Philip: 4665 books
Naval Air
Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Naval aviation arrived early in the last century in the form of balloons and airships employed by the British Royal Navy for reconnaissance, and interest was stirring in naval circles in a greater aeronautical capacity for the service. Britain's tradition of projecting a global reach through her sea...
The Victory Album
Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
In these essays, a combination of personal remembrance and broad-stroke cultural history, Philip Beidler addresses the culture and politics of post–WWII America: the national blindness toward the Holocaust and a rising China, the canker of McCarthyism, ascendant cultures of hard smoking and heavy...
Manifest Destinations
Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Tourists started visiting the American West in sizable numbers after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were completed in 1869. Contemporary travel brochures and guidebooks of the 1870s sold tourists on the spectacular scenery of the West, and depicted its cities as extensions of the...
by Philip J Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
When a man and a woman come together in wholeness, it is the most beautiful and rare of things. When each person is whole within themselves - contented, fulfilled, self-realised and need-less (though not desire-less) - and there is complete love and acceptance for the other, as they are, the world...
The Law School at the University of Virginia
Architectural Expansion in the Realm of Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterwork of Thomas Jefferson, the "Academical Village" at the heart of the University of Virginia has long attracted the attention of visitors and scholars alike. Yet today Jefferson’s original structures make up only a small fraction of a campus comprising...
The Challenge of the American Presidency
Washington to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
According to Niccolo Machiavelli, leaders must always be prepared for unexpected change, sometimes rapidly and in violent and dramatic forms, in order to retain control of their fate. Philip Abbott applies this insight to U. S. presidents. He identifies six major periods of change in the political...
Within Walking Distance
Creating Livable Communities for All
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In*Within Walking Distance*, journalist and urban critic Philip Langdon looks at why and how Americans are shifting toward a more human-scale way of building and living. He shows how people are creating, improving, and caring for walkable communities. To draw the mimportant lessons, Langdon sptime...
by Philip Hewitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Ned Kelly is Australia's Robin Hood. Born in 1854 into a poor Irish Catholic family, he and his brother Dan were in trouble with the police even as kids. At first they stole only sheep, cattle or horses, eventually becoming outlaws, living in the Ausstralian outback. With their two friends Joe...
From Praha to Prague
Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. While many settled in major American cities, others headed to rural areas out west where they could claim their own land for farming. In From Praha to Prague, Philip...
by Philip Tether
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
THE PURPOSE OF POLITICS. This is the first in a series of books on government and politics designed for students and the general reader (see 'other publications' for a full list of titles). All the books interlink and cross-reference but are designed to stand alone. This introductory text starts the...
Reservoir Model Design
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This book gives practical advice and ready to use tips on the design and construction of subsurface reservoir models. The design elements cover rock architecture, petrophysical property modelling, multi-scale data integration, upscaling and uncertainty analysis. Philip Ringrose and Mark Bentley share...
Revival and Reconciliation
Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi—all have joined in counterpoint to shape Europe’s historical...
The very Very VERY Practical Improv Survival Guide
Improv Surival Guide, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
When I first saw improv on stage I *wanted* it. I had never seen anything or anyone so powerful. Envy, desire, and lust filled me. I was terrified and delighted by the mere *thought* of going on that stage. And boy oh boy I wanted that stage. I was determined. I was hooked.
Counterblasting Canada
Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building...