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Since this book was written over 30 years ago by the great British sailor K. Adlard Coles, it has become the standard work on seamanship under gale conditions. More than 100,000 English-language copies have been printed, and there are editions in French, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, and Spanish.

The thirtieth-anniversary edition of this classic includes sections on parachute sea anchors and drogues, crew fitness, and management advice, and new material on meteorology and on seasick remedies. Ample advice from great sailors such as Oiln Stephens, Robin Knox-Johnston, and Val Haigh is augmented by new material by Dag Pike and Mike Golding. Also new in this edition is a section on multihulls in heavy weather.

Part 1 provides expert advice for crews of any vessel that ventures out of sight of land, whether for racing or cruising. It gives a clear message of seamanlike design features, preparations, and tactics that should be considered against the time when it comes on to blow. Part 2 offers hair-raising accounts of sail and power yachts overtaken by heavy weather. New in this edition are accounts of the 1998 Sydney - Hobart disaster, the 1994 "Queen's Birthday" storm off New Zealand, as well as other storm stories from the world's oceans. No one who goes to sea in his or her own craft can afford to ignore the advice in Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing. Dramatic black-and-white photos of storm seas combine with 60 new color shots throughout the book.

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HANG ON!.......2006-03-04

THIS BOOK PUTS A REAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE REALITY OF DEALING WITH TREACHEROUS SEAS. IT MAKES MY HAIR STAND ON END EVERYTIME
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Far less overwhelming with Pardeys DVD in hand.......2002-12-08

This book has excellent info, but is a bit overwhelming and I didn't let my partner read it, cause it can be pretty scary. Then I came across the DVD Lin and Larry Pardey put out. Their ideas are discussed in this book. But their Storm tactics DVD put it all in prospective and added a lot of info. was fun to watch too and my partner came away feeling eager to get out voyaging. The two make a grand combination.

Essential book for those who venture offshore.......2000-07-26

I would give this book five stars except that it is a little out of date and not the easiest to read. Despite this, there is no question that the material within is critically important for any sailor who ventures offshore and worth reading. I feel this topic has not been adequately explored in the printed media. There are only three good books on the subject and this book leads the pack. There is still a lot of research to be done in area of heavy weather sailing. Coles does a good job explaining what to do in various situations he faced. This book gives you a chance to put yourself in his shoes. This book is well worth the price. It is cheap insurance considering that what you learn could save your life. Serious yachtsman read this book.

Heavy weather sailing - a masterclass.......2000-01-21

No-one who takes responsibility for others at sea should be without the life-saving knowledge in this important book. It is a 'distance-learning masterclass'of wild-water seamanship, bang up-to-date, and filled with hard-won experience of what works and what doesn't when the chips are down.

I would not want to be at sea in a rising gale without the 'know-how' I've learned from 'Heavy Weather Sailing'. I echo Pete Goss's endorsement - "If you buy no other book for your voyage, buy this one."

Bill Bailey MRIN and Commercial Ocean Yachtmaster

Heavy weather sailing - a masterclass.......2000-01-21

Bill Bailey MRIN and Commercial Ocean Yachtmaster

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Lacks Thoroughness and Full of Typos

Must learn romanian SOON

Quirky, yes, but for other reasons

Definitely not the best

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Teach Yourself Romanian Complete Course Audiopackage
Dennis Deletant , and Yvonne Alexandrescu
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Complete language courses that span the globe!

From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning language student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement in their formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.

Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and steadily promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, through:

Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
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Practical vocabulary
Regular and irregular verb tables
Plenty of practice exercises and answers
Bilingual glossary The new editions also feature:
Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
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Lacks Thoroughness and Full of Typos.......2007-08-10

When I first started learning Romanian on my own, I thought this book was very useful, and I'd still say it is if you just want to memorize a bunch of phrases without learning why they're constructed the way they are or how to contruct original sentences. But after taking two years of college Romanian, I'm horrified by this book's lack of grammar explanation (Romanian grammar is quite complex and requires clear explanations for English speakers). The book helps you memorize common sentences, but in fails to prepare you to speak Romanian outside of a script. Also, there are so many typos I want to scream. Typos in the English text, in the Romanian text, in the dialogues, even in the exercise answer keys. I can't recommend it.

Must learn romanian SOON.......2007-07-19

I thought this course was overall pretty good. I took so much time to keep listening over and over again! It was very challenging to learn; however, learning any language is difficult.

Quirky, yes, but for other reasons.......2007-05-12

I wanted to post a partial response to an earlier review which is fantastic in its breadth but I feel misstates one particular part. The reason I mention this is that comment in particular was a reason I almost didn't buy this book. It made the author sound unreasonable and illogical.

