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This book offers an alarming inside look at the security preparations of the cruise industry and the potential for cruise ships to be the target for pirates, terrorists, and criminal activity. Cruising for Trouble exposes the acute vulnerability of cruise ships to piracy, terrorism, and crime, both on the high seas and in domestic and foreign ports-of-call. While cruise ships have ramped up in size and passenger capacity to become floating skyscrapers housing as many as 7,000 passengers, and while piracy incidents have increased since 2008 as the world economy has deteriorated, there has been no corresponding increase or enhancement in onboard security personnel, external tactical units, preventive screening, or coordinated response planning to guard against the growing threat of acts of piracy and internal and external terrorist attacks. Commander Gaouette reveals to cruise passengers the very real security dangers they unwittingly face when they saunter up the gangway of a cruise ship for a carefree holiday. He sounds a clarion call to national and transnational security agencies, maritime regulators, legislators, and customers to compel the cruise industry to strengthen and reform its security programs before catastrophe strikes. The author, a longtime cruise industry insider who now serves as a top maritime security official in the Department of Homeland Security, details the many security defects and vulnerabilities of cruise ships, identifies the remedies, and makes the case for their urgent implementation. Extensively documented and illustrated, Cruising for Trouble is a vividly told cautionary for the ten million Americans who taken cruise-ship vacations each year and the millions more who would like to. As well as modeling the potential threats to cruise ships from pirates and maritime terrorists-who mimic each other's methods, overlap each other's territories, and might well find it mutually beneficial to combine their forces and resources-Commander Gaoutte recounts many actual examples of cruise-ship insecurity that have been swept under the carpet or spun by the cruise industry: pirate attacks, fires, onboard crime, mass food poisonings and infections, and the mysterious disappearances of cruise-ship passengers.

Criminology. --- Cruise ships. --- Piracy. --- Maritime terrorism. --- Hijacking of ships. --- Cruise ships --- Accidents.

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This book offers a concise, yet comprehensive introduction to the engineering and other principles behind passenger cruise ships. It covers all the important regulations concerning cruise ship design and operation, as well as safety, stability, and environmental aspects. It describes principles of cruise ship hydrodynamics, structures, power plant and propulsion, as well as relevant machinery and control system. Further, it deals with key cruise ship hotel systems, such as air conditioning, freshwater, firefighting, garbage, wastewater and communication systems, and many more. Written in a concise, straightforward style, and including many original drawings, this book offers a unique, informative and inspiring guide, to students and professionals in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering, cruise ship owners and managers, and curious cruise ship passengers alike.

Economic production --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Transport. Traffic --- innovatiemanagement --- technologie --- technologische innovatie --- innovaties --- verkeer --- transport --- Cruise ships.

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Understanding Automotive Electronics is the first port of call for control engineers, system engineers and electronic engineers in the automotive industry needing a thorough grounding in automotive electronics and control. From simple automotive electronic circuits to the latest developments in telematics, active safety, entertainment and communications, the book is also an ideal resource for more senior automotive engineers without a background in electronics or control needing to work in the area or supervise specialists. Thoroughly updated throughout, this new editio

Motorcars engineering --- veiligheid (autotechnologie) --- hybridevoertuigen --- elektronica --- auto's --- auto-elektronica (elektronica; auto) --- microcomputer; auto --- instrumentatie --- sensor; auto --- telematica; auto --- automotive control system --- cruise control --- actuator; auto --- (zie ook: comfortelektronica) --- Automobiles --- Electronic equipment. --- Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Automotive electronics --- Equipment and supplies

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Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed) teaching the tourist what to look for and how to experience it. Travelers present and future will never see their cruises, treks, ecotours, round-the-world journeys, or trips to the vacation cottage or condo in quite the same way again. All our land-, sea-, and mindscapes will be the richer for Löfgren's insights.

Travel. --- Holidays. --- Legal holidays --- National holidays --- Days --- Hours of labor --- Manners and customs --- Memorials --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Vacations --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Historia Económica del Turismo (64101211) --- Bibliografía recomendada --- business. --- contemporary tourism. --- contemporary world. --- cottage. --- cruise industry. --- cruise. --- destinations. --- economics. --- ecotour. --- fashion. --- holidays. --- photography. --- pop culture. --- tourism. --- tourist. --- travel industry. --- travel. --- travelers. --- trek. --- vacation home. --- vacation industry. --- vacation property. --- vacation rental. --- vacation. --- vacationing. --- western world.

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This is the first book of its kind to examine railway heritage in the context of tourism in a comprehensive, internationally relevant manner. It explores the challenges faced by developers and operators of railway heritage destinations including financial, legal and managerial sustainability in the modern tourism industry. These themes are exemplified by a variety of case studies of railway heritage in tourism from regions around the world including North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australasia. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of cultural tourism as well as researchers and practitioners of industrial heritage tourism, along with graduate and senior undergraduate students.

Heritage tourism. --- Railroad travel. --- Rail travel --- Railroads --- Routes of travel --- Train travel --- Transportation --- Travel --- Voyages and travels --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Heritage tourism --- Railroad travel --- cruise rail tourism. --- cultural heritage tourism. --- destination planning. --- industrial heritage. --- rails to trails. --- railway heritage tourism. --- trains.