This narrative chronicles pioneers who propelled aviation beyond limits through fearless rocket-powered flight.This is a tale of the generation of test pilots flying experimental aircraft powered by rocket motors during the period from 1945 to the mid-1970s. It is not a technical description of the aircraft they flew but the narrative of the men who built the machines and the pilots who took to the air to achieve unprecedented speeds and altitudes unequalled to the...

The full eBook version of Music Teaching for Special Educational Needs in fixed-layout format.Music Teaching for Special Educational Needs is comprehensive guide which provides a solid foundation for teachers wanting to understand and support music students with additional needs. It covers Dyslexia, Autism Spectrum Disorder and visual, auditory and physical disabilities, and is packed with up-to-date information, helpful pedagogical starting points...

This is a tale of the generation of test pilots flying experimental aircraft powered by rocket motors during the period from 1945 to the mid-1970s. It is not a technical description of the aircraft they flew but the narrative of the men who built the machines and the pilots who took to the air to achieve unprecedented speeds and altitudes unequalled to the present. It is a human story, but one carved out of the evolving post-war world, coming to terms with a new tension between global supe...

'The history of science is the most important story ever told'In many history books, science is merely the backdrop to a focus on individuals, cultures and political movements. But without science, there would be no history – no Roman Empire, no Great Wall of China, no modern world. Science is what makes this story possible – and it deserves to take centre stage.In The Shortest History of Science, David Baker traces the breakthroughs and plateaus, backsl...

The year is 1879. The prestigious post of Organist and Master of the Choristers at Hartley Parish Church, West Yorkshire, has become vacant because of the sudden death in suspicious circumstances of Dr Thomas Burchill. Burchill was renowned the length and breadth of Britain and the Empire for the choir; so much so that Queen Victoria summoned the singers to Windsor Castle on more than one occasion. Burchill’s position is now up for grabs, and there is a long list of contenders for the role...

Written by former NASA engineer Dr David Baker, A Degree in a Book: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is presented in an attractive landscape format in full-color. With timelines, feature spreads and information boxes, readers will quickly get to grips with the fundamentals of electrical and mechanical engineering and their practical applications.The separate ages of engineering are divided into empirical and scientific periods, then the range of possibilities provided...

If you like action packed fiction, by authors like Stephen Leather, Robert Ludlum or Chris Ryan, you will love this new novel, ‘VIPER’ by David Baker. Loaded with non-stop intrigue and suspense and breakneck speed action.A thrilling, plot twisting read with real-life parallels and possibilities to chew on.This is David’s first book in the ‘Viper’ series. ‘Viper 2 - The Master of Tomorrows Spawn’ is now available as an eBook.VIPER a secret Elite ‘Black’ Operations squad...

VIPER 5 -Vengeance is the fifth "Black Ops" novel in the Viper series by David Baker.Having returned from operation ‘Fog of Death’ in Cyprus, six of the Viper Squad were immediately sent to the Syrian border with Turkey.Their role, to find tunnels the European Jihadists are using to cross the border and to identify them by means of fitting covert cameras on the Syrian side.Against their wishes, Viper’s 5 and 6, Constance and Phil, are ordered to take some long overdue...

‘Viper 2 - The Master of Tomorrows Spawn’ by David Baker. Is a clandestine black operation at its best.If you like action packed fiction, by authors like Stephen Leather, Robert Ludlum or Chris Ryan, you will love this new novel.With the recent capture by Viper of Abu Karim, the leader of a new Islamic terrorist extremist party ‘Sayed-al-Ghad’; who had planned to use radioactive waste in body-worn human bombs to carry out worldwide attacks on the 10th September, to upstage A...

Viper 3 ‘Bad Russian Blood’ is David Baker’s 3rd adult Novel;A highly trained Russian operative, code named ‘The Phantom’ arrives on British soil in the early hours of 17th December. His route on board an old trawler, across the North Sea from Holland, landing him at Britain’s east coast harbour of Lowestoft.His believed mission is to protect the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs, Corruption and Vice who is attending a seminar in London on the 21st December.His clan...

92VIPER 6 - ULTIMATE SACRIFICEThe Viper Squad has just thwarted a terrorist attack on an American-backed theme park to be opening on 4th July in Nottingham, England.But the components from the manufactured explosives seized have allegedly come from North Korea.A carefully planned and orchestrated clandestine shipment from North Korea is arriving in the Port of Mukalla in the Yemen in five days’ time. The Vipers have to get on board this ship to see what this...

VIPER 4 - Fog Of Death - An Elite "Black" Operations SquadAmy Ainsworth is a young British girl, born and bred in Gloucester. She has never had a good relationship with her mother due to her parent’s very strict Catholic upbringing and views. She left the family home eleven years ago in search of a new life in the Philippines. After securing a job, she was struggling in her personal life and had turned to Islam for help and guidance.Her studies of Islam became her life; her c...