79 Results for : altitudes
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Air Apaches: The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 905min
The American 345th Bomb Group - the Air Apaches - was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to the South Pacific, the 345th racked up a devastating score against the enemy. Armed to the teeth with machine guns and fragmentation bombs, and flying their B-25s at impossibly low altitudes - often below 50 feet - the pilots and air crews strafed and bombed enemy installations and shipping with a fury that helped cripple Japan. One of the sharpest tools in the US arsenal, the 345th performed essential missions during Gen. Douglas MacArthur's campaigns in New Guinea and the Philippines, earning an impressive four Distinguished Unit Citations. This was punishingly dangerous work, and the 345th lost 177 aircraft and 712 men - young men doing their duty in the spirit of the Greatest Generation. Neither was this the more gentlemanly war of Europe, with its more temperate climate, resistance networks aiding downed crews, and POW camps. Airmen shot down in the Pacific theater faced drowning in the ocean, disappearing in the jungle, or torturing and beheading by the Japanese in a war of no quarter expected, no quarter given. A compelling follow-up to Stout's Hell's Angels, Air Apaches reconstructs the missions of the 345th Bomb Group in striking detail, with laser focus on the men who manned the cockpits, navigated the B-25s, dropped the bombs, serviced the planes, and helped win the war. To tell this remarkable story, Stout worked closely with the group's surviving veterans and dug deep into firsthand accounts. The result is a compelling narrative of men at war that will keep listeners on the edge of their seats. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robertson Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051220/bk_adbl_051220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years - to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well. Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle-class social traits - thrift, docility, nonviolence - have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. These "values" obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regardin ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Sklar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002362/bk_peng_002362_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes
A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes - The seminal text on rocket science that foretold the Space Age: ab 5.16 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Reaching High Altitudes on Mars With an Inflatable Hypersonic Drag Balloon
Reaching High Altitudes on Mars With an Inflatable Hypersonic Drag Balloon - Auflage 2010: ab 106.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Reaching High Altitudes on Mars With an Inflatable Hypersonic Drag Balloon
Reaching High Altitudes on Mars With an Inflatable Hypersonic Drag Balloon: ab 96.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Adventures Between Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes
Adventures Between Lower Bounds and Higher Altitudes - Essays Dedicated to Juraj Hromkovic on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday: ab 96.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Time Pattern of Ionizing Radiation in Balloon Altitudes in High Latitudes
Time Pattern of Ionizing Radiation in Balloon Altitudes in High Latitudes: ab 92.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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