Jason W. Smith

Aidyn is a young boy getting his first pet. He meets Nos at the local humane society and rescues her. Nos is a beautiful dog and beautiful soul who is welcomed into her new home. Even though she starts as Aidyn's dog, she soon becomes the family favorite. Read how their relationship grows over the years into an unbreakable bond. No Nos Nos is based on the author's family's experience with Nos-or Nausica, as she is sometimes called. The book will enlighten and teach children about the process of pet adoption and how a pet enhances their quality of life through companionship. Author Jason Smith hopes that this book makes parents seriously consider getting their child a pet, encouraging them to learn and grow through experimentation and positivity. A pet can even open a child's mind and reinforce exploration and discovery. Hopefully in sharing this story, children and adults can experience the joy of loving a pet and having a pet love them.

Aidyn is a young boy getting his first pet. He meets Nos at the local humane society and rescues her. Nos is a beautiful dog and beautiful soul who is welcomed into her new home. Even though she starts as Aidyn's dog, she soon becomes the family favorite. Read how their relationship grows over the years into an unbreakable bond. No Nos Nos is based on the author's family's experience with Nos-or Nausica, as she is sometimes called. The book will enlighten and teach children about the process of pet adoption and how a pet enhances their quality of life through companionship. Author Jason Smith hopes that this book makes parents seriously consider getting their child a pet, encouraging them to learn and grow through experimentation and positivity. A pet can even open a child's mind and reinforce exploration and discovery. Hopefully in sharing this story, children and adults can experience the joy of loving a pet and having a pet love them.

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context.By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.