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Joshua L. Reid is a true scholar and educator. Born and raised in Washington State, he is currently a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a former middle school teacher with an undergraduate degree from Yale and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. Josh approached the Makah Tribe with his research proposal and requested access to the extensive archival records held by the Makah Cultural and Research Center (MCRC).

The proposal was of interest to the Makah Tribe and pertinent to current issues on both the tribal and national levels. His proposal was approved, and he began his inquiries. At the MCRC, he delved into the recordings of our elders who have gone before us. He held interviews with Makah individuals to gather additional details on historic and current Makah practices, events, and perspectives. He researched the written records within our archives; then he travelled—extensively—throughout the U.S. and Canada to track down all he could find relating to Makah control and management of marine space. His research and analysis of this material provide the most comprehensive source of Makah history ever published.

As Makahs, we know our ancestors took calculated and heroic measures to protect our water, land, and resources that provide for our way of life. Many of us know the stories of whale and seal hunters, fishermen, and warriors. The descriptions of the battles and alliances with other Tribes, Washington State, the federal government, and Canada are not new to us. Josh's book immortalizes Makah efforts to remain steadfast in our claims to ownership and control of this pivotal Northwestern territory throughout time, while highlighting some of the individuals who played key roles.

The publication prepared by Cyprian Broodbank is a remarkably large scale synthesis on the origins of the Mediterranean sea, addressing both historical and archaeological aspects. In fact, this is maybe the firs analysis taking into account both those aspects.

The author has shed the light on the subject of the volume from different perspectives and such approach enables readers to learn a bit more about the history of the Mediterranean and get more information than is usually expected to be contained in similar publications. The work is quite complex - note that much of the evidence presented by the author has actually never been available to wider audience in high quality format.

The style of writing is very clear making the content easily understandable. Numerous photographs and plates are an outstanding supplement to the text part of the book, and shall be considered essential for the argument. The book offers its readers a truly invaluable and perfectly illustrated resource featuring excellent originality and depth.

The intelligent and compelling style of the author has made this massive and well-illustrated publication so popular in the different parts of the world not only among the specialists and scientists but also among general readers...

Today, we are happy to offer you to have a look in this perfectly and generously illustrated publication dedicated to the boats — literally all kinds of boats have been addressed in the pages of this brilliant collection, starting from the simple rafts and to the schooners. The author of the volume, Graham Blackburn, uses his own inimitable style of writing and the results of his researchers - they have all resulted in this beautiful and complete guidebook to everything that can float.

The publication contains more than seven hundred entries describing all types of the vessels. The time period covered by the author is impressive - from the very first Egyptian craft dating as back as four thousand years B.C. to the latest sophisticated nuclear-powered ships of today. The content of the book has been arranged alphabetically and supplemented with an excellent nautical glossary, an index and even bibliography - it makes the book very practical for all people; there are more than six hundred drawings of the vessels included.

This is a real treasure for the people with the interest in sea and ships. Moreover, we would treat it not only as a well-organized cross-referenced guide but also as a standard concise reference book to be used by both enthusiasts and professionals.

This work by Brian Fagan shall be treated as an excellent resource for people interested in the behavior of the Earth and various reasons for all inexplicable occurrences that effect human lives. The author especially recommends this publication as reading material for people who really care about the damage we humans do to our planet, for example global warming.

The book has already been found to be very informative; the author has addressed many different theories to make a clear picture. The readers will get a chance to learn a lot about the changing levels of the oceans, the historic rises/falls etc. In his publication the author has tried to highlight the human impact on the surrounding environment - he has described the effects of rising level of the sea taken over the past ten thousand years on the human societies. We would say that the book is a sort of hybrid of archaeology and sustainability.

The content of the volume is generally comprehensive and very well written - it presents one of the best available reviews of the topic. The author made a compelling narrative of the impact that rising sea level may have on the human beings - the books stands out alarming, with some two hundred million residing at the elevations not more than five meters above the sea level...

