Riding The Waves An Insiders Memoire Journey Of A Naval Artificer Engineer One Among Thousands Stories

Author : Dinesh Joshi
Publisher : Clever Fox Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9356488215
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riding The Waves: An Insider's Memoire: Journey of a Naval Artificer Engineer: One among Thousands Stories written by Dinesh Joshi and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book titled "Riding the Waves: An Insider’s Memoire" is a firsthand experience of dedication, expertise, and unwavering commitment of naval engineer’s journey through his life in maritime domain. The book carefully captures the essence of the naval engineering profession, offering readers a rare glimpse into the basics of ship construction, acquisition, maintenance and operation. Drawing from authors own experiences and deep understanding of the subject matter, book brings to life the real-world challenges, triumphs, and complexities faced in the course of their professional life. What sets this book apart is its authenticity. Every detail, every episode, and every procedure depicted within its pages is a true reflection of the character and procedures adopted for ship construction and maintenance. The book depicts with accuracy and realism of the events portrayed in this book about the profession. Author’s meticulous attention to technicality and processes is from real time events, offering readers a rare insider's perspective into the workings of our maritime defence apparatus. As you embark on this literary odyssey, may you gain a newfound appreciation for the men and women who serve tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure the safety and security of our seas. And may you come away from this book with a deeper understanding of the noble profession of naval engineering and the profound impact it has on our maritime defence capabilities. It is with great pride and admiration that author has put the story which is testament to their service, their sacrifice, and their unwavering commitment to duty. This book is to inspire the readers and stand as a tribute to the unsung heroes who serve in the maritime domain.

Author : Tony Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781518822537
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riding the Tide written by Tony Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned boatbuider Tony Fleming, founder of Fleming Yachts, tells his life story in this memoir. Fleming came of age during the twilight of the British Empire, and was in turns a miner, surveyor and police official before entering the trade that was to make him famous. There are fascinating stories about life in Africa and Asia at a time that now seems far removed, and far more innocent, than our own. Even more fascinating is Fleming's account of how he lost his job at age 50 and, with literally nothing but brains and determination, went on to found his own company. This is an inspiring story and well worth reading to show what a man can achieve when he sets his mind to it.

Author : Genevieve Warwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300187069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernini written by Genevieve Warwick and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) is celebrated as a sculptor, architect, and painter, it is less known that he also was a playwright, scenographer, actor, and director. The Baroque period saw the rise of opera and ballet, as well as increasingly elaborate scenographic technologies for court and religious theatre. Bernini drew from this lexicon of theatrical effects, deploying light, movement, and the porous boundary between fictive and physical space to forge a language of Baroque illusion for both his scenographies and his sculptural ensembles. "Bernini: Art as Theatre" investigates the different types of cultural space for the staging of his art, from court settings to public squares and church interiors. Drawing parallels between the visual and theatrical arts, and highlighting the dramatic amplification of religious art in the period, this provocative study provides a model that can be extended beyond Bernini to enable us to reconsider 17th-century visual culture as a whole.

Author : Keith Bonn
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307417751
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Odds Were Even written by Keith Bonn and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three months of savage fighting, the U.S. Seventh Army did what no army in the history of modern warfare had ever done before–conquer an enemy defending the Vosges Mountains. With the toughest terrain on the Western Front, the Vosges mountain range was seemingly an impregnable fortress, manned by German troops determined to hold the last barrier between the Allies and the Rhine. Yet despite nearly constant rain, snow, ice, and mud, soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Army tore through thousands of pillboxes, acres of barbed wire, hundreds of roadblocks, and miles of other enemy obstacles, ripping the tenacious German defenders out of their fortifications in fierce fighting–and then held on to their gains by crushing Operation Nordwind, the German offensive launched in a hail of steel at an hour before midnight on the last New Year’s Eve of the war. Keith Bonn’s fascinating study of this little-known World War II campaign offers a rare opportunity to compare German and American fighting formations in a situation where both sides were fairly evenly matched in numbers of troops, weapons, supplies, and support. This gripping battle-by-battle account shatters the myth that German formations were, division for division, superior to their American counterparts.

