The conflict in Northern Ireland remains unlike any other campaign conducted by the British Army this century. There have been no set-piece battles, no decisive victories or crushing defeats; just a grinding, relentless series of small scale operations in response to riots, bombings, sectarian murders and terrorist ambushes. Tim Ripley, a specialist in modern military affairs and research associate at Lancaster University's Centre for Defence and International Security Studies, profiles the operations, tactics, uniforms and equipment of the British and Irish Security Forces and the main terrorist groups involved in 'the Troubles' from 1969-92.
Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.60 | Fiction literature | 2 January 2009
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One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s. Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Graham Greene. Writing during the apogee of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the British Merchant Navy to create novels and short stories that reflected aspects of a world-wide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Amongst his best known works are Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Under Western Eyes (1911), Victory (1915) and The Rescue (1920).
A historical review of the most important scientific controversies that have shaped our knowledge of dinosaurs since their discovery in the 1820s. It explores the social, philosophical and ideological forces that contributed to the various disputes and presents narratives of dinosaur discoveries.
Motion, Forces, and Energy, as a part of the Glencoe Science 15-Book Series, provides students with accurate and comprehensive coverage of forces and Newton’s laws. The strong content coverage integrates a wide range of hands-on experiences, critical-thinking opportunities, and real-world applications. The modular approach allows you to mix and match books to meet your curricula.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 25 July 2008
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The Publisher claims that we are born into a world controlled by
unseen forces that have plagued and manipulated humanity for thousands
of years. No, this is no script from a Hollywood movie. It is claimed
to be happening to you NOW. You may look around and think that what you
see is “real”. But in truth you are living in an illusion – an illusion
designed to keep you in a mental, emotional, spiritual prison cell.
David
Icke exposes these forces and their methods of human control and he
claims to reveal a fantastic web of global manipulation, orchestrated
by forces byond this physical realm. He exposes the hidden bloodlines,
through which other-dimensional entities live and operate unseen among
us; and he claims to show how the bloodlines of the royal, political,
and economic rulers of today are the same as those who ruled as the
kings and queens of ancient times.
