2004, ISBN: 9780905617442

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Tellwell Talent. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Tellwell Talent, 6, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2004. Sixrth Printing . Trade Paperback. Fine. … Mehr…

Tellwell Talent. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Tellwell Talent, 6, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2004. Sixrth Printing . Trade Paperback. Fine. 6" x 9. 488 Pages Indexed. This is the sixth printing and the first paperback printing. An as new book with flawless interior text pages. The author argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted--almost inevitably and for the same reasons--in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery. In the process, he explains why Christian and Islamic images of God yielded such different cultural results, leading Christians but not Muslims to foster science, burn witches, and denounce slavery. With clarity and skepticism toward the received wisdom, Stark finds the origins of these disparate phenomena within monotheistic religious organizations. Endemic in such organizations are pressures to maintain religious intensity, which lead to intense conflicts and schisms that have far-reaching social results. Along the way, Stark debunks many commonly accepted ideas. He interprets the sixteenth-century flowering of science not as a sudden revolution that burst religious barriers, but as the normal, gradual, and direct outgrowth of medieval theology. He also shows that the very ideas about God that sustained the rise of science led also to intense witch-hunting by otherwise clear-headed Europeans, including some celebrated scientists. This conception of God likewise yielded the Christian denunciation of slavery as an abomination--and some of the fiercest witch-hunters were devoted participants in successful abolitionist movements on both sides of the Atlantic. This book is an engrossing narrative that accounts for the very different histories of the Christian and Muslim worlds. It fundamentally changes our understanding of religion's role in history and the forces behind much of what we point to as secular progress. Contents: List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction Dimensions of the Supernatural, God's Truth Inevitable Sects and Reformations, God's Handiwork The Religious Origins of Science, God's Enemies Explaining the European Witch-Hunts, God's Justice The Sin of Slavery. Included is a Postscript - Gods, Rituals, and Social Science, Notes, and Bibliography., Princeton University Press, 2004, 5, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 306, [2] p. From Wikipedia: "Yaron Svoray. Police detective, World War Two recovery expert Treasure liberator, author and lecturer. Svoray was born in Israel, and was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces. He later worked as a detective in the Israeli Central Police Command. Yaron worked as a journalist and a lecturer. In the early 1990s, he went undercover inside the German Neo Nazi organization. Svoray s book In Hitler s Shadow was later adapted into a 1995 HBO special, The Infiltrator, starring Oliver Platt as Svoray. Svoray next book was the book Gods of Death published in 1997 by Simon & Schuster. The book is an account of Svoray s hunt for the source of and sense behind the snuff film which he witnessed while undercover inside the Neo Nazi movement.", Simon & Schuster, 1997, 3, paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book., 2.5, Paperback / softback. New., 6, Tellwell Talent. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Tellwell Talent, 6, Camden, SC: Liveoak Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. Mylar-wrapped orange dust jacket with black lettering to front and white lettering over blue blocking to spine; color illustration of a grizzly bear, Canada geese, and a lunar eclipse to front cover; jacket like new; postcard with B&W bighorn sheep illustration by Dan Metz laid in, with note addressed to previous owners from Metz; signed and inscribed by editor Chuck Wechsler on half title page: "For Pat & Charlie… The Best in the Outdoors! Chuck Wechsler"; signed and inscribed by artist Dan Metz on frontispiece: "For Pat & Charlie - Only the best. Blue Waters - Dan Metz"; else interior book clean and unmarked; tight binding; B&W illustrations by Dan Metz at the beginning of each chapter. Last Casts & Stolen Hunts is an anthology of sporting stories, both fiction and nonfiction, released by Sporting Classics Magazine; authors featured include Aldo Leopold, Zane Grey, Rudyard Kipling, and others. ; B & W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 270 pp; Signed by Author & Illustrator ., Liveoak Press, Inc., 1993, 5, New York, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good Minus. 1984. ADVANCED READING COPY (ARC). Soft Cover. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" PAPERBACK Craig Mellow is given a mission for the World Bank and is soon caught up in a dangerous political web in Africa. Wh ite cover has title in red and authors name in black. Wear at edges, soiled, rubbed. ., Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984, 3, Maurois Pr. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry., Maurois Pr, 5, hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book., 2.5, hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items., 2.5, paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items., 2.5, Hardback. New., 6, English, J: 1987 WSS UK, softcover 108 pages + Folding-out designplan. History, design, development and careers of the 86 destroyers of WWII. ISBN 0905617444 In very good condition, 0, paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items., 2.5, Kendal: World Ship Society, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. First paperback edition, 1987, in overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - covers a touch faded to spine. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book., World Ship Society, 1987, 3<

