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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Following up on 2015's Blue Ocean Strategy, Drs. W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth. They guide you step-by-step through taking your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools, Kim and Mauborgne deliver a guide to shift...
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English
Description
"Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental...
Author
Publisher
International Marine/McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After sailing 300,000 miles and weathering dozens of storms in all the world's oceans, John Kretschmer has plenty of stories and advice to share. John's offshore training passages sell out a year in advance, and his entertaining presentations are popular at boat shows and yacht clubs all over the English-speaking world. John's talent for storytelling enchants his audience as it soaks up the lessons he learned during his often challenging voyages....
Author
Series
Special publication volume no. 13
Publisher
American Littoral Society
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
x, 83 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution volume no. 76-66
Publisher
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
517 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"A summary by famed marine biologist Sylvia Earle of the latest insights about the present state of the ocean and a look at how its future and that of humankind are inextricably bound"--
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English
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The true story of 63-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins who, in 1954, rode her horse across America, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean.
"The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from...
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Language
English
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Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She can't isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system. Meanwhile, operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their own mystery - the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. They're desperate to keep his crucial knowledge of aerospace and naval technology...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., col. maps, ports., facsims., photos, front. ; 25cm.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling portrait of one of the most interesting "forgotten" women of the twentieth century, the scientist who mapped, for the first time, the ocean floor. Until Marie Tharp's groundbreaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Tharp's work changed our understanding of the earth's...
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Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 78 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grace, an aspiring young journalist, is excited when Amelia Earhart arrives in her town of Trepassey, Newfoundland, on June 4, 1928. Earhart wants to become the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air. Grace is there to see them--and to receive Earhart's telegram announcing their arrival in Ireland after twenty hours and forty minutes in flight.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture-book biography of Marie Tharp, a pioneering scientist and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor.
100) Maryland
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English
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"From Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore, there's lots to see and do in Maryland! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Maryland special"--Publisher's website.
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