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  • Magic Universe

    A Grand Tour of Modern Science

    by Nigel Calder ...
    This is a marvellously engaging tour covering the whole of modern science, from transgenic crops to quantum tangles. Written by one of the most experienced and well-known names in science writing, it is also assuredly reliable science. Although arranged for convenience and quick reference as a collection of topics in alphabetical order, it is very different from any conventional encyclopedia. Each ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook: A Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors

    by Nigel Calder ...
    The most comprehensive and helpful guide ever written for selecting and equipping a cruising sailboatWhether you’re a coastal or offshore cruiser, you’ll find your most pressing concerns treated with the know-how that makes for skillful, confident cruising in Nigel Calder’s Cruising Handbook. The author -- one of the most respected marine how-to authors on either side of the Atlantic, and author ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • How to Read a Nautical Chart, 2nd Edition (Includes ALL of Chart #1)

    A Complete Guide to Using and Understanding Electronic and Paper Charts

    by Nigel Calder ...
    Authoritative, practical, and hands-on information on reading and relying on electronic and paper nautical chartsThe classic How to Read a Nautical Chart explains every aspect of electronic and paper nautical charts: how a chart is assembled, how to gauge the accuracy of chart data, how to read charts created by other governments, how to use information such as scale, projection technique and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • How To Read a Nautical Chart: A Captain's Quick Guide

    by Nigel Calder ...
    Series series Captain's Quick Guides
    Your quick-reference, on-board guide to the symbology and shorthand notations used on nautical chartsNautical charts contain an incredible amount of information for those who know how to decipher them. But without a key to the symbology, a chart can be bewildering. Nigel Calder, one of today's most respected boating authors, helps you make sense complex system of signs, symbols, and graphic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Diesel Engine Care and Repair

    A Captain's Quick Guide

    by Nigel Calder ...
    Series series Captain's Quick Guides
    When it's sink or swim, this Quick Guide will keep you afloat!On the water, when an engine problem surfaces, there is no time to spend searching through an exhaustive manual. Diesel Engine Care and Repair provides all the answers--fast.Drawn from the world's largest boating library, it presents 14 color panels of authoritative, concise information on diesel engines. This on-the-spot reference is a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Marine Diesel Engines

    Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair

    by Nigel Calder ...
    Praise for this boating classic:“The most up-to-date and readable book we've seen on the subject.”—Sailing World“Deserves a place on any diesel-powered boat.”—Motor Boat & Yachting“Clear, logical, and even interesting to read.”—Cruising WorldKeep your diesel engine going with help from a master mechanicMarine Diesel Engines has been the bible for do-it-yourself boatowners for more ... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship : A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power: A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power

    A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power

    Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questionsThe Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly and effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need about:Boat Handling Under Power--Bob SweetSail ... Read more

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  • Shakedown Cruise

    Lessons and Adventures from a Cruising Veteran as He Learns the Ropes

    by Nigel Calder ...
    Long before he was one of America's leading yachting writers, Nigel Calder was a novice cruiser with ambitions grander than his experience. Nigel and his partner Terrie were young and foolish, with a home-built boat that was new and untested, one child already and another on the way - but they were determined to complete an adventurous 18-month voyage from New Orleans to Venezuela and back.It was ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Using Mobile Technologies in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics

    Series series Education (R0)
    Mobile technologies influence the way that we interact with the world, the way that we live. We use them for communication, entertainment, information and research. In education settings, there has been substantial investment in mobile devices, often without a concomitant investment in developing pedagogy and practices. With mobile technologies evolving rapidly, and the number of educational apps ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Relativity

    The Special and the General Theory

    An easy to understand collection of the ideas of one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century including the idea he is most known for, the theory of relativityRedesigned inside and out to have a fresh, appealing look, this new edition of a classic Crown Trade Paperback is a collection of Einstein's own popular writings on his work and describes the meaning of his main theories in a way ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Kingsley Amis: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    I Spy Strangers, I Want It Now, All Free Now based on Girl 20 and more

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    Adaptations of Kingley Amis’s great novels and acclaimed short storiesNovelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Tree of Liberty

    A BBC Radio 4 crime drama

    Unabridged

    3 hours 47 min

    Four thrilling detective dramas set in Amiens during the French Revolution'Stylish detective series' The IndependentSeptember 1791. Newly promoted Lieutenant General Jacques Lacroix is transferred from Paris to Amiens, tasked to solve crimes and arrest criminals. But in these days of revolution, it's increasingly tricky for him to identify the criminals amongst all the agitators, rabble-rousers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD