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The European Antarctic: science and strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire /Peder Roberts. "This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic, from the years before the Great War to the early years of the Cold War. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia. Science was a resource for states attempting to reveal - and control - the Antarctic and its resources. But it was also a source of personal and institutional capital, a means of earning civic status and professional advancement. The book ranges from the politics of whaling management to the changing value of geographical exploration in the academy and the rise of specialized, state-sponsored research, presenting an episodic rather than a linear narrative focused on historically specific networks and strategies. Drawing upon scholarship in critical geopolitics, imperial environmental history, and the cultural history of science, author Peder Roberts argues that despite its splendid geographical isolation, the Antarctic was a field for distinctly local European dreams"-- 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99:42:48)

Souvenir booklet of the destruction of the whaling fleet in the Arctic Ocean, 1871 Williams, William F., [19--?] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. txt

The Guinness book of ships and shipping facts and feats Hartman, Tom 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82

Farther than any man : the rise and fall of Captain Cook Dugard, Martin 2003. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92COOK

On the satellites of Uranus / by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Knt. Guelp. Herschel, John F. W.-(John Frederick William),-Sir, 1834. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52.092:094

Murray II year book : Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth :a record of the 165 cadets of the Royal Navy General List and Supplementary List (Seaman) who joined the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth on 17th September 1961, this being the second annual entry under the recently introduced 1960 "Murray" Scheme for officer training The CD contains: Murray II Photographic Miscellany (with sub-folders for Formal Groups, Informal Groups, Passing Out Parades, People, and Sport); Murray II Year Book. 2011 • CD-ROM • 1 copy available.

Liverpool docks : A short history /David Paul "Liverpool Docks: A Short History traces the birth, growth and strategic importance of the port in times of peace and war as well as the kinds of cargoes carried into the docks - including slaves. This fascinating book provides a complete timeline from the very earliest days right up to today - a time when a new and even larger container dock is being built and the advent of the new cruise liner terminal. This terminal has been at the centre of a political and economic argument between Southampton, Liverpool and the EU. The book also speculates as to the future of Liverpool docks and also, to a lesser extent, the city itself."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.3(427.2)

Table of the logarithms of the natural numbers, from 1 to 108000 / by Charles Babbage, Esq., M.A., Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge Babbage, Charles 1831 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 519.66:094

Catalogue de 501 âetoiles : suivi des tables relatives d'aberration et de nutation /par Antoine Cagnoli Cagnoli, Antonio, 1807. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 524.3(083.8):094

The Graphic souvenir of the German Navy's surrender November, 1918 / The Graphic The Graphic [1918]. • PAMPHLET • 3 copies available. 940.458

Your film and the lab Happe, L Bernard 1983 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 791.44.02

Leather conservation : a current survey 1982 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 675.004.4

Warship Anne/ Richard Endsor "If you go down to the shore at Hastings on the UK's south coast at low tide you will come upon an amazing sight. There, revealed by the receding waves are the remarkably complete mortal remains of a seventeenth century warship. The Anne was launched in 1678 and was lost in 1690 at the battle of Beachy Head. As she lay beached, she was torched to prevent her from falling into enemy hands. Today the wreck is owned by the Shipwreck Museum at Hastings and in the past few years there have been some intriguing attempts to bring the ship back to life using advanced simulation and modeling techniques. Ship's historian and draughtsman Richard Endsor has written a history of this wonderful and accessible ship, bringing the ship fully back to life using his beautiful and accurate drawings and paintings."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82ANNE

Monatliche correspondenz : zur befèorderung der erd- und himmelskunde /Herausgegeben vom Freyherrn von Zach, Herzogl. Sachsischem Obersten und Directorn der Sternwarre Seeberg bey Gotha Zach, Franz Xaver,-Freiherr von, 1802 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 52"1802":094

Wilson administration and the shipbuilding crisis of 1917 : steel ships and wooden steamers Williams, William J 1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.12(73)"1914/1918"

The story of yachting Rayner, Ranulf 1988 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 797.144

