No single human invention has changed war more than the aeroplane. The potential of air power to revolutionize the very nature - perhaps even the meaning - of combat was strikingly evident almost from the moment the Wright brothers first flew. Stephen Budiansky tells the story of air power showing how...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:528
An epic up-to-the-minute history of the airplane in combat--the pilots, the strategists, the weaponry, and the high-tech battles they increasingly dominate. Within a decade of the Wright Brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk...more details Format:Paperback Pages:518
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780670912513
Stephen Budiansky tells the story of airpower from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo, showing how, during the course of the 20th century, it transformed warfare. Drawing on combat memoirs...more details Format:Hardback Pages:528
Based on newly declassified documents, this is the first complete story of Allied code-breaking in World War II - the compelling tale of codebreaking's golden age. In 1939 cryptoanalysis was in its infancy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780670884926
Based on newly declassified documents, this is the first complete story of Allied code-breaking in World War II - the compelling tale of codebreaking's golden age. In 1939 cryptoanalysis was in its infancy...more details Format:Hardback Pages:448
Unlike every other domestic animal, the cat evolved as a solitary animal, not a group-dweller. A cat in a household is almost literally a fish out of water. That cats can nonetheless get along with people and (sometimes) other cats when forced to...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780452287471
Queen Elizabeth I and Englandas First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsinghamas official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious...more details Format:Paperback Pages:235
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780684837109
How many of us have caught ourselves gazing into the eyes of a pet, wondering what thoughts lie behind those eyes? Or fallen into an argument over which is smarter...more details Format:Hardback
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780307270696
The rousing story of a scrappy band of seamen and a visionary secretary of the navy who defeated the legendary British Royal Navy that had dominated the seas for more than two centuries...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:422
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780670018406
An intimate and gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:322
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780452290167
A gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780297607489
Unlike every other domestic animal, the cat evolved as a solitary animal, not a group-dweller. A dog in a household lives in a situation it has evolved to experience. A cat in a household is almost literally a fish out of water. That cats can nonetheless get along with people and (sometimes) other cats when forced to...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780300079937
Animal rights extremists argue that eating meat is murder and that pets are slaves. This compelling reappraisal of the human-animal bond, however...more details Format:Paperback Pages:216
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780753801123
The last decade has seen an explosion of scientific research on the horse. This book explains the insights of modern science for the benefit of all horse enthusiasts....more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780753805312
This text brings the insights of modern science to bear on the study of horses. The book begins with the history of the horse and how horseback riding stimulated both commerce and war...more details Format:Paperback Pages:301
Horses have a shared history with man going back millennia to their domestication around 4000 B.C. Yet only in very recent years have scientists begun to turn the tools of modem science on this remarkable animal that has been so wrapped up in human dreams and legends...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780753813225
Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpreting their behaviour in the human terms of loyalty and betrayal...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9780297646501
Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpreting their behaviour in the human terms of loyalty and betrayal. We think we understand how our dog makes sense of the world...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
From 1866 to 1876, more than three thousand free African Americans and their white allies were killed in cold blood by terrorist organizations in the South. Over the years this fact would not only be forgotten...more details Format:CD
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ISBN:9781423351658
From 1866 to 1876, more than three thousand free African Americans and their white allies were killed in cold blood by terrorist organizations in the South. Over the years this fact would not only be forgotten...more details Format:CD
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Stephen Budiansky;Phil Gigante
ISBN:9781423351641
From 1866 to 1876, more than three thousand free African Americans and their white allies were killed in cold blood by terrorist organizations in the South. Over the years this fact would not only be forgotten...more details Format:CD
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Stephen Budiansky;Phil Gigante
ISBN:9781423351634
From 1866 to 1876, more than three thousand free African Americans and their white allies were killed in cold blood by terrorist organizations in the South. Over the years this fact would not only be forgotten...more details Format:CD
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ISBN:9781423351627
From 1866 to 1876, more than three thousand free African Americans and their white allies were killed in cold blood by terrorist organizations in the South. Over the years this fact would not only be forgotten...more details Format:CD
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Carl Van Vechten;Stephen Budiansky
ISBN:9781590172230
"A god, a companion to sorceresses at the Witches' Sabbath, a beast who is royal in Siam, who in Japan is called 'the tiger that eats from the hand...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:425