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Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is preparing for battle off the French coast and as the fleets draw together, Drinkwater is unprepared for the irregular role destiny deals him when he becomes…
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Usual splendid attention to detail and character The Seafarer
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Action in Admiral Rodney’s dramatic Moonlight Battle of 1780, when Cyclops’ capture of the Santa Teresa plays a decisive part, is the start of Nathaniel Drinkwater’s life at sea. HMS…
In the seventh tale of the highly acclaimed Drinkwater series, Captain Drinkwater’s frigate, HMS
Captain John Mackinnon and his ship, the Matthew Flinders, are embarking on their last voyage. Both endangered species, they symbolize the irreversible, quiet decline of the British merchant fleet. But…
It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called ‘Confrontation’. A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate Indonesian Borneo to locate a river thought…
Amid the internationally acrimonious atmosphere of 1811, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater stumbles upon a bold conspiracy by which the U.S. could defeat the Royal Navy, collapse the British government and utterly…
Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings the frigate Patrician to the Pearl River on the China coast and finds himself caught up in bizarre events.
Captain Cracker Jack Kemball of the tea clipper Erl King races Captain Richards of the Seawitch from Shangai to London. The wager: his daughter’s hand in marriage.
The frozen splendor of the Arctic Ocean and the absorbing drama of a nineteenth century whale hunt unfold as Drinkwater escorts a whaling fleet to Greenland and meets disaster, treachery…
Far from being the reminiscences of an old man, this title weaves the past with the present; the personal tensions below decks, the straining creak of a man-of-war under sail…
Acting for the Admiralty’s Secret Department, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater advertises his cargo of Russian military stores, thus embarking on a scheme to flout Napoleon’s Continental System and antagonize the French…
From the clash of mighty battleships at Jutland in 1916 to the cold splendor of the present-day Arctic, The Darkening Sea is a modern seafaring epic that traces the fortunes…
In this, the eighth story in the highly acclaimed Drinkwater series, Capt. Nathaniel Drinkwater confronts the formidable enemies, mutiny and a beautiful and mysterious ally.
It is 1814 and Napoleon has abdicated as Emperor of the French. King Louis XVIII is brought out of his English exile and escorted back to France by an Allied…
In 1964, during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called 'Confrontation, ' British Royal Marine Lieutenant Charles Kirton makes a most extraordinary discovery amid the dense mangrove swamps bordering a river…
England, 1659. Captain Kit Faulkner’s house is prospering; his eldest son, Nathaniel, has recently returned from a profitable trip to Jamaica in the good ship Faithful, and his daughter, Hannah…
1843: Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater's career concludes as he is drawn from retirement and embarks on the paddle-steamer Vestal for a final mission to inspect lighthouses on the west coast of…
At one time British ships carried half of world’s trade, transporting every conceivable freight from and to all four corners of the globe - and in times of crisis its…
Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is caught up in the complex bloody Battle of Copenhagen, and must save his ship and help his borther escape the gallows.
Drinkwater, in his fight to bring a half-armed ship safely to the Cape of Good Hope, is beset with personal enmity, the activity of the French and the violence of…
While the Grand Army of Napoleon faces defeat on the battlefields of Germany, the discovery of a secret treaty with America leads Drinkwater into the forbidding fjords of Norway, and…
Comprising AN EYE OF THE FLEET, KING’S CUTTER and BRIG OF WAR, this omnibus edition contains the first three Nathaniel Drinkwater chronicles.
A recreation of a bygone world at war. The fifth omnibus of an adventure series featuring Nathaniel Drinkwater.
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Furious and bloody: 400 years of shipboard rebellion
During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defences against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. This work presents the story of…
It is 1792 and Nathaniel Drinkwater is back in the Royal Navy. He is involved in secret adn dangerous operations off the French Coast including the rescue of emigres and…
Set during the reign of Richard III, The Woodman is a romantic adventure that combines elements of historical fiction, tragedy, and heroism. George Payne Rainsford James' novel is a thrilling…
Covers such topics as psychological ownership in organizations, employee perceptions of fairness when human resource systems change, a culture-based perspective of organization development implementation, and mapping the progress of change…
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Contains papers that range from explorations of individual action in organizational change to studies of multiple organizations. This volume contains chapters that demonstrate the expanding boundaries of the field.
Ideas which are comfortable and familiar are not likely to challenge or transform our thinking. As humans, our need to reduce cognitive dissonance causes us to seek the familiar and…
The theoretical frames outlined in this volume on research in organizational change and development in the range from perspectives that are relatively undeveloped (for example chaos theory), to perspectives and…
Part of a series presenting scholarly thinking about research and concepts related to the transformation of organizations. The papers presented in Volume 14 address practical, conceptual and methodological issues in…
Explores the dynamics of time in organizational change, proposing the use of the concept of flow time. This book examines the issue of excessive change in organizations, which are defined…
Dealing with the field of organization change and development, this series provides overviews of different paradigms of research in the field.
This volume covers such topics as psychological ownership in organizations, employee perceptions of fairness when human resource systems change, a culture-based perspective of organization development implementation, and mapping the progress…
Covers such topics as locating meaning making in organizational learning, internalization and the firm’s growth, the psychology of organizational transactions, and organizational design and organizational development solutions to the problem…
Part of a series on research in organizational change and development, this book deals with such topics as practitioner attitudes to the field of organizational development and the effects of…
