7th Sea Books

This book that I purchased was very much like a brand new book!!! Thank you so much for making this available. It saved me about $60!

Whether you are a serious student of oceanography or, like me, a curious inquirer, you are going to love this book. In fact, once I began reading, it was difficult to close the cover! This book could easily be subtitled "Adventure in the High Seas." Rarely have I read a textbook that combines an engaging style with a scholarly approach that leaves me feeling both truly informed and amazed. I discovered all kinds of interesting facts and theories (deepest part of the world's oceans - the Challenger Deep, part of the Mariana Trench, at 36,163 feet), geological history (the ocean is 4 billion years old yet the oldest ocean floor is only 180 million years old), and astronomical physics (the moon has over two times the tide-generating effect as the sun though it is much smaller).

From helpful hints on serious subjects such as how to escape rip currents to funny stories about plastic bathtub toys (ducks, turtles and frogs) that were lost overboard from a container ship and provided valuable scientific data on ocean currents, I found it all fascinating. The book includes generous amounts of color graphics showing beautiful underwater scenery and marine life as well as colorful maps and aerial photos (for instance, the image depicting wave effects on the shoreline). Each chapter ends with exercises, extensive references, suggested additional reading and recommended web sites to visit. Though the glossary is extensive, I particularly liked the use of the short word derivations that appear frequently throughout the text such as Bathyscaphe (bathos=depth, scaphe=a small ship), thus saving numerous trips to the dictionary.

The book is written as a college-level text for first year oceanography students. Instructors will find an impressive instructional package available from the publisher that includes such things as slides, transparencies, a companion web site reference and an instructor's manual. Read this book and you will agree that it is clearly a five star work.

The book was in better condition than i expected in fact i wouldn't guess it was used until i actually looked FOR the signs of usage
great seller
Highly Recommended
A++++

I had to do some research for college and found this book had all the details. Includes in-depth research articles on each country, and has contact information for government officials and major organizations.

Suffice it to say, this is a very bad book.
It's poorly written. Attempts at humor are painful. It's pretentious. It's beneath anyone hired to teach English. Shame.

I found The Ascension, by Michael G. Cornelius something new for me. I do not usually read horror books,because they scare me , and this book did that. Once I started reading, all the images of the story came to life. At night some of the pages in the book were right with me. The story was fast moving, scary, funny, entrusting, and blood chilling. A great Novel to read again.

"The Ascension" by Michael G. Cornelius is truly a book that screams to be read. Following in the traditions of horror, suspense, and intrigue of such great authors as Dan Brown and Michael Crichton, "The Asension" takes readers on an extraordinary journey through fear and faith, leaving readers with a chill up their spines and a thirst for more.
His characters are well thought out and portrayed, each with distinct personalities and accompanying tribulations that reel you in right from the beginning. Det. Cal Evans and Agent Velvet Rabinowitz have fantastic chemistry for the perfect sleuth team, with just the right amount of sexual tension. The secondary characters, while doing a great job of supporting the story, are just as fascinating as their main counterparts leaving you to care about them just as much as Cal and Velvet.
The action and suspense most definitely keep readers on the edge of their Lazyboys, leaving them to stir at the slightest tap at the window and waking up the sleepy, dark hollows of their own fear. Cornelius does a great job in holding the suspense right to the end and leaves the reader with just one lingering question: "Has this evil truly ended, or is this just the beginning of something even more menacing?" And he definitely leaves room for an equally terrifying sequel...
Michael G. Cornelius is undeniably a writer to keep your eye on.

The premise for this book is extremely well conceived and based on historical events. More importantly, the story pulls you through the pages while scaring the pants off of you. Keeps you guessing until the end.

This book was FANTASTIC. It keeps you guessing the whole way through and the plot is wonderful. So scary it makes me nervous to go to the Giant grocery store during the day. This book will make you stay awake many a night. I highly recommend everyone read it.

This was an airport pick-up. I like the series. Again another exciting story with so many twists you all most get lost. It keeps you guessing to the very end. You want to read it without putting it down.

Difficult to catch some shuteye with one eye open trying to finish the book.

James Patterson is unique author and keeps these lightweight easy read action thrillers coming.

