After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens’ ordeal during the Second World War. In the process,
Swimming through the warm blue seaWhere pretty corals grow,A pair of funny angelfishAre darting to and fro! Lots of deep-sea creatures are brought to splishing, splashing life in this playful pop-up t
From a nuclear North Korea and territorial disputes in the East China Sea, to global climate change and Asia-Pacific free trade agreements, Japan is at the center of some of the most challenging issue
Founded in 1825 by the 21-year-old George Thompson Jnr, the Aberdeen Line developed over 100 years into being one of the best-respected shipping lines in Britain. Initially traversing the short sea, A
The separation and isolation of components of a mixture have always captured the fancy of man. Right from the isolation of salt from sea water to the separation of sand and sugar or advanced separatio
It’s 1796. Nicholas Fallon is captain of the schooner Sea Dog, a privateer that is fast, beautiful and deadly. Together with his best friend and first mate, Beauty McFarland, Fallon sails the Ca
Kids can take a dive under the waves and meet all the colorful creatures beneath, with Sharks and other Sea Creatures.From dolphins to starfish to the coral reef, this book is packed with fun activiti
Germany is beautiful; everyone who has ever travelled between the Baltic Sea and the Alps knows it. Pick up this book and embark on a journey through this unique and unbelievably diverse country in th
This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the envi
Ahoy ya swabs! Popeye and his sweetie-patootie Olive Oyl, his littte boy child Swee’pea, his friend-who-will-pay-him Tuesday-for-a-hamburger-today Wimpy, and his "emenie" the dreadful Sea Hag. They’re
Winner of the British Book Design & Production Awards for Children''s book 0-8 years"Bear in the sea", "Panda in the jungle" and "Koala on the moon", discover their adventurous journeys, then unfold a
This Palgrave Pivot uses a simple model from game theory to explain the behavior of countries disputing ownership of resources and of small islands in the South China Sea. It argues that the rapid tra
From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice!When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they’re blown far off course – so far that they wash up on t
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from multiple versions of biblical texts to "revealed" books not found in our canon. Des
'Did Clara taste salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the sea.' Love Like Salt is a deeply affecting memoir, beautifully and intelligently written. It is about mothers and daug
Cases and Materials on the Carriage of Goods by Sea includes a collection of legislative material, standard form contracts and up-to-date coverage of English case law. It covers the major areas of cha
Cases Materials on the Carriage of Goods by Sea includes a collection of legislative material, standard form contracts and up-to-date coverage of English case law. It covers the major areas of c
Principles of the Carriage of Goods by Sea offers students studying this topic as part of their LLM or LLB course an accessible, comprehensive overview of the subject from a leading expert in the fiel
Pearl is excited to make a splash on stage—but she’s in for some drama in this Mermaid Tales adventure.Pearl has always dreamed of being famous: the star-studded stage, the sea flowers, the applause!
In this sequel to Earth Space Moon Base, Monkey, Robot, and Deep-Sea Diver embark on a dangerous underwater quest! The jellyfish and spider crabs they encounter are the least of their worries as they
How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway'sThe Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson's cruise to the cannibal-infested South
In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts
Tsunami can be defined as a long, high sea wave caused by an earthquake or other disturbance. This book contains information for the purpose of in-depth understanding of the vast topic of tsunami dyna
On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea?and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization tha
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the processes occurring on the coastal zone, which represents a critical interface between land and sea, as the contribution of the
In Mexico’s western Sonoran Desert along the Gulf of California is a place made extraordinary by the desert solitude, the dynamic sea, and the people who live there—the Seris. Central to the lives of
Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia clashed on a scale greater than the Western Front campaign to the Marne and the Race to the Sea in 1914.Drawing on first-hand accounts an
At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so pow
A completely new exploration of the the myths and iconography of the Greek deity Poseidon, that looks at the sea and the art that it inspired in antiquity. It features remarkable Greek, Roman, and Etr
A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to proc
Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan
The focus of this work is on the function of electronic documents in cross-border business-to-business contracts for the sale of goods carried by sea. It provides a practical analysis of this commerci
Ranging from the arctic to the tropics, from largescale views of Australia''s barrier reef to close-up images of sea turtles, this title offers insight into the many challenges, such as over-fishing a
The Sea brings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way h
Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947, this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a 'sect' configured as marginal an
This beautifully compiled book illustrated with over 200 images from the P&O Heritage Collection is a nostalgic glance astern at the glory days of P&O both at sea and on shore.
World War II saw a global conflict with the weapons technologies of the leading nations of the world pitted against each other. Weapons of World War II examines key air, sea and land weapons, vehicles
Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, di
Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea--that have become the stuff of parody--become real. But even the te
Presents an autobiography of the nineteenth-century ship captain and his exciting adventures at sea, from his first voyages as a seaman at eleven years old to his experiences as the leader of the Drea
