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Stories in Volume One focus on moments of mathematical discovery experienced by Thales, Pythagoras, Hypatia, Galileo, Pascal, Germain, and still others. Volume Two dramatizes the lives of Omar Khayyam, Albert Einstein, Ada Lovelace, and others. 15 illustrated vignettes per book introduce students to great mathematicians from various cultures. Grades 3-7 Volume Two
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Great for adults and children.......2000-09-30
This is a great book for adults and children. My seven year old has me reading a chapter each night to her. The book illustrates the qualities required to be a great mathematician and has many interesting stories about them. My only wish is there were more chapters and mathematicians.
FANTASTIC!.......2000-03-01
A wonderful collection of short stories about mathematicians from many different time periods, including Pythagoras, Hypatia, Isaac Newton and 12 others. Makes great family reading, as the book is aimed probably for 9-12 year olds, but is definitely interesting on an adult level, too. Great for stimulating interest in mathematics, history and philosophy.
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During the middle years of the Second World War the Royal Air Force constituted the only section of the British armed forces in Europe which was routinely on the offensive. Its aircraft and operations have been voluminously dealt with by historians; but its uniform and flying clothing have received only moderate attention. In this fine addition to the Osprey series, Andrew Cormack explores the fascinating history of the uniforms of the RAF throughout the Second World War, in a text accompanied by numerous contemporary photographs and eight full page colour plates by Ron Volstad.
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Short but Very Good.......2001-01-04
This book do a widespread view in the RAF's uniforms and some personal gear. It is a little short, like others Osprey books, but highly recommended for the modeler or anyone else interested in this subject.
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This second of a two volume study closely examines the development and uses of personal flying equipment issued to the combat personnel of the Luftwaffe and Royal Air Force throughout World War II. Illustrated wih over 500 photographs Ð 450 in color and including many detailed close-ups Ð this book brings together an exceptional array of rarely seen combat equipment. From compasses secreted in tunic buttons, to floating rations, and from suits with built-in parachutes, to box-kite radio antennae, you'll find it all discussed in this volume. All types of parachutes and harnesses, life preservers and the origin of the "Mae West" nickname, inflatable boats, survival tools, weapons for self-defense, and even some of the paperwork and personal items carried by the airmen of these two opposing air forces. Study the sophisticated rescue and survival equipment available to Luftwaffe crews, alongside the clever, yet often brilliantly simple devices which enabled so many RAF flyers to evade capture for so long, some eventually making it home through occupied Europe. Like its companion volume Luftwaffe vs. RAF: Flying Clothing of the Air War, 1939-45, this book will be an invaluable reference for artists, collectors, modellers, living history re-enactors and military historians, and should be of interest to anyone with an affinity for the human side of twentieth century military history. Mick Prodger is also the author of Vintage Flying Helmets: Aviation Headgear Before the Jet Age (from Schiffer Publishing Ltd.)., over 500 color and b/w photographs, 9" x 12"
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Prodger Executes Another WW2 Reference Book Perfectly!.......2000-04-03
As with his "Vintage Flying Helmets; Aviation Headgear Before the Jet Age", Mick Prodger does another portion of World War 2 aviation history great justice with clear, detailed photos and descriptions given with great care in this wonderful reference book on RAF and Luftwaffe flying kit. The companion book "Luftwaffe vs. RAF; Flying clothing of the Air War 1939-45", is equally enthralling. These "suits of armor" were the battle gear that these "air knights" wore into combat when these young men climbed into the cockpit of their "steeds" to test their mettle against their foe. This book should be on the shelf of any RAF or Luftwaffe enthusiast. You won't be disappointed.
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- The Best Book I have ever read
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Focus on Europe: A Photo-Reonnaissance Mosquito Pilot at War 1943-45
Ron Foster
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Photographic reconnaissance was of vital importance to the Allied war effort during WW2. The RAF's Photographic Unit - the PRU - operated from Benson airfield, near Oxford, with two squadrons each of Spitfires and Mosquitoes. The 'Mossie' was described by John Cunningham as 'the most outstanding aircraft developed during the Second World War'. Focus on Europe is the story of one young man who flew unarmed PRU mosquitoes on dangerous, but vital, reconnaissance sorties over Europe in 1943-5. Ron Foster came to the UK from New Zealand, and during that period he and his navigator flew sixty-nine sorties over every country in Europe except Greece and Portugal.
