Ultra in the Atlantic: U-Boat Operations (Intelligence Series , Vol 2, No 12)

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Text is an edited version of SRH-008. It includes: U-boat Offensive Against Convoys, December 1942-May 1943; U-boat Defensive and U.S. Anti- submarine Activities, May 1943-May 1944; Resumption of Offensive Against Major Convoys, September 1943-March 1944; From the Invasion of France to the End of the War; Blockade Runners-Surface and Submarine; German Naval Operations in the Far East and Indian Ocean.

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Western Civilization, Volume 2, Third Edition: Volume of ...Noble-Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment
Noble , Thomas F. X. Noble , and Barry Strauss
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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ASIN: 0618102116

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The definitive biography of the century's godfather of invention-from the preeminent Edison scholar

"Israel's meticulous research and refusal to shy away from the dodgier aspects of Edison's personality offers a fresh glimpse into the life of the inventor."-New Scientist

"Remarkable."-Nature

"An authoritative look into Edison's working methods, here leavened by enough personal detail to give the achievements shape."-Publishers Weekly

"Highly recommended."

"Israel's book should go a long way toward taking Edison out of the shadows and placing him in the proper light."-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Exhaustively researched, with strong emphasis on Edison's methods and achievements."-Kirkus Reviews

The conventional story of Thomas Edison reads more like myth than history: With only three months of formal education, a hardworking young man overcomes the odds and becomes one of the greatest inventors in history. But the portrait that emerges from Edison: A Life of Invention reveals a man of genius and astonishing foresight whose career was actually a product of his fast-changing era. In this peerless biography, Paul Israel exposes for the first time the man behind the inventions, expertly situating his subject within a thoroughly realized portrait of a burgeoning country on the brink of massive change. Informed by Israel's unprecedented access to workshop diaries, notebooks, letters, and more than five million pages of archives, this definitive biography brings fresh insights to a singularly influential and triumphant career in science.

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Great detailed biography.......2007-05-07

I liked this book a great deal. You should consider that this is not a fictional story, and is the very essence of a research work.

Great insights about his life, religious views, and his business of invention. Well treated subject and a great read.

Edison - a research project.......2007-03-15

This book is very authoritive and well researched, and even more important is that it provides end notes for the reader to verify the author's assertions. If you want a quick overview of Edison's life or just the highlights, this is not the book for you; but if you need to know the man, this is the best book I've read. Paul Israel presents Edison's achievments and failures, in inventions, human relationships and finances in a dispassionate manner.

The Wizard of Menlo Park.......2006-07-10

I've always been interested in reading the biographies of famous inventors. Edison was one I knew little about, so I purchased this book. It is very interesting and takes you through his entire life. You see how Edison begins as a skilled telegraph operator. But he is not content with the status quo, he is always improving what he is working with. But he is also a businessman and gets his ideas patented, and forms partnerships and businesses to profit from them.

The book also includes many pictures form different periods in his life. If you are interested in Edison, this is a great book.

Gird yourself for a long, slow march.......2005-06-07

Reading this book has been an experience for me. I wanted to find out more about the life of one of America's most famous inventors, and this book has helped me along the way, so I give it credit for that. However, I have felt like I am trudging into a mighty windstorm, reaching deep into my soul to plunge each forward step as I slowly turn the pages in this book. There are pockets of enlightenment throughout the book, but it really is a relaying of facts about Edison's life, which is technically what a biography should do, but this book does not come alive in my hands like others have.

To be fair, I did accomplish my goal of learning more about this great man. I learned that a lot his inventions were a result of not just great intellect, but of great work ethic and stick-to-it-iveness. Also, one of his greatest contributions was a corporate model for delegating work among his subordinates. The speed of the development of his inventions was the key, as several other inventors were working on similar ideas at the same time.

Anyway, I recommend the book as a good introduction to the life of Tom, but I am sure that there is a book out there that will give you the same enlightenment without making you feel as though you've crawled on your hands and knees through the Sahara, with a canteen full of lukewarm water that leaks at a very slow rate.

superb scholarly and technical treatment.......2004-01-07

I was given this book for a writing project and dutifully plowed through it over the Christmas holidays. Overall, I must say that it was an absolutely excellent holiday book as well as chock full of useful ideas for my scholarly purposes. This is an extremely difficult balance to strike and Israel has done it better than I thought possible - I was prepared for a long dry slog and instead found a great and exciting story.

