Download or read book Fighting from Above written by Brian D. Laslie and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War—well before the USAF became a separate service—and looks forward to a new era of airpower in space. Fighting from Above presents a concise account of this expansive history, offering a new perspective on how the air forces of the United States created an independent way of warfare over time. From the earliest battles of the USAF’s predecessor organizations to its modern incarnation, Brian D. Laslie identifies four distinct and observable ways of war that developed over four distinct epochs. Beginning with the development of early air power (1906–1941), he highlights the creation of roles and missions, with bombardment theory and practice ascendant. An era of strategic dominance (1942–1975) followed in which the ideas of strategic bombardment ruled the air force; when such notions were unceremoniously proven false during the Vietnam-era conflicts, a period of tactical ascendancy (1975–2019) began. Finally, Laslie considers the current environment, where much of the story of the USAF remains unwritten as it grapples with the prospects and challenges posed by drones and the U.S. Space Force. While detailing combat operations, Fighting from Above also pays close attention to technology, politics, rivalries, logistics, policy, organization, equipping, and training. Thorough, concise, and innovative in its approach, it is an authoritative, exceptionally readable history of the development of American airpower.
Download or read book The Asterisk War Vol 3 light novel written by Yuu Miyazaki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Festa begins! At long last, the largest fighting tournament in the world gets under way! Ayato and Julis blast through the tag team Phoenix event with their sights set on the semifinals, along with Saya and Kirin. But time is not on their side, as each passing match risks revealing Ayato's greatest weakness--the time limit on his power. And when he's facing opponents like Le Wolfe's Irene and Priscilla Urzaiz, he needs all the help he can get...
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Download or read book The Fruit of Evolution Light Novel Vol 10 written by Miku and published by Hanashi Media. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To make Helen stronger, Seiichi and his group decided to delve into a dungeon. However, at the same time, Destra, known as "Suredeath" and a "God Apostle" of the Demon God Cult, who possesses the deadliest abilities capable of killing everything, is also challenging the same dungeon. Meanwhile, Helen's hometown is threatened by an ominous force even as they undertake their dungeon quest. This is the tenth installment of the popular isekai fantasy series, characterized by its blend of tension and comic relief!
Download or read book Fighting Lord written by Qing Lian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 1253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, the hedonistic young master had returned to the First Prefecture of Qingzhou eight hundred years ago and was determined to forge a legend for the clan; to obtain the inheritance to help him rise in power, to break the conspiracy, to trample on the weak, to single-handedly fend off millions of enemies, and finally to turn the tide and advance with the momentum of the wind and clouds!
Download or read book The Asterisk War Vol 1 light novel written by Yuu Miyazaki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The school-city of Rokka-also known as "Asterisk." Here boys and girls of the Starpulse Generation all compete in the Seibusai-the "star battle festival," fighting for glory on the greatest combat entertainment stage of the world. Ayato Amagiri has just arrived at one of these academies at the express invitation of its student council president, but when he begins his career by making a dangerous enemy, his life on Asterisk is off to a rough start!
Download or read book The Eminence in Shadow Vol 1 light novel written by Daisuke Aizawa and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE BIG FAT LIE AND A FEW TWISTED TRUTHS Even in his past life, Cid's dream wasn't to become a protagonist or a final boss. He'd rather lie low as a minor character until it's prime time to reveal he's a mastermind...or at least, do the next best thing-pretend to be one! And now that he's been reborn into another world, he's ready to set the perfect conditions to live out his dreams to the fullest. Armed with his overactive imagination, Cid jokingly recruits members to his organization and makes up a whole backstory about an evil cult that they need to take down. Well, as luck would have it, these imaginary adversaries turn out to be the real deal-and everyone knows the truth but him!
Download or read book The Light And Shadow Chronicles Books 1 3 written by D.M. Cain and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books 1-3 in 'The Light And Shadow Chronicles', a series of fantasy novels by D.M. Cain, now available in one volume! A Chronicle Of Chaos: In a realm ravaged by war, two warriors of opposing factions strike up an intense rivalry, but their obsession to defeat one another only leads them closer together. When the forces of Light and Darkness collide, where will their loyalties lie? The Shield of Soren: Soren Nitaya is the youngest soldier ever to become an apprentice to the legendary warrior, Raven Lennox, but the young prince seems to be more interested in causing mischief than in mastering weapons. After unwittingly unleashing a deadly threat, Soren must take a perilous journey deep into the enemy's land. But does he have what it takes to save his country before the Brotherhood destroys everyone and everything he loves? The Sins of Silas: Silas Wilder may have been born into the royal family, but he has no interest in their eternal war. A rising star on the streets, Silas is known as the ‘Champion of the Slums’, striving to provide a decent life, and a purpose, for those who have none. But he cannot escape his destiny for long, and soon he finds himself dragged into a role he is tragically underprepared for. Now, it's up to him to rise to the occasion and claim his true position in life - or perish.