1987, ISBN: 9780905617442

Cumbria, England: World Ship Society, 1987. First Edition, Presumed First Printing. Trade paperback. Good. 108 pages. Includes illustrations, Dedication and publisher, Contents, Acknow… Mehr…

Cumbria, England: World Ship Society, 1987. First Edition, Presumed First Printing. Trade paperback. Good. 108 pages. Includes illustrations, Dedication and publisher, Contents, Acknowledgments and Notes, and Genesis. Also includes Construction, Deployment, Analysis of Losses, Post War Service, Review of the Hunts, Ship Histories, List of Pendant Numbers, Endpiece, and Plan of a Type 1 Hunt, a large folding illustration of H. M.S. Cattistock at back cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Hunt class was a class of escort destroyer of the Royal Navy. The first vessels were ordered early in 1939, and the class saw extensive service in the Second World War, particularly on the British east coast and Mediterranean convoys. They were named after British fox hunts. The modern Hunt-class GRP hulled mine countermeasure vessels maintain the Hunt names lineage in the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy had identified the need for two types of destroyer: larger vessels with heavy gun and torpedo armaments for fleet work and another type for escort duties. The escort vessels forsook the heavy armament and some of the speed of the fleet type to reduce unit cost and better suit mass production and the conditions. This fast escort vessel" was later classified as an "escort destroyer". Eighty-six Hunts were completed, of which 72 were commissioned into the Royal Navy and the remaining 14 were transferred to allied navies; Bolebrooke, Border, Catterick, Hatherleigh, Modbury, Bramham and Hursley to the Greek Royal Hellenic Navy, Bedale, Oakley and Silverton to the Free Polish Navy, Glaisdale, Eskdale and Badsworth to the Royal Norwegian Navy and Haldon to the Free French Navy. The Hunts were modeled on the 1938 escort sloop Bittern, a 262-foot (80 m) ship of 1,190 tons with 3,300 shp (2,500 kW) on geared turbines for 18¾ knots and an armament of three twin Mark XIX mounts for the QF 4-inch (102 mm) gun Mark XVI. The guns were controlled by a Fuze Keeping Clock AA fire control computer when engaging aircraft. The Hunt class was to ship the same armament, plus a quadruple QF 2 pounder mount Mark VII on a hull of the same length but with 8 feet (2 m) less beam and installed power raised to 19,000 shp (14,000 kW) to give 27 knots (50 km/h). The first twenty were ordered in March and April 1939. They were constructed to Admiralty standards, as were contemporary destroyers, unlike the frigates, which conformed much more to mercantile practice. Clearly the Hunts posed a major design challenge. They would be too short and narrow and of insufficient range for open ocean work, being restricted to the North Sea and Mediterranean Sea. This sacrifice was accepted to give any chance of meeting the requirements. The demanding specifications in an overworked Admiralty design department resulted in a major design miscalculation. When the detailed calculations were done the center of gravity was lower than expected and the beam was increased. As the first ships were being completed it was found that the design was as much as 70 tons overweight, top heavy, leaving them dangerously deficient in stability. The first twenty ships were so far advanced in construction that it was necessary to remove the 'X' 4-inch gun mount and add 50 tons of permanent ballast. These ships became the Type I group, and had the multiple 2-pounder gun relocated from behind the funnel to the more advantageous 'X' position. The design deficiency of the Type I was rectified by splitting the hulls lengthwise and adding a 2½ foot section, increasing the beam to 31 ft 6 in and the margin of stability sufficiently for the designed armament to be shipped. These ships became the Type II group, and also had a revised design of bridge with the compass platform extending forwards to the wheelhouse face. Under the 1939 Emergency