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The Best Book I have ever read.......2007-01-03
I am love the mosquito, the most versatile aircraft of WWII, and this book captures it and its pilots ability perfectly. I searched high and low for a memoir of a mosquito pilot and this book tops an extensive library. I wish that i could find another memoir of a mosquito pilot.
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- It shows great information about the war
- Dunmore serves the armchair historian
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Above and Beyond: The Canadians' War in the Air, 1939-45
Spencer Dunmore
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From the first skirmishes over Europe in September 1939, Canadian airmen served in almost every theatre of the Second World War, from bases in Britain and Europe, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. And in the months and years that followed, with the slaughter mounting in hostile skies around the globe, the contribution of Canadian pilots, navigators, gunners, air bombers, and flight engineers grew out of all proportion to their country’s population.
In the early days of the conflict, great numbers of Canadians served in units of Britain’s RAF and Fleet Air Arm. As the war progressed, however, the Royal Canadian Air Force came into its own, and by Germany's surrender, forty-eight RCAF squadrons were overseas, almost completely manned by Canadian officers and men.
Among the Canadians were Johnny Fauquier and Reg Lane, Canada’s leading bomber pilots; Stan Turner, perhaps the country’s greatest fighter leader; Len Birchall, the gallant “Saviour of Ceylon”; the redoubtable ace Buzz Beurling; the great naval hero Hammy Gray; Roly Dibnah, Bert Houle, and many others.
These brash young men from the Empire’s senior dominion had little time for ceremony and tradition. Countless British officers considered them dangerously independent and lacking in respect for rank. But in the air, where it counted, the Canadians more than proved their worth.
Combining first person accounts of the action and his own vivid prose, Dunmore captures the high drama and gut-churning tension of dogfights and bomber raids, charts the victories and defeats of the armies and navies below, and recreates the mood abroad in wartime as the world watched the drama unfold.
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Also unimpressed.......2006-08-25
The book does little to convey its intended message, and there are significant gaps in the coverage. The entire war from 1944-45 is glossed over in the last few pages of the book, and significant events such as the use of 4-engine bombers for tactical purposes is completely ignored. I realize the book is intended more as a social history, and as light reading it does well, but like many books seeking to cash in on the concept of "popular history" that Corenlius Ryan and Stephen Ambrose (and now Mark Zuehlke) have perpetuated, the book is far too celebratory. As a cheerleader, Dunmore excells, and the VC descriptions are riveting. For a balanced picture of what the RCAF was doing in the Second World War, this book will not enlighten.
It's hard to be so harsh on an author like Dunmore, who has obvious respect for the subject of his work, and his talent as a writer can't be questioned. There are amusing anecdotes in the book and a fair degree of analysis - but more recent, scholarly research points to such things as inflated tank-kill figures by Typhoon pilots and the problems with tactical air support, and none of this is even hinted at by this social history. What little analysis there is, is uneven. Dunmore describes how few German pilots were "experten" by 1944, then cites the number of Spitfires shot down after D-Day. Lucky shots? Dunmore never explains how the riff-raff he claims was left in the Luftwaffe managed to kill so many Allied pilots.
There is no organized description of hardware or software - ie of plane types, performance characteristics, etc., and of the training, though lip service is paid to the BCATP and the lack of reinforcement training in the Luftwaffe. As this was intended as a social history, one shouldn't hold that against Dunmore, though one might have expected at the very least an appendix of some sort.
The bottom line is that if you just want a very basic idea of what life in the RCAF was like, or for a reaffirmation that "we" were the good guys, this book will provide an enjoyable experience. As a serious history, it will only frustrate. Indeed, even as a "casual" history, an absolute rank beginner will have no appendices of rank titles or aircraft types to help him/her understand better.
Not Overly Impressed.......2004-10-07
I've read a number of Spencer Dunmore's books, both fiction and non-fiction, and I have to say that I was a little disappointed by this one. Having read some of his sources, it was easy to recognize that the author simply paraphrased these works and cobbled them together instead of crafting his own narrative as was the case with Reap the Whirlwind. Still, I guess it's not a bad book for the general reader wanting to get some background on the subject.
