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  Glasgow - The Autobiography

  Alan Taylor

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  The story of a Scottish city as seen by its residents and visitors: “It’s a fine treasure-house—and even Glaswegians may learn something new from it.” —Scotsman This is the story of the fabled former Second City of the British Empire, from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the Industrial Revolution to the dawning of the second millennium. Arranged chronologically and introduced by journalist and Glasgowphile Alan Taylor, the book includes extracts from an astonishing array of writers. Some, such as William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Dirk Bogarde, and Evelyn Waugh, were visitors and left their vivid impressions as they passed through. Many others were born and bred Glaswegians who knew the city and its inhabitants—and its secrets—intimately. They come from every walk of life and, in addition to professional writers, include anthropologists and scientists, artists and murderers, housewives and hacks, footballers and comedians, politicians and entrepreneurs, immigrants and locals. Together they present a varied and vivid portrait of one of the world’s great cities in all its grime and glory—a place at once infuriating, frustrating, inspiring, beguiling, sensational, and never, ever dull.

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  The Modern Cruiser - The...

  Robert C. Stern

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  “An entertaining and informative review of the evolution of one of the most important classes of warship, from the technology of WWII into the missile age.” —Firetrench 
   
  Cruisers probably vary more in their characteristics than any other warship type and have certainly been subject to the most convoluted development. There was always a basic tension between quantity and quality, between numbers and unit size, but at a more detailed level every one of the naval powers made different demands of their cruiser designers. This makes the story of cruiser evolution in the world’s major navies fascinating but complex. 
   
  This book sets out to provide a coherent history of the fortunes of this ship-type in the twentieth century, beginning with a brief summary of development before the First World War and an account of a few notable cruiser actions during that conflict that helped define what cruisers would look like in the post-war world. The core of the book is devoted to the impact of the naval disarmament treaty process, which concentrated to a great extent on attempting to define limits to the numbers and size of cruisers that could be built, in the process creating the “treaty cruiser” as a type that had never existed before and that existed solely because of the treaty process. 
   
  How the cruisers of the treaty era performed in the Second World War forms the final focus of this “interesting, well-written, and well-grounded” book, which concludes with a look at the fate of the cruiser-type since 1945 (Warship International). The result is probably the best single-volume account of the subject to date.

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  Hydroponics

  George Sulliston

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  Are you a keen gardener with limited available space?Do you live in a home with no garden but still want to grow your own food?This fabulous audiobook bundle is the perfect thing to get you started!As we are gradually crowded into ever smaller spaces and have smaller gardens in which to grow things, we rely on ingenuity and science to help us. Without soil to grow fruit or veg it could seem like it would be impossible, but hydroponics has changed all of that.This book bundle comprises of two innovative and fascinating audiobooks, Hydroponics: A Guide to Build Your Own Inexpensive Hydroponic System at Home and Hydroponics: The Complete Beginner's Guide To Grow Fruits, Vegetables And Herbs At Home and is ideal for novices with chapters that cover:A brief history of hydroponicsThe advantages of hydroponic systemsGetting the lighting and ventilation rightHow to grow different types of vegetables and fruitsMaterials you will needStarting your own hydroponics businessGrowing herbs and other plantsAnd much more…Anyone who has an interest in gardening will be fascinated by these books and how easy it can be to get started and be successful with your first crops.You could soon be growing lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, watermelons and much more, without the need for soil and with just these great books to get you started.

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  Into the Field - A Foreign...

  Tracy Dahlby

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  “A wonderfully eloquent introduction to the craft and challenges of reporting from around the world. . . . Powerful.” —James Fallows, The Atlantic   Tracy Dahlby is an award-winning journalist who has reported internationally as a contributor to National Geographic magazine and served as a staff correspondent for Newsweek and the Washington Post. In this memoir of covering Asia, he takes readers behind the scenes to reveal “the stories behind the stories”—the legwork and (mis)adventures of a foreign correspondent on a mission to be the eyes and ears of people back home, helping them understand the forces and events that shape our world.Into the Field centers on the travel and reporting Dahlby did for a half-dozen pieces that ran in National Geographic. The book tours the South China Sea during China’s rise as a global power, visits Japan in a time of national midlife crisis, and explores Southeast Asia during periods of political transition and tumult. Dahlby’s vivid anecdotes of jousting with hardboiled sea captains, communing with rebellious tribal chieftains, and enduring a shipboard insect attack offer aspiring foreign correspondents a realistic introduction to the challenges of the profession. Along the way, he provides practical advice about everything from successful travel planning to managing headstrong local fixers and dealing with circumstances that can range from friendly to formidable. A knowledgeable, entertaining how-to book for observing the world and making sense of events, Into the Field is a must-read for student journalists and armchair travelers alike.   “A delight . . . Witty, probing, and insightful.’” ―Alex Gibney, Academy Award–winning filmmaker   “A reporter's diary rich with anecdotes, epigraphs, and sentiment.” —The Austin Chronicle

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  Wales: A Photographer's Journey

  David Wilson

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  Wales – A Photographer’s Journey is a collection of over 150 black and white images by noted Welsh landscape photographer David Wilson.
  
  In this, his second book, David takes the reader on a unique visual journey through Wales; from Snowdonia in the north to Gower in the south, Pembrokeshire in the west to Hay-on-Wye in the east. Each location forms the subject of its own photographic essay, including insight into technique and composition. David’s exploration of his art captures the landscape of Wales in a new, exciting and evocative way.
  
  Breathtaking, enchanting and at the same time challenging, this book will, quite simply, bring Wales alive.

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  The Great American Transit...

  Nicholas Dagen Bloom

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  A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. 
    
  Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way. 
    
  Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.

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