Holmes: 1214 books

Although seen as a replacement for the A6M Zero-sen carrier-based fighter, the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden was actually designed as a land-based naval interceptor optimised for speed rather than manoeuvrability. Engine cooling problems for its Mitsubishi Kasai 23 engine, airflow and flight control issues...

The tale of Rosa Lee, from her earliest recollections of Meadow Brook, a small community located in western Massachusetts, to the beginning of her writing career, in publishing this story as her first novel.  Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1858 New York edition.

From the best-selling author of Crossing Oceans comes a heartrending yet uplifting story of friendship and redemption. On the cusp of adulthood, eighteen-year-old Penny Carson is swept off her feet by a handsome farmhand with a confident swagger. Though Trent Taylor seems like Prince Charming and...

An endeavour has been made in this handbook, as far as space and scantiness of material would permit, to trace the history of the development of wooden ships from the earliest times down to our own. Unfortunately, the task has been exceedingly difficult; for the annals of shipbuilding have been very...

I hope that no one will be prevented from reading this chapter by its title, for let me say at once that I am not the least bit scientific. Whatever I have to say will be expressed in very simple language, and further, that in the writing of it I am animated with the desire of conveying to thoughtful...

The story of the first British bombing raid of the Second World War, of why Bomber Command flew by night and of the Wellington Mk.1A are all closely linked together. It is a story of the stone age of strategic bombing. On the 4th of September 1939 Squadron Leader Paul Harris led 149 Squadron...

The present book is a work of fiction spun around the following piece of known western history. Yellowed newspaper clippings from a remote date in the last century note that three bandits charged with murder were released for lack of evidence from Juarez Jail, Mexico. Those same file clippings also...

Jonathan Grimm had been a bounty hunter for far too long. His joints were creaking and his reflexes were slowing. He needed one big one, and then he could retire. It looked like he could do it, too, when he learned that a bunch of hardcases had broken out of Austen jail. He weighed it up. If he roped...

He had two wanted men on his list – the one hiding out in a log cabin somewhere up in the Ouatchita Mountains, and the other trying to cover his back-trail by mixing with the miners at Yellowrock, way out the other side of the territory. That meant a passel of riding and just maybe a passel of gunning...

Bounty-hunter Jonathan Grimm—the man they called the Reaper—took a break from his man-hunting to attend a family wedding. But a shooting on the doorstep hurled him back into his man-chasing role. Then, what started out as a straightforward chase ran him smack into hard-case gunmen aiming to cut...

In response to the irregular warfare challenges facing the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005, General James Mattis—then commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command—established a new Marine Corps cultural initiative. The goal was simple: teach Marines to interact successfully with the...

In a field dominated by the history and practices of Western states, Global Diplomacy expands the mainstream discourse on diplomacy to include non-Western states and states in all stages of development. By presenting a broader view of this crucial institution, this exciting text cultivates a more...

Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, songs, poetry, diary extracts - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them. Exploring twentieth-century Australia, Freedom Bound II shows how...

On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...