"In 1980 the Army decided to replace the Jeep with a totally new design. Hummers replaced not only the Jeep, but many other light vehicles. The Hummer is a big ""little"" vehicle - fifteen feet long

This book follows the development of the half-track. From the '30's to its use in by the Isralei Defense Force in the middle-east. In this book we examine and trace the M3's history through the eye of the camera lens. We are also shown all the different version attempted off the M3 frame.

The Russians. Italians and Germans had experimented with parachute troops long before the British gave serious consideration to the formation of parachute units. The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was always interested in new techniques, especially those that would instill an aggressive spirit and take the war to the enemy. During June of 1940, he suggested that a corps of at least 5,000 parachute troops be formed to carry out commando style raids against the enemy. Initially, the concept was opposed by the Royal Air Force, which feared that such a force would put a drain on its severely limited resources of transport aircraft.

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An easy-to-understand introduction to the complexities of today's and tomorrow's physics. The author assess what is and what is not actually possible according to the laws of physics, among all the weird and wonderful things that Kirk, Spock and Scottie got up to in their parallel universe.

By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African-American men were systematically disenfranchised. How did the frontier West leap ahead of the rest of the nation in the enfranchisement of the majority of its citizens?

Outcast Europe examines two centuries of Balkan politics, from the emergence of nationalism to the retreat of Communist power in 1989, and is the first book to systematically argue that many of the region's problems are external in origin.

Fluid Iron is the first extended treatment of state formation in Southeast Asia from early to contemporary times and the first book-length analysis of Western historical and ethnographic writing on the region. It includes critical assessments of the work of Clifford Geertz, O. W. Wolters, Benedict Anderson, and other major scholars who have written on early, colonial, and modern Southeast Asian history and culture. Making use of the ideas of Weber, Marx, Foucault, and postmodern and postcolonial theory, Tony Day argues that culture must be restored to the study of Southeast Asian history so that the state and historical developments in the region can be returned to their own "alternative" historical contexts and trajectories.

The historically neglected but unexpectedly remarkable Ebbw Valley, one of Wales's major coal-producing areas, is explored in this study. The valley’s substantial contributions to the genesis of the modern industrial world and to the understanding of industrial change are discussed. Innovative research, including the use of models from accountancy, marketing, and labor markets for interrogating and ordering data, reveals the elements that differentiate the Ebbw Valley from other industrial areas of Wales.