Edison, Israel argues, was not just a lone little-educated tinkerer of genius as he is often portrayed, but the creator of the prototype for the modern corporate research lab - he knew how to find talent, how to organize it to get the most out of people, and how to beat the competition by both speed and in the creation of entire new systems of technology. He also knew how to manipulate the media and build on his fame, creating a myth to which he had to live up. That being said, he had a pitch-perfect intuitive sense not only of potential new markets, but of how to create technical solutions to exploit them. He learned from his failures and strove to apply his less-successful inventions elsewhere, often to great effect. Taken together, this was true business genius and Israel explains it all succinctly, including the exposure of Edison's many weaknesses in management and his financial affairs and his many flops (such as the mining experiments that nearly bankrupted him). Furthermore, the basics of his major inventions - improvements to the telegraph and telephone, the light bulb, commerical electricity generation systems, to mention a few - are covered with competence, always with an eye to the management of it all and what it took, all of which are of great use. This adds up to a masterpiece of scholarship and popular writing in my view, crossing a plethora of disciplines in very readable prose and at a good pace of storytelling.

However, there are many things that make this a challenging read and in some ways disappointing. Even though I know a lot about science and engineering from my own writing, I found the many passages explaining the nuts and bolts of his inventions hard to follow and ultimately rather dry. If the reader is not interested in these highly technical details, he can skim them without losing the narrative thread. Moreover, Edison as a person does not always come thru, though really he was his work and not much else. You also do not learn much about the fate of his enterprises or even his personal financial fortune after his death, which is also a part of his legacy that should be explored. Finally, Israel addresses somewhat rarified questions in the concluding chapter regarding whether Edison was a "scientist" and how industrial research was changing (developing specialties that required far more education than inventors of Edison's "heroic invention" epoch) to make the emergence of generalist, self-taught inventors like him far more difficult and with limited horizons; while I enjoyed this a great deal, it is of limited interest to those who were never steeped in "science policy."

All in all, highest recommendation. It is a great achievement and will stand as one of the definitive biographies of this great and difficult man.

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Thomas Alva Edison: Inventor and Entrepreneur (Great Life Stories)
Claire Price-Groff
Manufacturer: Franklin Watts
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Edison : His Life and Inventions (The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0760765820

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Edison and His Inventions Including the Many Incidents, Anecdotes, and Interesting Particulars Connected with the early and Late Life of the Great Inventor Also....
J.B. (ed.) McClure
Manufacturer: Thos. W. Jackson Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TYQFB0

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Early History of Thomas Edison and his inventions

Edison and his inventions: Including the many incidents, anecdotes, and interesting particulars connected with the early and late life of the great inventor
James Baird McClure
Manufacturer: Rhodes and McClure
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008B3ZYE

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Early History of Thomas Edison and his inventions.......2006-01-25

This is a fascinating history of Thomas A. Edison focused on his inventions. Aimed at the moderately to well-educated reader of the time, the book gives a brief history of the inventor and then details all of his early inventions: the quadruplex, phonograph, toddygraph, electric pen, telephone, megaphone, tasimeter, harmonic engine and the electric light. Of interest is the fact that the book was published in May of 1879 several months prior to the complete electric light breakthrough of 1880-1882. Therefore, it is not surprising that the author considers his earlier inventions much more thoroughly than electric light. There is a first-person quote from a visitor to the Edison laboratory describing what electric light looks like (remember that most of the readers of the book would not yet have been exposed to the concepts). The book contains wonderful detailed lithographs of the inventions and some circuit drawings.

Bottom Line: Great piece of early Edison history reminding us that Edison was a great inventor long before the light bulb.

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Edison - Creator of Industry

Edison His Life And Inventions
Frank Lewis Dyer
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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ASIN: 1419117297

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American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. In Edison's boyish days it was quite different, and telegraphic supplies were hard to obtain. But he and his "chum" had a line between their homes, built of common stove-pipe wire. The insulators were bottles set on nails driven into trees and short poles.

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Bad work.......2005-04-22

It is quite a shame, that this facsimile is so badly made. The pictures are really bad reproduced and why is it, that page 117 is not there. Instead page 113 is shown one more time. And in several places the text is distorted from the scanning.

shameless or blind.......2003-07-17

Glorifying and corny. Unconditional praise of Edison achievements. Though the authors are clearly well-read, too many facts are ignored in the account of the circumnstances that lead Edison to the accumulation of patents. Lacks any critic view and end up creating an image of an "american hero" that is as ridiculous as untruth. I quote, just as an example, "In fact, if it were not for Edison's peculiar mentality, that refuses to recognize anything as impossible until indubitably demonstrated to be so, the production of motion pictures would certainly have been delayed for years, if not for all time."
Anyone seriously interested on the subject of the birht of cinema would recognize this as total nonsense or shameless manipulation of facts.
A book to avoid by anyone interested in having a truthfull and independent view on history.

Edison - Creator of Industry.......2003-02-01

The invention of the first light bulb inaugurated a new age for man: Electricity. Just as Edison had to create the tools to make the first bulb, he had to create the industry to use it. He did, and in doing so he assembled the first research laboratory and gathered around him a collection of great minds -- a rich assortment of men with varying talents.

