Do missing dogs hold a clue to the disappearance of Max's wife?Max Boucher, a former Seattle detective turned P.I. has just been handed a puzzling case. Dozens of dogs are disappearing all over the city, and no one knows why. The stretched Seattle police department can't dedicate the resources needed, and Max may be the pet owner's only hope. For the missing dogs, time is running out.But Max is dealing with his own demons. Three years ago, his wife disappea...

Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement—but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade in creating the international system.The book begins in the early days of the industrial revoluti...

Study and review of our COLLECTIVE EVOLUTION has resulted in Our scientific discoveries Our current technology Our knowledge regarding our origin, development and current existence. All of which tends to dismiss belief in the existence of a God who created us and our entire reality, its easy to conclude that. WE ARE ON OUR OWN and that EVERYTHING THATS EVER HAPPENED are but FLUKY, CHANCE, RANDOM OCCURRENCES STILL WE MARVEL at the incredible glory, beauty, majesty, awesome power, complexity...

Within these pages you will find twenty-five short stories. You will find each different, each hopefully a pleasant little read. Some involve ghostly goings on, others a little detective work and still others are a tad goofy; just a little nonsense with something, hopefully, to raise a smile. When taking that welcome break, cup of tea or coffee in hand, this is a little book which can literally be dipped into at any point for a ten minute relaxing read.

Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an idea—the concept of “Sea Power,” a term first coined by Capt. A.T. Mahan and the core thread of his life’s work.  His central argument was that the outcome of rivalries on the seas have decisively shaped the course of modern history. Although Mahan’s scholarship has long been seen as foundational to all systematic study of naval power, Neptune Factor...

The language of businessIn order to understand how your business is performing right now and to evaluate, assess, and devise new strategies to boost future performance, you need information. Financial statements are a critical source of the information you need.In direct and simple terms, Richard A. Lambert, Miller-Sherrerd Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, demystifies financial statements and concepts and shows you how you can...

Maddox: As a freshman at BBU, I have my pick of parties and girls, but I still feel pretty stressed and unfulfilled. I can't stand my moronic teammates on the swim team, and devoting so much of my time to swimming is starting to take a toll on me. I'm over everything, until I get paired with this socially awkward dweeb named Ren Suzuki in one of my classes. He follows me around like a puppy and wants to show me off to his weird friends. I feel protective over him, like I'd fight anyone who...

Grace lost one prince but found another.To rescue Prince Ventar she must enter a place even her ascended friends fear to go. A place she will come to realise holds the key to the very fate of the Local Group of galaxies.Prince Camcietti must let her go and tread his own perilous path. A dark shadow is being cast over the galaxy - a shadow that may eclipse even the malignant depravity of the Zerot.

New technologies are making information more fluid, but what does this mean for information providers? Without a doubt, it means that traditional roles are evolving and that the task of providing information demands greater expertise in exploiting new technologies and navigating their uncharted ebbs and flows of information.The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association, offers a host of well-integrated and forwa...

Caelyx: My life took a sharp dip last year when my billionaire dad confiscated my credit cards and kicked me out, demanding I get a business degree before I can come back. I didn't know how to deal, until I met Aspen Davis. He's prickly, moody, and his emotions are guarded more securely than Fort Knox, but I've never wanted anyone like I want him. He claims he's not into feelings or long term attachments, especially not with guys like me, who are used to having everything ...

Pete is a special bird. He is the only robin that couldnt sing. This inability made Pete very sad. . . After much thought Pete decided that he would not accept his inability, instead he would find a solution. After all he is not just any bird, he is Pete!

Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system.In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval p...