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1	How to Read a Nautical Chart: A Complete Guide to the Symbols, Abbreviations, and Data Displayed on Nautical Charts more books like this by Nigel Calder, Calder Nigel add to wishlist 'Calder has done it again. This comprehensive and, as importantly, readable book on navigation should be required on all boats' - Peter Nielsen, editor, "SAIL" magazine. 'This is a wonderful chart companion: an intriguing investigation of chart development combined with practical, hands-on data on how to really put a chart to use' - Tim Queeney, ... see all copies from $12.84! new only from $12.84! \| SVS
2	Boatowner's mechanical and electrical manual : how to maintain, repair and improve your boat's essential systems more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist An enlarged and updated edition, this manual provides guidance to novice and experienced boatowners on major or minor repairs of electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering systems, generators, plumbing, pumps, cookers, spars and rigging. It contains new drawings and photographs, and revised troubleshooting charts, and is said to cover ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $32.22! \| SVS
3	Marine Diesel Engines: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist This is the world's best-selling marine engine maintenance book. Calder is the world's leading boat technology writer and the author of the best-selling "Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual". No one explains marine systems more clearly and usefully. see all copies from $9.50! new only from $18.47! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Einstein's Universe: 2the Layperson's Guide more books like this by Stephen F Pollard, Nigel Calder add to wishlist A complete explanation of the theory of relativity for non-scientists, this book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of space, time, and motion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems more books like this by Stephen F Pollard, Nigel Calder add to wishlist In his latest book, Calder walks the reader through the repair, maintenance, and setting up of the boat's primary systems, including the electrical system, electronics equipment, generator sets, solar panels, wind and water generators, the engine, transmission, pumps, steering, waste disposal systems, and more. Destined to become a highly trusted ... see all copies from $2.92! new only from $18.86!
6	Einstein's universe more books like this by Nigel Calder, Albert Einstein add to wishlist A complete explanation of the theory of relativity for non-scientists, this book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of space, time, and motion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
7	The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change more books like this by Henrik Svensmark, Nigel Calder add to wishlist Scientists agree that over the last century the earth has become warmer. But do we really know why this has happened? A deftly written and enjoyable read, "The Chilling Stars" outlines a brilliant, daring and undoubtedly controversial new theory that will provoke fresh thinking about global warming. As prize-winning science writer, Nigel Calder ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
8	The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship: A Quick Reference for Sail and Power more books like this by Nigel Calder, Richard A Clinchy, Bill Gladstone add to wishlist Get advice from the most high-powered group of nautical experts ever assembled. "The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship" sets a new standard for quick access to authoritative guidance. With each topic condensed to 14 highly illustrated full-color pages, the book covers the 13 critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and ... see all copies from $9.03! new only from $13.21! \| SVS
9	The comet is coming! : the feverish legacy of Mr Halley more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.83! \| first editions
10	Magic Universe: The Oxford Guide to Modern Science more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist "Magic Universe" brings current science to the general reader in an imaginative and wholly original way. It offers an exhilarating tour of the horizons of knowledge, from quarks to linguistics, climate change to cloning, and chaos to superstrings, presented as a set of self-contained stories. The stories are arranged as A - Z entries, but this is ... see all copies from $5.59! new only from $61.17! \| first editions
11	Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook: A Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors more books like this by Nigel Calder, Calder Nigel add to wishlist Here, from the author of "Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual", is a comprehensive and helpful guide to selecting and equipping a cruising sailboat and learning skills to successfully cruise in it. The first half of the book includes an easy-to-use tabular method for evaluating a boat's suitability for cruising; ideas for workable deck ... see all copies from $24.41! new only from $32.22! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Comet Is Coming!: 2the Feverish Legacy of Mr. Halley more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Einstein's Universe: The Layperson's Guide more books like this by Stephen F Pollard, Nigel Calder add to wishlist A complete explanation of the theory of relativity for non-scientists, this book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of space, time, and motion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Boatowner's practical and technical cruising manual : the complete handbook for coastal and offshore sailors more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist This book is the most comprehensive, helpful and up to date guide ever written on selecting, equipping and sailing a cruising yacht. Destined to become the bible for prospective boat buyers and cruisers, whether coastal or world-girdling, it successfully covers all the technical and practical aspects of cruising yachts and systems in one unique ... see all copies from $41.46! new only from $60.76!
15 view cover	Einstein's Universe: The Layperson's Guide more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist An updated edition of a classic of popular science. Leading science writer Nigel Calder, author of Magic Universe, wrote Einstein's Universe to mark the centenary of Einstein's birth in 1979. Now it is reissued to celebrate the centenary of Einstein's 'miraculous year' in 1905, when he wrote five astonishingly original scientific papers and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00!
16 view cover	Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist This is a marvellously engaging tour covering the whole of modern science, from transgenic crops to quantum tangles. Written by one of the most experienced and well-known names in science writing, it is also assuredly reliable science. Although arranged for convenience and quick reference as a collection of topics in alphabetical order, it is very ... see all copies from $6.32! new only from $7.99!
17 view cover	Comets: Speculation and Discovery more books like this by Stephen F. Pollard, Nigel Calder add to wishlist This is an exhilarating journey through centuries of fact and myth. It covers the origin and nature of comets and fantastic theories associated with their appearance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18	The Weather Machine more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $92.48! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Nuclear Nightmares: 2an Investigation Into Possible Wars more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Nuclear Nightmares: An Investigation Into Possible Wars more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| first editions \| SVS
21	The English Channel more books like this by Stephen F Pollard, Nigel Calder add to wishlist The author of Einstein's Universe embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the English Channel that is extraordinarily rich in natural and historical interest. 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22	The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
23	Timescale more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Spaceships of the mind more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.95! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Violent Universe: 2an Eyewitness Account of the New Astronomy more books like this by Nigel Calder add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS

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