Barry Clifford: 3 books

Book cover of The Lost Fleet

The Lost Fleet

The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy

by Barry Clifford, Kenneth Kinkor
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010

On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy. Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean...
Book cover of Bear Traps on Russia's Road to Modernization
by Clifford G. Gaddy, Barry Ickes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

Bear Traps examines Russia’s longer term economic growth prospects. It argues that Russia’s growth challenges are conventionally misdiagnosed and examines the reasons why: a spatial misallocation that imposes excess costs on production and investment; distortions to human capital; an excessively...
Book cover of Critical issues in plant health: 50 years of research in African agriculture
by Dr Kenton Dashiell, Dr P. Lava Kumar, Dr Georg Goergen
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019

Plant health covers topics such as the safe handling and movement of germplasm and seed, as well as the range of biotic threats faced by crops and the ways they can be managed to optimise yields and ensure safety and quality in crop production. These threats include viral, bacterial and fungal diseases...
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