Whatever was left of a ship after such an explosion would usually burn, even on the surface of the water. That was bad news since steamboats were made of wood. Steam engines were prone to exploding if their temperatures weren't managed properly. The first vessels to be propelled through the water with steam-powered engines were invented in the early 1800s, and as much as they revolutionized travel and commerce, they also introduced a brand new danger. As summer approaches, sun-chasers will be heading out to waterways soon, but while party pontoons and speedboats dominate rivers today, there was once a time when steamboats and the people who raced them ruled the waters. If you’d like to travel downriver as fast as possible in the most dangerous way imaginable, we’re sorry to say you’ve missed the boat.
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A quick introduction sets out Agamemnon's historical, literary, and performative context, its use of imagery and themes (especially gender conflict and the perversion of sacrificial ritual), and its subsequent literary and cultural impact while extensive commentary notes guide students through every line of the Greek text. Leah Himmelhoch provides a helpful guide for students and instructors wishing to study and teach the play, building on her over twenty-five years of experience teaching college and university students. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play for students of classics, drama and the canon of western literature. This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. Trailblazers, the second book in the Guardians of Peace series, continues where Refined by Fire left off, and provides readers an unparalleled look at the integration of women into the modern Army and concludes with Lori and Trish graduating from the prestigious United States Military Academy. Join them as they explore Europe's history and culture, while supporting each other personally and professionally, as they strive to be recognized as superior military professionals by their subordinates, peers, and superiors. These intrepid women face challenges every day as they struggle to earn the respect of their male peers and learn it can be lonely when rules and duty requirements are in conflict with personal desires or needs. Trailblazers explores the struggles the women face, as they spend the summer bonding and working together. Maura and Anne, two of the first female ROTC commissioned lieutenants, are assigned as their sponsors. LORI and TRISH, two of a small group of the first women chosen to be cadets at West Point, are assigned to West Germany for Cadet Troop Leader Training in the summer of 1978. This book gives invaluable insights into how large institutions effectively adjust to change." BG (Ret) Anne Macdonald, West Point graduate, Class of 1980. An interesting, historically-based story that follows the journey of the first women at West Point. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. This “ingenious reckoning with the past” ( The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany. * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * When the investigation dovetails into that of an apparently-impossible theft, the detectives consider the possibility that the two transgressions are related. As he and the Inspector interview the colorful cast of suspects among the psychiatrist’s patients and household, they uncover no shortage of dark secrets-or motives for murder. Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. For who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in illusions? Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.īacked by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges – and unexpected opportunities. Kuang a definitive mantle as one of the greatest new voices in modern fantasy and the entire Poppy War trilogy will go down in history, at least for me, as one of the greatest modern fantasy series. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of 20th-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.Īfter saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.ĭespite her losses, Rin hasn't given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much – the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R.F. (She is not to be confused with the author Susan Fletcher born in the US in 1951). The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning Eve GreenAmy lies in. Fletcher writes Historical Mysteries and History Fiction. The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning Eve Green. Overall, there's an air of self-importance that's difficult to penetrate. Born January 1st, 1979 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Susan Fletcher attended the independent school Saint Martin’s School in Solihull, West Midlands, England. Largely told from the perspective of a fledgling adult reflecting on her childhood, the story feels like an extended therapy session, with narration alternating between third- and first-person, allowing a dissociation between the grown Moira and her lonely, moody adolescent self. Now she would like to make amends with her sister, but it is too late. Instead, she ignored her family and later married Ray, an artist and doting husband. The accident is made more tragic because Moira, who was away at boarding school when her sister was born, took the new addition to the family as a personal slight and never developed a relationship with her. Moira is a 27-year-old scientist whose 16-year-old sister, Amy, is in a coma, the result of a fall four years earlier. Regret and jealousy consume the overweening protagonist of this frustrating novel by the Whitbread-winning author of Eve Green Here, I’m not certain quite how well it works: some of the sailing elements definitely seem forced, even with the hand-waving nature of “darkspace”. Forester’s Hornblower series, with a futuristic spin. They definitely seem to have a mutual inspiration in C.S. The first volume of that is still sitting in my “to read” list, so while I can’t directly compare them, Werner has you covered for a review of Weber’s book. This isn’t the first SF/sailing combination to feature a female protagonist, apparently being quite similar to David Weber’s Honor Harrington series. However, this is largely just exchanging one set of problems for another, whether winning the respect of her colleagues, fending off the too admiring ones, or adapting to the harsh life of outer space – and, stranger still, the “darkspace” which facilitates interstellar travel. With the alternative being a marriage Alexis really doesn’t want, the 15-year-old girl instead signs up to become a midshipman in Her Majesty’s Navy (or, at least, the space version thereof), on the interstellar sloop Merlin. But her future is murky, for Dalthusian law prohibits women from inheriting property, such as her family’s estates. Alexis Carew is a third-generation settler on the planet Dalthus, and the ward of her grandfather, her parents having been killed in an accident. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. OL466032W Page_number_confidence 92.99 Pages 374 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 600 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0142401447 Pearls of Lutra: A Tale from Redwall is written by Brian Jacques and published by Firebird. Urn:lcp:pearlsoflutrared00bria:epub:fd4d85f5-d0e8-4cf7-9ebe-25052e10cc3f Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier pearlsoflutrared00bria Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t84j1mg8q Isbn 044100508Xĩ780441005086 Lccn 96018444 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7524046M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:28:00 Boxid IA177701 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition Ace mass-market ed. Studium okrajového plazmatu na tokamaku COMPASS Poskytovatel: Grantová agentura České republiky ID projektu: GAP2 Kontrola okrajových nestabilit plazmatu v tokamacích pomocí vnějších magnetických poruch Poskytovatel: Grantová agentura České republiky ID projektu: GA16-24724S Poskytovatel: Grantová agentura České republiky ID projektu: GA16-25074Sįyzikální podstata kontroly okrajových nestabilit v tokamacích Studium zonálních toků a alfvénovských módů v plazmatu tokamaku COMPASS Poskytovatel: Grantová agentura České republiky ID projektu: GA19-15229S Vliv chybových polí na režimy zlepšeného udržení v tokamacích Poskytovatel: Technologická agentura České republiky ID projektu: TN02000012 i., PrahaĬentrum pokročilých jaderných technologií II Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Prahaĭiplomová práce: Výbojové zdroje plazmatu s podporou magnetického poleĭisertační práce: Studium rovnovážné magnetické konfigurace v zařízeních typu tokamak Magnetická diagnostika, magnetická rekonstrukce.Pracoviště: Budova Tokamaku, místnost: G 214 |