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  • James Fenimore Cooper: Collected Novels (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 30 Western Classics, Adventure Novels & Sea Tales

    James Fenimore Cooper: Collected Novels gathers the foundational fictions through which Cooper helped define the American novel: frontier romances, sea tales, historical narratives, and meditations on republic, empire, and wilderness. His prose combines expansive description, moral seriousness, melodramatic plotting, and a sustained symbolic use of landscape. In works such as The Leatherstocking ... Read more

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  • The Ocean Class of the Second World War

    This new book tells the story of the Ocean class of standard cargo ships, their design, building, and careers, and the author places them firmly in the context of the battle of the Atlantic which was raging at the time of the first launchings. They entered the vanguard of the Allied shipping effort at a time when the German U-boat threat was at its most dangerous, and British shipping resources ... Read more

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  • LEATHERSTOCKING TALES – Complete Collection (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers & The Prairie (Illustrated)

    James Fenimore Cooper's LEATHERSTOCKING TALES – Complete Collection gathers the five Natty Bumppo romances—The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer—into a sweeping imaginative history of the American frontier. Written in a richly descriptive, morally earnest, and often elegiac style, these novels helped define the historical romance in the United ... Read more

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  • WESTERN CLASSICS Ultimate Collection - 11 Novels in One Volume: Complete Leatherstocking Tales, The Littlepage Manuscripts Series, Wynadotte, The Wept Of Wish-Ton-Wish and more (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Frontier Sagas

    Gathering Cooper's frontier romances and social-historical fictions, this volume traces the imaginative geography of early America: forests, settlements, manors, battlefields, and contested borders. The complete Leatherstocking Tales follow Natty Bumppo through episodes of wilderness heroism and cultural displacement, while The Littlepage Manuscripts examine land, inheritance, and republican ... Read more

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  • James Fenimore Cooper: 30 Novels in One Volume - Western Classics, Adventure Novels & Sea Tales (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Illustrated Edition: The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Spy…

    James Fenimore Cooper: 30 Novels in One Volume gathers the breadth of Cooper's fiction, from the frontier mythos of the Leatherstocking tales to maritime adventures and historical romances. These novels combine vigorous plotting, moral seriousness, and expansive description, shaping early American prose at a moment when the young republic sought a literature distinct from Europe. Cooper's forests, ... Read more

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  • The Birth of Independent Air Power

    British Air Policy in the First World War

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security
    In forming the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918, Britain created the world’s first independent air service. Britain entered the First World War with less than 200 ill-assorted flying machines divided between the army and the navy, but by the end of the war the RAF mustered almost 300,000 personnel and 22, 000 aircraft. Originally published in 1986, more than 65 years after the event, the decision ... Read more

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  • Precise Dimensions

    A history of units from 1791–2018

    Series series IOP Expanding Physics
    Units are the foundation for all measurement of the natural world, and from which standard, our understanding develops. This book, stemming from a conference on the history of units organised by the editors, provides a comprehensive and discursive introduction to the history of units within physics, in advance of the proposed redefinition of the SI base units at the General Conference on Weights ... Read more

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  • VULCAN'S PEAK - A Tale of the Pacific (Adventure Novel) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Crater

    James Fenimore Cooper's Vulcan's Peak—better known as The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak—is a late adventure romance that transports the Robinsonade into the vastness of the Pacific. Beginning with shipwreck, survival, and the transformation of a barren reef into a flourishing island commonwealth, the novel blends nautical realism, providential allegory, and political speculation. Its expansive style, ... Read more

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  • Volcano and Geothermal Tourism

    Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation

    There are over 1300 active volcanoes worldwide and many more dormant or extinct. Some are developed as tourist destinations; others are not, but have great potential. Mount Fuji in Japan attracts over 100 million visitors per year and has immense cultural and spiritual significance, while a number of volcanic areas in national parks, for example Teide in Spain, Yellowstone in the US, Vesuvius in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Managing Archaeology

    Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology. Archaeologists must manage the artefacts thay deal with, their funding, ancient sites, as well as the practice of archaeology itself. Managing Archaeology is a collecton of outstanding papers from experts involved in these many areas.The contributors focus on the principles and practice of management in the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Rivers and Society

    Landscapes, Governance and Livelihoods

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river flows in a number of ways for millennia. However, the level of human impact on rivers, and on watershed environments, has become acute during the last hundred years or so.This book brings together empirical research and ... Read more

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  • Natural Heritage of Japan

    Geological, Geomorphological, and Ecological Aspects

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume brings together the geological, geomorphological and ecological aspects of Japan’s natural heritage, arguing for dynamic conservation of such heritage and explaining their key characteristics in an accessible format for general readers. Sites from World Heritage Properties (Natural), UNESCO Global Geoparks, and National Parks of Japan representing key facets of this heritage are ... Read more

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