Another exciting volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring the dashing and debonair naval commander Thomas KyddWord has come from the British ambassador Arbuthnot that the ne
The latest volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring the dashing and debonair naval commander Thomas KyddKydd is offered a new command but that ship is still under constructi
Moments before the world ends, Simon, a dissatisfied history professor, walks along the San Diego boardwalk with his young daughter, Esther. Judith, an ambitious college senior, jogs nearby, trying to
This richly illustrated book presents the diversity and natural history of sea snail groups. By integrating aspects of morphology, ecology, evolution, and behaviour, it describes how each group copes
Cathy Bissette thought she had left everything behind -- the publishing job, the glamour of New York, the broken heart -- for a quiet three-month getaway on the shores of North Carolina. But the momen
As the captain of a useful frigate, Thomas Kydd is claimed by the Leeward Islands station, exchanging the harsh situation in South America for the warmth and delights of the Caribbean. It’s a sea chan
One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life of the aunt she has never known. The next, she finds herself flung into the warm and salty waters of a
"Cinnabar's chief spymaster is a mother also, and her son is determined to search for treasure in the midst of a civil war. Who better to watch over him then Captain Daniel Leary, Cinnabar's troublesh
A sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky finds Wolf Squadron scouring the Atlantic for survivors of the biological zombie plague while clearing an assault carrier of infected predators before its trapped hum
This limited, numbered edition of Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea has a specially designed cover and a first-of-its-kind 3D printed slip case made on a MakerBotR ReplicatorR 2 Desktop 3D Printer, m
Summary of eagles, their classification and folklore, focusing on the Sea Eagle group. Provides a background to the reintroduction of the White-tailed Sea Eagle to Scotland and the UK. Current status
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea,” wrote Joseph Conrad. And there is certainly nothing more integral to the development of the modern world. In The Se
In the 10th book of the popular series, rumors fly of Napoleon's planned invasion of England, and British naval commander Thomas Kydd is sent to liaise with American inventor Robert Fulton, who has cr
Lieutenant Thomas Kydd takes his place on the quarterdeck as commander of the ship Tenacious in this riveting sailing adventure. Part of a small squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, Kyd
In this seventh book of the series, Thomas Kydd is master ofhis ownbrig-sloop Teazer and he must race the clock to make her battle-ready to defend Malta against Barbary pirates and the Fr
Kydd must pass a tough examination for his lieutenancy, but aboard the 64-gun Tenacious he faces a more daunting challenge—matching up to the high-born officers, who have spent a lifetime learn
One of history's most notorious naval insurrections is re-created, as Kydd crosses the Mediterranean to a rendezvous with danger and returns to England—only to find himself caught up in the Nor
The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colorful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common i
Berube (former Brookings Institute LEGIS fellow and US Navy Reserve Officer) and Rodgaard (intelligence analyst, US Navy Reserve) attend to every aspect of Stewart's distinguished career, from his com
On the West Coast, few subjects are as controversial as salmon farming. Every week, new studies raise alarming questions about the safety of farmed fish and the risk farms pose to the environment. But
Here is an unprecedented fiction debut that is cause for celebration. Growing up in a family that valued the art of storytelling and the power of oral history, Thomas Steinbeck now follows in his fath
A best-selling, comprehensive guide to best practices in gifted education. Practical strategies and the latest research on critical topics and on best practices make Education of the Gifted and
Founded in 1682 by a society that had no military, eschewed violence as a means of solving conflicts, and tolerated a wide variety of religions, Pennsylvania began as a “peaceable kingdom”—but war was
From his earliest days on Long Island and in New York City to his last years in Camden, New Jersey, Walt Whitman lived close to the sea he knew and loved. The “liquid-flowing syllables” of Whitman’s p
The host of Travel Channel’s most popular show explains how iconic American foods have captured our culinary imaginationsyou won't look at a bagel the same way again!In America the E
Captain Brown's story is so unusual because of the ties between his life on the sea from Scotland to England to New Jersey to New York to small town Payson, Utah and then to Salt Lake City, to the dea
For the first time in a book, this monograph describes relativistic and charge-displacement self-channelling, which is the major finding in the physics of superintense laser beams. It also presents ge
