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  • South Pacific Air War

    The Role of Airpower in the New Guinea and Solomon Island Campaigns, January 1943 to February 1944

    by Richard Dunn ...
    A new history of the South Pacific campaigns based primarily upon primary source material ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ships, Clocks, and Stars

    The Quest for Longitude

    by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt ...
    An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship's precise longitude at sea.A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve "the longitude problem," the question of how to determine a ship's position at sea—and one that changed the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Board of Longitude

    Science, Innovation and Empire

    by Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Simon Schaffer, Sophie Waring ...
    In the first book-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians of science bring to life one of Georgian Britain's most important scientific institutions. Having developed in the eighteenth century following legislation offering rewards for methods to determine longitude at sea, the Board came to support the work of navigators, instrument makers, clockmakers and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Re-inventing the Ship

    Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800-1918

    by Don Leggett ...
    Series series Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
    Ships have histories that are interwoven with the human fabric of the maritime world. In the long nineteenth century these histories revolved around the re-invention of these once familiar objects in a period in which Britain became a major maritime power. This multi-disciplinary volume deploys different historical, geographical, cultural and literary perspectives to examine this transformation ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

    Edited by Rebekah Higgitt, Richard Dunn ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors. ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Reaching a Generation for Christ

    A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry

    by Wesley Black, Pamela Campbell, Paul Borthwick, Bo Boshers, Ridge Burns, Christie Stonecipher Cistola, Mark Cannister, Gwyn Belden Baker, Marta Elena Alvarado, Scott Benson, Dewey Bertolini0, David Hunsicker1, Ken Garland2, Saundra Hensel3, Jacob Kwon Tae Joo4, Ronald Habermas5, Mark DeVries6, David Hart7, Paul Fleischmann8, Larry Lindquist9, Stephen Greggo0, Tony Ladd1, Kevin Conklin2, Russ Knight3, Christine Cook4, Greg Lafferty5, John Fischer6, Donald Ferris7, Mark Lamport8, Teresa Dunn9, David Garda0, Kevin Lawson1, Chuck Neder2, Leslie Parrott III3, Ed Robinson4, Chuck Rosemeyer5, Ron Powell6, Barry St Clair7, Helen Musick8, David Olshine9, Dave Rahn0, Sarah Katherine McDavitt1, Quentin Schultze2, Mark Moring3, Steve Patty4, David Roth5, G Keith Olson6, Wayne Mitchell7, Daniel Weyerhaeuser8, Lavon Welty9, David Veerman0, David Warnick1, Jana Sundene2, William Stewart3, Dan Webster4, Timothy Voss5, Richard Dunn6, Diane Elliot8, Mark Senter III9, Chapman Clark1 ...
    Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals of today's society. How can we reach these kids with the truth of the gospel? More than fifty of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A True Story of Struggles, Success & Tragedy

    by Esmine Richards-Dunn ...
    This book is about a true story growing up with poor, semi-literate but ambitious parents in deep, rural, Jamaica and the determination to get an education. It highlights the achievements of mother and son and the dedication to raise her son who was four, when her marriage failed. It gives insight about the struggles they encountered and her ability to make sacrifices so her only son could attain ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • How I Shot the YouTube Megahit “All by Myself” on My iPhone and Why I’m Not Lonely Anymore

    by Richard Dunn ...
    This funny guide to shooting videos on your iPhone will inspire you to use your imagination and see the world in a different way. Dunn provides a firsthand account of what it’s like go from unknown to Internet Celebrity overnight. With 20 million hits and an ever-growing number of fans, Dunn traces the steps he took to create this remarkable video all the way to his final meeting with... CÉLINE ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Navigational Instruments

    by Richard Dunn ...
    Series Book 820 - Shire Library
    With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history.As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated. The development of instruments over the last five hundred years has ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Sextants at Greenwich

    A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles and Artificial Horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

    by Richard Dunn, W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns ...
    Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum. The first section gives a general overview of the history of celestial navigation with an emphasis on the instruments that were developed and used for that purpose, between about 1450 and the 1970s. The instruments in the catalogue form the ... Read more

    $111.99 USD

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  • To the Edges of the Earth

    1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    Winner of the National Outdoor Book AwardFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" ( WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" ( Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world.As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration—set at the world's frozen extremes—lay unclaimed: the ... Read more

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