Tag: Range

Basin and Range (2024)


Free Download John McPhee, "Basin and Range"
English | 2011 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0374109141, 0374516901 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world-a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a silent world of austere beauty, of hundreds of discrete high mountain ranges that are green with junipers and often white with snow. The terrain becomes the setting for a lyrical evocation of the science of geology, with important digressions into the plate-tectonics revolution and the history of the geologic time scale.

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Long Range Desert Group Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy Lines


Free Download W.B. Kennedy Shaw, "Long Range Desert Group: Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy Lines"
English | ISBN: 1848328583 | 2016 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
During the two-and-a-half years’ fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended in 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the vast desert.

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Limit Theorems for Some Long Range Random Walks on Torsion Free Nilpotent Groups


Free Download Limit Theorems for Some Long Range Random Walks on Torsion Free Nilpotent Groups by Zhen-Qing Chen , Takashi Kumagai , Laurent Saloff-Coste , Jian Wang , Tianyi Zheng
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 147 Pages | ISBN : 3031433319 | 17.7 MB
This book develops limit theorems for a natural class of long range random walks on finitely generated torsion free nilpotent groups. The limits in these limit theorems are Lévy processes on some simply connected nilpotent Lie groups. Both the limit Lévy process and the limit Lie group carrying this process are determined by and depend on the law of the original random walk. The book offers the first systematic study of such limit theorems involving stable-like random walks and stable limit Lévy processes in the context of (non-commutative) nilpotent groups.

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Elements of Exterior Ballistics Long Range Shooting First Edition


Free Download George Klimi, "Elements of Exterior Ballistics: Long Range Shooting First Edition"
English | 2016 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 1514457660, 1514457679 | EPUB | 10,7 mb
"Elements of Exterior Ballistics: Long Range Shooting" is a concise but comprehensive instructive book on exterior ballistics applied into long-range shooting with small arms. The foundations of the book are innovatively related to the exterior ballistics of point-mass projectile as well as to the new findings and contemporary ballistics methods presented in my preceding books. The book is designed for exterior ballistics professionals, amateurs, and competitive shooters interested in long-range shooting and, in general, in exterior ballistics. Though the exterior ballistics applications are related to long-range shootings with small arms, the reader can easily extend the ballistics techniques to the artillery fire. The book has a large number of illustration examples to demonstrate the exterior ballistics solving techniques and to help the readers understand the ballistics concepts and principles as well as the challenging theoretical and practical applications.

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The Long Range Desert Group in North Africa (Images of War)


Free Download The Long Range Desert Group in North Africa (Images of War) by Brendan O’Carroll
English | January 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1399064053 | 256 pages | EPUB | 33 Mb
Formed in July 1940 for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group was the first British special force unit. In no time the LRDG earned itself an enviable reputation for deep penetration patrols into German and Italian held territory. Its successes on prolonged missions into harsh terrain and under extreme climatic conditions were out of all proportion to its size. Wide-ranging military skills, including exceptional navigation techniques, and the highest standards of discipline and leadership were required from all ranks.

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