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Sportsman’s Cookery Book, The
A good copy published in hardcover. Boards have some general wearing and some staining on the rear board. Slight foxing on spine title sticker. Rough cut page block. Foxing on the page block, pastedowns and endpapers. Embossed stamp on the half-title page, title page and page 25. The pages in the main body are clean and clear. GERead more
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ST. ANDREWS TWO POEMS.
, containing the poems ‘A Rector’s Memory’ by Kipling, and ‘A Memory’ by Walter de la Mare, plus 16 reproductions from pencil drawings and etchings of St. AndrewsRead more
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Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying:
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WHAT’S IN STICK AND RUDDER:
- The invisible secret of all heavier-than-air flight: the Angle of Attack. What it is, and why it can’t be seen. How lift is made, and what the pilot has to do with it.
- Why airplanes stall How do you know you’re about to stall?
- The landing approach. How the pilot’s eye functions in judging the approach.
- The visual clues by which an experienced pilot unconsciously judges: how you can quickly learn to use them.
- “The Spot that does not move.” This is the first statement of this phenomenon. A foolproof method of making a landing approach across pole lines and trees.
- The elevator and the throttle. One controls the speed, the other controls climb and descent. Which is which?
- The paradox of the glide. By pointing the nose down less steeply, you descend more steeply. By pointing the nose down more steeply, you can glide further.
- What’s the rudder for? The rudder does NOT turn the airplane the way a boat’s rudder turns the boat. Then what does it do?
- How a turn is flown. The role of ailerons, rudder, and elevator in making a turn.
- The landing–how it’s made. The visual clues that tell you where the ground is.
- The “tail-dragger” landing gear and what’s tricky about it. This is probably the only analysis of tail-draggers now available to those who want to fly one.
- The tricycle landing gear and what’s so good about it. A strong advocacy of the tricycle gear written at a time when almost all civil airplanes were taildraggers.
- Why the airplane doesn’t feel the wind.
- Why the airplane usually flies a little sidewise.
- Plus: a chapter on Air Accidents by Leighton Collins, founder and editor of AIR FACTS. His analyses of aviation’s safety problems have deeply influenced pilots and aeronautical engineers and have contributed to the benign characteristics of today’s airplane.
Stick and Rudder is the first exact analysis of the art of flying ever attempted. It has been continously in print for thirty-three years. It shows precisely what the pilot does when he flies, just how he does it, and why.
Because the basics are largely unchanging, the book therefore is applicable to large airplanes and small, old airplanes and new, and is of interest not only to the learner but also to the accomplished pilot and to the instructor himself.
When Stick and Rudder first came out, some of its contents were considered highly controversial. In recent years its formulations have become widely accepted. Pilots and flight instructors have found that the book works.
Today several excellent manuals offer the pilot accurate and valuable technical information. But Stick and Rudder remains the leading think-book on the art of flying. One thorough reading of it is the equivalent of many hours of practice.
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Strange Scriptures That Perplex The Western Mind
Because the Bible describes a culture very different from that of Western countries today, what it says is sometimes puzzling to modern readers. In many cases, however, the ways in which Near Eastern merchants and farmers carry on their daily work have hardly changed over the intervening centuries since the inspired authors wrote. The aim of this interesting volume is to clarify familiar scriptural phrases and texts by explaining some unusual Eastern customs, thereby shedding new light on the unchanging truth of God’s word.Here are fascinating insights into a number of areas of life in biblical lands yesterday and today―clothing and jewels, feasts, home life, women, peasants, fields, tombs, tents, trades, and much more.
