The Captain and her MateLieutenant Commander Theresa Leslie, the youngest female Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, is assigned to bring the old patrol boat "Derecho" out of mothballs as the first patrol boat of the Navy's new coastal defense force. On one of her infrequent days off, she meets Lieutenant Matt Chapman, a junior officer who is waiting to join his ship when it arrives in port. After they spend the night together, Theresa receives emergency orde...

On July 2, 1937, famed American adventurer Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, embarked on an attempt to make her the first female aviator to circumnavigate the world. When they failed to land and refuel on Howland Island in the central Pacific, a massive search was launched. Nothing was found, and they were presumed dead.Eighty-two years later, the yacht, "Sarah Bee," sinks after hitting a reef during a typhoon. The yacht owner's daughter, Denis...

The fire took her future. Now, the ghost who started it has come to collect.Isolde Vane is the "Steel Relic" of a dying dynasty, a woman forced to restore the very walls that imprison her to pay off her father's gambling debts. But when the Vane Estate is auctioned off to a faceless shadow, she realizes the nightmare is only beginning.Elias Thorne was supposed to be dead. Five years ago, he was the boy she loved; today, he is the "Master of Whispers," a man f...

“For forty years Ernest King prepared himself for the supreme test. From 1901 to 1941 he moved through the grades from ensign to admiral; he saw service in battleships, destroyers, submarines, supply ships, and aircraft carriers, in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean; he served in engineering, on the staff of the commander of the Atlantic fleet in World War I, on the General Board, in the Bureau of Navigation and as chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; he taught at the Naval Academy and studie...

The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence and shaping of the twenty-first-century world. This volume brings together an impressive array of scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore the global significance of King—then, now, and in the future.Employing King’s metaphor of “the great world house,” the major focus is on King’s appraisal of the global-human struggl...

A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thoughtFrederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and Martin King are focused upon, together with Howard Thurman, Richard Wright, Fred Gray and Barbara Jordan. All are important in various ways to the movements this book seeks out. From the perspective of liberation, the two high points in the African-American Odyssey are marked by Emancipation in...

This book brings together a valuable collection of case studies and conceptual approaches that outline the present state of Amazonia in the 21st century. The many problems are described and the benefits, as well as the achievements of regional development are also discussed. The book focuses on three themes for discussion and recommendations: indigenous peoples, their home (the forest), and the way(s) to protect and sustain their natural home (biodiversity conservation). Using these three ...

Louisa Lawson, the mother of Australian writer Henry Lawson, was the founder, publisher and editor of an early feminist journal in Sydney named “The Dawn”. From 1888 onwards, it played no small part in the gaining of the vote for Australian women in South Australia (1895), Western Australia (1899), New South Wales (1902), Commonwealth (1902), Tasmania (1903), Queensland (1905), and Victoria (1908). Since the success of the “Digitise The Dawn” project, a number of Louisa Lawson’s lead artic...