Author: Captain Joshua Slocum
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: world, sailing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1434488241
ISBN-13: 9781434488244

Challenged by an expert who said it couldn’t be done, Josua Slocum, an indomitable New England sea captain, set out in 1895 to prove that a main could sail alone around the world: 46,000 miles in a little over 3 years.

Author: Joshua Slocum
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: world, sailing
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1999-01-25
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0911378200
ISBN-13: 9780911378207

Captain Joshua Slocum’s solo voyage around the world in the 37-foot sloop the Spray in 1895 undoubtedly stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. His classic narrative of this 46,000 mile circumnavigation of the globe continues to enjoy immense popularity throughout the world.

Authors:Joshua Slocum, Annotated by Rod Scher, Rod Scher,
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: world, sailing, annotated
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1574092758
ISBN-13: 9781574092752

Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World is a classic, beloved by sailors the world over who have enjoyed this engrossing tale of a man who sails around the world alone in a small wooden sailboat built with his own hands. This edition is thoroughly annotated by teacher/journalist Rod Scher, who provides explanation, commentary, clarification, and In the News sidebars for historical context that will make Slocum’s masterpiece more accessible to today’s readers, sailors and landlubbers alike.

Authors:Joshua Rosenbaum, Joshua Pearl,  Joseph R. Perella,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: acquisitions, wiley, finance, mergers, buyouts, banking, valuation, leveraged, investment
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-05-04
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0470442204
ISBN-13: 9780470442203

In the constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Due to the fast-paced nature of this world, however, no one has been able to take the time to properly codify the lifeblood of the corporate financier’s work—namely, valuation. Rosenbaum and Pearl have responded to this need by writing the book that they wish had existed when they were trying to break into Wall Street. Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions is a highly accessible and authoritative book that focuses on the primary val

Authors:Alexander, H. Slocum,
Publisher: Society of Manufacturing Engineer
Keywords: design, machine, precision
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0872634922
ISBN-13: 9780872634923

This book is a comprehensive engineering exploration of all the aspects of precision machine design - both component and system design considerations for precision machines. It addresses both theoretical analysis and practical implementation providing many real-world design case studies as well as numerous examples of existing components and their characteristics. Fast becoming a classic, this book includes examples of analysis techniques, along with the philosophy of the solution method. It explores the physics of errors in machines and how such knowledge can be used to build an error budget

Author: Sally K. Slocum
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: traditions, arthurian, popular
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0879725621
ISBN-13: 9780879725624

From medieval history and romance through various twentieth-century renderings, this collection of essays considers themes, characters, and events of the legend and the meanings they impart. Sir Thomas Malory, Chrétien de Troyes, Mark Twain, Thomas Berger, Marion Zimmer Bradley, C. J. Cherryh, and other prose writers are discussed as are comic books and other genres. Film interpretations, photographic illustrations, and musical expressions receive analytical attention, as do poetic, religious, and mythic uses of the Arthurian world.

Author: Perry D. Slocum
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: new, hybrids, cultivars, species, lotuses, waterlilies
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0881926841
ISBN-13: 9780881926842

In this fully updated work, Perry Slocum describes nearly 500 species and cultivars of the crowning jewels of water gardens, the waterlilies and lotuses. Among them are more than 130 of the best new hybrids introduced since publication of the landmark Water Gardening, Water Lilies and Lotuses by Perry Slocum and Peter Robinson. All species and the major cultivars, including day- and night-blooming tropical and hardy waterlilies and lotuses, are described, with the author’s and hybridizers’ comments on the best landscape uses for each plant. Although Nymphaea and Nelumbo receive special emp