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• Estrecho de Magallanes, Faro Bahía Félix / Los silenciados crímenes entre kawésqar y fareros / El sobreviviente que enloquece / Noches largas y tenebrosas
• El sonido del toro / La atracción de la luz / Enderezando clavos / Un grumete para batallas de paz
• Faro Dungeness, 1960 / Una luz a cuerda / La biblioteca de los fareros / "Mortero" Sgombich, el boxeador tragado por el mar / El señor guardahilos / Argentinos con sangre chilena / "Lanzallamas", solitario pescador y personaje
• Faro Punta Delgada, 1962-1963 / Una experiencia maravillosa / Los viejos pascueros de Enap / Pulpos en las rocas y teatro en el campamento / El castigo : "Aquí no se mueve una hoja"
• Las huellas del terremoto en Corral / Hualpén y las viejas bocinas de niebla / Don Ruiz pata de palo / Mineros lisiados en Puchoco / "Pistoleando" en el lago General Carrera
• Faro Cabo Raper, 1968 / La muerte del archiduque / Del tren de Slight a la carreta de bueyes / Güiñas, pudúes y nutrias / Los paraguas de hojas de nalca / El misterio de los 14 esqueletos en una caverna / Los canoeros chilotes
• Punta Ángeles, 1970-1973 / El retorno a Valparaíso / Un vertedero junto al faro / El "biocot" al gobierno de la Unidad Popular / Medalla Al Valor por un rescate en el mar
• Faro Vahía Félex / Un joven farero envejece / La sorpresa del golpe de Estado de 1973 / Socialistas y comunistas en la Armada / Tiempo de soplones / Los testigos de Jehová en desgracia / La casa de "potos colorados"
• Estafas y "carroña" interna / La cooperativa de viviendas es una caja de Pandora / Huye un teniente / El asesinato de Jaimes Aldoney / "En contra de la dictadura"
• Faro Fairway / Memorias del naufragio del Moraleda y sus 80 víctimas / Un disparo en la noche. El jefe se suicida / Las novelitas de cowboy
• El legendario y pionero Faro Evangelistas / George Slight, un ingeniero escocés genial / Croatas y chilotes en la hazaña de su construcción / El nombre de mi padre / Los cuatro trasbordos de José: 1977 a 1983 / Un guardafaros preservado en alquitrán / Marinos voladores / Naves en peligro
• En los canales, cambiando luces y balizas / La pericia de dos navegantes kawésqar / Las "picadas" de los canoeros / Un paraíso natural
• 1978 Chile y Argentina en la boca de una guerra / Periodistas en el Beagle / Hombres de paz, pero en guardia / Los sobres cerrados de las crisis / La cena de Navidad / Para el ocio, lectura y música: violinistas, pianistas y cantantes
• La Armada por dentro. El sesgo clasista / Prohibido mirar a los ojos al oficial / Gente de Mar, sin derecho a voto / La homosexualidad "que siempre existió en la Marina"
• Faros limítrofes / La Guerra de las Malvinas / Una visita del Ejército chileno, sin armas / De fiesta con "el enemigo" / Navidad de cuecas y zambas / El discurso fraternal / Ingleses y espionaje
• ¿Fareros en la Armada? / Un patrimonio perdido o mal conservado / Joyas de la historia marítima
• El último retorno.

"¿Cómo se vive un golpe de Estado, una guerra, una amenaza de invasión o la muerte de un ser amado en el aislamiento de un faro en el fin del mundo? ¿Qué mueve un ser humano a querer vivir en peñones yermos, rasguñados por el paso de lentos glaciares, azotados por los temporales, temiendo el paso de los antiguos espíritus sufrientes? El Estrecho de Magallanes es en estos relatos el lejano sur donde los fareros convivín con avezados cazadores de pieles kawésqar y chilotes, con personajes solitarios o con sus colegas, los torreros argentinos, haciendo invisibles las alambradas. José Rodríguez, farero de oficio y alma, ha dibujado con talento cada fanal del territorio donde algún día dio luz a navegantes felices o desesperados. Es su revelador testimonio el que permite recrear y dimensionar la dura vida de los fareros durante el siglo XX en aquellas soledades elegidas y al mismo tiempo traslucir el devenir político de nuestro país."--Page 4 of cover

• Ploughshares into Swords: The Royal Navy and Merchant Marine Auxiliaries in the Late Nineteenth Century / John Beeler
• Reinforcements and Supplies from Overseas: British Strategic Sealift in the First World War / Keith Neilson
• Opportunity vs Control: The Diplomacy of Japanese Shipping in the First World War / William Wray
• The Royal Navy and Inter-war Plans for War against Japan: The Problem of Oil Supply / Orest Babij
• American and British Merchant Shipping: Competition and Preparation, 1933-39 / Greg Kennedy
• Maritime Powers in Transition: Britain's Shipping Capacity Crisis and the Mobilization of Neutral American Power, 1940-41 / Kevin Smith
• To Market or to War? NATO Shipping Pools and the Demise of the Canadian Merchant Marine / Michael A. Hennessy.

"Edición crítica y estudio introductorio sobre un manuscrito del año 1746 en el cual se consignan las acciones tomadas por las autoridades provinciales para poner a salvo una considerable cantidad de armamento que se pudo rescatar de un naufragio."--Publisher

When GPS (global positioning system) was made commercially available in the year 2000, it launched a new era of satellite navigation services and technologies as dramatic as a spacecraft launch itself. This authoritative work gives engineers a timely, unified analysis of the various satellite navigation technologies, applications, and services now in operation or development. It describes the entire GPS system in detail, including features of the next-generation GPS-III, and brings readers up to speed on the developing European GALILEO system and its innovative characteristics. The book examines the architectures paving the way for the future integration of satellite navigation systems with wireless communications systems, and for interoperability among different satellite navigation systems themselves

• Introduction: Approaches to the Later Imperial Mediterranean as an Environment
• Part 1. Imagination and Domination: Mediterranean as a Conceptual Environment
• Part 2. A Networked Environment
• Part 3. Braving the Sea in the Later Empire

• Energy requirements in health / J.V.G.A. Durnin
• Victualling of the fleet in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / C.C. Lloyd
• Vitamin requirements of the human body / I.M. Sharman
• Two hundred years of the sailor's diet / G.J. Milton-Thompson
• Clinical manifestations of vitamin deficiencies / G. Taylor
• Some consequences of nutritional disorders in eighteenth-century British circumnavigation / J. Watt
• Eighteenth-century French voyages of exploration: general problems of nutrition with special reference to the voyages of Bougainville and d'Entrecasteaux / A. Carré
• Health and navigation in the South Seas: the Spanish experience / J. de Zulueta and L. Higueras
• Doctors abroad. Medicine and nineteenth-century Arctic exploration / R.E. Johnson
• By want beleaguered. Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in the Canadian Arctic / R.E. Johnson
• The history and implications of processed food / A.E. Bender
• Hypothermia / W.R. Keatinge
• Nutritional aspects of the British Arctic (Nares) expedition of 1875-76 and its predecessors / A. Savours and M. Deacon
• The influence of diet in Scott's last expedition / A.F. Rogers
• Nutritional deficiencies in the crews of German raiders in two world wars / H. Schadewaldt
• Neurological factors in decision-making / W. Gooddy

Sixteen papers, including some on polar aspects

• Gold wire manufacture
• Manufacture of badges and lace
• Examples of company cap badges
• Medals, decorations and awards
• Distinction lace and the foundations of uniform
• Suppliers of complete garments
• Tropical uniform
• Standard uniform for the Mercantile Marine
• Additional hems of dress
• Museums, galleries and preserved material
• Impact of war on dress
• Female crew
• Non-European crews on British ships
• Cadets and apprentices
• Shipping companies and badges: an assessment
• Epilogue

"Britain traded with many nations throughout history, and the bulk of that trade was by sea. Their merchant seafarers formed a mighty force which was large throughout the 19th century and reached its peak in the 1960s. Though seemingly one body, it comprised many individual companies, each with its own traditions and identity. This book is a celebration of this and an attempt at chronicling these characteristics that give the industry both corporate identity and an element of individuality. The rapid diminution of the British-flagged fleet in recent years has all but extinguished this structure, and those who had intimate experience of it are now aging and their memories fading. It is disappointing that so little of this story has been recorded and this book will, at least in part, make up for this omission."--Publisher description

"For more than two centuries, lighthouses have helped sailors find their way through treacherous waters, guiding them home or taking them safely through passages on their way to adventure. These historic towers and houses form a sparkling chain of lights along our coasts, a reminder of the past echoing with adventure and mystery, a lure for travelers looking for a glimpse into a romantic past." -- Description provided by publisher

• List of Figures
• Introduction - What was the problem with longitude?
• Part I - The Visual Problem
• Chapter 1 - Naming and Mapping
• Chapter 2 - Paper Instruments
• Conclusion
• Part II - The Mental Problem
• Chapter 3 - Proposing or Projecting?
• Chapter 4 - Madness or Genius?
• Conclusion
• Part III - The Social Problem
• Chapter 5 - Polite or impolite science?
• Chapter 6 - A cultural instrument
• Conclusion Conclusion - The longitude of London
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth's London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth's prints - a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake's Progress in 1735 - to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body - the Board of Longitude - established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude's most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• chapter 1. Safety of navigation
• chapter 2. Navigational bridge equipment
• chapter 3. Automatic identification system (AIS)
• chapter 4. Route planning
• chapter 5. Anti-collision and collision avoidance
• chapter 6. Global navigation satellite system (GNSS)
• chapter 7. Aviation

• 1. Cognition for the navigation of complex indoor environments / Stephen C. Hirtle and Cristina Robles Bahm
• 2. The role of affect on expanding indoor spatial knowledge / Samvith Srinivas and Stephen C. Hirtle
• 3. Technologies for positioning in indoor areas / Prashant Krishnamurthy
• 4. Magnetic indoor local positioning system / Jorg Blankenbach and Abdelmoumen Norrdine
• 5. Localization in underground tunnels / Fernando Pereira, Andriano Moreira, Christian Theis, and Manuel Ricardo
• 6. Map-aided indoor navigation / Susanna Kaiser, Mohammed Khider, Maria Garcia Puyol, Luigi Bruno, and Patrick Robertson
• 7. Indoor navigation challenges for visually impaired people / M. Beatrice Dias, Ermine A. Teves, George J. Zimmerman, Hend K. Gedawy, Sarah M. Belousov, and M. Bernardine Dias
• 8. Indoor navigation aids for blind and visually impaired people / M. Bernardine Dias and Satish Ravishankar
• 9. The NavPal suite of tools for enhancing indoor navigation for blind travelers
• 10. Future directions in indoor navigation technology for blind travelers / M. Bernardine Dias, Aaron Steinfeld, and M. Beatrice Dias
• 11. Protecting privacy in indoor positioning systems / Balaji Palanisamy and James Joshi

• chapter 1. Maritime communications
• chapter 2. Decision support system
• chapter 3. Deoinformation systems and maritime spatian planning
• chapter 4. Hydrometeorological aspects
• chapter 5. Inland shipping
• chapter 6. Maritime pollution and environment protection
• chapter 7. Vessel traffic service (VTS)

• chapter Half Title
• chapter Title Page
• chapter Copyright Page
• chapter Table of Contents
• chapter Program Committee Members
• chapter List of Reviewers
• chapter Marine Navigation. Introduction
• chapter Electronic Navigation
• chapter Route Planning
• chapter Mathematical Models, Methods and Algorithms
• chapter Ships Manoeuvring - Practical Aspects
• chapter Navigational Risk
• chapter Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
• chapter Automatic Identification System (AIS)
• chapter Marine Radar
• chapter Anti-Collision
• chapter Dynamic Positioning
• chapter Visualization of Data
• chapter Hydrometeorological Aspects and Weather Routing
• chapter Safety at Sea
• chapter Inland Navigation
• chapter Autonomous Water Transport
• chapter Communications and Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
• chapter Ships Manoeuvring - Theoretical Studies
• chapter Port and Routes Optimum Location
• chapter Magnetic Compasses

"The 12th International Conference on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation (TransNav 2017) will take place on June 21-23 in Gdynia, Poland. Main themes of this conference include: electronic navigation, route planning, mathematical models, methods and algorithms, ships manoeuvring, navigational risks, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Automatic Identification System (AIS), marine radar, anti-collision, dynamic positioning, visualization of data, hydrometereological aspects and weather routing, safety at sea, inland navigation, autonomous water transport, communications and global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS), port ant routes optimum location and magnetic compasses."--Provided by publisher

• chapter 1. Human resource management and maritime crew manning
• chapter 2. Maritime education and training (MET)
• chapter 3. Sea ports and harbours
• chapter 4. Port facilities
• chapter 5. Ship's propulsion, main engine and power supply
• chapter 6. Maritime law and policy
• chapter 7. Piracy
• chapter 8. Ship's operations
• chapter 9. Safety of transport