An Illustrated Guide to Spy Planes and Electronic Warfare Aircraft
ISBN: 0668058250
Author: Bill Gunston
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Rating: 3.00
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Sunday, January 1, 1984
Friday, July 1, 1983
Naval Warfare: An Illustrated History
Naval Warfare: An Illustrated History
Sea power has had a profound effect on the history of the world through its influence in the rise and fall of nations. It is won and maintained by ships, by seamen, by the acceptance and use of the developing technology of the time and by prowess in battle, an amalgam of human courage and leadership. The despatch of the British task force to the Falklands as recently as 1982 served to highlight the continuing importance of conventional naval power even in this nuclear age. This is a book about naval warfare which deals with the significant campaigns of naval history, the decisive battles in those campaigns and includes biographical sketches of the principal naval leaders who directed and fought those battles. These are linked together with penetrating introductions to each new era of naval evolution, explaining the changes wrought in strategy and tactics by the development of new naval technology.
ISBN: 0312562500
Author: Richard Humble
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Rating: 4.25
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Thursday, April 8, 1982
Midnight s Children
Midnight s Children
Salman Rushdie holds the literary world in awe with a jaw-dropping catalog of critically acclaimed novels that have made him one of the world's most celebrated authors. Winner of the prestigious Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India's independence.
ISBN: 0330267140
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Picador
Rating: 3.99
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Thursday, February 1, 1979
The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920 s
The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920 s
Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920s broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now.
ISBN: 0195024923
Author: Paula S. Fass
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Rating: 3.66
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Wednesday, December 31, 1969
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
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Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating adaptation for the stage, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.
The author of The Satanic Verses returns with his most humorous and accessible novel yet. This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest storyteller in a city so sad that it has forgotten its name. When the gift of gab suddenly deserts Rashid, Haroun sets out on an adventure to rescue his print.
ISBN: 0670886580
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Viking Children's Books
Rating: 4.01
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Shame
Shame
Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy, they shared the son that they all claim to have borne on the same night. Raised at their six breasts, Omar's mothers teach him to live a life without shame. And it is training that proves very useful when he leaves his mothers’ fortress and makes the fateful mistake of falling in love. For he finds himself an unwitting player in an ongoing duel between the families of two men – one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure – living in a world caught between honour and humiliation, where a moment of shame could prove fatal.
ISBN: 0099578611
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
Rating: 3.85
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Shalimar the Clown
Shalimar the Clown
This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America’s counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown; Max’s illegitimate daughter India; and a woman who links them, whose revelation finally explains them all. It is an epic narrative that moves from California to Kashmir, France, and England, and back to California again. Along the way there are tales of princesses lured from their homes by demons, legends of kings forced to defend their kingdoms against evil. And there is always love, gained and lost, uncommonly beautiful and mortally dangerous.
ISBN: 0679783482
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher:
Rating: 3.84
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