Men at Sea is an opus of eight spectacularly drawn dark, poetic stories freely adapted by Riff Reb's. This collection offers: “A Smile of Fortune,” from Joseph Conrad “The Sea Horses” and “The Shamraken Homeward Bound,” from William Hope Hodgson “The Galley Slaves” and “The Far South,” from Pierre Mac Orlan “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” from Edgar Allan Poe ...
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Men at Sea
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The Pacific War Remembered
An Oral History Collection
“Mightily absorbing . . . There is candor in this book, and humor and an exhilarating sense, once common to us but now strange, that Americans who fought that war could do just about anything, and without getting wordy or pretentious about it or themselves.” —The Washington Post
In this remarkable oral history collection, 33 participants in the turbulent ...
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Hot Spot of Invention
"Charles Stark Draper, MIT, and the Development of Inertial Guidance and Navigation"
Charles Stark Draper, often referred to as “The Father of Inertial Navigation,” was the moving force behind the development of the floated gyroscope in the United States. Engineer, scientist, inventor, inspiring teacher, and dynamic leader, Draper founded the laboratory that brought inertial navigation to fruition for operational use in submarines, aircraft, and space vehicles. These factors alone make him worthy ...
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