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The “I am” Discourses: 003
These original thirty-three Discourses were dictated over the Visible Light and Sound Ray, in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Ballard. the sound of His Voice was physically audible to everyone in the room and at times His Tangible Presence was visible.Read more
£22.80The “I am” Discourses: 003
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The Best Loved Poems of the American People
More than 1,500,000 copies in print! Over 575 traditional favorites to be read and reread. Categorized by theme, and indexed by author and first line, this is a collection that will be treasured.Read more
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The Black Poets
“The claim of The Black Poets to being… an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress.”–from the Introduction by Dudley RandallRead more
£3.70The Black Poets
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The Confessions of Saint Augustine (Spiritual Masters)
Sheed’s classic translation of Augustine’s Confessions. True to the original, and in a subtle and dignified English translation, let this be a cornerstone of your library.Read more
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The Corn is Green,with two other plays,The wind of heaven,The Druid’s rest (Famous plays series)
The Corn is Green with two other plays: The Druid’s Rest; The Wind of Heaven (Pan 132)Read more
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The Glass Menagerie (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperback edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams’s essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, “The Catastrophe of Success,” as well as a short section of Williams’s own “Production Notes.”Read more
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The Hums of Pooh
Physical description: 67 pages: illustrations; 31 cm. Subjects: Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character); Juvenile poetry. Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character); Poetry. Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander) 1882-1956; Musical settings. Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander) 1882-1956. Children’s stories, English. Other names: Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard) 1879-1976. Cox and Wyman [printer]. Genre: Fiction. Illustrated. Musical settings.Read more
£5.40The Hums of Pooh
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The Knights Hospitallers in the Holy Land
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The Last Hero
A little wear but a nice copy. Minor imperfections to lovely jacketRead more
£6.40The Last Hero
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The Medical Discoveries Of Edward Bach Physician: What the Flowers Do for the Human Body
In 1912 Edward Bach qualified as a medical doctor and embarked upon a career which not only had a profound effect on medical science, but brought to ordinary people the world over, a simple, safe and effective system of healing.
Dr. Bach made a detailed study of bacteriology, immunology and homeopathy and found a clear connection between chronic disease and negative mental attitudes. It was the relationship between mind and body which formed the basis of his further research and as he became increasingly convinced that emotional harmony was the key to good health, he was determined to find a simple, non-invasive and harmless method of healing which could be used safely by everyone.
The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach tells how Dr. Bach’s work developed, from his childhood hopes and dreams of a healthy society, to the discovery of a complete system of 38 natural remedies which address all aspects of human nature, emotional outlook and personality. Edward Bach was an eminent physician whose remarkable contribution to medicine, healing and humanity has yet to be fully realised.
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The Pentateuch and Haftorahs
“This Soncino edition of the five books of Moses and Haftorahs with extensive introductions, notes and commentaries prepared under the editorship of the former Chief Rabbi Dr J H Hertz has been hailed as a great scholarly achievement by authorities of the Bible everywhere … The notes are brief and free from technicalities. They aim at the elucidation of the Text and the exposition of the spiritual and ethical teachings of the Torah. A vast literature has been sifted, apart from the standard Jewish and non-Jewish commentaries and illuminating extracts which are included in the notes. While reproducing all the advantages that made the original edition successful, the Soncino edition incorporates two new and interesting features which greatly enhance its value and utility. In place of the Revised Version which was originally adopted as the Translation, the American Jewish Version has been substituted. This translation has been universally accepted as conforming more faithfully to traditional Jewish interpretation. Secondly, the work has been carefully planned so as to occupy a single volume only in place of the original five. This copyright Edition, published under the authority of the Trustees of the late Dr J H Hertz, accordingly presents in one light and compact volume over 1,000 comprehensive pages of Hebrew Text, English Translation and Illuminating Notes”.Read more
£57.00The Pentateuch and Haftorahs
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The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
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Tiptoes the Mischievous Kitten
A tale of a mischievous Kitten, Tiptoes, who is adopted by the Moffatt family.Read more
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Victorian Panorama; A Survey of Life and Fashion from Contemporary Photographs – First Edition
Used copy, has wear and fading on cover. Book is intact, some spotting at edges, penciled initials on rear of frontispiece, cocked. Illustrated with beautiful B&W plates. Overall, fair copy.Read more
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When We Are Married (Acting Edition S.)
When we are married is a comedy by the english dramatist, J. B. Priestley. It was first performed in london at the st. Martin’s theatre, london on 11 october 1938, and transferred to the larger prince’s theatre in march 1939 and ran until 24 june of that year.Read more
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