Burton: 1487 books
The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed
A Conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Nima Arkani-Hamed takes us inside the world of a working theoretical physicist, sharing his frustration at how physics is communicated to the general public, while revealing how he hopes to be steered towards the truth without experiment to guide him.
PCI Compliance
Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Identity theft has been steadily rising in recent years, and credit card data is one of the number one targets for identity theft. With a few pieces of key information. Organized crime has made malware development and computer networking attacks more professional and better defenses are necessary...
Ebbets to Veeck to Busch
Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few about the owners, the men and women who invested their time—and, frequently, their fortunes—in baseball teams. What has been written tends to concentrate on the financial aspects of ownership or individual owners and...
by Burton J. Hendrick
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Austin E. Loignon, Thomas Adam, Kristen D. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This inaugural volume provides readers with articles on topics such as soccer, travel, music, and social policy. These articles highlight the movement of ideas, people, policies,...
Naseby-June 1645
English Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
The Battle of Naseby was the decisive engagement of the English Civil War and the battlefield is the first to have been radically reinterpreted in the light of metal detector research. This guide, co-authored by the principal authorities on the battle, links contemporary accounts to their findings...
Iron Men
The Workers Who Created the New Iron Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
This is the story of how a change in how iron was made in the 18th century changed the world forever, and of the men and women who made it happen. The production of iron around 700BC was so important that it was called the Iron Age. This was the second Iron Age. Iron made the machines of the industrial...
Around Britain by Canal
1,000 Miles of Waterways
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old industrial towns.
It is a journey that proved full of surprises, delights and rich variety, as...
The Canal Pioneers
Canal Construction from 2,500 BC to the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand...
The Locomotive Pioneers
Early Steam Locomotive Development 1801 - 1851
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick's first experimental road engine of 1801 up to the Great Exhibition some fifty years later, locomotives have come far in reimagining and reinventing themselves to serve the people...
Steam Traction on the Road
From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century...
by Burton D. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
by Bob Burton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Places the environmental issues related to the production of nuclear power in their political context. It evaluates the extent of nuclear pollution, in comparison with other forms of power, and looks at the future of energy.
The Word in the Desert
Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 1993
The growing scholarly attention in recent years to the religious world of late antiquity has focused new attention on the quest for holiness by the strange, compelling, often obscure early Christian monks known as the desert fathers. Yet until now, little attention has been given to one of the most...