The Preparatory Manual of Explosives: Radical, Extreme, Experimental, Explosives Chemistry Vol.1: A Comprehensive Look at a Variety of Radical Explosi, Ledgard Jared

Автор: Ledgard
Название: Giraffe
ISBN: 0099490536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099490531
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction of the largest captive herd of giraffes in the world.

Автор: Ledgard Jared B.
Название: The Encyclopedia of Energetic Materials: Products, Intermediates, Processes, and Terminology Vol. A: A Comprehensive Collection of Over 1,300 Entries
ISBN: 1797745646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781797745640
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Описание: The Encyclopedia of Energetic Materials: Products, Intermediates, Processes, and Terminology Vol. A is a Revision and Upgrade/Update of the U.S. Army's manual of explosives and related items Vol. 1, first formulated and printed in 1960. This book, Volume A is the first volume of a multi-volume set. The widespread interest in explosives during and since World War II, including the Korean War, Vietnam War, and The conflicts in Iraq/Afghanistan has resulted in the need for a comprehensive coverage of the field of energetic materials, this is the first volume of such a comprehensive work. What you will find in this volume of work is all information covering the letter A (as all continuing volumes are in alphabetical order). In this volume there are over 1,300 entries all following in alphabetical descent. A few examples of listed work includes: Abbreviations for Books, Periodicals, Institutions, and Organizations used in References; List of Abbreviations for Books and Periodicals; Chemistry Calculations; Physical Tests for Determining Explosives and other properties; Abbcites; Abelites; Abnormal Temperature Testing of Propellants; Absolute Rate Theory; Acardites or Akardits; Acceptable Explosives; Acetaldehyde; Acetamidodiphenylether; Acetamidoguanidine; Acetatopentamminecobalt(III)nitrate; 1-Aceto-3,7-dinitro-5-nitroso-1,3,5,7-tetrazacyclooctane; 1-Aceto-3,5,6-trinitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocyclooctane or 1-Acetyl-3,5,7-trinitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazacyclooctane; Designated as SEX and QDX; Acetylbenzoylperoxide; Acetyldiacetoxytetrazanonane, Designated as H-16; Acetylene; Acetylene-Nitric Acid Reactions Studies; Acetylides; Acidity in Explosives; Advance Detonation; Aerodynamics; Aeroplex Propellants; Ajax Powder; Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metals; Alkylamines, Alkylarylamines, Arylamines; Alloys, Analysis; Allyl, 2-Allyloxymethyl-2-hydroxymethyl-1,3-propandiol Trinitrate; Designated AMHMPT; ALUMATOLS; Aluminum; Aluminum Containing Explosives or Aluminized Explosives; Alum; AMATOL; Amberites; American Chemical Society (ACS); American Dynamite; Amides and Imides, Inorganic; Amines; Aminoethoxyphenyltetrazole; Aminomethyltetrazole; Ammons; Ammonal (USA); Ammonex; Ammonia; Ammonite; Ammonium Compounds; Ammonium nitrate; Ammonium Nitrate Blasting Explosive, High Explosives and Propellants; Ammonium Salts of Aromatic Nitro Compounds; AN-525; AN-525J; AN-557; AN-565J; AN-579Y; AN-581W; AN-583AF; AN-584J; Aniline, nitrated derivatives; Anilinoethanol, PENTRYL; Anilinotrimethylolmethane, HEPTRYL; ANP-512DS ANP-514DD, ANP-528DV ANP-2502EB, ANP-2512EE, ANP-2541CD, ANP-2566EN & ANP-2569EK; Aqua Regia or Aqua Regis; ASA (Azide-Styphnate-Aluminum); Azides, Inorganic; Azo Compounds.

Автор: Ledgard J. M.
Название: Submergence
ISBN: 1566893194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781566893190
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" T]he best novel I've read so far this year. . . . I started Submergence one afternoon, cut short a social event that evening to keep reading, stepped off a train at midnight with twenty pages left, and stood under a light on the platform to finish them . . . strange, intelligent, gorgeously written . . . Submergence is a dark book, but in such an unusual sense: Ledgard turns out the lights, and everything, inside and out, begins to glow."--Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine

"Every once in a while, a critic will be mesmerized by a book that stands out from--even wipes the floor with--all other books that have come his way of late. . . . Prose merges with poetry; shocks detonate like depth charges, and characters' fates actually matter in Submergence, an astonishing novel that utterly immerses the reader."--Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"An extraordinary fusion of science and lyricism. . . . A] darkly gleaming novel about love, deserts, oceans, lust and terror."--Alan Cheuse, NPR's "All Things Considered"

"Ledgard has given, in Submergence, glimpses of very strange life indeed: the spy in a place so lawless that chaos is the only norm, the scientist in our planet's least knowable region, lovers expert at self-containment. Out of this, acute understandings emerge."--New York Times Book Review

In a room with no windows on the coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Posing as a water expert to report on al-Qaeda activity in the area, he now faces extreme privation, mock executions, and forced marches through the arid badlands of Somalia. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders, a biomathematician, half-French, half-Australian, prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. She is obsessed with the life that multiplies in the darkness of the lowest strata of water.

Both are drawn back to the previous Christmas, and to a French hotel on the Atlantic coast, where a chance encounter on the beach led to an intense and enduring romance. For James, his mind escapes to utopias both imagined and remembered. Danny is drawn back to beginnings: to mythical and scientific origins, and to her own. It is to each other and to the ocean that they most frequently return: magnetic and otherworldly, a comfort and a threat.

J. M. Ledgard was born in the Shetland Islands. He has been a correspondent for The Economist since 1995, specializing in foreign political and war reporting. He currently works in Africa, traveling widely in the continent.