Author: Robert D. Hayton
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
National Interests in Antarctica
Author: Robert D. Hayton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368040200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368040200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
National Interests in Antarctica, an Annotated Bibliography, 1959
Author: United States. Navy Department. Naval Operations Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
All categories of published literature affecting national claims.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
All categories of published literature affecting national claims.
Antología de Poetas Hispano-americanos Publicada Por la Real Academia Española: Colombia. Ecuador. Peru. Bolivia
Author: Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
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Category : Latin American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
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Category : Latin American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
History of the Philippine Islands; From their discovery by Magellan in 1521 to the beginning of the XVII Century, with descriptions of Japan, China and adjacent countries
Author: Antonio De Morga
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336836099X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336836099X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk
Author: Gaspar Mairal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000043711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of "managing the future" by tracing the conceptual development of risk from its origin in Islamic Koranic theology. It follows its long voyage from mercantile law and navigation in Medieval Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, to Columbus' arrival to the Indies and the Spanish exploration and colonization in the Americas. It considers the mathematical invention of probability in games of chance, the birth of journalism in Britain with Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755 and the subsequent controversy between apocalyptic believers and enlightened philosophers. Tracking the growth and evolution of risk as a concept across various historical periods and events, Mairal highlights four key features of risk - time, knowledge, relationship and probability - and argues that risk is not based on perception as it is generally presented, but rather on knowledge accrued and developed over a vast historical time frame. A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000043711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of "managing the future" by tracing the conceptual development of risk from its origin in Islamic Koranic theology. It follows its long voyage from mercantile law and navigation in Medieval Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, to Columbus' arrival to the Indies and the Spanish exploration and colonization in the Americas. It considers the mathematical invention of probability in games of chance, the birth of journalism in Britain with Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755 and the subsequent controversy between apocalyptic believers and enlightened philosophers. Tracking the growth and evolution of risk as a concept across various historical periods and events, Mairal highlights four key features of risk - time, knowledge, relationship and probability - and argues that risk is not based on perception as it is generally presented, but rather on knowledge accrued and developed over a vast historical time frame. A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management.
History of the Philippine Islands
Author: Antonio de Morga
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (English: Events in the Philippine Islands) is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronimo Balli, in Mexico City.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (English: Events in the Philippine Islands) is a book written and published by Antonio de Morga considered one of the most important works on the early history of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. It was published in 1609 after he was reassigned to Mexico in two volumes by Casa de Geronimo Balli, in Mexico City.
Vuelta
Author: Andrés Reséndez
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328515974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery--and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal's monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific--and then, critically, to attempt the never-before-accomplished return, the vuelta. Four ships set out from Navidad, each one carrying a dream team of navigators. The smallest ship, guided by seaman Lope Martín, a mulatto who had risen through the ranks to become one of the most qualified pilots of the era, soon pulled far ahead and became mysteriously lost from the fleet. It was the beginning of a voyage of epic scope, featuring mutiny, murderous encounters with Pacific islanders, astonishing physical hardships--and at last a triumphant return to the New World. But the pilot of the fleet's flagship, the Augustine friar mariner Andrés de Urdaneta, later caught up with Martín to achieve the vuelta as well. It was he who now basked in glory, while Lope Martín was secretly sentenced to be hanged by the Spanish crown as repayment for his services. Acclaimed historian Andrés Reséndez, through brilliant scholarship and riveting storytelling--including an astonishing outcome for the resilient Lope Martín--sets the record straight.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328515974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery--and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal's monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific--and then, critically, to attempt the never-before-accomplished return, the vuelta. Four ships set out from Navidad, each one carrying a dream team of navigators. The smallest ship, guided by seaman Lope Martín, a mulatto who had risen through the ranks to become one of the most qualified pilots of the era, soon pulled far ahead and became mysteriously lost from the fleet. It was the beginning of a voyage of epic scope, featuring mutiny, murderous encounters with Pacific islanders, astonishing physical hardships--and at last a triumphant return to the New World. But the pilot of the fleet's flagship, the Augustine friar mariner Andrés de Urdaneta, later caught up with Martín to achieve the vuelta as well. It was he who now basked in glory, while Lope Martín was secretly sentenced to be hanged by the Spanish crown as repayment for his services. Acclaimed historian Andrés Reséndez, through brilliant scholarship and riveting storytelling--including an astonishing outcome for the resilient Lope Martín--sets the record straight.
Second Supplement to the Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
New Light on the Discovery of Australia, as Revealed by the Journal of Captain Don Diego de Prado y Tovar
Author: George F. Barwick
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317088352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Spanish text, with English translation, of Prado's Relación of the voyage begun in company with Quirós and Torres in 1607, together with a report of the Spanish Council of State concerning Quirós, 1618, and letters of Torres and Prado, 1607-13. Contents: New light on the discovery of Australia.-Note on Prado's Relación.-Relación de don Diego de Prado (Spanish and English)-Appendices: I. Report of Council of State with letter of Luis Vaez de Torres (Spanish and English) II. Mr. Barwick's translations of Prado's two letters sent from Goa in 1613. III. Mr. Barwick's translations of the legends on the four Prado maps. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1930. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the "Facsimiles of the Four Prado Maps" which appeared in the first edition of the work.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317088352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Spanish text, with English translation, of Prado's Relación of the voyage begun in company with Quirós and Torres in 1607, together with a report of the Spanish Council of State concerning Quirós, 1618, and letters of Torres and Prado, 1607-13. Contents: New light on the discovery of Australia.-Note on Prado's Relación.-Relación de don Diego de Prado (Spanish and English)-Appendices: I. Report of Council of State with letter of Luis Vaez de Torres (Spanish and English) II. Mr. Barwick's translations of Prado's two letters sent from Goa in 1613. III. Mr. Barwick's translations of the legends on the four Prado maps. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1930. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the "Facsimiles of the Four Prado Maps" which appeared in the first edition of the work.