Authors:Geoff Pike, Phyllis Pike,
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Keywords: power
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1996-10-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0804830991
ISBN-13: 9780804830997

Author: Dag Pike
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Keywords: handling, navigation, safety, boat, guide, powerboat, seamanship, complete, fast
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-04-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0071422099
ISBN-13: 9780071422093

The definitive guide to operating 30- to 100-foot boats at speeds of 25 to more than 100 knots Fast powerboats outsell sailboats 10 to 1, yet there has been no comprehensive guide available for operating them. Now, from one of the world’s leading authorities on fast powerboats, comes the book that answers that need. Author Dag Pike provides plenty of tips, anecdotes, and instructive illustrations as he covers crucial topics such as hull design and construction, engines and propulsion systems, coping with extreme conditions, tides and currents, collision avoidance, communications, and mu

Author: Dag Pike
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: simplified, sextant, reed
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1574091689
ISBN-13: 9781574091687

Generations of seamen and airmen have treasured and relied upon the sextant. The purest of all nautical instruments, it enables seafarers to accurately determine their global position alone and without the aid of modern technology. Though contemporary sailors generally use electronic systems to orient themselves, the sextant is far from redundant: all commercial trading vessels are still required to keep one aboard. Should electronic systems fail, a sextant can make the difference between disaster and survival. In this invaluable tutorial for beginning navigators, Dag Pike clearly and efficien

Author: Steven Pike
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: marketing, approach, communication, integrated, destination
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0750686499
ISBN-13: 9780750686495

The tourism market is fiercely competitive. No other market place has as many brands competing for attention, and yet only a handful of countries account for 75% of the world’s visitor arrivals. The other 200 or so are left to fight for a share of the remaining 25%. Therefore, destination marketers at city, state and national levels have arguably, a far more challenging role than other services or consumer goods marketers. Destination Marketing: an integrated marketing communication approach focuses on the five core tenets of integrated marketing communications. These embody both the

Author: William H. Pike
Publisher: Bill Pike Book
Keywords: stocks
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1999-01-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0966677501
ISBN-13: 9780966677508

An in-depth introduction to stock and bond investments. Assumes the reader has no prior background. Covers in narrative form with examples: fundamentals of financial statements, financial ratios, primary and secondary offerings, price/earnings ratios, commonly misunderstood terms such as "capitalize", "equity", "cash flow", "diluted earnings" and more. Book is not just a glossary, but explains things in depth

Author: Aprilynne Pike
Publisher: HarperTee
Keywords: wings
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0061668052
ISBN-13: 9780061668050

Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings. Laurel’s life is the very definition of normal . . . until the morning when she wakes up to discover a flower blooming from her back. As it turns out, nothing in Laurel’s life is what it seems. Now, with the help of an alluring faerie sentry who holds the key to her true past, Laurel must race to save her human family from the centuries-old f

Author: M. Jean Pike
Publisher: Black Lyon Publishing
Keywords: heatherfield
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0979325285
ISBN-13: 9780979325281

Where her heart is, there will she be also ... Deep in a box of used books, counselor Tory Sasser comes across a novel without an ending: Heatherfield. As she reads the story of scarred war veteran, Jake Benjamin, her tears fall on the pages-and she could swear new words appear where once there was nothing. But the fictional town of Heatherfield isn’t all it seems, nor is its creator, Destiny Paige. When Tory’s car runs off the road into the mist, she’s transported back to the 1940s-into the novel, trapped by the spirits that govern the place through Destiny. Even more, Tory