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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Ken Marschall (illustrator). 230 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0446513857; 9780446513852 LCCN: 87-8211 ; OCLC: 15518324 ; blue cloth in color illustrated dustjacket ; "A Warner/Madison Press book." ; This book recounts the author's 1985 discovery and exploration of the Titanic 75 years after it sank in the North Atlantic. ; Contents: Search for a legend -- What happened that night -- The quest begins -- Watching from the sidelines -- Jason and the Argonauts -- Discovery -- Titanic found -- Touring the Titanic -- Last resting place, R.M.S. Titanic : then and now -- Titanic reconsidered -- An inventory of the debris field -- A Titanic chronology. ; "Including rare archival photos and charts, this volume recounts the Titanic's tragic last night and describes the drama of the expedition that finally found and explored her. Plus Dr. Ballard reveals the ship's location and lays to rest many of its mysteries. 48-page color insert." ; Ballard has worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Falmouth, Massachusetts, since 1969. He is currently director of the Center for Marine Exploration there. Ballard is perhaps best known to the general public in connection to the luxury liner Titanic. Ballard organized and participated in the expedition that discovered the ship in 1985. More important, however, is his work in designing underwater survey vehicles and in participating in dives to explore the ocean floor. His work in marine design and engineering, in particular, has led to a dramatic increase in the scope of deep-sea exploration. In the 1960s, Ballard helped develop the Alvin, a deep-sea, three-man submersible equipped with a remote controlled mechanical arm for collecting specimens from the ocean floor. The device played an important role in mid-ocean studies, including exploration of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and dives to the Cayman Trough, a 24,000-foot-deep gash in the ocean floor south of Cuba. Ballard was part of the Galapagos Hydrothermal Expedition in 1977, which discovered and investigated deep-sea thermal vents spouting mineral-rich water from volcanic cracks in the Earth's crust. In the 1980s, Ballard helped develop the Argo-Jason unmanned submersible system, the most advanced craft of its kind. Argo is a 16-foot submersible vehicle and Jason is a self-propelled robot tethered to Argo. The search for the Titanic was undertaken as a test of the Argo-Jason system; the success of the expedition demonstrated its capabilities and, according to Ballard, "ushered in a new era of undersea exploration." ; VG/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: g. 4to. 64p. Accordion fold. Decorated black cloth with dj. Head and tail of spine, edges and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. DJ is chipped, some tears and outlines of tape. Translated by George Theiner. Color and b&w reproductions. Overall good condition.

Pamphlet. Zustand: Good+. 17pp A rare local New Left publication. Author became General Secretary of the Labour Party.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 454 pages of Arabic text, a few pages of documents in English, b/w photographs, title in Arabic and English : 24 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Goo to very good condition. First edition. Folio. vii, 164 (1)pp. 92 plates, printed tissue guards. Bound in modern three-quarter black leather over green boards with original illustrated cover wrapper and spine bound in. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece photogravure of Renoir by Steichen, with tissue guard. Title page printed in orange and black. Printed to Arches paper. Beautifully illustrated catalog of major works by Rodin presented in photograpvure, collotype and and eicht color lithographs. Few in-text drawings. First of two biographies on Rodin by Judith Claudel, daughter of the novelist Leon Claudel. Laid in two Christmas cards (two-fold) rendered lithographically and in letterpress, and two covers of the magazine "The Evangelist," Winter issue 1950. Text in French. Binding with some wear, chipping along edges and rubbed. Book saturated with dry leaves, in three cases placed between tissue guard and image leaving traces on the image. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition.

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. softcover, near fine South Africa, the power house of the African continent, as well as Germany, Europes largest economic power, are faced with an intricate maze of international obligations, whether related to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the African Union or the European Union (EU), international human rights law, international humanitarian law, or any other sub-regime of international law. The two countries are in a different position when facing the implementation of this maze of obligations. South Africa is a developing economy that faces various capacity challenges which, at times, also impact the manner and extent to which it implements its international treaty obligations. Germany, ont the other hand, benefits from comparatively well-funded institutes of international law and a well-trained academic community, which have contributed to the successful implementation of much of international law. But as the relevant chapters in this volume show, the German case is not without its own complexities. lager a-943 Language: DEU.