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MMA Mastery: Ground and Pound (MMA Mastery series) |
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Категория: Физкультура и спорт, активный отдых » Боевые искусства |
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Автор: Mark Hatmaker
Издательство: Tracks Publishing
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 1884654398, 9781884654398
Количество страниц: 178
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Offering cohesion and clarification for what is currently a loose collection of strategies, this reference delves into the “ground and pound” fighting method—winning a fight by striking an opponent after a takedown. Demonstrating through fight metrics how just as many matches are won by strikes as submissions, this manual addresses the importance of proper “grounding” and lists an array of riding, pinning, and transitioning skills. Following the first element up by introducing an exhaustive “pounding” vocabulary, this guide is key to making stand-up strikers all the more formidable on the floor. Guaranteed to improve the game of even the best submission players, this handbook ensures tighter defense and enhanced offensive tactics, offering a one-stop solution for this vital but often overlooked aspect of the mixed martial arts arena. |
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All In A Day's Work |
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Категория: Технические науки » Транспорт » Железнодорожный транспорт |
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Автор: Tim Bryan
Издательство: Ian Allan Publishing
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0711033005
Количество страниц: 162
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Whilst countless generations of small boys may have dreamed of becoming engine drivers, and the top-link driver on the great named expresses of the age of steam may have been the pinnacle of the railways, in terms of popular perception, these individuals could only have got there with the assistance of myriad other trades and after years of progressing through the more junior grades of footplate staff. From the humble junior porter through to the chairman of the board, the railways employed a vast array of different trades, all of whom were essential in keeping the trains running. Some of these jobs, such as that of the track gangs, are still an important part of the maintenance of the modern railway, but many others, such as blacksmiths, have now disappeared. |
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American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated |
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Категория: Технические науки » Транспорт » Железнодорожный транспорт |
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Автор: Mark Wegman
Издательство: Voyageur Press
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0760334757
Количество страниц: 161
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the “golden era” of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation’s favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889–1971. For this volume, author and illustrator Mark Wegman has researched original railroad drawings and in some cases even paint chips to render more than 160 profiles, front and top views, and interior layouts depicting the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, along with passenger cars, of three dozen of the nation’s most celebrated trains of the golden age. Accompanying the author’s drawings are histories of each train, period photographs, postcards, menus, luggage stickers, vintage print ads, and detailed captions. The book is a lavishly appointed journey back in time to the bygone heyday of passen |
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Edge of Empire - The Antonine Wall: Rome's Scottish Frontier |
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Категория: Военное дело » Прочее |
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Автор: David J. Breeze
Издательство: Birlinn Limited
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 1841587370
Количество страниц: 128
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from Hadrian's Wall and built a new frontier across the Forth-Clyde isthmus, from modern Bo'ness to Old Kilpatrick. In this fascinating new book, David Breeze tells the story of the invasion, the building of the Antonine Wall, its occupation and abandonment. The material used to tell this story includes contemporary coins and literary sources together with the inscriptions and sculpture from the Antonine Wall, as well as the archaeological remains of the monument.The unique distance slabs not only record the process of building, but provide a series of snapshots depicting the preparations, invasion and victory achieved by the Roman army over 1800 years ago and stunning new photography by David Henrie of Historic Scotland illustrates all aspects of this most northerly Roman frontier. These photographs help us to appreciate the Antonine Wall in its landscape and understand the reasons for its construction. Both scholarly and beautifully illustrated, this new book underlines the reasons why the Antonine Wall has been proposed as a World Heritage Site. |
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Burt Rutan's Race to Space: The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations |
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Категория: Технические науки » Транспорт » Воздушный транспорт, космонавтика |
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Автор: Dan Linehan
Издательство: Zenith Press
Год издания: 2011
isbn: 0760338159, 9780760338155
Количество страниц: 162
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Years ago, Burt Rutan told a reporter for Popular Mechanics, “If we make a courageous decision like the goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see our children or grandchildren in outposts on other planets.” Legendary science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clark would later recall Rutan’s quote in a piece he wrote about SpaceShipOne and comment, “Fortunately, we need not rely solely on governments for expanding humanity’s presence beyond the Earth.” Burt Rutan’s Race to Space showcases Rutan’s herculean efforts to do just that. Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum displays his most celebrated achievements, including SpaceShipOne, which won the coveted $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight; Voyager, which hangs with SpaceShipOne in the Milestones of Flight gallery; the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer; and the VariEze. His many aerospace innovations preceding his most recently conceived designs, SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo, chronicle a progressive, step-by-step attempt to break barriers with engineering know-how and a wondrous imagination, all the while remaining on the forefront of the burgeoning private spaceflight industry. Rutan’s X Prize triumph and subsequent spacecraft designs are not a beginning, nor an end, but are steps in Burt Rutan’s continuing adventure to expand humanity’s presence beyond the Earth and into space. |
