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1. Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland

   The Question of Fire Control

   By John Brooks

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era. With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many...

   Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
2. Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory

   Second Edition

   Edited by Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John Van Couvering, Alison S. Brooks

   Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative...

   Published November 30th 1999 by Routledge