... When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits...
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66,70 |
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Anson's Voyage Round the World
ISBN: 9781480242197 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,99 |
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The Victorian Colonial Romance with the Antipodes
ISBN: 9781137397829 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories.
This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and...
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201,72 |
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Egyptian Language (Routledge Revivals): Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics
ISBN: 9780415663441 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ancient Egyptians expressed their ideas in writing by means of hieroglyphics, which they used uninterruptedly until the end of the rule of the Ptolemies. This title provides a simple introduction to the study of Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions.
The ancient Egyptians expressed their ideas in writing by means of hieroglyphics, which they used uninterruptedly until the end of the rule of the Pto...
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273,11 |
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Atlantis: The ReNamed Island
ISBN: 9781497449787 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under a man-made lake on an Aegean Isle, we see the back cover photo of a sculptured message. This is Atlantis' treasury location. Over 30 enclosed satellite photos of this location are no longer available via satellite. In 2013, someone terminated the satellite feed and desecrated the site by painting it with earth tone colors. Greek historian Pliny and Hebrew prophets Ezekiel and Zechariah describe Atlantis' surviving-treasury like 'Fort Knox on Steroids.' Who is salvaging the Atlantis Treasury hoard? Poseidon named it the Atlantic Island; Homer, Pausanias and the Greeks called it Chryse;...
Under a man-made lake on an Aegean Isle, we see the back cover photo of a sculptured message. This is Atlantis' treasury location. Over 30 enclosed sa...
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55,99 |
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True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
ISBN: 9781421415420 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of Cochin, China, and the factories of Canton. Their South Seas voyages of commerce and discovery introduced the infant nation to the world and the world to what the Chinese, Turks, and others dubbed the -new people.- Drawing on private journals, letters,... With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Tr... |
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148,90 |
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Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon
ISBN: 9780500252109 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. InNaturalists in Paradise, Amazon expert John Hemming weaves the riveting stories of these three men's experiences in the Amazon and assesses their valuable research that drastically changed our conception of the natural world. Each of the three naturalists is famous for a particular discovery: Wallace is credited, along with Charles Darwin, for developing the theory of evolution; Bates uncovered the phenomenon of protective mimicry among insects; and Spruce transported the quinine-bearing Cinchona tree to India, saving countless lives from malaria. Drawing on the letters and books...
InNaturalists in Paradise, Amazon expert John Hemming weaves the riveting stories of these three men's experiences in the Amazon and assesses...
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100,63 |
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Egypts African Empire: Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon & the Creation of Equatoria
ISBN: 9781845196417 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going north-south conflict in the Sudan. The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government...
This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account ha...
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179,71 |
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The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
ISBN: 9780345804396 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a small, peculiar, palm-sized clay tablet made its way to the desk of Irving Finkel, Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, Finkel could hardly believe his luck. What he discovered was a missing piece in the story of Noah and the Ark. In this captivating, absorbing work of scholarship, Finkel, a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, leads the reader on a detective hunt for the prototype of Noah's Ark--from cuneiform wedges to bundles of reeds, from ancient Babylon to modern Iraq, Finkel reveals new information on the origin of the Babylonian Flood story which... When a small, peculiar, palm-sized clay tablet made its way to the desk of Irving Finkel, Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper at the British Museum,... |
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80,04 |
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The Wilderness Westwards: American Trappers & the Oregon Expeditions of the Early 19th Century-Journal of a Trapper or Nine Years in the Rocky M
ISBN: 9781782823476 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two accounts of early western exploration
This special Leonaur edition has been created for those readers interested in the lives of the American trappers and explorers of the early nineteenth century. Leonaur's editors have brought together two related accounts for good value and to give most readers the most detailed and expansive insights into the subject. The first work is a well known and highly regarded personal account by the trapper Osborne Russell. It is joined here by Captain Nathaniel Wyeth's own journal of his expedition into the Oregon country. Russell took part in Wyeth's... Two accounts of early western exploration
This special Leonaur edition has been created for those readers interested in the lives of the American... |
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144,29 |
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The Wilderness Westwards: American Trappers & the Oregon Expeditions of the Early 19th Century-Journal of a Trapper or Nine Years in the Rocky M
ISBN: 9781782823483 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two accounts of early western exploration
This special Leonaur edition has been created for those readers interested in the lives of the American trappers and explorers of the early nineteenth century. Leonaur's editors have brought together two related accounts for good value and to give most readers the most detailed and expansive insights into the subject. The first work is a well known and highly regarded personal account by the trapper Osborne Russell. It is joined here by Captain Nathaniel Wyeth's own journal of his expedition into the Oregon country. Russell took part in Wyeth's... Two accounts of early western exploration
This special Leonaur edition has been created for those readers interested in the lives of the American... |
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86,53 |
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