This practical book presents fundamental principles and identifies the separate systems (fuel, cooling, etc.). In this revision, current informatio...

Poet and former teacher Adele Holden, born shortly after the end of World War I, grew up in the segregated world of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Set d...

This is unquestionably the greatest book on knots and rope work ever published, yet it is a valuable reference for anyone from eight to eighty. Fir...

The Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding is the definitive work on the subject and results from the late Bruce Grant’s many years of intere...

His dream was to play professional baseball. Instead, Sam Lacy became an outspoken advocate for equal opportunity, using words to pry open doors so...

Step into the locker rooms, the playing fields, and the owners’ offices with sportswriter John F. Steadman as he relates the fascinating tale of fo...

Few people know that seven native-born Marylanders have earned a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. This collective biography chronicles ...

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson issued a national call to arms against Imperial Germany. What followed in the United States was a frenzi...

Gunning for Sea Ducks introduces you to a practically untouched arena of waterfowling-birds that provide fast, challenging shooting, and, after it'...

Conditions aboard ship can be brutal for some mariners, especially those from Third World countries working on substandard ships. Roberto Tiangco d...

Ron Edwards was born in Australia in 1930 and brought up in the country where small farmers still plowed with horses and harvested their half acres...

From the time of Elizabeth I in the second half of the sixteenth century, London has dominated the marine insurance markets. This led the English t...

This is the only truly comprehensive work on marine insurance in the United States published since the last edition of Phillips on Insurance in 186...

In its first two editions by the late Alex L. Parks, this work achieved a worldwide reputation as the authority on the maritime laws that relate to...

This book is written for the mariner who wants to learn the concepts of piloting and navigation, and do more than merely follow a closely prescribe...