Desperate Hours: The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria |
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In the tradition of Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember, a dramatic moment-by-moment account of the greatest peacetime sea rescue in history Advance Praise for Desperate Hours 'A stupendous feat of reportage. Goldstein has virtually put us into lifeboats and sent us hurtling into the North Atlantic on the night of July 25, 1956.' —Ron Powers, cowriter, Flags of Our Fathers, and author of Dangerous Water and Tom and Huck Don’t Live Here Anymore 'Riveting. A vivid reconstruction of the chain of small events leading to a disaster and its impact on a rich cast of characters from a vanished era.' —Neil Hanson, author of The Custom of the Sea
Desperate Hours: The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria
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Earth Science |
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THE CONTENTS OF THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES: 0130815667 > EARTH SCIENCE 0130962058 > CDROM GEODE 2
Earth Science
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Exercises in Climatology |
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This invaluable weather and climate workbook applies exercises to the material presented in the companion volume, Climatology: An Atmospheric Science. The book is designed to make complex mathematical, statistical and spatial analytical methods more easily understood by providing essential details of the topic under discussion and straightforward quantitative problems preceded by worked example. All data are supplied to make the exercises self-contained and the volume's climate rather then meteorologic presentation enables a wider view of atmospheric sciences than is normally available. The authors examine the atmosphere, the energy balance, the seasons, temperature, central tendency and graphing, atmospheric moisture and precipitation distribution, air masses, fronts, and cyclones, winds and the global circulation, climate classification, climate types, change, indices and comfort, extreme events and statistical analysis as they apply to weather and climate. For those interested in atmospheric science.
Exercises in Climatology
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Geographic Information Systems: An Introduction, 3rd Edition |
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the combining of computer database technology with geo-referenced information, resulting in digital maps and databases with applications in areas such as transportation planning, natural resource and environmental studies, utility management, highways and infrastructures, town planning and municipal government, and commercial applications. It is an ideal tool for integrating data from sources ranging from satellites to tax records. The continued growth of increasingly powerful GIS systems has increased the amount of practical applications for this field, and created a demand for skilled GIS-trained employees. This book is an ideal introduction to the concepts involved in GIS. This new edition brings the technical information up to date, and includes expanded coverage of open data standards.
Geographic Information Systems: An Introduction, 3rd Edition
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Introduction to Geography: People, Places, and Environment |
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More than any other, this up-to-the-minute book is dedicated to helping readers understand the world around them. The authors introduce the major tools, techniques, and methodological approaches of geography, and present a wide range of positions currently debated about provocative current issues. Weaves the theme of human-environmental interaction throughout. Demonstrates applications of GIS and GPS in physical geography--includes urban planning, registration of urban and rural landholding, farming techniques. Covers the aging of the human population, and the different ramifications of this fact in rich and poor countries. Expands discussion of Islam, church and state in Islam--includes relations between church and state in various religions. Discusses Islam in Europe and its cultural, religious, and political impact. Covers the spread of Islamic Sharia law across North Africa, the Near East, and Indonesia. An interesting reference for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of major world issues.
Introduction to Geography: People, Places, and Environment
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The Custom of the Sea |
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Cast adrift in a tiny boat on a vast and desolate ocean, faced with almost certain death, what would you do to survive? This is the agonizing question that lies at the heart of the gripping true drama of The Custom of the Sea. On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton, England, bound for Sydney, Australia. Halfway through the 12,000-mile voyage, Captain Tom Dudley and his three- member crew were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of West Africa. After four terrifying days battling towering waves and hurricane-force gales, the Mignonette was sunk by a massive forty-foot 'freak' wave. Captain Dudley and his crew were cast adrift a thousand miles from the nearest land in a leaky thirteen-foot dinghy with only two small tins of turnips for food, no water, and no shelter from the scorching sun. After nineteen days, they were all near death, and Dudley determined that they must resort to the horrifying practice well known among seamen of the time called 'the custom of the sea.' While the others watched, the captain killed the weakest of them, the seventeen-year-old cabin boy, and his body was eaten. Five days later, the survivors were picked up by a passing ship, and although such cases of survival cannibalism were usually either hushed up or condoned as terrible but justified acts of desperation, in this case the men were arrested for murder. The sensational trial that followed kept a shocked public enthralled during the following winter, from the lowliest ship’s deckhand to Queen Victoria herself. In this riveting account, Neil Hanson re-creates with vivid detail the harrowing ordeal of the Mignonette’s crew. Drawing from newspaper accounts, personal letters and diaries, court proceedings, and first-person accounts of the principals, he has brilliantly pieced together their tragic story, a talerife with moral twists and turns that will draw you deeper and deeper into the drama of the men’s fate. Four shipwrecked sailors...one must die so the others might live. What should they do? A terrifying true-to-life account of peril on the high seas—and of the electrifying murder trial that shocked the world. Praise for THE CUSTOM OF THE SEA 'Makes astonishing reading . . . extraordinary.' —Times Literary Supplement (London) 'An engrossing account.'—The Sunday Times (London) 'A terrific story. . . . A riveting read.'—The Spectator (London) 'Sensational.'—Daily Telegraph (London)
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