An enchanting celebration of Greek provincial life—its charming culture and sublime food—captured in 100 delectable recipes and captivating stories from the Greek-American Tsakiris family, accompanied
Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has acted as a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Ba
This book describes the creation of a monitoring network, which can provide information about the exact locations and the environmental threats posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumpsites in the Baltic S
A nautical trivia book on steroids, learn why it is a Blue Monday and other expressions with a nautical pastJack Tar and the Baboon Watch is a Ripley's Believe It or Not for the mariner—everything odd
Large-format, high-quality color and b&w photos and maps take readers on a journey to the marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in 1967, to discover a way of life 5,000 years old,
A founder of the Children's Defense Fund evaluates what has been achieved and what still needs to be done in order to make the nation safe and fair for children, in an uplifting call-to-arms that is p
With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and
Before he published his first novel in 1895, Joseph Conrad spent twenty years in the merchant navy, eventually obtaining his master’s ticket and commanding the barque Otago, in which he sailed a notab
The ancient port lies about eight kilometers north of the modern town on the Egyptian coast, and three years of excavations there were winding down in February 1982 when a house was uncovered that, am
This masterful study charts the extensive common ground and telling differences between two widely separated coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the no
Widely used among young 19th-century officers in the Royal Navy and East India Company, this now-rare volume offers clear definitions and copious illustrations of the principles of rigging and other
