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Reeds crew handbook
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ISBN: 1283851733 1408159139 9781408159132 9781408159125 1408159120 9781408155714 1408155710 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Adkard Coles Nautical/Bloomsbury,

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The Reeds Skipper's Handbook, now in its 6th edition, has been a bestseller since first publication 20 years ago. Now for the first time, here is the Reeds Crew Handbook for skippers to hand to new and aspiring crew. It will give them all the essential knowledge they need to undertake the tasks traditionally handled by crew aboard any size of yacht, including: - Steering (both with a tiller and a wheel) - Raising, dropping and reefing a sail - Boat handling (using tide, wind, etc) - Handling lines (throwing, coiling, lassoing, etc) - Tying up a boat on a pontoon and against a quay wall - Attac

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Yachting --- Sailing


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Le tourisme fluvial
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ISBN: 2130510116 9782130510116 Year: 2001 Volume: 3608 Publisher: Paris : Presses Universitaires de France,

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Victura : the Kennedys, a sailboat, and the sea
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ISBN: 1611685990 9781611685992 9781611684117 1611684110 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lebanon, New Hampshire : ForeEdge,

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How one small sailboat taught the Kennedys about life, family, leadership, and winning


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Luxury Yachting
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ISBN: 9783030864064 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan


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The ancient sailing season
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ISBN: 9789004223523 9004223525 9789004241947 9004241949 1283855089 Year: 2013 Volume: 351 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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Providing a comprehensive examination of the capacity of ancient ships and seafarers to cope with seasonally changing sea conditions, this book draws on a wide range of ancient literary sources while also taking account of modern weather records, hydrological data, and recent archaeological discoveries. Taking a fresh look at the various ways in which seasonality affected maritime transport across the sea-lanes of the ancient world, this book offers new perspectives on the nature of seaborne trade, naval warfare and piratical operations. The result is a volume that questions many long-held scholarly assumptions concerning the strength and seaworthiness of ancient vessels, as well as the abilities of Greek and Roman mariners, to regularly undertake voyages across hazardous stretches of sea.


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Rescuing Socrates : how the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation
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ISBN: 9780691224381 9780691200392 0691200394 0691224382 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgroundsWhat is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities.Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college.Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.

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Yachting. --- Sailing. --- Pilot guides. --- Nautical charts. --- Pilot guides --- Nautical charts --- Sailing --- Yachting --- South Australia. --- Books and reading --- Education, Humanistic --- United States --- Intellectual life. --- Canon (Literature) --- Learning and scholarship. --- Sociological aspects.. --- History and criticism. --- Montás, Roosevelt --- Books and reading. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Adoption. --- Africa. --- Analogy. --- Archival research. --- Aristotle. --- British subject. --- Bullshit. --- Celibacy. --- Censure. --- Charles Darwin. --- Circular reasoning. --- Civil disobedience. --- Classroom. --- Concept. --- Connotation. --- Conscience. --- Consciousness. --- Consent of the governed. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Core Curriculum (Columbia College). --- Criticism. --- Crito. --- Curfew. --- Curriculum. --- Disgust. --- Doomsday cult. --- Economics. --- Education. --- Emma Goldman. --- Ethnic group. --- Eudaimonia. --- Far-right politics. --- Free association (psychology). --- Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Graduate school. --- Great books. --- Health insurance. --- Hostos Community College. --- Humanities. --- Ignorance. --- Individual psychology. --- Institution. --- Intellect. --- Intelligentsia. --- International student. --- Irony. --- Jacques Barzun. --- Jean-Martin Charcot. --- Justification (theology). --- Lecture. --- Liberal arts education. --- Liberal democracy. --- Liberal education. --- Literature. --- Macbeth. --- Mahadev Desai. --- Mahatma Gandhi. --- Masculinity. --- Motivation. --- New Space (Uruguay). --- Nonviolence. --- Of Education. --- Originality. --- Philosophy. --- Physicist. --- Piety. --- Pontius Pilate. --- Popularity. --- Privilege (social inequality). --- Proselytism. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology. --- Radicalization. --- Religion in South Africa. --- Religion. --- Religious experience. --- Renunciation. --- Resentment. --- Scholarship. --- Secondary education. --- Secular humanism. --- Self-concept. --- Self-denial. --- Self-knowledge (psychology). --- Social contract. --- Spiritual autobiography. --- Spirituality. --- Symptom. --- The Islamist. --- The Wealth of Nations. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- To This Day. --- Towel. --- Transcendentalism. --- Universalism. --- Untouchability. --- Wakefulness. --- Yale Law School.


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Boats to burn : Bajo fishing activity in the Australian fishing zone
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ISBN: 1920942955 1920942947 9781920942953 9781920942946 Year: 2007 Publisher: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : ANU E Press,

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Under a Memorandum of Understanding between Indonesia and Australia, traditional Indonesian fishermen are permitted access to fish in a designated area inside the 200 nautical mile Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ). However, crew and vessels are regularly apprehended for illegal fishing activity outside the permitted areas and, after prosecution in Australian courts, their boats and equipment are destroyed and the fishermen repatriated to Indonesia. This is an ethnographic study of one group of Indonesian maritime people who operate in the AFZ. It concerns Bajo people who originate from villages in the Tukang Besi Islands, Southeast Sulawesi. It explores the social, cultural, economic and historic conditions which underpin Bajo sailing and fishing voyages in the AFZ. It also examines issues concerning Australian maritime expansion and Australian government policies, treatment and understanding of Bajo fishing. The study considers the concept of “traditional” fishing regulating access to the MOU area based on use of unchanging technology, and consequences arising from adherence to such a view of “traditional”; the effect of Australian maritime expansion on Bajo fishing activity; the effectiveness of policy in providing for fishing rights and stopping illegal activity, and why Bajo continue to fish in the AFZ despite a range of ongoing restrictions on their activity

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Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia --- Sailing. --- Fishing. --- Angling --- Recreational fishing --- Sport fishing --- Sportfishing --- Aquatic sports --- Wildlife-related recreation --- Fishes --- Navigation --- Boats and boating --- Yachting --- Territorial waters --- Fishery law and legislation --- Bajau (Southeast Asian people) --- Social life and customs. --- Badjao (Southeast Asian people) --- Badjaw (Southeast Asian people) --- Badjo (Southeast Asian people) --- Bajau (Malay people) --- Bajo (Southeast Asian people) --- Lutao (Southeast Asian people) --- Orang Laut (Southeast Asian people) --- Orang Suku Laut (Southeast Asian people) --- Pala-u (Southeast Asian people) --- Sama (Southeast Asian people) --- Sama Dilaut (Southeast Asian people) --- Samal Pala-u (Southeast Asian people) --- Sea Gypsies (Southeast Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Fish law --- Fisheries --- Fishery regulations --- Fishing --- Fishing regulations --- Law, Fishery --- International law --- Water --- Wildlife conservation --- Limit, Three-mile (Territorial waters) --- Marginal sea (Territorial waters) --- Maritime belt (Territorial waters) --- Territorial sea --- Three-mile limit (Territorial waters) --- Bodies of water --- Jurisdiction, Territorial --- Territory, National --- Contiguous zones (Law of the sea) --- Continental shelf --- Economic zones (Law of the sea) --- Innocent passage (Law of the sea) --- Law of the sea --- Law and legislation --- Fishery law and legislation. --- Territorial waters. --- Fisheries (International law) --- Fisheries regulations

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