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  • 近代臺灣造船業的技術轉移與學習

    by 洪紹洋 ...
    Series Book 10 - 台灣史與世界史
      過去對臺灣早期產業發展所進行的討論,較少針對特定產業進行深入的個案研究。從經濟發展的歷史觀點而言,身為後進國家的臺灣,如何以殖民地時期的遺產為基礎,在戰後如何受到中國經驗的影響,再藉由引入先進國家的技術和政府產業政策的協助來發展工業,以逐步脫離對先進國家在技術上的依賴等,是值得研究的課題。  本書對臺灣造船業中,規模最大的「臺灣造船公司」進行實證研究,以了解該產業的發展過程:自日治時期建造小型船舶滿足地區性的需求,到戰後以修船業務為開端,經由技術引進,開始建造小型、乃至大型船舶。  本書的特點在於,對戰前、戰後臺灣造船業的發展作為一個整體展開連續性的討論,並對戰後初期臺灣造船公司如何填補日本籍技術人員離開後所產生的管理與技術缺口。此外,也就各時期的技術學習、技術者的養成與政府的產業政策進行論述。 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 港都人生 鹽埕市井

    Series series Root
    港都的繁華年代,鹽埕的市井人生追尋跨越半世紀的飄泊,捕捉老街區的日常生活遇見老店職人與匠師,描繪城市的前世今生  從回憶船員外公在鹽埕的生活,追尋家族移居高雄的起點,進而走訪街道巷弄,聆聽這座城市的前世風貌,書寫那個時代的人與事,以一則又一則的記憶,直視當下面臨的急速變遷。  海港帶來進出繁忙的船隻,也帶來了跨海謀生的澎湖移民、夾藏舶來品回國兜售的船員、貿易不忘順便酗酒的阿拉伯商人、自越南戰地前來休假玩樂的美軍,當然還有蓬勃的造船與拆船業,一同見證港都的過往繁華;而落在鹽埕這片土地,便長成了為風塵僕僕船員刮鬍的理髮小店,充滿各式機具材料的五金行,販售南北貨近四十年的雜貨店,迎接各方旅人的旅社, 隱身商場與市場內的西服老裁縫與繡花鞋職人。  每一個老店的厚實招牌,每一個刻劃皺紋的臉龐,每一雙轉動螺絲起子、剪刀針線的巧手,都織就鹽埕的過去與現在。曾經站在摩登時髦的前線,見證名流商旅來去 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors - Tales of 1812

    by James Barnes ...
    This vintage book is authentic tales of nineteenth-century seafaring adventures and experiences. These exciting stories will appeal to those with an interest in maritime history and would prove invaluable for research purposes. Contents include: “Allen, of the Chesapeake”, “Reuben James, Able Seaman”, “the Man behind the Times”, “The Coward”, “The Scapegoat”, “The Loss of the Vixen”, “In the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yacht’n Italy Export Museum. Il Mediterranean Style 1999-2015. Volume III

    Terzo appuntamento con Ytem, Yacht’n Italy export museum, museo del design nautico italiano, che dopo aver attraversato tutto il ricco dopoguerra, arriva ai giorni nostri consacrando definitivamente la supremazia della nautica italiana nel mondo. In questo nuovo capitolo esploriamo la nuova generazione di progettisti italiani che hanno sapientemente raccolto l’eredità dei grandi maestri del ... Read more

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  • Yacht design

    Interni e sovrastrutture

    Un nuovo approccio allo yacht designYacht Design - Interni e Sovrastrutture conferma l'interesse di giovani architetti, ingegneri e designer verso il design nautico, disciplina che necessita sempre di nuove idee, nuove soluzioni progettuali e un nuovo approccio alla materia. Questo approccio è inteso, non tanto dal punto di vista del metodo progettuale, quanto della competenza in nuove tecnologie, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yacht design

    “Yacht Design, Interior and Superstructures” confirms the interest of young architects, engineers and designers in boat design, a subject always in need of new ideas, new design solutions and a new approach. This new approach is meant to be applied to expertise in new technologies, new materials and knowledge of new markets, which are getting to know this field with experience and a cultural ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrecked on a Reef in the China Sea: Incidents of Danger, Privation and Rescue

    "Captain Frederic Hinckley...was sailing on the ship Living Age when she hit a reef in the Pacific...escaping aboard a raft to Pratas Island." - A Pilgrim Returns to Cape Cod (2018)"Frederic Hinckley...died suddenly yesterday...he went to sea as a boy...passed 16 years at sea, mostly in the China trade...while aboard the Living Age, his ship wrecked on Pratus Shoals, after 36 days on the wreck the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World War II Shipbuilding in Duluth and Superior

    Series series Images of America
    World War II hinged on the Allies having enough ships to both fight the enemy and to carry millions of tons of war goods across the world's oceans. Shipyards on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts built thousands of vessels, but America's sometimes forgotten Fourth Coast, the Great Lakes, built hundreds of ships as well. From 1940 to 1945, warships, cargo haulers, Coast Guard tenders, and fleet ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wooden Warship Construction