This is an excellent well-researched work which can easily be distinguished by a remarkably clear prose and characterization which is worthy of quite seasoned novel writer. According to the review provided by the Booklist, the publication is really outstanding for all lovers of the sea and the ships. There are plenty of interludes where the triumph and tragedy are blended.

All lovers of maritime world shall definitely find some hours of absolutely fascinating and breathtaking reading pleasure in this book. The publication tells its readers some gripping tales of the ship salvage in the times called golden era. The author has performed a really superb research job and wrote in so interesting manner about the very unusual subject. Good and informative reading that will for sure be appreciated by all people with the interest in sea.

Dennis Powers, the author, did his best to focus on the actual facts when telling the compelling story of the historic people together with the moments that defined the maritime industry of the past. We are strongly recommending to have a glance in this book - the fans from all around the planet are also recommending it and obviously cannot be mistaken...

Humans have done sufficient damage to every habitat that the bells can always be heard, but we seek to place emphasis elsewhere. How can an audience focus on a drama's denouement until they're invested in the players? Where they live? Who they live with? The conflict and beauty of their lives? Hence our focus on the characters in the oceans, the lives they lead, and the tactics they use to thrive.

We have tried, in our chapters, to bring these characters to life by combining a novel's narrative flair with the scientific accuracy that these subjects demand. And we chose the sea's most extreme life to show what life is fully capable of. We apologize for inaccuracies that may still be present: despite a worldwide network of friends and colleagues, a survey comprising more than 200 topics will never be perfectly accurate while research is ongoing and new results are arriving.

Throughout, we used the scientific literature as the foundation of fact on which our narrative is built—but good storytellers also try to show their subjects in living color, in dynamic movement, and in life and death. And for these elements we sometimes constructed scenes that are fully consistent with the data but may not yet have been witnessed...

There were six of them, five young men and one woman, dressed in brand-new desert camo and pristine combat boots, posing for a cell-phone photo at the terminal gate. They were the sort of soldiers you see everywhere in American airports these days: Guys with Oakley shades perched atop freshly shaved heads, women with hair tucked inside their caps, moving purposefully and a little furtively, separate from everyone else.

Their expressions seemed both confident and a little edgy. No one knows what the future holds, but it is seldom as obvious or meaningful as when a person sets off for armed conflict. From that moment on, anything can happen. The soldiers were documenting a true departure, the beginning of a very personal and potentially fatal group experiment: This is us leaving Atlanta, leaving the known world behind.

The scene has been repeated, in various incarnations, for as long as people have been going off to war. It would have been much the same for Romulus Tolbert, a soldier I was trailing, nearly a century and a half after the fact. In the fall of 1863, Tolbert was waiting with his fellow soldiers in the Indianapolis train station, in his own crisp uniform and unsullied boots, preparing to ship off to the American Civil War. He was about to step across a similar threshold, and he faced the same basic question: Will I make it back? He had no way of knowing how bad things would get, which was probably just as well.

I came across Tolbert's story while researching a comparatively obscure historical episode that had made the local news two decades before, when a farmer and a Memphis lawyer reported rinding what they believed to be the remains of a steamboat known as the Sultana buried beneath an Arkansas soybean field. The Sultana saga was by then largely forgotten, despite its epic proportions and the fact that it branched off into a network of intriguing subplots, one of which concerned Tolbert.

The interwoven stories of the Sultana disaster have a lot to say about human survival, and they are particularly attractive to those of us eating frozen yogurt in Concourse E. They show us what a full onslaught is like, with everything the Fates can throw at you...

We recommend you to have a look into this big, nicely detailed and remarkably thorough instruction book - we are absolutely sure that its content will be found very useful and interesting to anyone willing to learn how to splice ropes. You will get to know how to do it in professional manner. The book covers a huge number of strands, eye splices, round plants, long splices, rope-to-chain connections.

One of the parts in this publication has been solely dedicated to the various tools that are commonly required for splicing. The book will be useful and practical not only for the mariners actually working on board ships but also to the people who just want to know how to make different types of splices, starting from the very simple splices and then proceeding to quite complex ones. The manual was prepared and officially released by SamsonRope company.