It shows great information about the war.......1998-09-30
I loved it!! It's wasn't what I thought it was. I thought it would be boring and there won't excite me but you Spenser Dunmore proved me wrong cause I never read anything like this before!!
Dunmore serves the armchair historian.......1997-07-20
This book would be easy to give a negative review until you realize the task that Dunmore took on in just 400 pages. The author must have conducted dozens upon dozens of interviews to compile this anecdotal history. Dunmore sprinkles this with a Reader's Digest outline of the war's events to give us an entertaining view of the RCAF's huge contribution to the Allied air struggle. While not necessarily for academics, Above and Beyond is a welcome addition to the literature in this area
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Fighter Command 1939-45
Ian Carter
Manufacturer: Ian Allan Publishing
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ASIN: 0711028427 |
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Drawing on the huge and comprehensive archive held by the Imperial War Museum in London, the author portrays the history of the British Fighter Command, year by year, from the outbreak of the war in September 1939 through to the Allied victory in May 1945. Fighter Command's war-winning aircraft are also featured in a series of detailed photographs.
This compelling and atmospheric pictorial record will have major appeal for everyone wanting to know more about the RAF in World War II.
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Fighter Pilot of the Royal Air Force, 1939-45
Chaz Bowyer
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An author with 30 years experience in the field profiles 20 RAF pilots in World War II with diverse backgrounds and varying combat experiences.
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Is America bitterly divided? Has America lost its traditional values? Many politicians and religious leaders believe so, as do the majority of Americans, based on public opinion polls taken over the past several years. But is this crisis of values real?
This book explores the moral terrain of America today, analyzing the widely held perception that the nation is in moral decline. It looks at the question from a variety of angles, examining traditional values, secular values, religious values, family values, economic values, and others. Using unique data from the World Values Surveys, the largest systematic attempt ever made to document attitudes, values, and beliefs around the world, this book systematically evaluates the perceived crisis of values by comparing America's values with those of over 60 other nations.
The results are surprising. The evidence shows overwhelmingly that America has not lost its traditional values, that the nation compares favorably with most other societies, and that the culture war is largely a myth.
The gap between reality and perception does not represent mass ignorance of the facts or an overblown moral panic, Baker contends. Rather, the widespread perception of a crisis of values is a real and legitimate interpretation of life in a society that is in the middle of a fundamental transformation and that contains growing cultural contradictions. Instead of posing a problem, the author argues, this crisis rhetoric serves the valuable social function of reminding us of what it means to be American. As such, it preserves the ideological foundation of the nation.
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Important social science research for generations.......2005-05-09
In this timely volume, Wayne E. Baker cuts through both the media and pop-politics hype to argue that America has not lost its values and we are not subsequently headed for trouble. Having waded through the ever-growing mountain of criticism about values, I was pleased by Baker's fresh approach to this enduring policy question.
His comparative international study argues that the values argument and related campaigns are nothing more than a very elaborate `smoke and mirrors' arrangement which is designed to play on public insecurity and lack of complete information how America fares against itself and other nations.
The success of the culture war can ultimately be attributed to the fact that emotional charge can successfully get people riled up and against each other over actually nothing. "They" are doing the right thing, but people then worry that their neighbors are somehow doing something `different' from their own actions.
Baker's evidence from religion, psychology, and sociology presents a rational argument that our values are just fine as they are, thank you.
The overall absurdity of the `declining values' argument against this strong research package has not prevented politicians from using `values' charges and statements inside their own campaigns however.
They have practically campaigned on `restoring values' even though we cannot fix something which is not already broken. Yet, Baker suggests that the politicians and candidates (who also live in this society) may not have access to the truth either. They may also honestly not realize that everything is in fact okay.
This truly non-partisan approach makes Baker's research much more substantial than a tome written by an individual/foundation with a specific political ideology. Baker can concede that nobody has a monopoloy on 'good values' but America is not a repository for 'bad values' either. Because wallowing in partisan muck has been proven much easier (including for book sales and media hype) Baker himself is a paragon of values.
