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Navigating the Open Source Ocean
InfoStrategist.com 2002; US$ 11.99A paradigm is a mental model of something ? a helpful way of grasping its essentials. Although the term ?new paradigm? is much overused, the open source approach to software development definitely merits this description ? old mental models simply do not apply to this emerging industry. If familiar paradigms don?t apply to open source software, what?s... more...
Oceanography and Marine Biology
CRC Press 2006; US$ 199.95Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review provides authoritative summaries of recent research, exploring new aspects of fundamental topics, in addition to covering areas of special topical relevance. This volume, part of a series that regards issues with a multidisciplinary perspective, features contributions from experts involved with biological,... more...
Niche Tourism
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 63.95Niche Tourism examines one of the fastest growing areas within the tourism sector. This book provides an integrated picture of speciality/niche tourism as a whole looking at both the 'macro' and 'micro' niche area. It has a comprehensive theoretical framework, and discusses initiatives, policies and strategies adopted internationally. With an emphasis... more...
British Tourism
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95Tourism at any point in time is in many ways a mirror of economic and social change. The changes in British society in the decades from the 1950s to the 21st century are reflected in the forms of tourism that the British have been able to aspire to and afford. 'British Tourism: A Remarkable Story of Growth' identifies the most significant of these... more...
GPS
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99This reference and handbook describes theory, algorithms and applications of the Global Positioning System (GPS/Galileo). It is primarily based on source-code descriptions of the KSGsoft program developed by the author at the GFZ in Potsdam. The theory and algorithms are extended and verified for a new development of a multiple functional GPS/Galileo... more...
Two Years Before the Mast
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 7.95Two years before the mast were but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; yet the narrative in which he details the experiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide remembrance. His services in other than literary fields occupied the greater part of his life, but they brought him comparatively small recognition and many... more...
The Geography of Developing Areas
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 64.95This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the ?Global South?, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their ?problems?. Providing a positive but critical approach to a number of key issues affecting... more...
The Loss of the Titanic
The Floating Press 1912; US$ 5.99Learn more about the disaster that befell the Titanic and caused the untimely deaths of 1,517 passengers in this gripping first-hand account from survivor Lawrence Beesley. Originally published a mere nine weeks after one of the most profound maritime disasters in human history, The Loss of the Titanic shed new light on the tragedy and leveled troubling... more...
Bringing Geography to Book
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 92.00Ellen Semple's 'Influences of Geographic Environment' (1911) - a treatise on what would later be called environmental determinism - coincided with the emergence of geography as an independent academic discipline in North America and Britain. Highly controversial and written by one of America's first female professional geographers,... more...









