Authors:Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling,
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: ship, megabook, brain, city
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2004-03-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 074347189X
ISBN-13: 9780743471893
Two novels in one large volume, both set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang: The City Who Fought: Simeon was bored with running the mining and processing station that made up his "body." Then the invaders came. If anyone was to survive, somehow he must transform his wargaming hobby into the real tying and become The City Who Fought. The Ship Avenged: Ten years later, Joat, the eleven year old techno-demon heroine of the first novel is now an adult herself. She and her ship are on the trail of the Kolnari space raiders, trying to stop them before they can spread an infectious, mind-destr
Author: Michael Abrashoff
Publisher: Business Plus
Keywords: ship, navy, damn, techniques, management
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2002-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0446529117
ISBN-13: 9780446529112
"The most important thing a captain can do is to see the ship from the eyes of the crew." This belief has successfully guided D. Michael Abrashoff, the captain of one of the U.S. Navy’s most modern and lethal warships. Abrashoff has revolutionized how to handle such challenging problems as excessive costs, low morale, sexual harassment, and constant turn-over. Business managers will benefit from Abrashoff’s guiding belief that focus should be on empowering your people rather than on chain of command. By shifting organizing principles from obedience to performance, managers will b
Author: USS Benfold Captain D. Michael Abrashoff former c
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Keywords: ship, navy, damn, techniques, management
Published: 2006-01-04
List price: $24.98
ISBN-10: 1594831963
ISBN-13: 9781594831966
Other than the sobering fact that real lives are regularly at stake, running a navy ship is a lot like running a business: leaders of both must get the most out of their crews to operate at peak efficiency and complete the tasks at hand. As commander of the highly acclaimed USS Benfold, Captain D. Michael Abrashoff irrefutably demonstrated how progressive management can succeed at sea; in It’s Your Ship, he translates his methods into an approach that can also be applied by land-bound captains of commerce and industry. Describing "the ideas and techniques that I used to win my sailors
Author: George B. Douglas and Joseph T. HigginsFrancis A.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: ship, clipper, whaler, instructions, patterns, models, building
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-01-12
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0486402150
ISBN-13: 9780486402154
Clearly written text, detailed illustrations, and full-size working plans provide novices and experienced model builders with all the information they need to create exact replicas of two 19th-century sailing shipsthe Benjamin F. Packard, a classic American clipper, and the Alice Mandell, a famous whaler. The one-volume edition of two rare model-building manuals also devotes chapters to ships rigging (ancient and modern) and abundant information on clippers and old-time whaling ships. A treasury of essential information for hobbyists, model builders, and devotees of the great age of sail.
Authors:Anthony F. Molland, Stephen R. Turnock, Dominic A. H
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: ship, propulsive, power, estimation, practical, resistance, propulsion
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2011-08-08
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0521760526
ISBN-13: 9780521760522
Ship Resistance and Propulsion is dedicated to providing a comprehensive and modern scientific approach to evaluating ship resistance and propulsion. The study of the propulsive power enables the size and mass of the propulsion engines to be established and estimates made of the fuel consumption and likely operating costs. This book, written by experts in the field, includes the latest developments from applied research, including those in experimental and CFD techniques, and provides guidance for the practical estimation of ship propulsive power for a range of ship types. This text include
Author: Ross A. Klei
Publisher: New Society Publisher
Keywords: cruise, ship, industry, blues, underside
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0865714622
ISBN-13: 9780865714625
Cruising is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Attracting more than 12 million passengers a year, cruise ship companies are merging to become be-hemoths. And cruise ships themselves have swollen dramatically in size, now sometimes carrying more than 5,000 people on board. Not surprisingly, this growth is causing huge problems—problems that the industry would rather not acknowledge, and the potential cruiser would have a hard time discovering.Cruise Ship Blues reveals the dark underside of this industry. Author Ross Klein first examines the contrast between passenger expec
Authors:Robert Garvey, Garvey,
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Keywords: ship, duyfken, replica, voc, build
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2001-08
List price: $44.45
ISBN-10: 1876268573
ISBN-13: 9781876268572
