[PDF] Air Pictorial And Air Reserve Gazette Monthly Ed Frank Hillier Vol Xix No 9 September 1957 eBook

Author : Franklin Hibel
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781396116995

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Excerpt from Air Reservist, 1957, Vol. 9 Plans to increase the Air Reserve Forces' troop carrier and air defense capabilities were announced last month by the Air Force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Leslie Tomory
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1421422042

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How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply industry on earth? Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections—making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. In this richly detailed book, historian Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London’s water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand, particularly in the city’s wealthy West End. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London’s water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks. The city’s water infrastructure even inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks. The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820 explores the technological, cultural, and mercantile factors that created and sustained this remarkable industry. Tomory examines how the joint-stock form became popular with water companies, providing a stable legal structure that allowed for expansion. He also explains how the roots of the London water industry’s divergence from the Continent and even from other British cities was rooted both in the size of London as a market and in the late seventeenth-century consumer revolution. This fascinating and unique study of essential utilities in the early modern period will interest business historians and historians of science and technology alike.

Author : Yu-hung Hong
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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In this book, the authors argue for instigated property exchange--a concept applied in a land-assembly method commonly known in the literature as land readjustment.

Author : David De Vries
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845456337

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Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world's main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standing Jewish presence, is discussed as a social history embedded in the international political economy of its times; the genesis of the industry in Palestine is placed on a broad continuum within the geographic and economic dislocations of Dutch, Belgian, and German diamond-cutting centers. In providing a micro-historical and interdisciplinary perspective, the story of the diamond industry in Mandate Palestine proposes a more nuanced picture of the uncritical approach to the strict boundaries of ethnic-based occupational communities.

Author : Jim Hillier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780674090613

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The Cahiers du Cinéma has played a major role in establishing film theory and criticism as an essential part of the late 20th century culture. This volume contains articles from the 1950s.

Author : Professor Jon Coaffee
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1409488306

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First published in 2003, this account of the anti-terrorist measures of London's financial district and the changes in urban security after 9/11 has been revised to take into account developments in counter-terrorist security and management, particularly after the terrorist attack in London on July 7th 2005. It makes a valuable addition to the current debate on terrorism and the new security challenges facing Western nations. Drawing on the post-9/11 academic and policy literature on how terrorism is reshaping the contemporary city, this book explores the changing nature of the terrorist threat against global cities in terms of tactics and targeting, and the challenge of developing city-wide managerial measures and strategies. Also addressed is the way in which London is leading the way in developing best practice in counter-terrorist design and management, and how such practice is being internationalized.

Author : Breanne Robertson
Publisher :
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Flags
ISBN : 9781732003071

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"Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--