The Mad Ship

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Reducere. 035When Count Dracula departs Transylvania on a Russian ship, crew members begin to mysteriously disappear. After the ship docks, and more people a...

Whether your company is considering serverless computing or has already made the decision to adopt this model, this practical book is for you. Auth...

DescriptionShiphandling with Tugs, Second Edition is the most comprehensive text available for the mariner who wants to learn how to safely and eff...

Reducere. On a visit to Buffalo, New York, the French poet Dominique Fourcade was awed by the huge concrete grain elevators that line the city's river and la...

Reducere. They were chosen as the best of humanity. Now they might end up being the last.Project Nomad's grand vision of colonising the galaxy has shrunk to ...

Winner of the Casa de las Am�rica Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jos� Maria, set a...

Reducere. By the author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force "Farley deploys an incisive and brutally direct style" --Warships: I...

Reducere. The Good Shepherd was described as one of the best novels of 1955. In it, C.S. Forester departs from the age-of-sail Hornblower genre that made him...

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Reducere. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer On the heels of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up ...

Reducere. In a deadly circus competition, even hearts are on the line.Gwendolyn Grimm intended to seduce men and women across the galaxy while working as a s...

Reducere. DescriptionFlashes in the Night captures the tragic story of the sinking of M/S Estonia in dark, cold Baltic waters on September 28, 1994. Caught i...

DescriptionIn this illustrated biography, we learn the origins of designer Eileen Gray and the details of her groundbreaking career. Gray began as ...

Reducere. Daddy is a sailor in the United States Navy. Learn the words Daddy knows about his ship and his mates. Join Ollie the Octopus and travel with Daddy...

Profiling more than 50 ships that Voyager encountered in the Delta Quadrant, this is the 2nd of two volumes that profile the ships from STAR TREK: ...

Reducere. In May 1607, English settlers stepped off their ship in North America. They were about to start the first permanent English settlement in North Ame...

British Columbia's rugged Southern Gulf Islands enticed many pioneers, explorers, colonists, miners, and adventurers in the mid 19th century. Fog, ...

Reducere. In 1996, professional photographer Paul Cunningham made the long drive down a narrow peninsula and onto Hermit Island in Phippsburg, Maine, to the ...

Reducere. In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century N...

Reducere. Solomon has passed judgement.The AI has chosen his ideal humans for Project Nomad, mankind's first extrasolar colony on Opis, forty light years fro...

Reducere. Years ago, a young Jewish boy stood on a broken boat, half buried in the sand, holding a piece of bamboo he had made into a toy telescope. The boy ...

Reducere. The USS Texas was built when dreadnought battleships were kings of the seas. It was the world s most powerful battleship when first commissioned in...

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Reducere. During World War II, the city of Evansville manufactured vast amounts of armaments that were vital to the Allied victory. The Evansville Ordnance P...

Reducere. Travel along on Great Grandma's Astonishing Adventures This heart-warming journey with Great Grandma and her adorable, devoted, and very large ging...

Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous beliefs, and the irrepressible spirit of ex...

Every family has a story of how they arrived in America, whether it was a few months, years, decades, or centuries ago. Journeys: An American Story...

Explains in graphic manner how to build a small 1/16th scale model of the American privateer schooner Prince de Neufchatel. She was one of a class ...

Reducere. A ship of legend sails toward the very edge of the world in this fantasy saga. Many on Gor do not believe the great ship of Tersites, the lame, sco...

DescriptionStar Trek Shipyards is a series of lavishly illustrated books that provide in-universe profiles of Star Trek ships, building into the ul...

The first great British aero-engine manufacturer Sunbeam made a vital contribution to victory in the First World War. Fitted to the first aircraft ...

Reducere. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and t...

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Fifteen-year-old Carter Ellen Key has lived her entire life on the waves, traveling across oceans on the merchant ship known as the Adventurer, a s...

Reducere. Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her...

DescriptionDiscover the history of Phippsburg, Maine, where the English initially attempted to settle and the first European ship in the New World ...

