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  • BATTLESHIP RAMILLIES
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    BATTLESHIP RAMILLIES
    IAN JOHNSTON / MICK FRENCH
    HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War. Although the ship did not make headlines, she was actively employed from start to finish, and even survived being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. In this respect she was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique – s...

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  • ELIMINATING SERIOUS INJURY AND DEATH FROM ROAD TRANSPORT
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    ELIMINATING SERIOUS INJURY AND DEATH FROM ROAD TRANSPORT
    IAN RONALD JOHNSTON / CARLYN MUIR / ERIC WILLIAM HOWARD
    The book explodes the myths that currently drive society's view of traffic safety and limit progress in reducing death and serious injury. It presents current scientific knowledge in a non-technical way and draws parallels with other areas of public safety and public health. It uses examples from the media and from public policy debates to paint a clear picture of a flawed publ...

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  • MEASURED TONES
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    MEASURED TONES
    IAN JOHNSTON
    Most books concerned with physics and music take an approach that puts physical theory before application. Consequently, these works tend to dampen aesthetic fascination with preludes burdened by an overabundance of algebraic formulae. In Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music Third Edition, Ian Johnston a professor of astrophysics and ...

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  • ADULT EDUCATION AND THE POSTMODERN CHALLENGE
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    ADULT EDUCATION AND THE POSTMODERN CHALLENGE
    IAN BRYANT / RENNIE JOHNSTON / ROBIN USHER
    This book offers some suggestions as to ways forward from this dilemma. Drawing on the new intellectual frameworks of critical pedagogy, feminism and postmodernism and their impact upon educational theory, practice and research, the book focuses on the changing contexts of adult education. By building on the notion of going beyond the limits of certain current adult education o...

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  • SHIPS FOR ALL NATIONS
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    SHIPS FOR ALL NATIONS
    IAN JOHNSTON
    "A worthy tribute to the John Brown company and to British shipbuilding . . . a joy to enthusiasts of the great ships of the past."—Australian Naval Institute   The Clydebank shipyard built some of the most famous vessels in maritime history—great transatlantic liners like Lusitania, Queen Mary and QE2, and iconic warships like the battlecruiser Hood, and Britain's last battles...

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  • FAIRFIELD
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    FAIRFIELD
    IAN JOHNSTON
    One of the great names in British industrial history, the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan, Glasgow, was always associated with innovation – particularly the development of the compound steam engine which brought great fuel efficiency to deep sea transportation and led to the ubiquitous triple expansion steam engine. Through the design and construction of reco...

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  • THE BATTLESHIP BUILDERS
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    THE BATTLESHIP BUILDERS
    IAN JOHNSTON / IAN BUXTON
    How shipbuilders, engine manufacturers, and more united to build Britain’s Grand Fleet: “Superbly written…One of the best naval titles I have seen.”—Marine News   The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy’s numerical advantage, so expensively mai...

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  • CLYDEBANK BATTLECRUISERS
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    CLYDEBANK BATTLECRUISERS
    IAN JOHNSTON
    “Outstanding . . . anyone with an interest in the major ships of the grand Fleet or shipbuilding on the Clyde will want to own it.”—Warship 2012   Between 1906 and 1920, the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty Hood, the largest warship of her day. If Tiger is regarded as a modification of th...

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  • A SHIPYARD AT WAR
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    A SHIPYARD AT WAR
    IAN JOHNSTON
    A treasury of photos illustrating the work of the famed British shipbuilders of World War I.   Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Co. built a vast range of vessels—major warships down to destroyers and submarines, unusual designs like a seaplane carrier and submarine depot ship, and even a batch o...

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