Captain James Cook - British Explorer by Richard Bowen

Captain James Cook - British Explorer by Richard Bowen

Captain James Cook was an English explorer who lived in the 1700s. He crossed the Pacific Ocean three times during his lifetime. His discoveries include parts of Australia, several Pacific Islands, and parts of the Hawaiian Islands. He sailed along the coast of Antarctica, and was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle.

Professor W. Richard Bowen, FREng is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. He holds chairs in engineering at University of Wales Swansea and the University of Surrey and has carried out consultancy on an international basis through i-Newton Wales. His contributions to the development of membrane separation processes and atomic force microscopy are widely regarded as world leading. Professor Bowen is a member of the Academy's Engineering Ethics Working Group, the UK Academies' Human Rights Committee and the Advisory Board of the Centre for Emerging Technologies and Bioethics at St Mary's University College London. He has also lectured on engineering ethics at universities and international conferences in the UK, mainland Europe, the Middle East and China. His book Engineering Ethics: Outline of an Aspirational Approach (London: Springer-Verlag, 2009) received many positive reviews.

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ISBN 13	9781590841471
ISBN 10	1590841476
Title	Captain James Cook - British Explorer
Author	Richard Bowen
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Publisher	Mason Crest Publishers
Year published	2002-03-01
Number of pages	32
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