Title: The Persian Gulf Pilot. Including the Gulf of 'Omman. Compiled by Captain C. G. Constable and ... A. W. Stiffe.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; Phillips, John Captain R.N.; Stiffe, Arthur William; 1898, 1905. xxiv. 322. ff. 35 p.; 8 . 10496.r.13.
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Time changes most things, and physical constants are seem ingly not immune from this contingency. The publishers' suggestion for a new edition has provided an opportunity for a thorough scrutiny of the contents of this book and for the adjustment to some fourteen years of changes since the last edition. At the same time the contents have been increased by the addition of one or two new tables, and current moves towards the adoption of an international system of units ex plain the appearance in the book, wherever it is practicable, of S. 1. units. However, the habits of a lifetime are not easily changed, and it is too much to expect that despite careful proofreading the change of units has been carried through without errors. I shall be grateful for intimation of such mis takes. I wish moreover to thank all those who in the past have taken the trouble to draw my attention to errors, or to superior determinations, or simply to offer advice or criticism. For those who do not find what they seek in this collection, more complete compilations of physical constants are to be found in: Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants, G. W. C. Kaye and T. H. Laby, 13th edition 1966, Longman. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 52nd edition 1971, Chemical Rubber Company. International Critical Tables. National Research Council, McGraw-Hill. Zahlenwerte und Funktionen aus Physik; Chemie; Astronomie; Geophysik and Technik. Landolt and Bornstein, Springer-verlag.
Tuesday, September 10, 1957 Nick and Carter have left Nice and, after sailing down the Italian coast, have dropped anchor at the island of Procida, just across the bay from the Naples coast. Nick, as he is wont to do, meets the one homosexual who works at the local post office and, in short order, is invited to dinner along with Carter to meet the entire family. Italians, after all, are so friendly Meanwhile, Lord Gerald, their friend in British intelligence, has sent a cryptic telegram asking them to take a package over to Capri, an island on the far side of the Bay of Naples. When they dock at Capri the next morning, they find a dying duke, an eccentric earl, and a vigilant viscount all living together in a glorious villa dating back to the turn of the century. These are the final remnants of the once-thriving community of homosexual Englishmen who made the Italian island their sanctuary where they could live in peace as themselves. But is someone haunting this idyllic Mediterranean paradise? Who cut the phone line for no apparent reason? Who opened the locked door and then unlocked it again? Who is playing pranks with the plumbing? Maybe these are all just coincidences... Or maybe there is something more sinister afoot... Come sail away with Nick and Carter to the Island of Capri and find out
Niedożywienie pozostaje jednym z gl wnych wyzwań stojących przed Demokratyczną Republiką Konga, szczeg lnie dotykając ludnośc wiejską i podmiejską. Pomimo obfitości zasob w naturalnych, wiele rodzin pozostaje uzależnionych od importu żywności, kt ra często jest kosztowna, a czasami ma niepewną jakośc odżywczą. W książce "Samowystarczalnośc żywnościowa w biednym kraju: przypadek DRK" autor analizuje podstawowe przyczyny braku bezpieczeństwa żywnościowego i pokazuje, że proste, zr wnoważone rozwiązania lokalne mogą skutecznie rozwiązac ten problem. Podkreśla znaczenie samowystarczalności żywnościowej jako dźwigni zdrowia publicznego, redukcji ub stwa i rozwoju spoleczności. Rodzinna hodowla kr lik w zostala przedstawiona jako strategiczna alternatywa dla niedożywienia. Kr liki są dostępne dla gospodarstw domowych o ograniczonych zasobach, wymagają niewiele miejsca i zasob w, a także dostarczają bogatego w bialko mięsa, kt re można latwo wlączyc do codziennej diety. Książka szczeg lowo opisuje żywieniowe, ekonomiczne i spoleczne zalety hodowli kr lik w, a także praktyczne kroki związane z jej zalożeniem.
Maugham's popular comedy of modern manners espouses that so long as a wife is supported by her husband she must remain faithful, but when the tables are turned freedom becomes the currency with which both must pay. Revived by New York's Roundabout Theatre Company...-5 women, 4 men
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I can’t help it if you were careless with your cigarette case. I was extremely careful with your heartConstance has everything. A loving family, a beautiful home, a fulfilling career, and a husband as devoted to her as he is to his mistress. When her perfect set up is threatened, Constance fights back but refuses to play by the rules. Can she withstand society’s expectations? And can society withstand the force of a woman determined to do things her own way?Laura Wade (Posh, Rivals) reunites with RSC Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey (Pericles) after their Olivier Award-winning collaboration, Home, I’m Darling, to reimagine Somerset Maugham’s subversive comedy, The Constant Wife, in a sparkling new version.This edition was published to coincide with the RSC production at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in June 2025.
The Night is a Constant Lover is a very personal book in which the author has not been afraid to reveal the hopes, wants, needs, and desires of his own soul. Though autobiographical the book touches upon universal truths common to every heart. It is the kind of book where you will hear yourself speaking just like in pop songs. It seems that some of us, as children, were too impressionable and when we were introduced to stories like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, by the brothers Grimm, and Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, as well as countless other fairy tales, they set us on a course of searching for our own "happily ever after". These poems chart the course of such a quest. They take the longings that we all experience and put them into words for us so that we might better understand our own emotions. This volume of poems touches our soul when it talks of the loneliness that drives us to search for love, the exhilaration we experience when at last we find that one special someone, and the pain and longing that return when love walks away. It also promises the hope of love returning like the morning sun. The Night is a Constant Lover is an honest and moving autobiography of a hungry heart. Byron has been inspired by the writings of E.E. Cummings, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Rod McKuen, and Walt Whitman.
The Golden Constant is a unique examination of how gold's purchasing power has remained consistent over the centuries. First published in 1977, this new edition has additional material to bring it up to date. The book is the only in-depth examination of how the purchasing power of gold has performed over the centuries in both England and the USA. It contains a thorough explanation of how the gold market evolved and how this is related to economic and political developments, from 1560 in England, and from 1800 in the USA, up to 2007. The book also contains detailed historical statistics on gold, wholesale and consumer prices and the real price of gold.This important book will be an essential resource for institutional and individual investors in the gold industry. Academics, economic historians and economists interested in monetary and financial history will find this book to be a fascinating read.
