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The Pirate Hunterby Richard Zacks
Hyperion 2003; US$ 11.95Everybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, Americas most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much better tale. Kidd was actually a tough New York sea captain hired to chase pirates, a married war hero whose secret mission took a spectacularly bad turn.This harrowing tale traces Kidds voyages in the 1690s from his home near Wall Street to Whitehall Palace in London, from the ports of the Caribbean to a secret pirate paradise off Madagascar. Author Richard Zacks, during his research, also unearthed the story of a long forgotten rogue named Robert Culliford, who dogged Kidd and led Kidds crew to mutiny not once but twice. The lives of Kidd and Culliford play out like an unscripted duel: one man would... more...
The Invisible Hookby Peter T. Leeson
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 16.95Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? Why did they create a "pirate code"? Were pirates really ferocious madmen? And what made them so successful? The Invisible Hook uses economics to examine these and other infamous aspects of piracy. Leeson argues that the pirate customs we know and love resulted from pirates responding rationally to prevailing economic conditions in the pursuit... more...
European Geographic Information Infrastructuresby P. A. Burrough; I. Masser
CRC Press 1998; US$ 129.95Presenting complementary perspectives for a positive approach to a pan European Geographic Information programme. This work uses case studies on a variety of applications, and examines legal and consitutional issues. more...
Integrating Information Infrastrutures with GI Technologyby Bruce Gittings
CRC Press 1999; US$ 159.95Contains revised versions of the best papers from the GISRUK 1998 conference. It covers a number of themes with a special focus on GIS and the WWW. more...
Community Participation and Geographic Information Systemsby William J. Craig; Trevor M. Harris; Daniel Weiner
CRC Press 2002; US$ 119.95Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and related technologies are starting to have a significant impact on the communities which use them. This book looks at this impact and how communities have used this technology to their own advantage. more...
The Silence Callingby Tim Bowden
Allen & Unwin 1999; US$ 51.90The Silence Calling is a fascinating and often moving account of the work and life of Australians in Antarctica. It traces the development of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) from the first day the Australian flag was raised on Australia's remote Southern Ocean outpost of Heard Island on Boxing Bay 1947 up to the present day. more...
Sensuous Geographiesby Paul Rodaway
Routledge 1994; US$ 228.00Exploring our immediate sensuous experience of the world, this book challenges us to reconsider the role of the sensuous as not merely the physical basis of understanding, but as an integral part of the cultural definition of geographical knowledge. more...
Antarcticaby Paul Simpson-Housley
Routledge 1992; US$ 210.00This traces images of the continent throughout time and analyses the differing perceptions of beauty and terror experienced by explorers.Cast from the sea and the land, powerful new images are evoked from the stories refashioned at home more...
Geography and Ethicsby James D. Proctor; David M. Smith
Routledge 1999; US$ 67.95Drawing together specially commissioned contributors from distinguished geographers from around the world the book examines the place of geography in ethics and of ethics in geography. more...
GISby M. F. Worboys
CRC Press 1995; US$ 47.95Aims to make the computing principles underlying geographic databases understandable and accessible to current and potential users of such systems. more...