Finally, the emotional grasp of `values' on the American psyche is so effectively bipartisan that politicians from both political parties campaign to this imagined crisis. The success of the DLC (who had also endorsed v-chips) and the 2000 Democratic ticket of Gore/Lieberman (which talked about their own belief in values in an attempt to offset the Republicans) also demonstrate that the Democrats were equally anxious to campaign on `restoring values' in America.
Baker's research is a necessary acquisition for both academic libraries and personal collections. It is a must read for politicians from all points on the political spectrum so we can finally move onto problems which do exist in America.
Thought-provoking and timely synthesis.......2005-04-15
The best thing about this book is that it raises a number of very profound and important questions in a way that makes you think deeply about them. If you have any interest at all in what insight scientific reasoning can bring into large scale human behavior, this book will truly make you think.
Rather than the usual political diatribe, this is: (1) an exceptional objective summary of what is special about the United States drawing from a wealth of previous work, (2) a wide-ranging and balanced analysis of the widespread American perception of waging an internal culture war at the turn of the millennia, and (3) a speculative and potentially somewhat testable (but largely untested) cyclical theory of cultural crises in general as a product of both endogenous and exogenous factors.
Baker finds no empirical support for the theory that American traditional values have diminished over time, and support for only a loose coupling of our polarized moral orientations (which he refers to as absolutism and relativism) and our religious beliefs and social attitudes. In this context, absolutism simply refers to the core idea that ultimate authority must come from a transcendental and perhaps eternal source, while relativism is the core idea that authority resides in the individual.
Baker finds that our political parties are highly and increasingly polarized but that when it comes to particular issues, Americans of all stripes tend to share more values and attitudes than they differ about, in spite of also being a mixture of absolutists and relativists. This is because he finds that our moral orientation is only loosely coupled to our religious beliefs and social attitudes. People can have the same religious beliefs yet differ in social attitudes, and vice versa, and similarly for our moral orientations and our religious beliefs. There are atheist absolutists and Christian relativists. Absolutists and relativists live and work and worship and debate side by side in the U.S. rather than representing a divided social structure.
When political pundits try to put every social issue in terms of the two sides of the culture war (usually Christians vs. Secularists), according to Baker's analysis they are making an unwarranted assumption that beliefs, attitudes, and moral orientations are much more tightly coupled than they really are. Thus they are exaggerating the polarization of the nation. The question is ... why do we do this, and why does it seem so compellingly true?
Baker's data shows besides an elevated sense of anxiety over the economy, what made the 1980's most distinctive was that across every demographic category, huge numbers of Americans went from being moral relativists to being moral absolutists. Prior to 1980, by far most Americans answered survey questions in a way that revealed them to be moral relativists, but by 1990 we were half relativists and half absolutists. This even division, according to Baker, emphasizes the contrast between these different moral orientations and the respective different guides they provide to conduct and the evaluation of goals. It is this even distribution of absolutism and relativism that Baker theorizes creates the impression of being a divided nation, even though our traditional values have during the same period remained entirely stable, we have remained remarkably independent of the secularization trend of the other modern nations, and we are actually converging over time rather than polarizing over social issues (with the notable exception of abortion).
So Baker does find a gap between the facts of American culture revealed by values surveys, and American'ss perception of their own values. However he does not dismiss the gap as a matter of mass hysteria or ignorance or simply political propaganda. The primary purpose of the book is to engage in a systematic analysis and understanding of the "adaptive" or "functional" reason for this gap. The assumption is that perceiving ourselves as waging a culture war is important for some reason and that our public rhetoric has adapted to that need. The adaptive reason that Baker comes up with is that America is unique in being a nation united by creed and ideology rather than by culture, and so as a result of our unique cultural heritage, traditional values have become the thing that make us Americans. Traditional values are on one end of one of Baker's well-validated values scales, the other end being secular-rational values. Secular-rational values are what the modernization and secularization theories expect us to see increasing as a nations wealth increases and as they shift from agriculture to industrial and service economies. We see that happen all over the world very consistently, except for the United States. The United States maintains its traditional value orientation over time because that is the source of its sense of identity as a nation and many Americans begin to feel threatened when they see evidence of encroaching secularization. In spite of highly visible legal conflicts over the interpretation of the establishment clause, we still share the same traditional values that unite us as Americans.
