It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond.

The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold a[...]

The atmosphere and the ocean form a coupled system which exchanges heat, momentum and water at the air sea interface. The interface is dynamic and masses and energy are continually transferred across the air sea interface. The energy ?ow from the atmosphere to the ocean generates an aerodynamically [...]

An account of England's rise to and status as a naval superpower from the mid-seventeenth century through the early 1800s offers insight into how the British Navy was manned, financed, and directed, documenting the contributions of such key figures as Pepys, Hawke, and St. Vincent while sharing comp[...]

A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader. The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of anima[...]

In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has[...]

"This book provides a comprehensive assessment of India's international relations in the Asia Pacific region. It charts the development of India's increasingly important role as a major world power, discusses India's international relations strategy and examines India's relationship with each of the[...]

The Indian Ocean is famously referred to as the "cradle of globalization," as it facilitated cultural and economic exchanges between Africa, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and China, for 5000 years prior to European presence in the region. As this ocean's significance has g[...]

"Alone" is the extraordinary account of Terry Jo Duperrault, who, at age eleven, survived four days on a raft in the middle of the ocean after her family was brutally murdered aboard a chartered sailboat.
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Although it is generally accepted that the Arctic Ocean is a very sensitive and important region for changes in the global climate, this region's short-and long-term geological history is much less known in comparison to other ocean regions. This book presents background research, the developments, [...]

In 2034, the most powerful, most precisely tuned organization in the history of humankind, created to explore the solar system, depends on the judgment of a single man who finds that he must seek something that is beyond others' abilities to comprehend. Reprint.[...]

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women--past and present--in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life.

February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German bal[...]

A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean The Lofoten archipelago, just North of the Arctic Circle, is a place of unsurpassed beauty--the skyline spikes with dramatic peaks; the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where [...]

The Atmosphere and Ocean is a fully revised and updated student friendly physical introduction to the atmosphere and ocean.[...]