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Robert Godwin

    Space Shuttle
    Juvenal Satires IV
    H G Wells' The First Men in the Moon'
    Reading Catullus
    Alias Baby Girl: A Casey Stone Mystery
    Gemini 7: The NASA Mission Reports
    • Alias Baby Girl: A Casey Stone Mystery

      • 206 stránok
      • 8 hodin čítania

      On a day when Casey Stone, a New York City Private Investigator, was worrying about his unpaid bar tab at Pat's Bar and Grill a long-legged, blonde beauty named Rosemary Kelly walked into his office and handed him two thousand dollars to find the baby girl she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago. Seems that the girl's biological father has died and left her a fortune but Casey only has 30 days to find her before her father's gangster brother inherits the money and that gangster has millions of reasons to want her dead.

      Alias Baby Girl: A Casey Stone Mystery
    • Reading Catullus

      • 138 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      Roman poet Catullus' poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to the dirt of the Roman streets. This book, which assumes no prior knowledge of the poet or of Roman poetry in general, explores Catullus in all his many guises.

      Reading Catullus
    • Book & micro DVD. In 1919 the Gaumont Motion Picture Studio created the first movie to ever be based entirely on a famous science fiction novel. That movie was an adaptation of H G Wells "The First Men in the Moon". Wells himself was on hand to oversee the costumes and sets. A lost treasure of the silent era of film, the movie is now believed to be lost forever. In 2010 The British Film Institute named it one of the 75 "most desirable" missing films. In 2013 noted writer/editor Robert Godwin uncovered a series of artefacts from the films original release including a complete synopsis of the plot (different to Wells book), newspaper reviews and most importantly a series of still images from the production. Enough material to make this fascinating mini-history of the worlds first "true" science fiction film. Go back to a simpler time of space exploration with this pocketbook and Mini-DVD recreation of the 1919 production of "The First Men in the Moon".

      H G Wells' The First Men in the Moon'
    • Juvenal Satires IV

      • 144 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania

      Juvenal's fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms. The Introduction places Juvenal in the history of Satire and also explores the style of the poems as well as the degree to which they can be read as in any sense documents of real life.

      Juvenal Satires IV
    • Space Shuttle

      • 52 stránok
      • 2 hodiny čítania

      he concept for a reusable winged space vehicle has been a dream since the early 20th century. In 1981 the United States launched the first such vehicle, Columbia, and proved that winged spacecraft could work. Now, due to political pressure, the Orbiter fleet is slated to be decommissioned, but not before it fulfills its original mandateto build a permanent space station. This Pocket Space Guide, #10 in the series, details the exploits of the Space Shuttle fleet through triumph and tragedy, as it carried more than 300 people, 40 space laboratories and more than 60 satellites into space. From the first test flights to the d�tente missions to Russias Mir space station, thousands of facts can be found in this Space Shuttle Fact Archive. This updated edition of the Space Shuttle Fact archive includes every flight of the shuttle fleet, every mission, and every crew. "Will interest all fans of the Space Shuttle." satellite-evolution.com

      Space Shuttle
    • Riflemen

      • 368 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      Drawing on official records, memoirs, court martial transcripts, inspection reports, and unpublished letters, Riflemen recounts not only the campaigns in which the battalion fought, but also many personal stories of the soldiers who served with it.

      Riflemen
    • Rowland Hill was one of the Duke of Wellington’s most trusted subordinates, known for caring deeply for the welfare of his men, but the battles of Arroyomolinos (1811) and Almaraz (1812) show that he was far more than just ‘Daddy Hill’ and a safe pair of hands. He was also a general of considerable skill and daring. At Arroyomolinos he led his troops for days through appalling weather to out-manoeuvre and then decimate an entire French division in a perfectly conceived surprise attack. At Almaraz he advanced far from allied lines to capture and then destroy a vital French bridge, overcoming considerable logistical challenges and substantial defences, and paving the way for Wellington’s victory at Salamanca.For both actions Hill used the same two British infantry brigades, as well as Portuguese and Spanish units. The relatively small numbers of units involved has enabled the author to give greater focus on the individual regiments and the men who served in them than is often the case with larger battles. He uses memoirs, previously unpublished letters, and official returns and reports to paint a very detailed picture of two small but important battles of the Peninsular War and the men that fought them.

      At the Point of the Bayonet