Author: Neil Reid
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504966791
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An interesting varied life from 1934-2014 experiences living in five countries with a stimulating mix of farming, British aristocracy, politicians and spies. The author who was already at school in the UK when the Second World War was declared describes wartime childhood, post war life, his fathers service in MI6, military service in Germany, his career in agriculture managing the agricultural estates of the Queen Mothers and Mountbatten families, leading for six years a successful major protest organization and being a Member of a British Parliamentary Committee but declining to become an M.P. Emigrating to Canada in 1981, he started a new career with interesting changes. Although his wife with whom he had four children, died there in 1998, he later married a Cuban and now has a home in Cuba where he spends the majority of his time.
Life Isn't All Smooth Waters
Author: Neil Reid
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504966791
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An interesting varied life from 1934-2014 experiences living in five countries with a stimulating mix of farming, British aristocracy, politicians and spies. The author who was already at school in the UK when the Second World War was declared describes wartime childhood, post war life, his fathers service in MI6, military service in Germany, his career in agriculture managing the agricultural estates of the Queen Mothers and Mountbatten families, leading for six years a successful major protest organization and being a Member of a British Parliamentary Committee but declining to become an M.P. Emigrating to Canada in 1981, he started a new career with interesting changes. Although his wife with whom he had four children, died there in 1998, he later married a Cuban and now has a home in Cuba where he spends the majority of his time.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504966791
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An interesting varied life from 1934-2014 experiences living in five countries with a stimulating mix of farming, British aristocracy, politicians and spies. The author who was already at school in the UK when the Second World War was declared describes wartime childhood, post war life, his fathers service in MI6, military service in Germany, his career in agriculture managing the agricultural estates of the Queen Mothers and Mountbatten families, leading for six years a successful major protest organization and being a Member of a British Parliamentary Committee but declining to become an M.P. Emigrating to Canada in 1981, he started a new career with interesting changes. Although his wife with whom he had four children, died there in 1998, he later married a Cuban and now has a home in Cuba where he spends the majority of his time.
Parting the Cosmic Veil
Author: Kenneth R. Lang
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387333665
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book describes our gradual awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe. It is a story of expanding horizons and the discovery of invisible worlds. This voyage of discovery is presented within universal themes, such as invisibility, motion, content, form, impermanence, violence and emptiness, beginnings and ends. These are topics that concern us all, helping us take the Universe personally, so each chapter begins with the human aspect of some of these themes. The book is additionally broadened by including the perceptions of artists, poets and writers, as well as with line drawings that forcefully compact a scientific insight.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387333665
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book describes our gradual awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe. It is a story of expanding horizons and the discovery of invisible worlds. This voyage of discovery is presented within universal themes, such as invisibility, motion, content, form, impermanence, violence and emptiness, beginnings and ends. These are topics that concern us all, helping us take the Universe personally, so each chapter begins with the human aspect of some of these themes. The book is additionally broadened by including the perceptions of artists, poets and writers, as well as with line drawings that forcefully compact a scientific insight.
The Parliamentary Debates (official Report).
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
Book Description
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
Book Description
Journals and Printed Papers of the Federal Council of Australasia
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Includes the Council's votes and proceedings, proclamations, bills, acts, etc.
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Includes the Council's votes and proceedings, proclamations, bills, acts, etc.
Life's Devices
Author: Steven Vogel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209499
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. The book will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of biomechanics. On one hand, organisms cannot alter the earth's gravity, the properties of water, the compressibility of air, or the behavior of diffusing molecules. On the other, such physical factors form both constraints with which the evolutionary process must contend and opportunities upon which it might capitalize. Life's Devices includes examples from every major group of animals and plants, with references to recent work, with illustrative problems, and with suggestions of experiments that need only common household materials.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209499
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. The book will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of biomechanics. On one hand, organisms cannot alter the earth's gravity, the properties of water, the compressibility of air, or the behavior of diffusing molecules. On the other, such physical factors form both constraints with which the evolutionary process must contend and opportunities upon which it might capitalize. Life's Devices includes examples from every major group of animals and plants, with references to recent work, with illustrative problems, and with suggestions of experiments that need only common household materials.
Locomotive Engineers Journal
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal
Author:
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Category : Locomotive engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Mechanics' Magazine
Author:
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Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Mechanic's Magazine
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Mechanics Magazine
Author: John I Knight
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description