Flying colours

This chapter challenges the notion that the colours we believe to belong to the objects we see are ‘secondary’ qualities of those objects. Such a notion is endorsed by John McDowel...

An illustrated account of the little-known operations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force’s flying boat units during World War 2. Respectively codenamed the ‘Mavis’ ...

Abstract After the Flying Saucers Came tells the story of the world's fascination with UFOs and the prospect that they were the work of visitors from outer space. Wh...

Epidemic typhus is now a rare disease, but previously it was worldwide in distribution. Typically epidemic typhus occurred during instances in which humans were forced to live in c...

This chapter focuses on the Jenkins Television Corporation, founded by C. Francis Jenkins on November 16, 1928, under the laws of the State of Delaware. Jenkins Television combined...

Five programmes which offer additional services to enhance the child health programmes for families at risk of poorer maternal and child health and development outcomes are being e...

This chapter looks at the coverage of the war by the Life photojournalist George Rodger. He focused initially, as did so many other journalists, on one of the most glamorous aspect...