Nigel Calder Knihy

Covering a wide range of topics, this manual serves as a comprehensive guide for boatowners, addressing both minor and major repairs. It includes detailed instructions for electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering systems, generators, pumps, cookers, spars, and rigging. Suitable for novices and experienced individuals alike, it provides valuable insights and practical solutions to ensure the maintenance and functionality of various boat components.

Suitable for do-it-yourself boatowners, this book is updated with information on fuel injection systems, electronic engine controls, and other new diesel technologies. It explains how to: diagnose and repair engine problems, perform routine and annual maintenance, and, extend the life and improve the efficiency of your engine.

Provides information on reading and relying on electronic and paper nautical charts. This title explains various aspects of electronic and paper nautical charts: how a chart is assembled, how to gauge the accuracy of chart data, how to read charts created by other governments, how to use information such as scale, and more.

The definitive guide based on the author's surveys and Cuban Hydrographic office data. The information in this pilot has been assembled by Nigel Calder during several visits and extended cruises in Cuba. Nigel Calder is well known as the expert on Cuba, author of various text books on boat maintenance and contributes frequently to yachting press.

Calder is among the most effective science popularizers. His authorship is well matched with this publisher. Exquisite color photos consume more space than the text. An inviting book, friendly to the lay reader. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Drawing on interviews with more than two hundred researchers, a lively examination of modern science offers accessible coverage of such fields as physics, biology, and medicine, addressing a wide range of topics while explaining the relationships between disparate fields of study. (Science & Mathematics)

"Based on Henrik Svensmark's research at the Danish National Space Center, this book outlines a new theory on global warming: that an interplay of the Sun and cosmic rays - sub-atomic particles from exploded stars - seem to have more effect on the climate than man-made carbon dioxide."--BOOK JACKET.

A guide to the symbology and shorthand notations used on nautical charts. It helps readers make sense of the complex system of signs, symbols, and graphic elements.