By the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Skyfaring, the Economist's 'Best book of the Year' and New York Times 'Notable Book'.So, hello! Welcome! Honestly, you look surprisingly relaxed. That's great to see. Have a seat on the left side of the cockpit - that's the captain's seat. Yes,[...]

The first operational military jet in the world, towards the end of the Second World War the ME 262 was to be the German 'miracle weapon'. Mano Ziegler was involved from its inception and contributed to the design, testing, training and even served in it operationally. Could the ME 262 have broken t[...]

The plane in this story is fast and fun, and your child's first steps in reading can be just the same when you share this book at home or school. The book can be used in several ways to help young readers build confidence. Grown-ups can begin by reading the illustrated words at the edge of each left[...]

At the very edge of the atmosphere, invisible against the deep indigo sky, lurks a spy plane so sophisticated that it replaced the SR-71 Blackbird some 30 years ago. Its flat black shark-like skin deflects and absorbs all but the most advanced radars, leaving it to roam undetected while silently gat[...]

THE PERFECT MARKETING BOOK FOR B2B SERVICE COMPANIES This book is a blueprint for how companies in the B2B service industry can apply the growth hacking mentality to their own business. Most growth hacking marketing books focus on SAAS, software, and tech companies, which is where growth hacker ma[...]

The present text is a fairly direct translation of the German edition "Quasikonforme Abbildungen" published in 1965. During the past decade the theory of quasi conformal mappings in the plane has remained relatively stable. We felt, therefore, that major changes were not necessarily required in the [...]

Expressionist sculptor Bernhard Hoetger (1874-1949) was a key figure in the Art Nouveau movement in Germany. This volume focuses on the series of extremely influential sculptural works that Hoetger created for the plane tree grove of the Art Nouveau exhibition center Mathildenhohe in Darmstadt. A me[...]

The book constitutes an elementary course on Plane Euclidean Geometry, pitched at pre-university or at advanced high school level. It is a concise book treating the subject axiomatically, but since it is meant to be a first introduction to the subject, excessive rigour is avoided, making it appealin[...]