Another in Patterson's prodigious output, this novel is part of the Women's Murder Club series. Part of its interest lies in the issues it raises of friends who have professional responsibilities that at times require secrecy from one another. This newest of the series includes all the elements we've grown to expect: murder of the most bizarre and horrific type, scientific explanations and research to aid in finding solutions, romance challengd by job responsibilities, courtroom drama, and the occasional madman. Each of the women characters remains true to form, and that is part of the series' charm; its predictability takes the edge off the horrors the characters face. Perfectly satisfactory light reading.

The Women's Murder Club series just keeps getting better. I really enjoyed this one and am looking forward to no. 8.

I've been a Women's Murder Club fan for a while now, and have loved every other book in the series; however, this one left me feeling a bit disappointed. I'm not sure what it was exactly but I felt it didn't live up to the previous 6 books in the series.

I was disappointed with this entry in the WMC series. There simply wasn't any thing compelling, nothing that really drew me in. But I had to finish because I've read them all. I didn't particularly care about the two plots because sometimes it led to confusion.

That being said, I'm sure I'll be reading the next installment, in the hopes that this series captures my full attention like it use to.

Between these colourful covers you will find a complete set of rules and a campaign for a Live Action game, four adventures, over 100 plot hooks, and a time-line that brings us up another five years! And I must point out it is all duel stats {both R&K, and d20}! As I have said before, I played in this LARP at the 2003 SoCal GenCon. It was awesome. The point system they use to control the "action" in the game is simple and effective. It uses a combination of stats and "hero points" {a rough equivalent of Drama Dice} you can raise your abilities with the hero points and you can earn more for daring deeds {a side note for those who play in Skudley's Saturday game; at GenCon they used the same tokens for their Hero Points as I do in my game. Hmmm, great minds...}. The adventure, "Giovanni Villanova's Grand Ball", is not a simple affair. The players are "guests" or "gate crashers" at the birthday celebration for Giovanni Villanova. Of course where the Villanovas are, intrigue, fowl play, dirty politics and dastardly deeds follow. This adventure plays like an elaborate session of "Host a Mystery". It requires a large group, several GMs, the appropriate setting, and plenty of preparation.
The four adventures follow in chapter two. "The Tower of Faith" is set in Eisen in the year 1668. A plot involving the death of the Hierophant, a Montaigne officer, a cardinal, and love... Great plot if you are running a 7th Sea Hero campaign, but most d20 players lean toward the "dark side" and the scenario needs a bit of tweaking to work there. However, this adventure does offer chase rules and an encounter table! Something missing from the Swashbuckling Adventures™ Book, and this alone is worth the price of admission. "Four `n Twenty Black Birds" is, by far, the best of the four. This adventure takes a page from the popular television series "24 Hours" and inserts the Villanovas, a Vestin or two, a jeweled rose, and love, to make a daring adventure that spans a time of twenty four hours. And here is the kicker, it's written so that the game time and play time coincide to make an adventure that lasts twenty four hours {I don't know about you, but as a GM I could get at least three to four sessions out of that}. My only complaint is that this adventure needs a cast list that defines the rolls at a glance; I had to take notes to keep up! "Fischler's Rescue" takes us to the small town of Seeufer in Eisen and involves the town Eisenfürst {Eisen for "mayor"}, his advisor, Heinzelmännchen {Eisen gnomes}, Kobolds, and love {it's a Swashbuckley thing; think of all the Swashbuckling movies you've ever seen, yep, love}. I enjoyed the plot, and it has a good background story, a GM could use it as filler and to give the players some new contacts in Eisen. In the last adventure "Adventure in Puerto Grande" we find ourselves in the Midnight Archipelago. This escapade involves an opera house, a fire, pirates and {you guessed it} revenge. This venture comes in a close second. It works for both Light Heroes and Dark ones, no tweaking necessary.
Chapter three offers us plot seeds and adventure hooks, in fact that's the title of chapter three: Plot Seeds and Adventure Hooks. The first offering is more of an adventure sapling than a plot seed. In fact it offers a story to follow and several asides to fill in the blanks. The rest of the chapter is dedicated to ideas for adventures in all the lands of Theah and several of the secret societies. More ideas than found in villain's bag of tricks.
And finally we come to the additions to the timeline 1670-1675 and more. My oh my, what they do to Avalon, the church... Best not to say, I don't want to spoil it for you. I am, thoe, quite intrigued...