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Edison: His Life and Inventions
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford Martin
Manufacturer: Harper & Brohers, Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TNQBKG

Edison: His Life and Inventions in Two Volumes

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Edison: His Life and Inventions in Two Volumes
Frank Lewis and Martin, Thomas Commerford Dyer
Manufacturer: Harper & Brothers
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Binding: Hardcover
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Pictorial Chronology of Events in the Life of Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931

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Pictorial Chronology of Events in the Life of Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931
Lawrence Forst
Manufacturer: Amereon Limited
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Thomas Alva Edison: Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life

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Thomas Alva Edison: Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life
Francis Arthur Jones
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ASIN: 0766144240

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The author extends his gratitude to Thomas Alva Edison for taking time away from his experimental laboratory to give much of the personal history which is found within this work. This book is not an exhaustive life of Edison, considering at the time it was written Edison was around 60 years old and had swore he had quit the inventing business, devoting himself to pure science. Jones takes the reader on a journey from Edison's birthplace to his travels in Europe. Handsomely illustrated.

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This innovative and thoroughly interdisciplinary book discusses the environmental impact of tourism and recreation. These issues are not observed in a vacuum, but rather in the holistic context of the relationships and interactions between other non-tourist factors that also shape the ecosystem. "Environmental Issues of Tourism and Recreation" is divided into three parts: environmental impacts on tourism and tourists; the positive and negative impact of tourism on the natural environment; and suggestions on how to minimize the unfavorable effects of tourism on nature in the attempt at making tourism environmentally sustainable. Contents: Environmental Impacts on Tourism and Tourists; External (Nontourist) Human Impacts on Natural Environment as Part of the Tourism Product; The Positive Impacts of Tourism and Recreation on Natural Environment; The Negative Impacts of Tourism and Recreation on Environment: Parameters, Agents, and Factors of Overdevelopment; The Negative Impact of Tourism and Recreation on Elements of the Environmental System; The Negative Impact of Tourism and Recreation on Ecosystems; The Issue of Carrying Capacity; The Search for Environmentally Sustainable Tourism; Environmental Planning and Management of Tourism and Recreation; Ecotourism as a Form of Alternative Tourism; Conclusions.

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informative book on conservation and tourism.......2001-03-19

The author explores the interaction between conservation efforts and tourism in different ecosystems and around the world. Commonly accepted views are mostly espoused- nothing shockinly new or inciteful, but a good source of knowledge and facts. Good for the basics, but if you already know a good deal about efforts of ecotourism, it won't tell you much you don't know.

informative book on conservation and tourism.......2001-03-19

Tourism and Development: Economic, Social, Political and Environmental Issues

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Tourism and Development: Economic, Social, Political and Environmental Issues

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The papers in this book deal with general issues which arise in relation to the development of tourism. While economics is the main focus of many of the essays included in this volume, nearly all are multidisciplinary in nature. Given the multidimensional nature of tourism development, this makes for a more comprehensive coverage of the subject than could otherwise be achieved. This volume should, therefore, appeal to those who would like to take a holistic approach to the subject of tourism development, whether they be policy-makers, members of the tourist industry or academics

Tourism, Recreation, And Climate Change (Aspects of Tourism)

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Tourism, Recreation, And Climate Change (Aspects of Tourism)

Manufacturer: Multilingual Matters Limited
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ASIN: 1845410033

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Key Features - The first comprehensive book-level examination of tourism, recreation and climate change - Looks at tourism's effect on climate change, and the effect of climate change on tourism - Of interest to students, researchers, policy makers and the tourism industry - Includes the leading international authorities in the field

Climate change is one of the major issues facing us today and has been described as a threat greater than terrorism. As the worlds largest industry tourism both contributes to and will be dramatically affected by climate change. This is the first comprehensive book-level examination of the relationship between tourism and climate change, of interest not only to students of tourism but to policy makers and the industry who will have to respond to the challenges posed.

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Environmental Issues of Tourism and Recreation.(Brief Article): An article from: The Geographical Journal
Erlet Cater
Manufacturer: Royal Geographical Society
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00096PBTU
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on November 1, 1996. The length of the article is 892 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Environmental Issues of Tourism and Recreation.(Brief Article)
Author: Erlet Cater
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1996
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: v162 Issue: n3 Page: p338(1)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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Putting the `ECO' in Tourism.(ecotourism-related services and package tours offered by travel industry and environmental organizations): An article from: E

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Putting the `ECO' in Tourism.(ecotourism-related services and package tours offered by travel industry and environmental organizations): An article from: E
John Ivanko
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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Putting the `ECO' in Tourism.(ecotourism-related services and package tours offered by travel industry and environmental organizations)
Author: John Ivanko
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Page: 34

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Stewardship and recreation: is this a marriage made in Utah?: An article from: E
Brianne Goodspeed
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This digital document is an article from E, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 800 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Stewardship and recreation: is this a marriage made in Utah?
Author: Brianne Goodspeed
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Page: 52(1)

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