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  • The Battleship Builders

    Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

    by Ian Johnston, Ian Buxton ...
    How shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, and more united to build Britain's Grand Fleet: "Superbly written…One of the best naval titles I have seen."— Marine NewsThe launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage, so expensively maintained for decades. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clydebank Battlecruisers

    Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard

    by Ian Johnston ...
    "Outstanding . . . anyone with an interest in the major ships of the grand Fleet or shipbuilding on the Clyde will want to own it."— Warship 2012Between 1906 and 1920, the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is regarded as a modification of the Lion class design, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bad Seed

    The Biography of Nick Cave

    by Ian Johnston ...
    A widely acclaimed biography of one of rock's most compelling, uncompromising and influential singer-songwriters, Ian Johnston's BAD SEED offers a superb overview of Nick Cave's career to date.Through Cave's fronting of the incendiary bands The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, producing music of unfettered expression and explosive intensity, to his creative collaborations outside of the rock ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Future Philosophy

    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Sam Vaseghi ...
    Translated by Ian Johnston ...
    In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tractors, Kalashnikovs and Green Tea

    by Ian M. Johnston ...
    This is a book about tractors, places and people. Ian Johnston is a renowned international expert on tractors. Ian begins with his boyhood in Fife and Edinburgh. He tells of venturing to Australia alone at the age of 16. His experiences as a jackaroo, a truck driver, erecting windmills and a tractor driver are full of interest and humour. And Tractors, always tractors. He brings to life the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Metamorphosis

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Ian Johnston ...
    One morning, he wakes—and he is no longer himself. When traveling salesman Gregor Samsa opens his eyes to find he has transformed into a monstrous insect, his world collapses into fear, shame, and silence. As his family recoils and his life shrinks behind a bedroom door, Gregor confronts the cruelty of alienation and the fragile threads that tie us to one another. Praised as "one of the most ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Ships for All Nations

    John Brown & Company Clydebank, 1847–1971

    by Ian Johnston ...
    "A worthy tribute to the John Brown company and to British shipbuilding . . . a joy to enthusiasts of the great ships of the past."—Australian Naval InstituteThe Clydebank shipyard built some of the most famous vessels in maritime history—great transatlantic liners like Lusitania, Queen Mary and QE2, and iconic warships like the battlecruiser Hood, and Britain's last battleship, HMS Vanguard. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Measured Tones

    The Interplay of Physics and Music, Third Edition

    by Ian Johnston ...
    Most books concerned with physics and music take an approach that puts physical theory before application. Consequently, these works tend to dampen aesthetic fascination with preludes burdened by an overabundance of algebraic formulae. In Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music Third Edition, Ian Johnston a professor of astrophysics and a connoisseur of music, offers an informal ... Read more

    $152.52 CAD

  • A Shipyard at War

    Unseen Photographs from John Brown's, Clydebank 1914–1918

    by Ian Johnston ...
    A treasury of photos illustrating the work of the famed British shipbuilders of World War I.Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Co. built a vast range of vessels—major warships down to destroyers and submarines, unusual designs like a seaplane carrier and submarine depot ship, and even a batch of war-standard merchant ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays

    Selections

    by Yanwu Gu ...
    Translated by Ian Johnston ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches to knowledge. He strongly encouraged scholars to return to the simple, ethical precepts of early Confucianism, and in his best-known work, Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge), he applied this paradigm to literature, government, economics, history, ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • The Battleship Builders

    Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships

    by Ian Johnston ...
    The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete while at the same time wiping out the Royal Navy’s numerical advantage. Britain urgently needed to build an entirely new battle fleet of these larger, more complex and more costly vessels. In this she succeeded spectacularly: in little over a decade fifty such ships were ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • Clydebank Battlecruisers

    Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard

    by Ian Johnston ...
    Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty HMS Hood, the largest warship of her day. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large-plate cameras that produced photos of stunning clarity and detail, ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD