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  • The Faithful Sextant
    Robert Devereux McEliece
    A moving and chilling story of childhood bonds in the 1950s where young men lived on a dare and were restricted only by their imaginations. This is a gripping tale of what the Vietnam War did to these boys and their families.The Faithful Sextant tells of Captain Robert D. McEliece as he passes through boyhood in Alexandria, Virginia to find manhood in the world of seafarers and...
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    11,13 €

  • The Discerning Voyager
    Vega Mare
    The Discerning Voyager is a guide shaped by the clarity of lived expertise. Drawing on years as a senior officer, Vega Mare reveals the hidden architecture behind every cruise: how itineraries are built, how ships are staffed, and how decisions made long before embarkation quietly influence your entire experience.Rather than recycled tips or marketing gloss, this book offers in...
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    19,49 €

  • Human-Centred Autonomous Shipping
    This Open Access book covers the development of autonomous shipping towards a more human-centred approach, placing greater importance on human factors and human-centred design, and combining insight from experts in the industry and academia.Themes addressed technology, cyber security, regulation and classification, and competence and skills. ...
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    94,99 €

  • Fractional Vibrations with Applications to Euler-Bernoulli Beams
    Ming Li
    The book examines vibration phenomena with an emphasis on fractional vibrations using the functional form of linear vibrations with frequency-dependent mass, damping, or stiffness, covering the theoretical analysis potentially applicable to structures and, in particular, ship hulls. ...
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    97,35 €

  • Cuming’s tour to the western country (1807-1809)
    Fortescue Cuming
    Embark on a captivating journey through the early American frontier with 'Cuming’s Tour to the Western Country (1807-1809).' This remarkable travel narrative invites readers to explore the rich landscapes and vibrant cultures of the burgeoning United States as witnessed by the intrepid traveler, George Cuming. Revived from decades of obscurity, this edition by Alpha Editions is...
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    20,03 €

  • Omnibuses And Cabs
    Henry Charles Moore
    Step into the bustling streets of 19th-century London with 'Omnibuses and Cabs: Their Origin and History' by Henry Charles Moore a captivating journey through the evolution of urban transport. Rediscovered after decades out of print, this timeless classic is now beautifully restored and republished by Alpha Editions, offering a rare glimpse into the past for today s and future ...
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    15,03 €

  • Cathodic Protection of Marine Vessels
    Alexander Arnfinn Olsen
    Protective coatings are the most efficient way to protect ship steel structures from corrosion. However, cathodic protection, often in conjunction with protective coatings, is also used to protect immersed parts of bare steel surfaces (including coating damaged areas) from corrosion. This includes the external hull surface and the internal surfaces of tanks, such as ballast tan...
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    29,34 €

  • Smart Ships
    The purpose of this edited book is to provide state‐of‐the‐art approaches and novel technologies for smart ships coving a range of topics in the areas so that it will be an excellent reference book for the researchers, students and professionals in these areas.  ...
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    85,51 €

  • To be a Pilot
    David Devey
    This book follows my life as a Liverpool marine pilot, how I first entered into the service, the hardships I had to deal with in order to progress in the trade, and finally the politics that my colleagues and I had to overcome in order to achieve self-employment. This book is meant to highlight the importance that marine pilots contribute to society, the dangers they face, the ...
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    19,01 €

  • Break Bulk and Cargo Management
    Mark Rowbotham
    This book covers the subjects of break bulk cargo, general cargo and project cargo, and how these cargoes are shipped. It deals with the cargoes themselves, the vessels used for their carriage, and how the carriage is managed using the process of vessel chartering. It also covers offshore vessel management and how offshore supply vessels are used. ...
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    242,49 €

  • Exploring India with Cordelia Cruises
    Prabhakar Veeraraghavan
    Book Description: 'Exploring India with Cordelia Cruises'Embark on an extraordinary voyage along India’s stunning coastlines with 'Exploring India with Cordelia Cruises.' This comprehensive travel guide takes you on an unforgettable journey aboard the luxurious Cordelia Cruises, revealing the rich tapestry of India’s coastal cities and hidden gems.Discover Luxurious CruisingExp...
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    19,92 €

  • Voyages and Vessels
    Aman Jain
    Embark on a detailed exploration of the world of boats with this comprehensive e-book. Trace the captivating history of boats, from ancient mariners to the Industrial Revolution’s transformative impact on boat construction. Dive into the intricacies of boat design features, including hulls, keels, bows, and more, all explained in simple language. Explore the cultural significan...
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    18,67 €

  • Transparensea
    Indira Lake
    Discover the secrets and truths the cruise industry doesn’t want you to know with this uncensored exposé. This journey through the eyes of a seasoned crew member reveals the darker reality beneath the surface of the multi-billion-dollar cruising industry. Uncover the shocking stories of crew members treated like dirt, drug smuggling, scams, prostitution, bullying, fraternising,...
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    19,53 €

  • Fuelling the World Economy
    This book explores the functioning of coal markets and their influence on ports and maritime economics since the second half of the nineteenth century. Each chapter includes case studies from different parts of the world, explaining the role played by coal in the expansion of the shipping industry. This book also explores regions usually neglected by the mainstream scholarly li...
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    48,32 €

  • The American Clipper Ship, 1845-1920
    Glenn A. Knoblock
    This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of such noted ships as the Flying Cloud and Challenge discussed in detail, but th...
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    59,05 €

  • SeaCities
    This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute’s SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.It reflects on topics which are relevant for a future aquatic urbanism like the evolution of a taxonomy for aquatic urbanism, island and ecological wetland developm...
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    48,19 €

  • From Steamboats to Subchasers
    Jerry Aske
    The Shelburne Shipyard has been an important part of Lake Champlain and American maritime history from shortly after the War of 1812, through the steamboat era, WWII, and the Korean War. The building of wooden subchasers during WWII is one of the great untold chapters of that legacy, now preserved in in this memoir and history of the Shelburne Shipyard. Author Jerry Aske came t...
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    12,05 €

  • Advances in Reliability and Maintainability Methods and Engineering Applications
    This comprehensive book brings together the latest developments in reliability and maintainability methods from leading research groups globally. Covering a diverse range of subject areas, from mechanical systems to cyber-physical systems, the book offers both theoretical advancements and practical applications in various industries. With a focus on reliability modelling, relia...
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    46,08 €

  • Firefighting and Fire Safety Systems on Ships
    Alexander Arnfinn Olsen
    This introduces firefighting and fire safety systems on ships for seafarers, students and cadets, as well as naval architects, ship designers and engineers. It is written in line with the IACS Classification Rules for Firefighting Systems, and with cross references to the ABS and other Class regulations. ...
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    90,81 €

  • The Transformation of Maritime Professions
    This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.1850 and 2000.  The changes in motive power, communication techniques and positioning technologies and the rise of passenger shipping went together with the creation of new tasks and functions and ...
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    47,96 €

  • Shipping and Logistics Management
    Kee-hung Lai / T. C. Edwin Cheng / Y. H. Venus Lun
    This book explains global trends and strategies in the shipping business, looking at the role of logistics service providers and at how information technology can help shipping operations. It also introduces best practices and advice that will allow professionals to improve the management of shipping and logistics activities. The book consists of sections examining shipping and...
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    47,61 €

  • Advances in Environmental Sustainability
    James T. Anderson
    This proceedings volume presents the selected papers from the 2022 8th International Conference on Advances in Environment Research (ICAER 2022), held as an online event from April 22-24. The papers presented at the meeting and published here cover issues of environmental sustainability from both ecological and socioeconomic perspectives, including but not limited to cutting-ed...
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    48,35 €

  • Maritime Cargo Operations
    Alexander Arnfinn Olsen
    This introduces the core concepts of cargo work for marine engineering students and cadets, with enough detail to establish a future career, and it is built around the essential principles of the maritime profession. Subject areas begin with learning outcomes and provide self-test questions. It also offers deck officers a general overview. ...
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    93,07 €

  • The Economics of Cruise Ships
    Minsheng Liao
    The Economics of Cruise Ships is a comprehensive look at every aspect of the cruise ship industry. The book examines the industry’s structure, economics and products, its management models, and the prospect of the industry’s growth in one of the world’s largest cruise ship markets, China. The first of its kind, The Economics of Cruise Ships is based on comprehensive research, d...
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    78,76 €

  • Under A Big Blue Star
    Carroll
    Phil Carroll takes us on his global odyssey of voyages as a deck cadet in the early-1980s. It was the cusp of change in the merchant navy as containerisation began to dominate world shipping. Heady weeks ’on the coast’ in traditional cargo ships in old ports, giving way to fleeting visits by ’box boats’ to swanky new concrete container wharves, miles from town. He vividly descr...
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    25,97 €

  • Bio-Inspired Locomotion Control of Limbless Robots
    Guoyuan Li / Houxiang Zhang / Jianwei Zhang
    This book presents a bio-inspired hierarchical control scheme step by step toward developing limbless robots capable of 3D locomotion, fast reflex response, as well as sophisticated reaction to environmental stimuli. This interdisciplinary book introduces how to combine biological concept with locomotion control of limbless robots. The special features of the book include limbl...
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    48,31 €

  • Merchant Ship Types
    Alexander Arnfinn Olsen
    This gives students and cadets a detailed introduction to the classifications and categories of merchant vessels - by usage, by cargo type and by size. It explains the ports and channels each type is permitted to enter, type of cargoes carried, and specific safety or risk factors, and their main characteristics, with case studies. ...
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    102,51 €

  • Container Logistics and Maritime Transport
    Dong-Ping Song
    This book provides a coherent and systematic view of key concepts, principles and techniques in maritime container transport and logistics chains including all main segments: international maritime trade and logistics, freight logistics, container logistics, vessel logistics, port and terminal management, and sustainability issues. ...
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    76,52 €

  • Maritime Transportation
    Stein Haugen / Svein Kristiansen
    This overview covers regulations and guidelines, current practice, and approaches and methods in maritime safety management -- with new chapters on security and on terminology, and significant new coverage of risk acceptance, safety management systems, human reliability assessment, and formal safety assessment. ...
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    153,74 €

  • Variable Geometry Turbine Technology for Marine Gas Turbines
    Feng Lin / Jie Gao / Qun Zheng
    This book starts from the design requirements of variable geometry turbines for marine gas turbines. It systematically and comprehensively introduces the flow mechanism and characteristics of variable geometry turbines, aerodynamic design methods, variable vane turning design methods, structural design technology of the variable vane system, aerodynamic characteristics and reli...
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    48,12 €


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