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SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History |
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Категория: Технические науки » Транспорт » Воздушный транспорт, космонавтика |
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Автор: Dan Linehan
Издательство: Zenith Press
Год издания: 2011
isbn: 0760339880, 9780760339886
Количество страниц: 160
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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This book chronicles the development of the world’s first commercial manned space program. With ample illustrations, photographs, and behind-the-scenes information, SpaceShipOne takes readers from the project’s conception and design to the deals that brought together Scaled Composites’ Burt Rutan and Virgin Airlines’ Sir Richard Branson to the plans for building a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft. Author Dan Linehan, who was there at the launch, lets readers in on the drama and details behind the making of spaceships that will take twenty-first-century tourists to the final frontier. |
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F6F Hellcat at War |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Cory Graff
Издательство: Zenith Press
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0760333068, 9780760333068
Количество страниц: 161
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Descended from the F4F Wildcat (and sometimes called the Wildcat’s “big brother”), the Grumman F6F Hellcat debuted with the Pacific Fleet in mid-1943 and soon was taking on Japanese Zero fighters. Over the next two years, the Hellcat proved to be the most successful fighter aircraft in naval history--with more than 5,000 air-to-air kills in the Pacific, and the highest kill/loss ratio of any American fighter plane in Army, Navy, or Marine service during World War II. Taking advantage of the Hellcat’s combination of easy handling and lethality, more than 300 of its pilots achieved “ace” status. This lavishly illustrated book offers a thrilling look at the Hellcat at war--from its first action in September 1943, when fighters off the USS Independence shot down a spying seaplane, to its service with the British Fleet Air Arm and its part in the invasion of Southern France. Detailing the Hellcat’s design and development, telling its pilots’ war stories, and tracing the aircraft’s adventures through the end of World War II, this book is a fitting and fascinating tribute to a fighter plane whose performance in a few short years remains unmatched in the annals of naval warfare. |
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B-17 Nose Art Name Directory |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Wallace R. Forman
Издательство: Phalanx Publishing
Год издания: 1996
isbn: 1883809142
Количество страниц: 96
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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This directory has an alphabetical list of over 8,200 B-17s with some sort of name identification. The author lists the Bomb Group and Squadron along with serial number where known and also notes if he has a picture of the airplane in his collection. There are many 301st BG B-17s that are not listed in this book but where they are listed the entries are mostly correct. Pages 49 thru 64 have 32 half-page photos of B-17s, but no 301st BG aircraft are depicted. |
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Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: Richard H. Graham
Издательство: Zenith Press
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0760332398, 9780760332399
Количество страниц: 322
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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For anyone who has ever wondered what its like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird takes readers along on an operational mission that only a few Air Force pilots have ever experienced. The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed Skunk Works. The aircraft flew so fast and high that not one was ever shot down, even by a missile. SR-71 pilot and instructor Colonel Richard Graham offers a rare cockpit perspective on how regular Air Force pilots and navigators transformed themselves into SR-71 Blackbird crews, turning their unique aviation talents to account in an unprecedented way. Arguably the worlds foremost expert on piloting the Blackbird, Graham details, as no one else could, what an SR-71 mission entails, from donning a pressure suit to returning to base. |
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Tiger Tanks at War |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Танки, БТР |
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Автор: Michael Green, James D. Brown
Издательство: Zenith Press
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 076033112X, 9780760331125
Количество страниц: 130
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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The first prototype for the Tiger tank was set to be ready for Hitlers birthday on April 20, 1942. The Henschel Company, competing with Porsche, produced the superior model, and by August of that year the formidable Tiger--or Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. H.--was in full production. This book takes us behind the scenes with the Tiger tank, reviewing the full history, the design and mechanics, and the mixed record of this machine, which was designed to outgun its Russian counterparts. Military writer Michael Green offers a close-up account--accompanied by photographs, diagrams, and maps--of how the Tiger tank operated, how it was armed, and where it succeeded brilliantly, as well as where it failed miserably. His book fills a fascinating niche in the history of military technology, and of the impact of technology on history itself. |
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