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Book Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs Taken on the Palestine Front

Download or read book Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs Taken on the Palestine Front written by Great Britain. War Office. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Armageddon and OKRA

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  • Author : Lewis Frederickson
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-12-02
  • ISBN : 1922387584
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Armageddon and OKRA written by Lewis Frederickson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dispatch of an Ottoman Army by Australian-led Imperial air power in the Wadi Fara on 21 September 1918 occurred just five years after the advent of military aviation in Australia. In 1914, the fledgling Australian air service operated the flimsy Bristol Boxkite; four years later it was flying the far more advanced Bristol F2B Fighter. This leap forward represented a profound progress in technology that has typified the technical development of aviation, particularly in Australia ever since. Ironically, on 21 September 2014, 96 years after the events of the Wadi Fara, Australian squadrons were again deployed to the same part of the world where they would remain for more than three years on operations against extremist terrorism. Armageddon and OKRA contrasts these events, a century apart, in the context of the development of Australian air power. The book tracks the history where Australia has maintained a balanced air service compelling high technical, logistics and engineering standards, and effective training and command and control systems, for more than 100 years. These processes were as applicable a century ago as they are today. By examining these operational events, the author establishes the connection that access to the technology associated with air power is intrinsically linked to Australia’s enduring foreign and defence policy – more so, that military power is a means to an end, and never an end unto itself.

Book The Changing Land

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  • Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780814329153
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book The Changing Land written by Benjamin Z. Kedar and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Hebrew in 1991, The Changing Land presents a unique aerial view of the changes in Israel's topography from the second decade of the twentieth century to the present. Aerial photographs taken during World War I of Israel by German, British, and Australian aviators, showed the topography of a land fought over for many centuries. Having examined and identified the WWI photographs preserved in German, Australian, Israeli, and British public archives and German private collections, Benjamin Z. Kedar gathered 70 of the photographs to form the book's core. Kedar then collected color aerial photos taken between 1930 and 1990 of the same 70 sites. The result is an unusual and fascinating record of the physical changes in the region during this period of modernization and urban expansion. Changing the Land is more than a topographical view of Israel. Glimpses of the hills, valleys, towns, and villages of Israel provide the reader with a compelling history that words alone cannot describe. This book offers a complete portrait of Israel for anyone who has traveled to the Holy Land or has studied any of its inhabitants.

Book Virilio and Visual Culture

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  • Author : John Armitage
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-15
  • ISBN : 0748654461
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Virilio and Visual Culture written by John Armitage and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is indispensable reading for all students and researchers of contemporary visual culture. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.

Book Aerial Aftermaths

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  • Author : Caren Kaplan
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2017-12-21
  • ISBN : 0822372215
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Aerial Aftermaths written by Caren Kaplan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places of war. Kaplan’s investigation of the aerial arts of war—painting, photography, and digital imaging—range from England's surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion and early twentieth-century photographic mapping of Iraq to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Throughout, Kaplan foregrounds aerial imagery's importance to modern visual culture and its ability to enforce colonial power, demonstrating both the destructive force and the potential for political connection that come with viewing from above.

Book Aerial Photography and Archaeology 2003

Download or read book Aerial Photography and Archaeology 2003 written by Jean Bourgeois and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains the selected proceedings of a conference devoted to the history of aerial photography (Ghent, 2003).

Book A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology

Download or read book A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology written by Martyn Barber and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with examples of the photography it describes, this accessible book celebrates the role which flight and aerial photography have played in the development of archaeology and the identification and analysis of key sites in Britian. Beginning with balloonist adventurers, and pioneers of flight, it explores the parallel development of military reconaissance techniques and their usefulness to archaeologists, concentrating especially on the era between the two world wars when aerial archaeology really came of age.

Book Narrative Science

Download or read book Narrative Science written by Mary S. Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic analysis of the ways scientists have used narrative in their research.

Book Manual of Photographic Interpretation

Download or read book Manual of Photographic Interpretation written by American Society of Photogrammetry and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palestine and World War I

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  • Author : Haim Goren
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 1786739496
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Palestine and World War I written by Haim Goren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palestine Campaign has become one of the most glorified military campaigns of the twentieth century. The last campaign fought by the Ottoman Army, and thus the last act of the once-mighty Ottoman Empire, the Palestine Campaign saw the British Army under General Allenby conquer the Holy Land, forcing the Turkish army back into Europe. Meanwhile the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement ensured the British and French would continue to influence the Middle East for the next 60 years. This front saw some of the most influential stories of the Great War, from T.E. Lawrence's Arab army in the desert, to General Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot in 1917. Palestine and World War I shows how the events of the Great War have left a lasting legacy in the Middle East.

Book The British Journal of Photography

Download or read book The British Journal of Photography written by William Crookes and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First World War

Download or read book The First World War written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land that Became Israel

Download or read book The Land that Became Israel written by Ruth Kark and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding the Volatile and Dangerous Middle East

Download or read book Understanding the Volatile and Dangerous Middle East written by Steven Carol and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East can be bewildering, which is why we need to connect the dots that pull together the political, economic, diplomatic, military, cultural, and religious pieces of the puzzle. Professor Steven Carol slashes through the confusion with a topical approach, focusing on key issues such as the geographic features of the Middle East, demographics of the region, the influence of Islam, political processes, shifting alliances, war in the region, and the need for security. He also takes a careful look at perpetual negotiations, attempts to secure peace, and the role that the media play in how we view the region. His goal: to clarify the confusing nature of Middle East affairs and to combat the mistaken beliefs, misrepresentations, and outright fabrications about the region. In a bid to reclaim the truth, he shares basic principles, relying on factual supporting evidence to prove their validity. Seventy-eight maps and numerous tables make understanding complex topics easier. Whether you’re a student, educator, bureaucrat or politician, you’ll find insights based on facts in Understanding the Volatile and Dangerous Middle East.