Loren steffy (37 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Upon George Mitchell's death in 2013, The Economist proclaimed, ""Few businesspeople have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell"", a billionaire Texas oilman. Award-winning author Loren Steffy offers the first definitive biography of Mitchell, placing his life and legacy in a global context.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. J. Richard ?Dick? Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the consistency of wet cardboard. There were some 6,000 pieces in all, and Steffy?s job was to put them all back together in their original shape like some massive, ancient jigsaw puzzle.He had volunteered for the job even though he had no qualifications for it. For twenty-five years he?d been an electrician in a small, land-locked town in Pennsylvania. He held no advanced degrees?his understanding of ships was entirely self-taught. Yet he would find himself half a world away from his home town, planning to reassemble a ship that last sailed during the reign of Alexander the Great, and he planned to do it using mathematical formulas and modeling techniques that he?d developed in his basement as a hobby.The first person ever to reconstruct an ancient ship from its sunken fragments, Steffy said ships spoke to him. Steffy joined a team, including friend and fellow scholar George Bass, that laid a foundation for the field of nautical archaeology. Eventually moving to Texas A&M University, his lack of the usual academic credentials caused him to be initially viewed with skepticism by the university?s administration. However, his impressive record of publications and his skilled teaching eventually led to his being named a full professor. During the next thirty years of study, reconstruction, and modeling of submerged wrecks, Steffy would win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation ?genius? grant and would train most of the preeminent scholars in the emerging field of nautical archaeology.Richard Steffy?s son Loren, an accomplished journalist, has mined family memories, archives at Texas A&M and elsewhere, his father?s papers, and interviews with former colleagues to craft not only a professional biography and adventure story of the highest caliber, but also the first history of a field that continues to harvest important new discoveries from the depths of the world?s oceans.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 250 pages. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 211 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 304 pages. The definitive account of how BP's win-at-all-costs culture led to this era's greatest industrial catastrophe A carefully and powerfully written story. Fin ancial Times When an author uses a loaded word like 'reckless' in a book's titl e, the burden of proof is high. . . . Steffy meets the burden by demonstrating t hat corporate behemoth BP (formerly British Petroleum) could have prevented the 11 deaths on April 20, 2010, aboard the Deepwater Horizon. . . .The deaths and t he gigantic oil spill following the sinking of Deepwater Horizon will surely bec ome a landmark of corporate ineptness and greed for the remainder of human histo ry, thanks in part to Steffy's remarkable account. San Antonio Express-News Ste ffy has produced a fascinating, gripping, revealing account. . . . The book deta ils events aboard the Deepwater Horizon in April of 2010 to start, but it digs d eeper into what is revealed as a culture of cost-cutting boiling over within BP. Steffy documents years of incidents and poor management decisions, detailing th e rise of key characters like John Browne and Tony Hayward alongside riveting ou tlines of horrifying events in Texas City and at other BP locations. . . .The bo ok reads like fiction at times, with the author's heavily-detailed accounts of e xplosions and conversations creating vivid, nearly fantastical images. The tragi c history of BP is all-too-real, though, as the lost lives and environmental dam age certainly attest to. . . Steffy is a thorough, straightforward author. His concerns largely lie with the loss of life and the general culture of cost-cutti ng of BP, painting an apt and terrifying picture of rampant, steady, costly negl ect. Seattle Post Intelligencer Steffy provides valuable insight and crucial co.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 348 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 226 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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