Download or read book Stealth written by Peter J. Westwick and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind the technology that revolutionized both aeronautics, and the course of history On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen airplanes appeared in the skies over Baghdad. Or, rather, didn't appear. They arrived in the dark, their black outlines cloaking them from sight. More importantly, their odd, angular shapes, which made them look like flying origami, rendered them undetectable to Iraq's formidable air defenses. Stealth technology, developed during the decades before Desert Storm, had arrived. To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, this seemingly ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the United States could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which the impossible was achieved. At heart, Stealth is a tale of two aerospace companies, Lockheed and Northrop, and their fierce competition - with each other and with themselves - to obtain what was estimated one of the largest procurement contracts in history. Westwick's book fully explores the individual and collective ingenuity and determination required to make these planes and in the process provides a fresh view of the period leading up to the end of the Soviet Union. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the art and science of physics and engineering, Westwick offers an engaging narrative, one that immerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that some thought might save the world, and which certainly changed it.
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Download or read book In Light of India written by Octavio Paz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paz looks at the people and landscapes of India, based on his years with the Mexican embassy, offering a collection of essays on Indian history, culture, art, politics, language, and philosophy.
Download or read book Put on the Armour of God written by Thomas Yoder Neufeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaiah 59 portrays a deity in armour warring against rebellious human foes. In this historical investigation, Yoder Neufeld maps the transformation of an ancient tradition into a creative new reading in which God's people put on God's armour and go to battle against God's heavenly foes, as in Ephesians 6. The Pauline recasting of the Isaianic motif, argues the author, is a bracing one.
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Download or read book Light of the Himalayas written by Kavitaram Shrestha and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those who associate Siddharthas enlightenment with magical happenings, Light of the Himalayas is an answer. The novel traces the gradual development of Siddhartha from an inquisitive child to a serious explorer on a trajectory of science and objectivity, until his discovery of the elixir of life, the eight-fold path, and the four golden rules. The book decenters many myths and misconceptions about the life of the Buddha and invites readers to engage in scientific discourse about the religion.
Download or read book Dying of the Light written by George R. R. Martin and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unforgettable space opera, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin presents a chilling vision of eternal night—a volatile world where cultures clash, codes of honor do not exist, and the hunter and the hunted are often interchangeable. A whisperjewel has summoned Dirk t’Larien to Worlorn, and a love he thinks he lost. But Worlorn isn’t the world Dirk imagined, and Gwen Delvano is no longer the woman he once knew. She is bound to another man, and to a dying planet that is trapped in twilight. Gwen needs Dirk’s protection, and he will do anything to keep her safe, even if it means challenging the barbaric man who has claimed her. But an impenetrable veil of secrecy surrounds them all, and it’s becoming impossible for Dirk to distinguish between his allies and his enemies. In this dangerous triangle, one is hurtling toward escape, another toward revenge, and the last toward a brutal, untimely demise. Praise for Dying of the Light “Dying of the Light blew the doors off of my idea of what fiction could be and could do, what a work of unbridled imagination could make a reader feel and believe.”—Michael Chabon “Slick science fiction . . . the Wild West in outer space.”—Los Angeles Times “Something special which will keep Worlorn and its people in the reader’s mind long after the final page is read.”—Galileo magazine “The galactic background is excellent. . . . Martin knows how to hold the reader.”—Asimov’s “George R. R. Martin has the voice of a poet and a mind like a steel trap.”—Algis Budrys
Download or read book Fighting Light Pollution written by The International Dark-Sky Association and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first practical guide to alleviating an increasingly prevalent environmental concern.
Download or read book A Light in the Tower written by Katie Rose Guest Pryal and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With evocative storytelling and incisive research, Katie Rose Guest Pryal brings a new eye to the mental health crisis that higher education has faced for decades. Written from the perspective of a bipolar-autistic professor, A Light in the Tower is both a bracing account of the mental health crisis in higher education and a passionate and informed proposal for how to teach with mental health in mind. Pryal contends that higher education’s mental health crisis is the result of long-term systemic problems in education that demand nothing short of a revolution. She examines the anxiety that plagues campuses as a result of exploited and overworked contingent faculty and students, the shock events like COVID-19 and campus shootings that traumatize communities, the systemic and institutional burnout that affects higher education at every level, and the market-driven culture of toxic overwork. These are large-scale problems that need large-scale solutions. Addressing the stigma that haunts mental disability on campus, the ableism that hounds our teaching, and the cascade of mental health struggles that far too many faculty and students face, Pryal provides straightforward solutions to these complex challenges. A Light in the Tower argues that excellent education and radical support for mental health struggles can coexist and provides detailed advice for how to do so. Meanwhile, Pryal debunks claims that supporting student mental health harms educational rigor (coining the term “rigor angst” to discuss the fear that rigor is declining). She outlines actionable steps professors and administrators can take to address the problem, including abandoning ableist and exclusionary campus culture; replacing “bad-hard” work that creates unnecessary logistical difficulties for students in favor of “good-hard” work that challenges them intellectually, providing an easy path to disability accommodations; and teaching accessibly for neurodivergent students.