Author : Mark Cowan
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800180306
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the Devil and the Deep written by Mark Cowan and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the best accounts ever written of deep-water diving and its staggering, haunting dangers' Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers Deep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the years – Satan’s disease, diver’s palsy, the chokes – but today, medics call it decompression sickness. You know it as the bends. That’s the devil British diver Martin Robson faces each time he plunges beneath the surface. In the winter of 2012, Robson was part of an expedition to Blue Lake, southern Russia, which sought to find a submerged cave system never seen by the human eye. On the final day of the expedition, as Robson returned from diving deeper into the lake than anyone had before, disaster struck: just seventy-five feet down, he was ambushed by the bends. Robson knew that if he continued up to the surface he would probably die before help arrived. Instead, he sank back into the water, gambling on an underwater practice most doctors believe is a suicidal act. Soon the only hope he had of saving his life would rest in the hands of a dramatic mercy mission organised at the highest levels of the Russian government. Between the Devil and the Deep is the first book to tell the terrifying true story of what it feels like to get the bends, taking you inside the body and mind of a man who suffered the unthinkable. Writer Mark Cowan also explores the grimly fascinating history of decompression sickness, the science behind what causes the disease, and the stories of the forgotten divers who pushed the limits of physical endurance to help find a solution.

Author : Daniel W. Bjork
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN 13 : 9781557984166
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book B.F. Skinner written by Daniel W. Bjork and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of one of the world's most eminent psychologists describes Skinner's youth, family and education, his early and lingering desires to become famous as a writer or artist, his lifelong fascination with literary and bohemian figures, his difficult life and his devotion to his children.

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198033813
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Darwin's Shadow written by Michael Shermer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this landmark biography. Here we see Wallace as perhaps the greatest naturalist of his age--spending years in remote jungles, collecting astounding quantities of specimens, writing thoughtfully and with bemused detachment at his reception in places where no white man had ever gone. Here, too, is his supple and forceful intelligence at work, grappling with such arcane problems as the bright coloration of caterpillars, or shaping his 1858 paper on natural selection that prompted Darwin to publish (with Wallace) the first paper outlining the theory of evolution. Shermer also shows that Wallace's self-trained intellect, while powerful, also embraced surprisingly naive ideas, such as his deep interest in the study of spiritual manifestations and seances. Shermer shows that the same iconoclastic outlook that led him to overturn scientific orthodoxy as he worked in relative isolation also led him to embrace irrational beliefs, and thus tarnish his reputation. As author of Why People Believe Weird Things and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, Shermer is an authority on why people embrace the irrational. Now he turns his keen judgment and incisive analysis to Wallace's life and his contradictory beliefs, restoring a leading figure in the rise of modern science to his rightful place.

Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316733017
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.

Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230337961
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gothic Imagination written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over the last 200 years and its contemporary influence on film and media.

Author : Keith Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786940370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Sarlona written by Keith Baker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the struggle to save the cradle of humanity from monstrous and alien overlords. Venture to the frozen land of the shifters to make your fortune, or smuggle exotic goods and strange dissidents from a freewheeling southern port. Stand on the world's tallest mountain, or rove the vast wilderness that makes up the empire of Riedra. Seek venerated masters, and learn powers and abilities unheard of in Khorvaire. Come to Sarlona, ancient homeland of couatls and fiends, and explore a land of lost empires and esoteric arts. Inside this book, you'll find everything you need to explore the enigmatic continent of Sarlona: Comprehensive overview of Sarlona's nations, including their governments and relations, as well as locations, communities, organizations, and NPCs. Detailed maps of the continent, nations, settlements, and adventure sites. Unique new feats, magic items, prestige classes, psionic powers, and spells. Bizarre monsters and templates unique to Sarlona. Book jacket.