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BUILD YOUR OWN UNDERWATER ROBOT AND OTHER WET PROJECTS
12TH EDITION
By Harry Bohm, and Vickie Jensen
- This amazing book introduces the excitement and technology of underwater exploration. It presents clear, well-illustrated projects—from underwater robots (ROVs) and gliders to diving bells and model habitats. All are constructed using inexpensive materials available at local hardware, hobby and electronics stores or via the internet.
- Over 20,000 Copies Sold!
- ISBN: 978-0-9681610-0-5
- List Price: $20.00 USD/CDN + tax
UNDERWATER ROBOTICS: SCIENCE, DESIGN & FABRICATION
By Dr. Steven W. Moore, Harry Bohm, and Vickie Jensen
- UNDERWATER ROBOTICS: Science, Design & Fabrication introduces students, educators, and other aspiring inventors to subsea technology. This exciting resource provides the information needed to design and build underwater vehicles. It also encourages bright young minds to consider a career in the world of underwater robotics.
- Publisher: Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center
- ISBN: 978-0-9841737-0-9
- List Price: $113.00 USD/CDN + tax
- It's finally back in stock! This is the newly-updated UNDERWATER ROBOTICS textbook. There's a modest $5 price increase and the $120 total price now includes 3-day shipping via USPS Priority within Canada and the USA.
- Please note that for foreign orders the book would be $113 + foreign postage costs. Contact Westcoast Words at info@westcoastwords.com for a shipping quote.
TOTEM POLES AND THE LURE OF STANLEY PARK
By Vickie Jensen
- Westcoast Words is proud to announce a fully updated and expanded version of its best-selling publication–TOTEM POLES AND THE LURE OF STANLEY PARK (formerly THE TOTEM POLES OF STANLEY PARK). Every year over 3.3 million people visit the totem poles of Vancouver’s famous Stanley Park, making the poles the #1 tourist destination in the entire province. This amazing new guidebook is just what those visitors and locals need—and at the amazingly low price of $14.95.
- ISBN: 978-0-9681610-1-2
- List Price: $14.95 USD/CDN + tax
TOTEM POLE CARVING
By Vickie Jensen
- TOTEM POLE CARVING is the first book to document the entire process of carving a totem pole. Through an intimate text and 125 black-and-white photographs, Vickie Jensen takes the reader inside the carving shed. It is a seldom-seen world of adzes and chainsaws, young apprentices with blistered hands, and one massive cedar log.
- ISBN: 978-0295983684
- List Price: $22.95 USD/CDN + tax
CARVING A TOTEM POLE
By Vickie Jensen
- Through text and sepia-toned photographs, author Vickie Jensen takes young readers into a Northwest Coast carving shed as Nisga’a artist Norman Tait and crew create a monumental 42-foot (12.8 m) totem pole.
- ISBN: 1-55054-232-X
- List Price: $14.95 USD/CDN + tax
SALTWATER WOMEN AT WORK
By Vickie Jensen
- SALTWATER WOMEN AT WORK chronicles the stories of women mariners in British Columbia, Canada. In the tradition of Studs Terkel and Barry Broadfoot, Vickie Jensen has interviewed 110 women, ranging in age from 7 to 97, who work on a variety of vessels—tugboats, charter yachts, fishboats, ice breakers, water taxis, ferries and deep sea freighters.
- ISBN: 1-55054-436-5
- List Price: $14.95 USD/CDN + tax
SHIPS OF STEEL: A BRITISH COLUMBIA SHIPBUILDER'S STORY
By T.A. McLaren and Vickie Jensen
- SHIPS OF STEEL chronicles steel shipbuilding industry on the Northwest Coast. This invaluable oral history is a behind-the-scenes look at a coastal shipyard, a documentation of maritime and industrial history in the province, and a tribute to the skill, determination and ingenuity of BC’s shipbuilding crews.
- ISBN: 1-55017-242-5
- List Price: $39.95 USD/CDN + tax