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DK Eyewitness is the most trusted non-fiction series in reference publishing today. It is popular worldwide and copies are sold in more than forty languages. This volume has been dedicated to the oil - the reader will find useful and interesting information in the book, such us the history of oil exploration and production, characteristics and application, will see how oil affects our lives. This release of the DK is dedicated to oil.

The readers will be given an excellent chance to discover the very interesting story of the petroleum and its exploration as well as understand the ways in which oil shapes our world. Take this book, open it and feel yourself an eyewitness to the fascinating world of fossil fuels - get a thorough understanding of where these fuels actually come from, how people can use them, and get an idea about the various effects that these fossil fuels are having on our planet and its environment.

The information contained in the pages of this volume will be valuable for all readers; please also note that the approach used by the author to the compilation of the material will make the content of the book easily understandable even to the junior readers. Highly recommended.

The authors of this publication, which addressing one of the most terrible and large-scale technological catastrophes in the whole history of the offshore industry, have used the true story of the Gulf of Mexico disaster as the background, based on which they have discussed the relationships of the energy-complexity spiral to what had happened. Patzek and Tainter touched on so many interesting matters, and it really makes sense to spend some time on reading this book because it will let the reader have some better and more thorough understanding of the problem.

The content of the present publication has been found very important for all participants of the industry and something that everyone directly or indirectly concerned with the future of the oil and gas industry should be aware of. The authors have widely appreciated the links existing thee between energy and consumption, and also between energy and the environment; however, note that they all are only one part of the story.

In short, we may say that this is a really fascinating reading telling so much of interesting facts and opening the readers eyes to many things that were not paid due attention before. An excellent and must-have one.

This book will tell its readers about the most infamous shipwrecks in the maritime world history. It will be found interesting by everyone who likes sea and shipping. Yes, most ships return safely to ports. However, unfortunately, many of them do not. The shipwrecks are caused by human errors and arrogance, shoals, currents, storms, piracy, and warfare.

Have a look into this popular publication and you will find so much interesting information inside. The readers will be able to experience the mysteries and wonders of the bottom of the ocean with the stories of more than sixty catastrophes that occurred to the ships. The book will take you to the truly fascinating travel through the history and to the sea bed. You will learn many interesting historical details together with the most popular theories of those shipwrecks, including fatal human errors, tragedies by Mother Nature, many myths, legends and mysteries, shipwreck cases at the times of the war etc.

In short, this volume is offering you an addicting voyage that will make you read this book over and over again. An absolutely and very highly recommended readers for all people with the interest in naval history, sea adventures, mysteries and everything like that.

To select a knot, first identify the knot family that is most appropriate for your task. The purposes of the different knot families are described at the start of each chapter. Use the icons and introductory text at the beginning of each knot to identify its categories of use and its properties. Refer to pages 22-25 for knot-trying techniques common to many of the knots, and consult the Glossary on page 171 for explanations of terms italicized in the text.

We recommend this excellent practical guidebook to all interested people; they will be able to tie more than a hundred of different knots, from very simple to complicated. They will also get a lot of interesting information about the ropes - their construction, maintenance and storage, proper use etc.

More than eight hundred of photographs and instructional illustrations have been added by the author of the volume in order to get the material understood easier. You may find some of the knots a bit too difficult to tie at the beginning; however, following the clear and easy-to-follow instructions provided by the author you will soon be able to make any knot without experiencing any difficulty, you will slowly turn into professional.

This book has become a best—seller among all knotting books of today. Though it is quite compact, the content is covering literally all most practical and useful marine knots together with the whippings, hitches, bends and splices used frequently by all seamen. It is showing the readers not only how to tie a particular knot or hitch but also how to use it in the most effective way.

One of the features of this forth release of the title is that it includes the QR codes linking it to the explanatory videos. The straightforward text prepared by Colin Jarman and excellent color images make this publication very reader—friendly and actually ideal for the crew members and students. It is definitely the must—have book for any person going to the sea. The recent decades have shown the significant developments in the materials and construction techniques and they still continue to develop very rapidly being driven by the very high performance needs of the maritime and offshore industry. The book starts with the chapter dedicated to the materials, including newly introduced ones, and their mechanical properties.

The main body of the document is arranged in three big parts addressing the knots, hitches and bends, then whippings and, finally, splicing. They are preceded with some general introductory information about the ropes and explanation of the relevant terminology. Needless to say that the instructions provided in the pages of this popular title will be of great interest to the working seafarers as well as to the seafarers of the future who are only making their first steps in the field.

Here is one of the most popular publications available today dedicated to the knots and splicing. This excellent volume contains absolutely all essential knots the readers shall be aware of. The text of the book is full of very useful and easily understandable splicing instructions and all of them are supplemented with the instructional images and color diagrams making the process very funny.

According to the many reviews provided by the interested readers from all parts of the planet, they do not have any problems with making knots any more. There is the introductory section in the volume describing various types of ropes and the process of their manufacturing, telling readers how to care and handle the ropes, and also how they should make a proper choice and particular knot.

The readers will find easy and short ways to the proper use of knots in the pages of the present volume. Each of the knots addressed in the book has been provided with the short yet quite informative description and a diagram stepping the reader through the twists that shall be made in order to make this knot done. All of the knots have been grouped in several sections. In short, this is a really great instructional guide...

A few weeks after I decided to write about Jacques Cousteau, I went to St.-Andre-de-Cubzac, France, where he was born and is buried. It's a typical market village on the fringe of Bordeaux with a busy highway running through the center and narrow streets off to each side that are deserted during the day because almost everyone works in the city.

The second-floor bedroom in which Cousteau first drew breath is now part of an apartment over a pharmacy, across the street from the windowless stone abbey that anchors St.-Andre to the twelfth century and the Roman Catholic church. Two blocks west, I found a civic monument to Cousteau at the traffic circle on the approach from Bordeaux. Above a splash of carefully tended annuals in summer bloom, a twice-life-size wooden dolphin is mounted 10 feet off the ground on a steel pole.

Rendered by the sculptor in the act of leaping from the sea, the dolphin holds in its mouth a red knit watch cap like the ones worn so famously by Cousteau and the crew of Calypso. On a separate pole, arrowed signs guide visitors to the local highlights—the Philippe Cousteau Professional Academy, City Hall, and the Forty-fifth Parallel Ecological Observatory, one of several founded in the eighteenth century to study the earth precisely halfway between the equator and the North Pole...

This book tells us the very interesting story of a cruise voyage abord the MS Oosterdam of Holland America Lines. The vessel departed Sydney port and made some stops on the way at Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia. It took six days to complete the journey and five more days were spent on the beautiful islands of the Pacific Ocean. In fact, reading this story is almost same thing as being there. You will enjoy it...

I was travelling with my partner and travelling companion, Jill. This was our 13th cruise and our fourth cruise amongst the Pacific islands. As the previous Pacific cruises took place between 2003 and 2007, we were keen to get an update of these exciting destinations. We joined the cruise at the last minute as our friends and social club members were making up a travel group and had managed to negotiate a good deal for the group.

We’d found from experience that travelling with a group can add an additional layer of fun and enjoyment to the cruise. There were 34 members of the Probus Club of Breakfast Point in our party. Breakfast Point is a residential community located on a picturesque 53 acres on the Parramatta River some 30 minutes ferry ride from downtown Sydney.