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About the Author- George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The...

About the Author- George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The...

This book focuses on the mechanisms and underlying mechanics of failure in various classes of materials such as metallic, ceramic, polymeric, composite and bio-material.  Topics include tensile and compressive fracture, crack initiation and growth, fatigue and creep rupture in metallic materials,...

It is Christmas in England and Jacob is ecstatic when Rachel agrees to go on a date. Life apparently has reached its zenith. However, this joy proves to be short-lived when Jacob's uncle, a university professor, experiments with two ancient wooden boxes - only to suddenly find himself lost in the...

Initial chapters provide summary and general methods of constructing static and dynamic equations, dealing with laws of mechanics for heated elastic solids, forms of aerodynamic operators, and structural operators. Final chapters proceed from simplified cases with small, finite number of degrees of freedom, to one- and two-dimensional systems. 1962 edition.

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. “For Name and Fame: With Roberts to Cabul or Through Afghan Passes” is a blood-and-morality tale from late 19th century. (Excerpt from Goodreads)

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. “For The Temple” is a “Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem”. (Excerpt from Goodreads)

Growth of population, communication and interdependence among countries has sharpened the impact of natural disasters. Not only have calamities and miseries been given wider publicity, but the realization has grown that through rational study and foresight much can be done to mitigate these hazards...

A story of Venice in the 14th century, a period when her strength and splendor were put to the severest tests. One of the greatest of Henty's incredible historical fiction works, the Lion of St. Mark will take you on an unimaginable journey through the peak of Venetian civlization.

Creative writing in English finds a steady growth in the post-colonial India and both its quantity and variety are so huge that literature in any other Indian language fails to compete with it. One of the reasons behind this is contribution to this variety by litterateurs from all the major linguistic...

About the Author- George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The...

About the Author- George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883) and In Freedom's Cause (1885). -Wikipedia

Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so       long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds,       as that of the Seven Years’ War, maintained by Prussia—then a small       and comparatively insignificant kingdom—against Russia,...