This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest shi...
Author Tom Ferris uncovers Wales’ railway heritage through a series of pocket books, each one looking at a ‘lost line’ of Wales.Take a nostalgic steam-powered journey ...
Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and miscarriages including t...
The city of Bristol once possessed an extensive electric tramway network with routes radiating out from the centre to places like Westbury-on-Trym, Brislington, Hanham and Bedminster Downs. With a ...
Marynarka coraz bardziej odczuwała jednak potrzebę posiadania szybkich, ciężkich okrętów, które mogłyby spełniać przeróżne funkcje "szybkiego skrzydła foty", stanowić...
Few warship types have had as much written about them as the Kriegsmarine's capital ships - Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, Graf Spee, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Bismarck and Tirpitz continue to generate...
This visually stunning investigation of natural and man-made materials will change the way you look at the world around you, while offering hope for the future of our planet.What does i...
For its final battleship design Italy ignored all treaty restrictions on tonnage, and produced one of Europe's largest and most powerful capital ships, comparable with Germany's Bismarck class, sim...
At the end of the 1870-1 Franco-Prussian war, the French Navy began to reconstruct its fleet, replacing old generation warships with steam-powered and iron-hulled men-of-war. However, the process w...
Authors Paul Lawton and David Southern continue this series of pocket books exploring Wales’ railway heritage, each revealing a ‘lost line’ of Wales.In this addition, ...
An elegant exploration of the hugely influential simplicity, beauty, and functionality of Nordic design - timeless, yet on trendFrom literature to food, lifestyle to fashion, cinema to ...
This is the most comprehensive study yet in the English language of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally 'armoured cruiser...
This is the story of Ferrari cars. Learn about Enzo Ferrari, famous cars, drivers, and races. What is more exciting than a Ferrari car?Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of tr...
The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats,...
Książka przeznaczona jest dla osób, które chcą efektywnie nauczyć się projektowania wyrobów i zarządzania ich dokumentacją przy użyciu programu Autodesk Inventor 2010 w warianc...
This superb reference book achieved the status of 'classic' soon after its first publication in 1986; it was soon out of print and is now one of the most sought-after naval reference books on the s...
In a frozen vault in Houston sits the original NASA photographic film of the Apollo missions. For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lowe...
History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change—whether social, political, or technological—has its winners, its losers, its advocates, and its e...
A century of great buildings and their creatorsThe architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by an astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions never...