    A History in Ship Models

    by Brian Lavery ...
    “A wonderful book detailing the construction of the Royal Navy’s sailing warships” from the maritime historian and author of Nelson’s Navy (Pirates and Privateers).The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River

    Series series Images of America
    The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woman, Captain, Rebel

    The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

    A daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality—and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies.Every day was a fight for survival, equality, and justice for Iceland's most renowned female fishing captain of the 19th century.History would have us believe the sea has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • With the Wind Behind Us

    by Matt Elliott ...
    From red socks to kauri yachts, these are the stories that made New Zealand Aotearoa a sailing nationStretching back to the Pacific navigators and the great migrations from Polynesia to the humble 'P' class dinghy and the world-beating success of Team New Zealand: With the Wind Behind Us is a celebration of the stories that gave us our legendary sailing reputation. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Windrush

    A Ship Through Time

    by Paul Arnott ...
    Hamburg, 1930. German shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser and christen her Monte Rosa.Norway, 1940. The Monte Rosa is sent to assist the dreaded Tirpitz as she bombards British ships.Auschwitz, 1942. Forty-six Jews wait at the gates, after the Monte Rosa had transported them from Oslo.Kiel, 1945. The Monte Rosa is captured by the British and given a new name: Empire ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Windjammer

    Die letzte Blüte der großen Frachtsegler 1880-1930

    Dieses Buch ist ein MUSS für jeden, der sich für alte Segelschiffe begeistert. Es beschreibt die Ära der letzten großen Windjammer und Frachtsegler, die ab dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts noch einmal eine Blütezeit erlebten. Gehen Sie mit den Flying P-Liners auf große Fahrt nach Chile in der Salpeterfahrt. Stehen Sie an Deck der Windjammer auf der Weizenfahrt von und nach Australien. Klammern Sie ... Read more

    $11.04 USD

  • White Gold

    The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves

    by Giles Milton ...
    Giles Milton's White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco."An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose." --Simon Winchester, The Boston GlobeIn the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Whale Ships and Whaling

    A Pictorial History

    Series series Dover Maritime
    The mystery, excitement, and romance of whaling have fired the human imagination since ancient times. And although many books have been written about whales and whaling, few have presented as comprehensive a pictorial survey of the whale ships of all periods as the present — and now rare — volume. Over 200 vintage engravings, drawings, and photographs depict a magnificent fleet of barks, brigs, ... Read more

    $11.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wendemanöver

    Die Transformation der ostdeutschen Werftindustrie 1989/90–1994

    Series Book 9 - Studien zur Geschichte der Treuhandanstalt
    Mit Volldampf in die Marktwirtschaft?Positive Prognosen für den Schiffbau in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gab es nach 1989 zunächst viele. Mit vollen Auftragsbüchern wollten die Werftbeschäftigten »mit Volldampf in die Marktwirtschaft« starten. Auch im politischen Diskurs dominierte die Meinung, die maritime Branche habe gute Überlebenschancen. Dennoch entwickelte sich die Privatisierung der ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Waterline Warships

    An Illustrated Masterclass

    by Philip Reed ...
    Philip Reed, best known for his superb models of ships from the age of sail, here turns his attention to the other highly popular subject for ship modelers - the warships of the Second World War.The book is a step-by-step manual for building a scratch waterline model of the Ca Class destroyer HMS Caesar, the sistership of Cavalier now on display in drydock at Chatham Historical Dockyard. These ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waterfront Manhattan

    From Henry Hudson to the High Line

    “Rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail . . . a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America’s most important city.” —Civil EngineeringWith its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world’s busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water Gypsies

    A History of Life on Britain's Rivers and Canals

    by Julian Dutton ...
    For centuries, living afloat on Britain’s waterways has been a rich part of the fabric of our social history, from the fisherfolk of ancient Britain to the bohemian houseboat dwellers of the 1950s and beyond.Whether they have chosen to leave the land behind and take to the water or been driven there by necessity, the history of the houseboat is a unique and fascinating seam of British history.In ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warships and their story

    To the people of a seafaring nation the story of the growth of the warship, from the primitive craft of our savage ancestors to the marvellous fighting machines of the present day, should prove of endless fascination. In this book I have sought to indicate somewhat of the lines upon which the development of the world’s warships has taken place. The amount of information available concerning ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warships After Washington

    The Development of Five Major Fleers, 1922–1930

    by John Jordan ...
    This fascinating study of post-WWI naval powers reveals how international peace treaties influenced the design and engineering of modern warships.The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 was designed to prevent an arms race between the major naval powers after the First World War. But the new constraint inspired ingenious attempts to maximize the power of ships built within the treaty’s restrictions. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warships After London

    The End of the Treaty Era in the Five Major Fleets, 1930–1936

    by John Jordan ...
    The acclaimed naval historian presents an authoritative study of how the 1930 Treaty of London influenced warship design in the years before WW2.After the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 put a cap on the construction of capital ships and aircraft carriers, the major navies of the world began building ‘treaty cruisers’ and other warships that maximized power while abiding the restrictions. As the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warship 2023

    by John Jordan ...
    The latest edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.For over 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD