J P : 1902 books

Four decades ago, J.P. Den Hartog, then Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote Strength of Materials, an elementary text that still enjoys great popularity in engineering schools throughout the world. Widely used as a classroom resource, it has also become...

Jørgen Peter Müller (1866-1938) was a Danish gymnastics educator and author. 'My System for Children' was first published in 1913, and was a bestseller, this was then translated to English and many other languages. “All the strength and intelligence of the race are evolved from the bodily health of the child.”

The Pleiku campaign of October–November 1965 was a major event in the Vietnam War, and it is usually regarded as the first substantial battle between the US Army and the People's Army of Vietnam. The brigade-sized actions involving elements of the US 1st Cavalry Division at Landing Zones X-Ray and...

This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether...

What is real? How do we know what we know? What is right? Who or what am I? How should we view science and its claims? Perhaps what I need is a good dose of philosophy. It's a shame philosophy is so difficult.

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Jeanne d’Arc en moins d’une heure !Dans une France déchirée par la guerre de Cent Ans, une jeune femme âgée de 17 ans est convaincue de pouvoir sauver la destinée de la France. Poussée par les voix qu’elle entend, elle convainc le dauphin Charles...

Structure and Function of the Epiphysis Cerebri

"When evangelicals confuse an improper passion for novelty witha proper pursuit of academic and pastoral relevance, the resultscan be distressing. I cannot express how grateful I am for thewell-formed wisdom with which this book points to the abiding anddecisive relevance for future route-finding...

Emerging as the dark side of Romanticism, horror is one of literature’s oldest genres. Its history is so diverse it’s sometimes difficult to define. Are moody stories about ghosts and vampires related to gory tales of beasts and zombies? And what about the more realistic terrors of murderous rogues...

Dr. Elaine Edwards was looking forward to her career as medical director of the Golden Shores Nursing Home. Little did she know that she would be thrust into a world of drugs, mystery and death. She finds herself an unlikely partner to a street-tough, retired New York City detective. Together, they...

Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in "The Simpsons on his CV", but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time",...

Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity, and performance in every professional and personal arena. In Performing Under Pressure, Drs. Hendrie Weisinger and J.P. Pawliw-Fry introduce us to the...

The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly...