China’s Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China’s maritime disputes. It provides a rigorous empirical account of whether and how China is changing “the rules” of international order—specifically, the international law of the sea. Conflicts over specific rules lie at the heart of the disputes, which are about much more than sovereignty ove…
Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts …
Proper stowage an d securing of items of cargo is the utmost importance for the safety of the crew, the crayying vessel, and the items of the cargo themselves.
This book is an attempt firstly, to define the functions of a port and secondly, to explain how these have been affected by the silent revolution that, since 1945, has taken place in all the major ports of the world.
This is a book about capture at sea, about how small boats hijack big ships .Abdul’s astonishment over the hijacking of his cargo ship by fishing skiffs immediately struck me, and gave shape to the research and writing that fol-lowed ever since that evening in Lamu.
This book describes and illustrates an important part of Mystic Seaport's collection. It was to be the first of several whose goal was to bring attention to a premier collection of Mystic Seaport, one originally known simply as Ships Plans and more recently as the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library. The information contained in those carefully depicted drawings-only a fraction of which are s…