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Cartographies of Travel and Navigation
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 48.00Finding one’s way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of maps by travelers only became common in the modern era; indeed, in the last two hundred years,... more...
Humanitarian Logistics
Kogan Page 2011; US$ 70.00Humanitarian Logistics examines how to effectively organize the delivery and warehousing of supplies during natural disasters or complex emergencies to the affected area and people. more...
The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome
McGraw-Hill Education 2000; US$ 24.95In October 1998, one of the most savage storms in Atlantic history cornered a 282-foot passenger sailing ship against an exposed Caribbean coastline. With nowhere to hide and no time to run, Fantome turned to face Hurricane Mitch?s assault of 180 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot seas. As the eye of the storm approached, Fantome?s satellite phone went... more...
Where China Meets India
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 17.99Thant Myint-U ?s Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland... more...



