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Author
Series
Taiwan shi yu hai yang shi volume 03
Publisher
Yuan liu chu ban gong si
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1 ban.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business--one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea back home to New York could take six agonizing months..."--Amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1941, Eric DeHaan, the captain of the Noordendam, a Dutch tramp freighter, is recruited by the Dutch Naval Intelligence Section for dangerous secret missions that take the ship and its crew behind enemy lines in Europe and North Africa.
Series
American maritime library volume 15
Publisher
Mystic Seaport
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dude, I am Ocean. You know my many names: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, Southern. It's all excellent me. My salt water flows across the planet as one. I have no flag. No nationality. My waves are for all. Life on Earth began in my epic waters I keep the global climate just right. And I have rad secrets. But I'm facing a major wipeout! Only by working together can we get back in the zone. It's you and me, dudes"--
7) Dead wake
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015, ©2014
Edition
Unabridged edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is a story that many of us think we know but don?t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the...
Author
Publisher
Ariel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Primera edición impresa en México: julio de 2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Inmenso y lujoso, el Lusitania, que zarpó de Nueva York el 1 de mayo de 1915, era un monumento al orgullo y el ingenio de la época, el barco civil más rápido. Con el pasaje completo, partió con tranquilidad pese a la atmósfera bélica existente. La idea de que un submarino alemán pudiera hundirlo parecía absurda, un sentimiento del que se hacía eco la naviera: «El Lusitania es el barco más seguro del mar. Es demasiado rápido para cualquier...
Publisher
Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
"Large ships are responsible for substantial amounts of worldwide emissions of black carbon, nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, sulfur, air toxics, greenhouse gases, and substances that deplete ozone in the upper atmosphere. Shipping emissions have been included in District emission inventories since 1994, and the District has been working to raise awareness of the problem and calling for voluntary and regulatory measures to control these...
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