It is odd that this reviewer states "In fact, he says Romanians emphasise each syllable of a word evenly, when they simply don't." Which is not true. There is a point in the beginning that says some words are evenly stressed. But throughout the first and second chapter there are numerous quotes discussing the various stresses and what they mean. This comment by the reviewer relies on a single sentence in the book and audio which I believe is extended beyond its apparent meaning.

On a negative note towards the book, however, I don't understand why each new Romanian word doesn't have a pronunciation guide to that word. You only have individual letter and letter combo pronunciation, not word specific. How can a language book exclude this? The CD helps a little, but I was hoping to get more out of the written book.

Definitely not the best.......2007-04-13

I bought this book before moving to Romania, because I was hoping to get a bit of a foundation. For awhile I did my best to work through the lessons, hoping that I would be able to learn from them.

However, I found one very definite problem with this book (aside from some of the things mentioned by others such as typos and now-outdated examples). The grammar was hardly ever explained in any thorough way. For example, Romanian has different ways of conjugating verbs that end with -i. The book just gave the different ways this is done without giving any hint about how you can know when one conjugation is used, which one is more common, or anything. Even if the authors had stated, "There is no way to know; you just have to memorize this for each verb," that would have been helpful. Unfortunately, there was nothing like that. Another example is the way that nouns are pluralized. The authors don't give any hint about which are the most common endings, how you can tell which pluralization form is likely to be used with which word, the fact that most foreign nouns entering Romanian but still in their foreign forms become neutral and take the -uri plural (CD-uri, email-uri, etc.), and various other things that are helpful.

I know that this is something that may not be such a big issue for some people. My experience in learning and teaching foreign languages is that most people tend to have a bent towards either vocabulary or grammar, and in one of those two areas they tend to excel more than they do in the other. I happen to be a grammar sort of person, and so this was a very big deal to me. In fact, it was enough that I wasn't able to complete all of the lessons because I couldn't figure out the grammar rules well enough to feel like I was learning anything (because those rules weren't generally stated very clearly in the text). I'm still giving it 2 stars instead of 1 because those who focus more easily on grammar will have an easier time with it, and because it does have useful reference tools in the back.

Not a bad choice.......2007-03-23

The CD starts out well, with the whole vocab list being pronounced, but it gets lazy as the chapters progress. As someone who likes to just turn the CDs on while driving and hear the words as background noise, this gets annoying. I ended up buying an audio recorder to tape the rest of the words and lists of verb conjuations. That didn't help with pronunciation but it sufficed. Otherwise the book seems good for the casual tourist. Would recommend.

Teach Yourself Romanian (Teach Yourself Complete Courses)

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Best Romanian Learning book out there!
A Great Place to Start

Teach Yourself Romanian (Teach Yourself Complete Courses)
Dennis Deletant , and Yvonne Alexandrescu
Manufacturer: Teach Yourself Books
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Best Romanian Learning book out there!.......2007-07-23

As of 2007, there are very few Romanian Learning softwares or books on the market. From my experience, and I've bought a lot of them, this is the BEST.

It really teaches you as a beginner all the basic stuff and advances through the language. It tells you about colloquialisms, subtle and big differences in grammar and sentence structure, it really goes over everything. Plus it has nice little sections on Romanian culture/history to read about.

I have also bought the "Before You Know It" software: [...] And I found that using this software is great to make lists of the vocabulary presented in this book. It helps you learn it a lot easier.

A Great Place to Start.......2006-10-11

This book is a wonderful guide to grammar and vocabulary. I continually use it as a ready reference to check conjugations, declentions, &c. Organised into twenty-odd units, each part expands on the previous unit, and each new sample dialogue builds on everything learnt cumulatively, thus keeping the pupil actively practising the language.

In addition to grammar, the book contains short articles on the Romanian people, their history, culture, and religion. It is very informative and explains in the early units how one might get along in Romania if on a short vacation. However, all the information is there should one want to learn the language in far more depth.

The only caveat to this book is that if one wants to truly learn the language and the principles of pronunciation especially, the tapes are not optional. The book does not spend too much time explaining pronunciation and unlike Spanish, there are no hard and fast rules for the stresses applied to syllables. Without some form of audio assistance, learning the Romanian language (like any other languages) is nearly impossible.

