The Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Download The Backroom Boys PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Backroom Boys book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Francis Spufford
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010-11-25
Backroom Boys written by Francis Spufford and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others. Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, 'Backroom Boys' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars. 'Backroom Boys' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.
The Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher: Fontana Press
Release Date : 1973
The Backroom Boys written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by Fontana Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.
The Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Graeme Sligo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Backroom Boys written by Graeme Sligo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Politics and war categories.
The Backroom Boys is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided highlevel policy advice to Australia's most senior soldier, General Blamey, and through him to the Government for the remainder of the war and beyond. This band of academics, lawyers and New Guinea patrol officers formed a unique military unit, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, under the command of an eccentric and masterful string-puller, Alf Conlon. The Directorate has been depicted as a haven for underemployed poets or meddlesome soldier-politicians. Based on wide-ranging research, this book reveals a fuller and more fascinating picture. The fierce conflicts in the wartime bureaucracy between public servants and soldiers, in which the Directorate provided critical support to Blamey, went to the heart of military command, accountability and the profession of arms. The Directorate was a pioneer in developing approaches to military government in areas liberated by the combat troops, as demonstrated by the Australian Army in New Guinea, and Borneo in 1945-46. It is an issue of enduring importance. The Directorate established the Australian School of Pacific Administration, and had an important role in founding the Australian National University. Its influence extended into post war Australia. The Backroom Boys emphasises the personality of Colonel Alf Conlon, as well as the talented men and women he recruited. Above all, this book shows how, unexpectedly, the Australian Army fostered a group of men and women who made a lasting contribution to the development of Australia in the decades after the war.
Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Francis Spufford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-09-02
Backroom Boys written by Francis Spufford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-02 with categories.
Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Edward Smithies
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2015-11-12
Backroom Boys written by Edward Smithies and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with History categories.
When we remember the Second World War in the air, we think of fighter pilots and bomber crews. But what was it like for the men and women working as ground crew and in the aircraft factories who also played a crucial role in defeating Hitler? What was it like making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up in the tide of great events? Or were they simply doing their demanding and often dangerous duty?
Vietnam Inc
DOWNLOAD
Author : Philip Jones Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 2006-02-21
Vietnam Inc written by Philip Jones Griffiths and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-21 with Photography categories.
Rare and highly sought-after photobook documenting the Vietnam War
The Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Graeme Sligo
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-10-05
The Backroom Boys written by Graeme Sligo and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-05 with History categories.
The Backroom Boys is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia’s most senior soldier, General Blamey, and through him to the Government for the remainder of the war and beyond. This band of academics, lawyers and New Guinea patrol officers formed a unique military unit, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, under the command of an eccentric and masterful string-puller, Alf Conlon. The Directorate has been depicted as a haven for underemployed poets or meddlesome soldier-politicians. Based on wide-ranging research, this book reveals a fuller and more fascinating picture. The fierce conflicts in the wartime bureaucracy between public servants and soldiers, in which the Directorate provided critical support to Blamey, went to the heart of military command, accountability and the profession of arms. The Directorate was a pioneer in developing approaches to military government in areas liberated by the combat troops, as demonstrated by the Australian Army in New Guinea, and Borneo in 1945-46. It is an issue of enduring importance. The Directorate established the Australian School of Pacific Administration, and had an important role in founding the Australian National University. Its influence extended into post war Australia. The Backroom Boys emphasises the personality of Colonel Alf Conlon, as well as the talented men and women he recruited. Above all, this book shows how, unexpectedly, the Australian Army fostered a group of men and women who made a lasting contribution to the development of Australia in the decades after the war.
Red Plenty
DOWNLOAD
Author : Francis Spufford
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Red Plenty written by Francis Spufford and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with History categories.
"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
The Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Graeme Sligo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-21
The Backroom Boys written by Graeme Sligo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with categories.
Backroom Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : GRAEME. SLIGO
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Backroom Boys written by GRAEME. SLIGO and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.