In 1942, the navy sought a location for an advance base on the West Coast to ship construction materiel, equipment, and men into World War II's Pac...

The USS Shenandoah was the pride of the American Navy in 1925 and America's first rigid dirigible. Her name is a Native American word often said to...

Wellfleet is among the most picturesque villages on Cape Cod. Its rich history weaves a tale of sailors and boatbuilders, travelers and artists, an...

DescriptionCaptain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974. Starting as a Junior Deck Off...

Reducere. One thousand years ago, Norse Explorer Leif Erikson stepped off a ship and onto an unknown land, becoming the first known European to set foot on N...

As a small boy, Pieter Kohnstam lived with his parents in an apartment in Amsterdam during World War II. By coincidence, one of their neighbors was...

More than 50 years since her maiden crossing to New York, the 'Queen Elizabeth 2', remains an icon in the cruise and maritime industries. Wherever ...

Reducere. The Songcatcher traces one American family from the Revolutionary War to the present by following an English ballad as it is handed down through th...

Reducere. The fog released more of the ship. As he watched the bow slowly emerge, Stanton saw something that made his gut twist. "This can't be." Stanton sta...

Reducere. After a century of war, revolutions, and Imperial conquests, 1790s Europe is still embroiled in a battle for control of the sea and colonies. Tall ...

Reducere. Due to Enemy Action tells for the first time a World War II story that spans generations and straddles two centuries, a story that begins with the ...

Reducere. Determined to stake their claim on the dark waters, renegade Vampirates are expanding. But the Pirate Federation and the once-neutral Nocturnal Vam...

Reducere. Rosslyn Wemyss' life and career was both fascinating and brilliant - a most distinguished admiral who is very little known. As the Allied Naval Rep...

Reducere. What if you could replace every neuron in your brain with an exact duplicate, but instead of a nerve cell made of flesh, it was made of silicon? Ev...

Reducere. In 1996, professional photographer Paul Cunningham made the long drive down a narrow peninsula and onto Hermit Island in Phippsburg, Maine, to the ...

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Reducere. The riveting story of the slave ship Whydah, captured by pirates and later sunk in a fierce storm off the coast of Massachusetts, energizes this la...

Reducere. This exciting YA sci-fi novel is about the adventures of Veronica Stanley after she learns there is much more to her than she ever knew. Veronica a...

By the author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force. From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every ca...

Reducere. The Starship Rhea has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of spac...

Reducere. Award NameBoston Globe-Horn Book AwardsAward categoryNonfictionDescriptionIn a text that mirrors their language and thoughts, Marcia Sewall has mas...

Reducere. Origins of Form is about the shape of things. What limits the height of a tree? Why is a large ship or office building more efficient than a small ...

San Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers. From North Beach, to Chinatown, to the cold, rough surf of Ocean Beach, to Marin, both ...

Reducere. It is early February, 1799, a year of war. Sailing in the Caribbean, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is once again pursuing a chimera. A rich Fren...

Reducere. -Would the bus in Speed really have made that jump? -Could a Star Wars ship actually explode in space? -What really would have happened if you said...

Reducere. During an era when millions of Jews fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe, the Titanic sailed on her maiden voyage. At the time, she was the largest a...

Reducere. One-Eyed Willie is back! Only this time, he returns as a living, breathing, young teen who teams up with his sixteenth-century pals on an amazing a...

Reducere. "A fascinating historical account...A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country's mid-century greatness" (The Wall Street Journa...

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Reducere. For three years a mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland's clacháns, townlands, and cities. Nearly a million died. Was it the prospect of star...

Reducere. Early in 2017, James A. McQuiston wrote a book entitled Oak Island Missing Links, exploring, in a logical, pragmatic fashion, the many mysteries th...

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Reducere. He had been born on a mad, impossible world Sun-blasted by day, cold-wracked by night-his was a life condensed by radiation into eight days Sim eye...