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Dennis; Alexandrescu, Yvonne Deletant
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Many valid points.......2007-08-02

The author helps women understand the way we have been design and how it gives us a sense of fulfillment when we apply most it's of practical principles. It might challenge most modern society ideas of how women should respond to their husbands, hence it's reading can bring the common wife to examine and reflect on her day to day interactions with her spouse. Hopefully it will encourage you to bring about changes in your mind set and in your relationship. I know this has been the case with me. I am still single & believe you can always prepare yourself as much as possible before going into marriage. Obviously I can not apply everything in it's reading, but what little I have taken has brought many fruits not only in a increased trust and communication with my boyfriend but also in a more confident, peaceful and satisfied me. I've come from a very liberal mind set.I hope women who read it will have an and open mind yet keeping a balance and asking the Lord for direction.

Al rescate de los valores familiares (FAMILIA)

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Al rescate de los valores familiares (FAMILIA)
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La familia es el bien más preciado del ser humano. En esta obra se efectúa un retrato muy completo de lo que supone ser una familia que ha dejado de nutrirse entre sí, basada en el respeto mutuo, la libertad y la confianza.

Constelaciones Familiares Para Personas, Familias Y Naciones/ The Healing of Individuals, Families & Nations

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Constelaciones Familiares Para Personas, Familias Y Naciones/ The Healing of Individuals, Families & Nations
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Inmigración, familia y empleo : estrategias familiares en los inicios de la industrialización, Pamplona (1840-1930)
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Vivir en familia, organizar la sociedad/ Living With a Family, Organize the Society: Familia y modelos familiares las provincias vascas a las puertas de la modernizacion (Historia De La Poblacion)

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Vivir en familia, organizar la sociedad/ Living With a Family, Organize the Society: Familia y modelos familiares las provincias vascas a las puertas de la modernizacion (Historia De La Poblacion)
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"... Así empezó Vietnam": poco a poco, los familiares de los soldados estadunidenses enviados a Irak se organizan. En agosto eran 13 personas, hoy suman ... que perder".: An article from: Proceso

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"... Así empezó Vietnam": poco a poco, los familiares de los soldados estadunidenses enviados a Irak se organizan. En agosto eran 13 personas, hoy suman ... que perder".: An article from: Proceso
Rodolfo Ambriz Vilchis
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Release Date: 2006-06-29

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1801 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "... Así empezó Vietnam": poco a poco, los familiares de los soldados estadunidenses enviados a Irak se organizan. En agosto eran 13 personas, hoy suman más de mil. Demandan el regreso a casa de sus muchachos. Todavía son pocos, pero --señalan-- "así empezó el movimiento antibélico de Vietnam, pues los familiares son los que más tenemos que perder".
Author: Rodolfo Ambriz Vilchis
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Construyendo el futuro para nuestros niños.(relaciones familiares)(TT: Building the future for our children.)(TA: family relations): An article from: Semana

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Construyendo el futuro para nuestros niños.(relaciones familiares)(TT: Building the future for our children.)(TA: family relations): An article from: Semana
Richard A. Gephardt
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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on August 10, 2001. The length of the article is 674 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Construyendo el futuro para nuestros niños.(relaciones familiares)(TT: Building the future for our children.)(TA: family relations)
Author: Richard A. Gephardt
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 10, 2001
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 7 Issue: 441 Page: 2

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Dos familias de cuidado: los enfrentamientos entre familiares de Pedro Infante llegaron a un punto sin retorno. Se acusan mutuamente de obtener beneficios ... en los tribunales.: An article from: Proceso

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Dos familias de cuidado: los enfrentamientos entre familiares de Pedro Infante llegaron a un punto sin retorno. Se acusan mutuamente de obtener beneficios ... en los tribunales.: An article from: Proceso
Columba Vértiz de la Fuente
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Release Date: 2007-05-30

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by Thomson Gale on April 15, 2007. The length of the article is 1677 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dos familias de cuidado: los enfrentamientos entre familiares de Pedro Infante llegaron a un punto sin retorno. Se acusan mutuamente de obtener beneficios con la explotación del nombre y la fama del actor y cantante, y todo indica que terminarán por dirimir sus diferencias en los tribunales.
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Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 15, 2007
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El rendimiento escolar y su relación con algunas características familiares: un caso (1).: An article from: Ensenanza e Investigacion en Psicologia

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El rendimiento escolar y su relación con algunas características familiares: un caso (1).: An article from: Ensenanza e Investigacion en Psicologia
Fernando Arias Galicia , and Antonio Chávez Altamirano
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Ensenanza e Investigacion en Psicologia, published by Consejo Nacional para el Ensenanza e Investigacion en Psicologia on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 3264 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El rendimiento escolar y su relación con algunas características familiares: un caso (1).
Author: Fernando Arias Galicia
Publication: Ensenanza e Investigacion en Psicologia (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: Consejo Nacional para el Ensenanza e Investigacion en Psicologia
Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Page: 205(9)

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