Enlightenment travel and British identities : Thomas Pennant's tours of Scotland and Wales /Mary-Ann Constantine "Thomas Pennant of Downing, Flintshire (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquarian and self-styled 'Curious Traveller', published accounts of his pioneering travels in Scotland and Wales to wide acclaim between 1769 and 1784, directly inspiring Dr Johnson, James Boswell and hundreds of subsequent tourists. A keen observer and cataloguer of plants, birds, minerals and animals, Pennant corresponded with a trans-continental network of natural scientists (Linnaeus, Simon Pallas, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White), and was similarly well-connected with leading British antiquarians (William Borlase, Francis Grose, Richard Gough). Frequently cited as witness or authority across a wide range of disciplines, Pennant's texts have seldom been themselves the focus of critical attention. There is as yet no biography of Pennant, nor any edition of his prolific correspondence with many of the leading minds of the European Enlightenment. The 'Tours' were widely read and much imitated. As annotated copies reveal, readers were far from passive in their responses to the text, and 'local knowledge' would occasionally be summoned to challenge or correct them. But Pennant indisputably helped bring about a richer, more complex understanding of the multiple histories and cultures of Britain at a time when 'Britishness' was itself a fragile and developing concept. Because the 'Tours' drew on a vast network of informants (often incorporating material wholesale), they are, as texts, fascinatingly multi-voiced: many of the period's political tensions run through them. This volume of eleven essays seeks to address the comparative neglect of Pennant's travel writing by bringing together researchers from literary criticism, art history, Celtic studies, archaeology and natural history. Attentive to the visual as well as textual aspects of his topographical enquiries, it demonstrates how much there is to be said about the cross-currents (some pulling in quite contrary directions) in Pennant's work. In so doing they rehabilitate a neglected aspect of the Enlightenment in relation to questions of British identity, offering a new assessment of an important chapter in the development of domestic travel writing."--Provided by publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92PENNANT

Pepys House, Brampton : in the county of Cambridgeshire /a paper read by Frederick E. Cleary, C.B.E. Treasurer and Trustee at Apothecaries' Hall, Blackfriars in the City of London on 29th October, 1981 Cleary, Frederick E. 1981 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92PEPYS(425.9)

Notes on Wire-Drag Surveys / J. A. Edgell, O.B.E., R.N. Edgell, J A 1932 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 528.47

Photoshop : masking & compositing /Katrin Eismann. Eisman, Katrin. 2005. • BOOK • 4 copies available. 681.3.06

Pandora project stage 2 : four more seasons of excavation at the Pandora historic shipwreck /Peter Gesner. Gesner, Peter 2016 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.26(204)PANDORA

Great mediterranean passenger ships / William H. Miller "It is hard to think of the passenger liners from the golden era of Mediterranean cruising without also conjuring the nostalgic, dream-like vision of azure-blue waters, bright sunshine and swimming pools with clusters of umbrellas and sunbathing passengers. The great age of Mediterranean passenger liners began in the 1920s when the Italians built their first big ships, such as the Augustus, Saturnia and Conte Grande. In the 1930s, things got really interesting with the creation of the superliners Rex and Conte di Savoia. In the 1950s and '60s, as Italy built a huge post-war fleet, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Israel commissioned their biggest ships yet. William Miller has written ninety books on passenger ships and is an acknowledged world expert in his field. Full of colour and the first-hand memories of passengers and crew, this endearing reflection on the majestic world of Mediterranean travel cannot be missed. Quick, the whistles are sounding!"--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123.3

Time and cosmos in Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by Alexander Jones "The Greeks and Romans lived according to a distinctively Hellenic conception of time as an aspect of cosmic order and regularity. Appropriating ideas from Egypt and the Near East, the Greeks integrated them into a cosmological framework governed by mathematics and linking the cycles of the heavenly bodies to the human environment. From their cosmology they derived instruments for measuring and tracking the passage of time that were sophisticated embodiments of scientific reasoning and technical craft, meant not solely for the study of specialists and connoisseurs but for the public gaze. Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity, the accompanying catalogue for the exhibition at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, explores through thematic essays and beautiful illustrations the practical as well as the artistic, ideological, and spiritual role of time technology and time imagery in the Mediterranean civilizations. Highlights among the more than one hundred objects from the exhibition include marvelously inventive sundials and portable timekeeping devices, stone and ceramic calendars, zodiac boards for displaying horoscopes, and mosaics, sculptures, and coins that reflect ancient perceptions of the controlling power of time and the heavens."--Provided by the publisher. 2016 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.111

Official Naval Despatches : the Admiralty's reports of the battle of the Bight, destruction of German East Asiatic Squadron, sinking of the Emden, and other work of the Navy in the war :illustrated with drawings of ships and men, and with specially drawn maps / "The Admiralty's story of the part the Navy is taking in the War. Illustrated with many photographs and specially drawn maps."--From front cover. 1915 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 940.459(42)

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