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A familiar sight on the Thames at London Bridge, HMS Belfast is Royal Navy light cruiser, one of a group of ten Town-class cruisers, built in Belfast and launched in March 1938. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Belfast was initially part of the British naval blockade against Germany. In November 1939 she struck a German mine requiring repairs that lasted two years.

She returned to action in November 1942 with improved firepower, radar equipment, and armor, and saw action escorting Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union and...

Ocean sailing needed skill, courage, and experience, and the sea chart was the tool by which ships of trade, transport, or conquest navigated. This examines the history and development of the chart and the nautical map, in both scientific and aesthetic terms as a means of safe and accurate seaborne navigation. The Italian merchant-venturers of the early thirteenth century developed the earliest "portolan" pilot charts of the Mediterranean. The subsequent speed of exploration by European seafarers to the New World, around the Cape of Good Hope, and on trade routes to the East, India, and...

The rush of entrepreneurial activity in China has been watched with interest by the financial world. This book, the result of an international symposium on Chinese accounting and financial management, assesses the little-known accounting scene in China which up until 1978 remained behind closed doors.

Divided into four sections, the volume covers:

• Chinese perspectives on accounting
• the business and financial structure of China, including the re-emergence of a Chinese stock market
• the regulatory framework of accounting in China and comparisons with...

For centuries, people have asked what the Bible teaches about the end of the world. John W. Blake created a work that allows factual signs of the Bible to form by themselves the direction and content of each subject, thus allowing the reader to see what the Bible itself teaches.

The Magnitude of the Word helps the reader to explore what the Bible says about the end of the world and their fate. It identifies the Two Witnesses unequivocally. In the Old and New Testament, Satan's activities are exposed. It also explains the reasons for the Great Tribulation, assures comfort for those...

This book is a practical textbook for first-year students. It begins by describing the nature and environment of accounting and continues with an examination of the double entry book-keeping system. There are chapters on the principles which govern accounting practice and the presentation and interpretation of accounts. Inflation accounting is also covered as are cash budgets and funds flow.