Thomas Hughes
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Thomas Hughes's biography of David Livingstone (1813-1873) follows the legendary Scottish explorer's life from his impoverished childhood to his missionary work in Africa, where he would remain for thirty years and where he discovered Victoria Falls. This is an enthralling account of Livingstone's extraordinary accomplishments.
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Alfred the Great (849-899), King of Wessex, defended his realm against the Vikings and so became "King of the Anglo-Saxons." The author of Tom Brown's School Days brings a novelist's eye to this 1871 biography of the king he considered a model of what a ruler should be, in contrast to conquerors like Caesar or Napoleon.
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A poignant memoir of his late brother George, who was an enormous influence on Hughes, so much so that Hughes based his famous character Tom Brown, of Tom Brown's School Days, on him. This collection of reminiscences captures the youthful adventures and bonds between two brothers who are also the closest of friends.
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[Daily Record Co.]
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[1904]
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English
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Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 by Thomas Hughes, the author, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Thomas Hughes was born in Virginia in 1850, to a father who was both a homeopathic physician and a successful writer. His father was taken into Federal custody at the beginning of the Civil War because he voiced his strong support for the Confederacy. After Hughes's father was released, the family settled in...
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Ideal for classroom use or self-study, this newly revised best-selling book has provided thousands of students, technicians, sales people, and others with a practical introduction to the technologies, systems, and strategies involved in industrial process control. The fourth edition takes the same proven intuitive approach of previous editions. Each chapter begins with basic definitions and mathematical concepts that allow readers to become well versed...
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William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder at the Battle of Leyte Gulf made him the "Patton of the Pacific" and solidified his reputation as a decisive, aggressive fighter prone to impetuous errors of judgment in the heat of battle. In this definitive biography, Thomas Hughes punctures the popular caricature of the "fighting...
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English
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This text is geared toward assisting engineering and physical science students in cultivating comprehensive skills in linear static and dynamic finite element methodology. Based on courses taught at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology, it ranges from fundamental concepts to practical computer implementations. Additional sections touch upon the frontiers of research, making the book of potential interest to more experienced...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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A look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of computers to run systems was developed for the SAGE air defense project. The Atlas missile project was so complicated it required the development of systems engineering in order to complete it. The Boston Central Artery/Tunnel...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations,...
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From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain's early conquests in the Americas.
Hugh Thomas shows Spain at the dawn of the sixteenth century as a world power on the brink of greatness. For Spain and for the world, the decision to send Christopher Columbus west was epochal-the dividing line between the medieval and the modern.
Spain's colonial adventures began inauspiciously. In spite...