The past few decades have been witness to a number of important developments with respect to the global intellectual property (IP) system, including shifts in focus between multilateralism and bilateralism/regionalism; growing recognition of the various ways in which IP intersects with and impacts areas including human rights, development, trade, and social justice; broad acknowledgement of the economic value of many IP rights; and important theoretical interventions that have challenged t...

This book is a collection of tales about the adventures of Elves (and a little girl) in Southern Colorado, a macabre tale of a Caribbean cruise (you wouldn''''t want to take), the hilarious (and sometimes sad) misadventures of Mr. Throttlebottom and his hapless wife Emma told in four short stories, and a longer alternate future Novella about how Mr. Howard Hughes managed to establish a very unique hotel using his recently purchased Queen Mary moved to a new location a little further South ...

Jeremiah Cuthbert Shelby (JC), an ex navy man who suffers from congenital sea sickness, goes back to college in a small town in Iowa after one enlistment tour to get his degree in criminal Justice. With a part time job in the college library he is in an ideal position to put his academic plans to premature use when the body of a young library assistant is discovered in a vault in the Special Collections stacks. Romance enters the picture when he is ably assisted in his sleuthing by Susan, ...

The year is 2050. Sea levels have been rising for nearly half a century. Parts of San Diego are underwater and Point Loma is an Island. For Adam McBride, ten years old, its always been like this. Some miraculous technology still exists, but most of the infra-structure of the country is in shambles. History always presents us with surprises. To compound the difficulties of normal life under these conditions a new sexually transmitted disease, MS Mule Syndrome, has begun to ravage the world....

While in Hawaii Our young Navy Lieutenant, JC Shelby and his wife Susan, are urged by their boss, the Fleet Admiral at Pearl Harbor, to assist an old cold war adversary, the captain of a Russian passenger ship now on a Circle of Fire cruise, in solving the murder of one of the ships officers. The case turns out to be far more complex than a simple act of violence. Money and unrequited love play a role. The Russian skipper, retired from the Navy, risks a peaceful retirement to a clime warme...

JC and Susan Shelby, fresh from their adventure aboard the ill-fated Russian cruise ship, MS Alexander Nevsky (Dead in the Water), are fated to have their leisurely stop over on their way back to Honolulu in the idyllic Fiji Islands interrupted when a fellow vacationer from New York is ostensibly captured by a band of cannibals. Mr. Throttlebottom, CEO of Murkies chain of cheap clothing stores, the victim, and his wife, Emma are traveling with their aide, Crassley Fenwick to Hong Kong to m...

Jeremiah Cuthbert (JC) and Susan, the Shelby amateur sleuth couple, are at it again in the high mountains of Colorado. JC, mustered back into the Navy and given a commission, along with his very talented and charming wife, have been sent there as they journey back from their hair-raising adventures in Fiji by JCs boss, the four-star admiral in Hawaii. Only they havent been told exactly what the problem is. But the opportunity to take up skiing in the spring of the year at what must be the ...

Our young detective couple, JC and Susan Shelby, embarks in Chicago on a small ship tour of the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, Hudson River, and Manhattan. What should have been a much deserved rest from their arduous immediately past adventures turns into a nightmare experience with death at Niagara Falls among other places along their colorful tour route. A large group of fellow passengers, a family of seven from North Dakota celebrating an inheritance with a hopefully pleasant vacation, b...

A sudden death in the family takes Jim and Penny back to their roots in Michigan. Jim invites Trapper, Earl and Buck to go along to visit with their families. Jim and Penny prepare for the funeral and while they are there, Jim finds an old acquaintance from his early days working as a private investigator. Barry Becker, now a police detective and he’s in Jim’s town to investigate a murder. Seems someone wanted to reveal damaging evidence about corrupt dealings within a mob run construction...

This book is an example of a strange relationship. The book will take you through Annie's personal thoughts and emotions as she unwraps the sequence of events.

In this, his third mystery, retired community journalist Jim Stanton comes face to face with something that had always been missing from his character – anger that boils down to hate.Trained as a young man by the U.S. Navy to be one of a select group of covert warriors, Stanton walked away from that life at his first opportunity, recognizing that the anger that fueled his teammates was absent from his makeup.Now, forty years later, a chain of events sees him attacked and seve...

Terra never knew her father, but she did know that it was his fault that her childhood was ruined. She ended up in one abusive house after another because her mom had the worst taste in men after Terra's father abandoned her. As an adult,Terra finds his address and sends him eight letters describing her life to him, including the different things her mother's boyfriends had done to them, the friends she had made and lost, and even the story of her first love. She wants to make him understa...