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Built in 1913, the Canadian Pacific Railway's ship Princess Maquinna steamed up and down the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in summer and winter, calm weather and storms, for over forty years, and has become one of the most beloved boats in BC’s maritime history. Princess Maquinna, sometimes referred to as the “Ugly Princess” but most often “Old Faithful, ” transported Indigenous people, settlers, missionaries, loggers, cannery workers...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II

Extradition often priorities international comity and state rights over individual protections. This can create unfairness and concerns about extraditee welfare. Using case studies, this book explores these issues and argues that defendant-centered reforms are needed to adjust these unequal levels of authority.

Originally published in 1981 and then as a second edition, revised and updated in 1983 and now with a new Preface by Ian Kennedy, this is a hard-hitting and penetrating investigation behind the façade of late 20th Century medical thinking.

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Using real-life stories, the author draws on his extensive experience in public life to explain and illustrate what leadership involves away from the spotlight - lower case leadership rather than in capitals letters. He presents an anatomy of leadership - from vision to team-work to delivery.

The eccentric and erratic detective Petroc Corrigan has recently had to resign from C.I.D. after a drunken high speed accident in a borrowed patrol car ending in a field and a dead cow. Needing to repair his finances he hires himself out to investigate the whereabouts of a missing two million Swiss Franc investment which he reckons no longer exists. He's right. But his journeys to Paris, Nice, Geneva and Tangier lead him onto a different path ...

The third Petroc Corrigan novel takes the disgraced former detective to the icy wastes of Greenland in pursuit of the truth about the murder and mutilation of the son of an unfrocked Welsh priest. And also there's his usual pursuit, money - the ten grand down payment solution to his present financial woes. In his usual crash in, ask questions later, he discovers at the same point as they discover him, a secret army hidden, as the American forc...

Jack Regan is sent to New York on the trail of an international plot involving millions in missing American military hardware. As usual Jack Regan's talent for extreme action means confrontation with the NYPD, the FBI, the CIA and organised crime, and also a mysterious and willing woman. This is the second of the three novels published at the time of the original series. The others are: 'Regan', and 'The Deal of the Century'. Ian Ke...

In the first of the three Sweeney novels written by the creator of the TV series, Detective Inspector Jack Regan, expert at evading the proper channels, insolent and insubordinate to his superiors, exercises his usual trump card of cases solved with successful convictions. When he is ordered to London airport to pick up Lieutenant Ewing of the San Francisco and to cooperate with him in finding a police killer believed to be in London, Regan...

Sheikh Abu Hasif died on the third floor of the Wellington Clinic in London on Monday 12th April, 1976. His assassin emptied a whole clip from an M38 submachine gun into the man. It took off most of his head and right shoulder and left the bed headboard and part of the floor and walls reworked in technicolour. Detective Inspector Jack Regan of the Flying Squad begins his investigation with a search for a group of mysterious murderers among ...

In a nightmare world of people controlled by an elite and their computers a desperate Harold Acteon seeking for justice has a violent but inevitable philosophy that freedom requires the freedom to murder. And from the outset the chase between the pursuer and his pursued can only resolve itself through slaughter and mayhem in this appalling rationale of destruction. "What makes this novel so interesting is the extraordinary brilliance of its...

REKILL is the gripping story of a manhunt. The target is Van Dhoc. Tall, soft-spoken, a former captain of the North Vietnamese Army, he has a psychopaths obsession: to work his way, systematically and ruthlessly, down a list of participants in the brutal massacre at Da Loc, a village that had been wiped from the map one sunny afternoon in the war. John Leeming, former head of a Special Forces Camp in Vietnam has a past of his own to conceal...

In the first of the three Sweeney novels written by the creator of the TV series, Detective Inspector Jack Regan, expert at evading the proper channels, insolent and insubordinate to his superiors, exercises his usual trump card of cases solved with successful convictions. When he is ordered to London airport to pick up Lieutenant Ewing of the San Francisco and to cooperate with him in finding a police killer believed to be in London, Regan...

John Green is not happy. The world as he knows it is about to be destroyed. He knew it was going to happen, maybe not when, but as a regular traveller in time, 'when' was always a bit of an issue. He knew he'd be able to fix the problem. What he didn't know was whether he'd be able to fix the aftermath of his fix. In fact, John rather suspected that this may be the end to life as he knew it. Would Urni's help and support be enough to see him t...

Alfred, Draz, and Artisius escape from Earth in the Green Dragon and make their way to Mars as they attempt to outrun the Collective Zone Great Fleet. On Mars, they try to get lost in the criminal gangs that operate with impunity on the planet. Alfred struggles with his sanity, as his zetting gets more and more enslaving. Alfred, Draz, and Artisius try to escape the danger of the situation they are in as the Great Fleet of the Collective Zone ...

John Green is enjoying life. He's is now married, something he never really expected, but then, lots of things in John's life are 'unexpected'. One thing is certain, if John wants to stay married, he needs to complete the work on his Civitatai CPU design. Otherwise, there is a distinct possibility that his wife will disappear from his life forever. Then there is the slight problem of what to do about his discovery of Time Travel. Is the world ...

Fleeing Mars for Europa, a moon of Jupiter, the crew of the Green Dragon become the spark which ignites the war between the Solar Solutions Corporation and the Collective Zone as the Collective Zone Great Fleet invades Solar Solutions territory. Alfred fears losing all hold of his sanity as his zetting becomes increasingly self-destructive. Soldiers on both sides clash for the glory of their corporation and blind survival. Everyone must ask th...

What happened to the quiet life? John Green was busier than ever. He'd finally managed to design and manufacture his Civitatai chip. Now all he needed to do was to persuade people to utilise it. Of course, he could always produce some products of his own, but there was at least one application of the Civitatai chip that he'd rather not put his name to. Added into the mix was the fact that he and Kelvin had another job, around a thousand years ...