International Ocean

In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, Blue Ocean Strategy, now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool.

The gripping tale of sabotage at sea, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. In the heart of the Aegean Sea, a luxury yacht is on fire and sinking fast. Minutes later, a four-engined jet with a fire in its nose-cone crashes into the sea. Is there a sinister connection between these...

There's a storm coming. A storm like no other. A Catholic nun. A deadly assassin. Bound together by blood. Twin sisters torn apart at birth. When they are reunited by Mike Delaney. heaven meets hell head-on. This detonates an unstoppable explosion of events that embroils Mike Delaney in the battle of his life. Hunted by 'the sepulcher killer' who uses an ancient and long-forgotten weapon. Ex assassin, Hong Kong cop and one-time warrior monk, Mike Delaney is part of confess-confess, the citizen's crime busting website. When he falls for a sob story in Ireland (the land of his birth) he is ...

How sabotage and disorder threaten the fragile network of undersea cables and pipelines that makes modern life possible—and how it may already be drawing the world into an all-out underwater war. The world depends on a tangle of underwater tubes on the ocean floor. Every day undersea cables...

Ocean and Coastal Conservation delivers rigorous analysis of the science, governance, and finance required to protect marine ecosystems — from marine protected areas and fisheries management to blue economy finance and the landmark 2026 BBNJ Agreement. - Understand why 8.4 percent of the ocean is nominally protected but only 3.2 percent is effectively managed, and what determines where protection works - Analyze the ecological design principles behind marine protected area effectiveness — size, age, connectivity, and governance architecture - Discover how USD 35 billion annually in ...

On the night of 14 April 1912, RMS Titanic entered an ice region in the North Atlantic at more than twenty knots. Less than three hours after striking an iceberg, the most celebrated passenger liner of her age was gone. More than 1,500 people died. Roughly 700 survived. The catastrophe became one of the most famous disasters in modern history, but familiarity has also buried the real story beneath more than a century of myth. Titanic: The Night the World's Greatest Liner Sank reconstructs the disaster from the Belfast shipyard and maiden voyage through the ice warnings, collision, ...

One summer's day could change both their lives... Catriona Maclean is determined to give the special needs children in her Edinburgh church a seaside day out. She’s a nurse, her older brother is disabled, and she knows just how tough that can be for a family. But when a last minute hitch means she must call on the man she’s been secretly in love with since her teens for help, only her promise to God will carry her through. Alistair Murray has seen Catriona almost every day for the last twenty years. She’s a work colleague, his best friend’s little sister, one of the guys. They even ...

When opposites attract, life’s not so simple… When Hermione Spencer’s parents ask her to housesit their summer home in New Zealand, the English earl’s daughter is happy to escape her impending arranged marriage. She’s sure there will be plenty of time to scout out hotels for her romantic retreats business while she supervises the landscaping of the grounds. Then the gardener arrives, and suddenly life’s not so simple anymore. Danny Love, the owner of Love Landscaping, knows he’s the opposite of the kind of man Hermione needs, but their differences only seem to draw them ...

There’s no denying that women of color are portrayed as exceptional gems with oceanic depths in Reneé Drummond-Brown’s Black Exotic Pearls: Poetry Book. The ebony beauties are very aware of what to hold inside and what can be shared openly. She knows that she’s the original Mother of all living Pearls. She’s real. She’s authentic. She’s sincere. Her culture is from the west-south side of the northeast sea. Where foreign seas meet and mingle it’s indisputable that black pearls are always a good choice (catch if you will). But those that channel-surf that colorful ocean and ...

She was only marrying him to save the vineyard... It was just a contract, a way to access the money tied up in her inheritance. It didn’t mean anything. She knew she mustn’t think about Mac's broad shoulders. About the intriguing tattoo that curled around his arm, how his muscular body gleamed when he worked in the warm sunshine, or how his ocean-blue eyes heated her from the inside out. She mustn’t think about the stolen kiss, the way he’d slipped his arm around her waist to pull her against him. The soft touch of his lips on hers. “It’ll be strictly business,” he repeated. ...

A midnight video. A staged overboard. And a young ocean lifeguard trapped in the iron bowels of a luxury cruise ship racing into the dark. It is half-past midnight on the final night of a Caribbean cruise aboard the fourteen-deck Meridian Aurora. Nineteen-year-old Pelican County ocean lifeguard Maya Tolliver stands on the deserted stern deck filming the moonlit wake for her friends. But when an eerie red glow catches her eye below the overhang, she angles her phone down—and captures three crew members hauling dripping, black, beacon-lit bundles of narcotics through a mooring door straight...

The way Inspector Hanzō Shimura had it figured, it was just another case. Sure, it was sick, twisted, but those were human traits he’d grown accustomed to. A hardened veteran of two wars, there was little left on Earth that could faze a man like him. But what didn’t sit well with him was that this case’s blood-trail led him home. All the way to Nagasaki, where he’d lost his wife and daughter to the atom bomb, nine years before.

Meet Fizzy Oceans—archivist, researcher, environmentalist and adventurer. On her travels she witnesses The Exodus, the Battle of Gettysburg and Hurricane Katrina, as well as many other historical and real time events. She meets notable individuals including Gandhi, Mark Twain, Jacques Cousteau, The Dalai Llama, Saddam Hussein and even a new species called the Quinngen. Such unique experiences and encounters spanning the world and time as we know them would not be possible for a single individual—especially not for a woman named Amy Birkenstock who works as a medical clerk in Seattle, ...

From a leading Brookings Institution fellow and author of To Rule the Waves comes a vivid and bracing examination of today’s most secretive geopolitical conflict: the battle for dominance beneath the oceans. Sub War explores a high-stakes, largely invisible race that is reshaping global...

Competitors have always existed in business, but what if it were possible to render your competition irrelevant? This is the critical question posed in W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne's book Blue Ocean Strategy. According to Kim and Mauborgne, the path to success of any company does not lie in taking on potential competitors but in the creation of "blue oceans" in uncontested market space. The authors offer analytical frameworks and tools to help businesses identify and capitalize on these new opportunities.

When shipwrecked Viking Iver awakens on a beach, he is astonished to find that he has been well cared for by Audra, who is the first woman ever to show him kindness. He never expects to lose his heart to the gentle-spirited Englishwoman, but as he soon learns, life is full of pleasant surprises. Taken by a Viking is a steamy M/F, first time, short story.

"The only thing worth killing for is family." All three books in one volume. A young Nadia Laksheva is blackmailed into working for Russian mobster Kadinsky for ten years, after which she and her sister will be free... But on the eve of her release from the contract a heist goes badly wrong in central London, and Nadia is hurled into a world of espionage and terrorism, fighting against an all-powerful foe who is in the shadows in book one, until she comes face to face with him in book 2. He aims not only to destroy her and her family, but to kill millions, Her efforts to stop him while ...

The Forbidden Sea is a gripping maritime thriller that plunges readers into the dark world of human trafficking, corruption, and hidden evil moving across the open water. At the center of the story are Lyle and Logan Ridge, two skilled brothers with courage, discipline, and a deep sense of justice. Aboard their specially designed tactical catamaran, the Black Fin, they uncover a deadly operation that uses luxury cruise ships, private tenders, forged paperwork, and powerful clients to move victims through the shadows and into lives of exploitation. What begins as a quiet watch on suspicious ...