In Skipjack, Christopher White spends a pivotal year with three memorable captains as they battle man and nature to control the fate of their island villages and oyster fleet. Through these lively characters, White paints a vivid picture of life on a skip - jack, a wooden oystering sailboat as they dredge for oysters€”a favorite staple of iconic American seafood cuisine for over a hundred years. But this last vestige of American sailing culture is rapidly dying. State officials have mismanaged the waters, putting sport above business, and modernization above tradition. These captains must set aside their rivalry to fight for their very livelihood. With so many obstacles, it is not certain the fleet will survive the season. Hinging on its success, the viability of the nation€™s premiere estuary and the survival of a classic American town hang dangerously in the balance.

Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen

History

White, Christopher

Americas

St.Martin's Press

Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they―and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice―will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.

The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Discusses the major cases from Handler's Antitrust casebook. Each casebrief includes an explanation of the facts of the case, issues, holdings, and judge's rationale. This title includes cases about to the objectives of antitrust law, the institutional framework of policy, market structure and a first look at the problem of monopoly power, competitor collaboration in price fixing and division of markets, group refusals to deal and joint ventures, market concentration and conspiracy, vertical distribution restrictions, additional limitations on a single firm exercising market power, mergers, some limits on the reach of antitrust, and price discrimination.

Legalines on Antitrust,Keyed to Pitofsky

Lee, Mark

Business

Gilbert

A Global History of the Developing World

A Global History of the Developing World takes a sweeping look at the historical foundations of the problems of developing world society. Encompassing Asia, Latin America and Africa, the book centralizes the struggle for self-determination in an attempt to understand how the current nation-states have been formed and what their future may hold. Although concentrating on the modern era, its scope is broad: it covers geography, ancient and modern history, economics, politics and recent events.  The book features twelve chapters, organized into 4 thematic units, each containing one chapter on each of the three continents. These units cover different commonly-experienced phenomena among the peoples of the Developing World: imperialism, nationalism, globalization, and development. The first three are chronological, while the last surveys and analyzes the scholarly debates over the causes of development and underdevelopment. Through these chapters Christopher M. White presents a wide-ranging study of the major themes in studies of the developing world, including slavery, imperialism, religion, free and fair trade, democratization and economic development.   Including detailed profiles of key figures as well as maps and illustrations, A Global History of the Developing World vividly illustrates the culture, personalities and histories of a key subject area. A perfect introduction for all students interested in the developing world in a historical context.

Reference

Routledge

Christopher White, author of a number of highly regarded books on Rembrandt, firmly bases his study on the most thorough and up-to-date scholarly research, and builds up a sensitive, accurate and fully-rounded portrait of his life and work. The author describes the radiant happiness of Rembrandt's marriage, tragically cut short by the death of his wife, discusses the psychological factors that may have awakened Rembrandt's sudden interest in landscape, and delineates the last decade of the artist's life, in which he retreated into the private world of his imagination. 171 illus., 16 in color.

Rembrandt (World of Art)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

This intelligently revised volume on the life and work of Rembrandt offers detailed insight into the artist from an authority on the subject. 
Rembrandt is among the few old masters to retain universal appeal among art lovers today. His striking self-portraits and scenes are on view at museums around the world―yet he remains an elusive, enigmatic figure. 
In Rembrandt, distinguished art historian Christopher White carefully considers Rembrandt’s history to build a sensitive and thorough account of the artist’s life and work. White describes the radiant happiness of Rembrandt’s marriage, tragically cut short by the death of his wife, and discusses the catastrophe of his bankruptcy. Digging deeper, White also explores the psychological factors that may have awakened Rembrandt’s sudden interest in landscape and examines the artist’s final decade, when he retreated into the private world of his imagination. 
This comprehensive introduction is revised and updated to include recent scholarship and features an expanded bibliography. In this stunning new edition, Rembrandt’s artworks are now faithfully reproduced in color throughout. 170 color illustrations

Biographies & Memoirs

Dutch Pictures Royal Collect (The Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen)

Cambridge University Press

This catalogue of Dutch and Flemish drawings of the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries in the Royal Collection at Windsor gives the content and provenance of over seven hundred drawings in detail, and supersedes the two-volume catalogue compiled by Leo van Puyvelde and published in 1942 and 1944. The history of the collection is fully described by Christopher White in the Introduction. The catalogue which follows is divided into four separate sections according to century: the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries have been compiled by Christopher White and the entries for the later drawings are by Charlotte Crawley. For ease of reference, each of the drawings is illustrated in black and white next to its catalogue entry. This catalogue of a unique collection will prove an indispensable work of reference for scholars and students of Northern European art.

The Dutch and Flemish Drawings at Windsor Castle (The Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen)

Crawley, Charlotte

History & Criticism

Rubens and His World

World

Studio

A study of Dürer's drawings. Table of contents, list of illustrations, biographical sketch, selected bibliography, index. Frontispiece, 106 illustrations four in color . Dust jacket chipped at edges. 231+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 4to..

Dürer: The Artist and His Drawings

Dürer, Albrecht

Watson/Guptill

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