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  • The Sea and Civilization

    A Maritime History of the World

    by Lincoln Paine

    A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.Lincoln Paine takes us ... Read more

    € 11,54

  • The Sea and Civilization

    A Maritime History of the World

    by Lincoln Paine

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS 2014A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea.An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and ... Read more

    € 12,09

  • The Sea and the Sacred in Japan

    Aspects of Maritime Religion

    by Professor Fabio Rambelli

    series Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
    The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and mountains are considered the privileged sites of sacredness, this book provides new ways to understand Japanese religious culture and history.Scholars from North America, Japan and Europe explore the sea ... Read more

    € 30,07

  • The Sea & Us

    by Catherine de Saint Phalle

    From the Stella shortlisted author of Poum and Alexandre, this is a heartwarming novel about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly come to love.After many years spent living in Seoul, a young man called Harold drifts back to Australia and rents a room above a fish and chip shop called The Sea & Us. Who he meets and what he experiences there propels him to question his own yearnings and ... Read more

    € 8,82

  • The Old Man and the Sea

    "I was born with the sea, the smell of the sea (and salt) flowing through my veins"

    by craig lock

    series Live is God's novel, so let Ultimate Source write it, as it unfolds. #2
    A story by craig lockA New Book (still to be written): Perhaps the story itself is (telling) the story!“Life is God’s novel; so let Ultimate Source write it, as it unfolds…”- me (as inspired by the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer)"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ”“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”- "the master writer", Ernest HemingwayDEDICATIONFor mom ... Read more

    € 1,68 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sea and the Second World War

    Maritime Aspects of a Global Conflict

    by Marcus Faulkner and 1 more

    series New Perspectives on the Second World War
    An in-depth study of World War II’s naval operations. “Rarely does a collection of essays offer so many new and persuasive assessments. Well done!”—Professor David Snead, Liberty UniversityThe sea shaped the course and conduct of World War II, from the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. The impact could be felt far ... Read more

    € 13,40 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Novels of North America's Forgotten Past

    People of the Wolf, People of the Fire, People of the Earth, People of the River, People of the Sea, and People of the Lakes

    by W. Michael Gear and 1 more

    series North America's Forgotten Past
    Six enthralling novels of North America's Forgotten Past by USA Today and New York Times bestselling novelists.W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear are award-winning archaeologists who transform scientific research into powerful fiction that tells the compelling stories of the long-vanished cultures that once called the North American continent home.Included in this bundle are People of the ... Read more

    € 10,02

  • Other Minds

    The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith

    Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off ... Read more

    € 8,60