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The Greatest Kid in the World (Hardcover): John David Anderson The Greatest Kid in the World (Hardcover)
John David Anderson
R527 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R77 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Riley's Ghost (Paperback): John David Anderson Riley's Ghost (Paperback)
John David Anderson
R308 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ms. Bixby's Last Day (Paperback): John David Anderson Ms. Bixby's Last Day (Paperback)
John David Anderson
R259 R203 Discovery Miles 2 030 Save R56 (22%) In Stock
Homebound (Paperback): John David Anderson Homebound (Paperback)
John David Anderson
R308 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Granted (Paperback, Unabridged edition): John David Anderson Granted (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
John David Anderson; Read by Cassandra Morris
R254 R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Save R39 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
One Last Shot (Paperback): John David Anderson One Last Shot (Paperback)
John David Anderson
R263 R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Save R38 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Posted (Paperback, Unabridged edition): John David Anderson Posted (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
John David Anderson; Read by Patrick Lawlor
R269 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R38 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stowaway (Paperback): John David Anderson Stowaway (Paperback)
John David Anderson
R272 R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Save R54 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Insert Coin to Continue (Paperback, Reprint ed.): John David Anderson Insert Coin to Continue (Paperback, Reprint ed.)
John David Anderson
R242 R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Save R34 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this hilarious, coming-of-age novel that's "Ready Player One for the middle grade crowd" (School Library Journal), twelve-year-old Bryan Biggins wakes up to find that his life has become a video game. Meet Bryan Biggins. Most of the time he's a freckle-faced boy, small for his age, who attends a school known for its unwritten uniform of North Face jackets and Hollister jeans. The rest of the time he is Kieran Nightstalker, the level-fifty dark-elf hero of his favorite video game, Sovereign of Darkness. Until one day Bryan wakes up to find out his life has become a video game. Sort of. Except instead of fighting dragons or blasting bad guys, he's still doing geometry and getting picked last for dodgeball. It's still middle school. Only now there's much more at stake. Stealing the Twinkie from underneath the noses of those dieting teachers isn't enough to earn him another life. And battling the creature that escaped from the science lab doesn't seem to cut it either. And who knew Romeo and Juliet would turn into a zombie bloodbath?! All the while he's losing hit points and gaining levels, and facing the truth that GAME OVER might flash before his eyes at any minute. It all seems to be building to something...something that has been haunting Bryan since way before his life turned into an X-Box nightmare, a challenge that only he can face. Will Bryan find a way to beat the game before it's too late?

Stowaway (MP3 format, CD): John David Anderson Stowaway (MP3 format, CD)
John David Anderson; Read by Andrew Eiden
R889 R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Save R227 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stowaway (Standard format, CD): John David Anderson Stowaway (Standard format, CD)
John David Anderson; Read by Andrew Eiden
R1,024 R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Save R264 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Inventing Flight - The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors (Paperback): John David Anderson Inventing Flight - The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors (Paperback)
John David Anderson
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Out of stock

The invention of flight craft heavier than air counts among humankind's defining achievements. In this book, aviation engineer and historian John D. Anderson, Jr., offers a concise and engaging account of the technical developments that anticipated the Wright brothers' successful first flight on December 17, 1903. While the accomplishments of the Wrights have become legendary, we do well to remember that they inherited a body of aerodynamics knowledge and flying machine technology. How much did they draw upon this legacy? Did it prove useful or lead to dead ends? Beginning with the earliest attempts at flight, Anderson explains how Leonardo da Vinci first began to grasp the concepts of lift and drag which would be essential to the invention of powered flight. He describes the many failed efforts of the so-called "tower jumpers," from Benedictine monk Oliver of Malmesbury in 1022 to the eighteenth-century Marquis de Bacqueville. He tells the fascinating story of aviation pioneers such as Sir George Cayley, who in a stroke of genius first proposed the modern design of a fixed-wing craft with a fuselage and horizontal and vertical tail surfaces in 1799, and William Samuel Henson, a lace-making engineer whose ambitious "aerial steam carriage" was patented in 1842 but never built. Anderson describes the groundbreaking nineteenth-century laboratory experiments in fluid dynamics, the building of the world's first wind tunnel in 1870, and the key contributions of various scientists and inventors in such areas as propulsion (propellers, not flapping wings) and wing design (curved, not flat). He also explains the crucial contributions to the science of aerodynamics by the German engineer Otto Lilienthal, later praised by the Wrights as their "most important" predecessor. In telling the dramatic story of the Wright brothers' many experiments at Kitty Hawk as they raced to become the first in flight, Anderson shows how the brothers succeeded where others failed by taking the best of early technology and building upon it using a carefully planned, step-by-step experimental approach. (They recognized, for example, that it was necessary to become a skilled glider pilot before attempting powered flight.) With vintage photographs and informative diagrams to enhance the text, Inventing Flight will interest anyone who has ever wondered what lies behind the miracle of flight. "I have long thought that need exists for a book, suitable for undergraduates, that would tell the connected prehistory of the airplane from Cayley to the Wrights. In light of the recognized excellence of his technical textbooks (with their stimulating historical vignettes), I can't think of a better person than Professor Anderson for the job. He has the rare combination of technical and historical knowledge that is essential for the necessary balance. Inventing Flight will be a welcome addition to undergraduate classrooms."--Walter G. Vincenti, Stanford University

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