War Program 36 more Hunts had been ordered; three of these were completed to the original (Type I) design. Depth charge stowage could also be increased from 40 in the Type I to 110. For the 1940 building program, torpedoes were deemed necessary. The next 27 ships were completed to a revised design, the Type III group, and were intended specifically for Mediterranean work. They sacrificed 'Y' gun for a pair of 21-inch torpedo tubes amidships, the searchlight being displaced to the aft shelter deck as a result. The Type III Hunts could be easily identified as they had a straight funnel with a sloping top and the foremast had no rake. Fourteen of them had their stabilizer fins removed (or not fitted in the first place) and the space used for extra fuel oil. The last two Hunts came from an independent lineage and were built to a private design that had been prepared pre-war by John I. Thornycroft & Company. Submitted to the Admiralty and rejected in 1938, a modified design had been accepted in 1940. They were known as the Type IV. They had a novel hull design, with a U-shaped forward section with a distinctive double knuckle and a full center section with a square turn at the bilge. This form was intended to increase low-speed efficiency and reduce rolling without the need for ballast or stabilizers to improve the ships as gun platforms; testing showed an 8% increase in steaming efficiency at 20 knots (37 km/h) for a 2% loss full ahead. Other features included a long fo'c'sle stretching for most of the length of the ship, which increased internal accommodation space (the lack of which was a perennial problem in wartime ships with enlarged crews) and allowed the crew to fight the ship almost completely under cover. As a result, 'X' gun was now at the fo'c'sle deck level rather than on a raised shelter deck. The design was large enough to carry a triple set of torpedoes, but as they too were at fo'c'sle deck level the training apparatus had to be remotely mounted a deck below. Armament was completed by a pair of single 20 mm Oerlikon guns in the bridge wings and a pair of power operated twin 0.5-inch Vickers machine guns amidships, quickly discovered to be ineffective and replaced by the Mark V twin mounting for the Oerlikon gun. The level of protection afforded to the crews in these two ships was found to be beneficial in wartime, where crews were often closed up at action stations for extended periods of time in appalling weather conditions, and the design - although it was something of a dead end - heavily influenced post-war escort designs. All Hunt class except three Type II and the Type IV Brissenden had fin stabilizers forward to reduce rolling to make for a steadier gun platform. These were subsequently removed from the majority of the Type III ships to allow for an increase in bunkerage of 63 tons., World Ship Society, 1987, 2.5<

1987, ISBN: 9780905617442

[PU: Cumbria, World Ship Society Ltd], 108 Seiten 8°, Broschiert Zahlr. Fotos, Deckel berieben und mit geknickter Ecke ISBN: 9780905617442 . Als Versandart wählen wir immer eine schnelle… Mehr…

[PU: Cumbria, World Ship Society Ltd], 108 Seiten 8°, Broschiert Zahlr. Fotos, Deckel berieben und mit geknickter Ecke ISBN: 9780905617442 . Als Versandart wählen wir immer eine schnelle Option (in Deutschland Brief oder DHL-Paket, ins Ausland Warenpost oder DHL-Paket). Preis inkl. MwSt.., DE, [SC: 3.35], gebraucht; sehr gut, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 292g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<

1987, ISBN: 0905617444

[EAN: 9780905617442], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: World Ship Soc, 1987.], Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780905617442], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: World Ship Soc, 1987.], Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting., Books<

1987, ISBN: 0905617444

[EAN: 9780905617442], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: World Ship Soc, 1987.], Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any)., Books