The Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd in Govan, Glasgow, is renowned for its innovative contributions to maritime engineering, particularly the compound steam engine and record-breaking Atlantic liners. Despite its significant role in shipbuilding and wartime contracts, the yard faced decline in the late 20th century, leading to insolvency in 1965. After years of struggle and state ownership, BAE Systems acquired the yard in 2000, revitalizing it as a major warship builder involved in modern naval projects, promising a bright future for this historic shipyard.
A volume of stunning shipyard plate photos, most previously unpublished.
Devoted to the most popular ship type of the Great War. Top of the range
production combined with affordable price.
Koniec jej panowania to dopiero początek... Gdy kończą się rządy Padm Amidali jako królowej Naboo, decyduje się wycofać z życia publicznego, pragnąc powrócić do normalności. Zaskakuje ją jednak prośba nowej władczyni, by nadal służyła swojemu ludowi w Senacie Galaktycznym. Choć Padm nie jest pewna, czy odnajdzie się w tej roli, nie może odmówić królowej, zwłaszcza że jej przyjaciółka i sobowtórka Sab pozwala jej działać w dwóch miejscach jednocześnie. Podczas gdy Padm angażuje się w politykę, Sab podejmuje misję na Tatooine. Na tętniącej życiem Coruscant nowi współpracownicy z Senatu podchodzą do Padm z ciekawością, ale także z rezerwą z powodu jej roli w obaleniu poprzedniego kanclerza. Sab, wcielając się w kupca, odkrywa ograniczone zasoby i możliwości. Razem z innymi dwórkami muszą ostrożnie manewrować w zdradliwej polityce, dostosowywać się do zmieniających warunków i nauczyć się nowego życia, aby nie pozostać w cieniu królowej. Akcja trylogii rozgrywa się pomiędzy Mrocznym widmem a Atakiem klonów, stanowiąc lekturę obowiązkową dla fanów Star Wars. W trylogii ukażą się trzy tomy: Cień królowej, Próba królowej, Nadzieja królowej.
The arterial pulse was a major aspect of all three major medical traditions - Western, Chinese and Indian. Galen's extant works are the only significant account of Western views surviving from ancient times. Not only does he set out his own views in great detail but he also gives a large amount of information on the views of others whose writings are lost. In the translated treatises in the present work, Galen deals with basic anatomy and physiology, classification of the types of pulses, diagnosis of and from the pulses, causal factors of clinical relevance and the very important matter of the prognostic value of the pulses. This is the first translation into a modern Western language of Galen's very substantial body of work on this subject.
What if the end of the world is the best thing that’s never happened to us? Disnaeland is a heartbreaking wonder of a book that tells of a community building a new world in the ruins of the old.In the central Scottish town of Dundule, residents of the Busy Bee Flats – Donna and her eight-year old daughter, dour ex-miner Douglas, big Giorgio the chip shop fryer, young Tam and Mac in their drug dreams – struggle like everyone else. Then the lights go out. Winter, and it’s a global blackout. Now’s the choice. Go wild and raid the streets, or come together.Mixing tenderness and broad comedy, Disnaeland draws us deep inside a community as it fights to build a new world in the ruins of the old. Starting with the deeply personal, Disnaeland goes on to shift to the visionary.But there’s no paradise yet. Botched deals, armed survivalists and raids threaten to destroy progress. And the occasional screech of a fighter jet reminds them that the nuclear threat still looms…‘Unlike most dystopian fiction, this is a uniquely hopeful and uplifting novel. DD Johnston finds hope in the human capacity for love and renewal even after the apocalyptic collapse in the bleakest of places. He shows how the breakdown of one society can open the way for a better one to emerge. An awesome achievement.’ – Rob Newman
A new affordable softcover edition of a bestselling work on the perennially
popular subject of battleships. Well researched and thoughtfully illustrated.
Fascinating insights into a great industrial achievement.
The book offers an extensive visual documentation of the British battleship Duke of York, highlighting its historical significance and wartime achievements, including sinking the German battleship Scharnhorst. Featuring a complete set of full-color plans and detailed photographs from construction to decommissioning, it captures the ship's modifications and interior structure. Accompanied by insightful narratives and captions, this work provides a thorough exploration of the battleship, making it an essential resource for warship enthusiasts.
Life could hardly be brighter for Adam. With a lucrative job for a well-respected magazine, comfortable suburban lifestyle, his beautiful wife Amy and their first child on the way, prospects could not be rosier. Yet the outward serenity disguises a dark, sinister past from his harsh upbringing in South Africa that casts a menacing long shadow. Old scores have still to be settled as it becomes clear that some have unfinished business with him. Tension mounts as the birth of his son moves ever closer with Amy suffering recurrent nightmares as regular as clockwork that draw him back to decisions made years ago. Adam's desperate move to link up with the underworld to quash threats to his life represents a gamble on which his family's whole future will depend.
