Bertram: 314 books
by A. Bertram Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Number three in a six-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series. Classic Star Trek meets the high seas. If space travel is going to be anything like sailing the oceans, then A. Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels. Here are the crowning...
A Warring Nation
Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor—a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert—and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.
Wyatt-Brown begins with the contention that...
by William Bertram
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This is the next book in the series after Ben Brown and the Right of Passage. In this book, we find our hero returning wounded from the battle of Barque Roads, arriving home on the Hospital Ship, along with the other severely wounded men. He is attended by three of his men, who volunteered to bring...
by William Bertram
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This is the third book in the series and here we see our Hero take part in three desperate sea battles. He still has his friends around him, but now he has acquired another friend in Henri, a Frenchman whom he rescued in book two. This friendship involves him in an adventure with the French Royalists...
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure
Making and Using the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before...
Luisteren &cetera
het web van de popmuziek in de jaren tachtig en negentig
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Waar kun je naar luisteren als je net je favoriete plaat hebt gehoord? Wat hebben de makers van die plaat gehoord en welke andere muzikanten hebben zich door hen laten inspireren? Iedereen die wel eens met deze vragen naar muziek luistert, heeft aan Luisteren &cetera een boek om zijn hart aan...
Luisteren &cetera
het web van de popmuziek in de jaren zeventig
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 6, 2016
De jaren zeventig staan niet bekend als een tijdperk van grote vernieuwing, toch zijn in dit decennium enkele van de beste en invloedrijkste popplaten aller tijden gemaakt en zijn nieuwe genres ontstaan. Pieter Steinz en Bertram Mourits inventariseerden de oogst in 'Luisteren &cetera': van symfonische...
Luisteren &cetera
het web van de popmuziek in de jaren vijftig en zestig
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In het derde deel van 'Luisteren &cetera' ontrafelen Pieter Steinz en Bertram Mourits het web van de popmuziek in de jaren vijftig en zestig. ‘The blues had a baby and they named it rock-’n-roll,’ zong Muddy Waters en vatte zo het begin van de popmuziek samen. Ergens in de jaren vijftig...
by William Bertram
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This book starts with our hero as an old man, an Admiral now thrust back into naval service due to the ongoing Russian war. He comes into contact with a new young Midshipman whose Grandfather just happened to be the Admiral’s mentor when he started in the service. On the long voyage out, our hero...
by William Bertram
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
It is 1654 and the English civil war is nearly over, both Cromwell and Protestantism are now supreme in England. However, there are one of two pockets of resistance bubbling away in the background. Hence, Oliver Cromwell now looks to a foreign war to distract Englishmen from certain misery and possible...
by Bertram Mitford
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This early work by Bertram Mitford was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Sign of the Spider' is a novel about a man who leaves his wife to go and earn his fortune in South Africa but runs into trouble with a native tribe....
One Nation Under Taught
Solving America’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
America has been steadily sliding in global education rankings for decades. In particular, our students are increasingly unable to compete globally in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. According to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), in 2010 only 26 percent...
Great Economic Thinkers from Antiquity to the Historical School
Translations from the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book contains commentaries from the series "Klassiker der Nationalökonomie" (classics of economics), which have been translated into English for the first time. This selection focuses on neglected, but notable writers in a deserted sub-discipline, localising the beginning of economic...
by Richard Bertram, Wondimu Teka, Theodore Vo
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This book contains two review articles on mathematical physiology that deal with closely related topics but were written and can be read independently.
The first article reviews the basic theory of calcium oscillations (common to almost all cell types), including spatio-temporal behaviors such...