Neptunes Gift

Author : Robert P. Multhauf
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801854699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Gift written by Robert P. Multhauf and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive history of salt, Multhauf deals with its production, uses, and role in the development of modern society. Common salt—a substance seemingly too ordinary to think about, yet it is the oldest of our raw materials and the basis of some of our newest inventions. Mythology and folklore abound in stories and proverbs about salt. It has been a source of revenue to governments from ancient China to ancien regime France to the United States. The search for this commodity ushered in the age of petroleum fuels. In the first comprehensive history of salt, Robert P. Multhauf deals with its production, uses, and role in the development of modern society. Today, only about two percent of the salt produced is for human and animal consumption. Ten times as much is used in the winter salting of roads, and about half of today's enormous production is used in the chemical industries, for the production, among other things, of herbicides, pesticides, and other environment-threatening materials.

Author : Cj Scarlet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595527854
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Gift written by Cj Scarlet and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dylan, an average wave of middling ability, realizes he is about to crash on the shore, he is terrified and miserable. But when he encounters a magnificent wave named Serena, Dylan learns that he is not separate and alone, but One with every wave and every creature in the ocean. In fact, Dylan learns that he is the ocean itself. In the process, he discovers that courage is found in the eye of the storm, that the limitless abundance of the universe is always within our grasp, that it is through focusing on the happiness of others that one's own happiness is achieved, that we truly do possess the power to make our dreams come true, and that although we appear to be separate from one another, we are collective drops that together form the same vast ocean. The book is sprinkled with colorful sea creature characters that help illuminate and reinforce the lessons Dylan learns on his voyage of the spirit. Abounding with thoughtful ideas for readers to consider and apply directly to their lives, this profound and fun allegorical tale will leave readers touched and inspired, as they travel with Dylan on the greatest journey of his life.

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425256774
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Brood written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

Author : Martin Ira Glassner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040032214
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Domain written by Martin Ira Glassner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Neptune’s Domain is organized around one unifying theme: the geographic aspects of the new Law of the Sea as expressed primarily in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The first two chapters provide essential background information. Chapters 3 through 9 explain relevant provisions of the Convention. The next two chapters cover topics excluded from the Convention, and the last three chapters are more analytical and future-oriented. All students and scholars concerned with the human use of the marine environment will welcome this book, whether they be geographers, political scientists or lawyers.

Author : James D. Hornfischer
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 055380670X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Inferno written by James D. Hornfischer and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed, bestselling author of "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" now delivers a riveting, character-focused narrative of the United States Navy's bloodiest, most pivotal campaign of World War II.

Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243226
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune’s Ark written by David Rains Wallace and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning five hundred million years of evolution, a study of marine life along the Pacific coast of North America captures the remarkable diversity of creatures, past and present, that have made the habitat their home, from ancient giant sea cows and flightless toothed birds, to modern-day orcas and sea otters.

Author : Paul W Simpson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244305420
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Car - An American Legend written by Paul W Simpson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smashing her way through enormous cross seas and howling winds the Neptune's Car began to run her easting down. She passed a battered barque bearing Hamburg markings vainly attempting to make westing against a thundering south-westerly gale." Those with an interest in American maritime history would know of the story of Mary Patten and the clipper ship Neptune's Car. However few would be aware of the cursed nature of the ship. The Patten's fateful voyage was just one in the career of a clipper whose travels spanned the globe. Built at the yard of Page & Allen in Gosport, Virginia in the spring of 1853, the Neptune's Car quickly established her reputation for speed. However murder, mutiny, mayhem, plague, disaster, war, death and financial ruin haunted any who know her. The fickle hand of fate was always at the helm and like the oceans upon which the clipper sailed, she spared none who showed weakness! Volume One of the Virginia Clippers.

Author : Robert P. Multhauf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Gift written by Robert P. Multhauf and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The scientific, historic, and socioeconomic aspects of salt are exhaustively explored for lay readers, historians, and scientists. The topic is treated chronologically; up to 1850, salt varieties were differentiated only by taste and appearance. After 1850, the chemical era of salt began, with analysis of its composition and purity, its chemical actions, and its technological applications. Maps, drawings, and photographs illustrate geological occurrence, mining operations, and old equipment. The importance of common salt is revealed through its influence on world exploration, the fight for trade routes, and the establishment of trade and ecclesiastical centers in Western Europe. Methods of obtaining salt are described, including mining, boring, and extracting from sea water. Theories are propounded on the formation of salt domes and deposits that have contributed to one of the most long-lasting controversies of geological history. The modern and historic uses of salts, world consumption figures, and the parallel development of the petroleum and Kali industries are other topics covered. (cj).

Author : Pamela Bauer Mueller
Publisher : Pinata Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780968509760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Honor written by Pamela Bauer Mueller and published by Pinata Pub.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into slavery in 1831 on Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island, Neptune became the childhood friend and servant of plantation heir Henry Lord King. Their devoted friendship, which finally evolved into a shared struggle to survive on the Civil War battlefields, is an inspiring example of how two men from completely different backgrounds can stand united as brothers in times of sacrifice and tragedy. This historical account of courage, honor, compassion and loyalty accurately chronicles family records of the man called Neptune.Award winning author Pamela Bauer Mueller has dreamed of introducing readers to the history of Georgia's Golden Isles since becoming a resident of coastal Georgia. In Neptune's Honor, she offers the unforgettable story of a noble servant named Neptune Small. ?As a descendant of Neptune Small and a student of coastal Georgia history, I'm delighted that a story has been written in honor of my great-great grandfather's heroism. Neptune's Honor touched me deeply. I felt as though I were there with Neptune, experiencing his life, hearing the subtle billowing of the Atlantic, smelling musty earth odors of the island marshes and feeling the ocean breezes as they blew on Neptune's St. Simons Island. While Neptune's Honor is a very touching and powerful story of love, loyalty and honor, it is based on the life of a privileged slave, and in no way represents the level of intense bondage and deprivation endured by the vast majority of my enslaved ancestors.' William Bernard Barnes Jr., Great-great grandson of Neptune Small

Author : Antony Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674972015
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neptune's Laboratory written by Antony Adler and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have long been fascinated with the oceans and sought "to pierce the profundity" of their depths. But the history of marine science also tells us a lot about ourselves. Antony Adler explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the fate of humanity and of the planet.