Clive: 1004 books

Book cover of The Little Book of Steam
by Clive Groome
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014

Little Book of Steam tells the evocative story of steam railways from the end of the 18th century, when an early pioneer built a small, three-wheeled steam-powered machine. Soon after a simple steam engine was pulling coal wagons in Wales, and just 21 years later the world's first public railway opened...
Book cover of Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks Through Time
by Clive Holden
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

Chatham has had an association with the Royal Navy since Elizabethan times, moving to its current site in 1622. It provided the facilities to build, repair, maintain and supply ships. In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on expanding the dockyard into St Mary's Island, where three huge basins...
Book cover of The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms
by Michael Hickey, Clive King
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000

This beautifully illustrated glossary comprises over 2400 terms commonly used to describe vascular plants. The majority are structural terms referring to parts of plants visible with the naked eye or with a x10 hand lens, but some elementary microscopical and physiological terms are also included,...
Book cover of Aces High

Aces High

A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII, Volume One

by Christopher Shores, Clive Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008

A revised collection of the biographies of the highest scoring Allied fighter pilots of World War II. All details of their combat are arranged in tabular form. Included are a selection of photographs from hitherto private collections.
Book cover of Pulmonary Hypertension
by Clive Handler, Gerry Coghlan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012

High pressure in the lungs, or pulmonary hypertension, is most commonly due to smoking-related lung disease and conditions affecting the left heart, for example, high blood pressure in the arteries, faulty heart valves, and a weakened heart muscle. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), is a rare...
Book cover of The Fighting Pioneers

The Fighting Pioneers

The Story of the 7th Battalion DLI

by Clive Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015

Story of the 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the battalion was re-designated as the 7th Battalion. It went to France in April 1915 with the rest of the Northumbrian Division seeing action almost immediately at the Second battle of Ypres. In November...
Book cover of Avian survivors

Avian survivors

The History and Biogeography of Palearctic Birds

by Prof. Clive Finlayson
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011

The impacts of global warming are of concern to all of us. The potential responses of birds to climate change have come increasingly to the fore, and are of particular interest to the ornithological community. Are birds sensitive to climate change and how will they react to a world of global warming?...
Book cover of Forecasting Forest Futures

Forecasting Forest Futures

A Hybrid Modelling Approach to the Assessment of Sustainability of Forest Ecosystems and their Values

by Kim Scoullar, Brad Seely, Clive Welham
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010

Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced disturbance....
Book cover of Dios en el banquillo
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Este título tiene en común con otras obras de Lewis el hecho de ser un libro arrojado y valiente, sutil y que expresa lo trascendente con gran claridad. La mejor cualidad de Lewis -su maestría para armonizar sencillez y rigor, transparencia y precisión-se pone en esta colección de ensayos, al...
Book cover of El problema del dolor
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2017

El dolor es un misterio universal e inevitable que sobrecoge y desconcierta al ser humano. Con frecuencia se proponen fórmulas más o menos anestésicas -resignación pasiva, escapismo, anulación de la voluntad-, pero que en ningún caso resuelven las preguntas que todo hombre se hace: ¿Qué sentido...
Book cover of El diablo propone un brindis
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2017

Ante la insistencia de sus lectores para que creara una segunda parte de su famosa obra Cartas del diablo a su sobrino, Lewis escribió este libro. Con su lucidez y calidad de pensamiento habitual, el autor nos ofrece un conjunto de ensayos vivos y cercanos, en los que se combinan el ingenio y la...
Book cover of Lo eterno sin disimulo
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Hablar de lo eterno, sin caretas, sin disimulos, sin trampas, esa es la tarea a la que se entrega Lewis en este libro sustancioso. Y para ello utiliza muy distintos medios: un coloquio, un debate, una conversación entre amigos, un artículo de prensa, una carta… Toda ocasión es buena para dar...
Book cover of El gran divorcio
by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2017

C. S. Lewis subtituló este libro como Un sueño. Ese es el artificio que le permite construir una fantasía literaria plena de significado y modernidad. El nervio de su relato es una crítica demoledora al "todo vale". El gran divorcio es el que se producirá inevitablemente entre el bien y el mal....
Book cover of Si Dios no escuchase

Si Dios no escuchase

Cartas a Malcom

by Clive Staples Lewis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2017

La oración es un puro don, un gran regalo de Dios. Así la entiende también Lewis. Con su habitual brillantez, se sirve de la correspondencia que mantiene con otro intelectual, para aportar luz sobre cuestiones como: ¿qué valor tiene la oración?, ¿es un soliloquio que nadie escucha?, ¿tiene...
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