One of the main sources of confusion over American values can be seen in the second well-validated values scale that Baker uses: survival vs. self-expression values. Many discussions of values do not distinguish these two scales, yet factor analysis shows them to be reliably independent. Although Americans have retained their traditional values and have not moved increasingly toward secular-rational values as predicted by secularization theory and as seen in other nations, we have moved particularly far and quickly from survival values to self-expression values.
Self-expression values combine with traditional values to give the unique hybrid found in American culture, we internalize both traditional values and individualism, and these are actually different guides to conduct. The result is, according to Baker's theory, a uniquely motivated search for meaning among Americans in trying to reconcile their mixed traditional and self-expression values. This is an interesting and unexpected aspect of Baker's synthesis: he says that the contradictions created by traditional + self-expression values create a cognitive dissonance, leading to the feeling or perception of a crisis of values.
Baker gives just enough background to make his point and show its relevance to his argument, but never so much that I forgot the point he was trying to make. You'll be introduced to various theories of religious history and cultural evolution, various psychological theories of how beliefs and attitudes are related, several fascinating maps of the values of different nations and how they have changed in recent years, and a revealing look at how absolutism and relativism affect our thinking.
Good, if not perfect.......2005-04-11
This is a good, but not perfect, study of values in the U.S., testing various hypotheses related to the perception that traditional values are declining in America. An earlier reviewer got rather overheated about what he/she saw as the ethnocentric nature of Baker's conclusions, and for a related bias in the instrument used. Neither is warranted: while the study suffers for its over-reliance upon survey data, the main survey (the World Values Survey) is a carefully designed and conscientiously administered instrument, and the conclusions are not so much ethnocentric as understandably formulated with an American audience in mind. The biggest problem with the book, in addition to its overreliance upon one method (surveys), is its layout: the absence of statistical tables in the main text may lead one to think that it is accessible to those lacking statistical knowledge, but the text continuously refers to the multitude of tables in the Appendix, in a highly annoying fashion.
A Disturbing Use of Social Science "Research".......2005-03-24
I was excited when I started reading this book. Baker writes well and provides a strong overview of the general issues. However, he then goes on to "test" various hypotheses about the moral state of America with one of the most ridiculous questionairres I have ever seen - the World Survey of Values. He claims that it is cross-cultural and not ethonocentric. However, in several sections of the book, it is suggested that America is superior to other countries. He also makes the bizarre conclusion that Americans subscribe to common values and there is no "culture war." This is what his data suggests. It does not seem to matter that a multitude of current events completely contradict this conclusion.
Clearly - I found Baker's unwavering ethonocentricity, despite his claims of being unbiased, offensive. But more importantly, there are SERIOUS problems with his "data" and it is disturbing that anyone would believe some likert scales can provide solid answers about a complex issue of moral well-being.
I like his moxie in trying to address this issue systematically, and I even like some of the conclusions he makes...but there is a need to think critically about what constitutes evidence and what kinds of inquiry are appropriate for examining these kinds of issues.
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Whether the stakeholders include public, nonprofit, or exclusively private participants, collaboration is increasingly favored over regulatory enforcement or litigation as a means to settle environmental conflicts. At the urging of citizens, nongovernmental organizations, industry, and individuals within their own institutions, government officials at all levels have been experimenting with collaboration in a wide variety of contexts. Yet questions remain about the best way to ensure that government involvement will be constructive -- that is will support collaboration, rather than introduce barriers.
The goal of this thoughtful work is to analyze data from a variety of cases to explain how the different roles government plays in collaborative environmental management lead to different processes and outcomes. Looking at examples where government has acted to lead, encourage, or follow in the process of collaboration, they apply their new theoretical framework to cases involving the management of watersheds, rivers, and estuaries to farmland, animal habitats, and forests. Finding that there is no "best"role for government; the authors are nonetheless able make important observations about when and where collaborative environmental management is likely to be effective..
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good book for all.......2005-10-25
This book may have been designed for instructors to use in policy classes, but it also gives the layman a good overview of the deeper issues affecting management of our resources. Provides actual case studies, not just theory, and it has some insightful discussion.
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