The Dangerous Islands
The Dangerous Islands

Author: Ann Bridge

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-09-28

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1448203589

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Julia Probyn – journalist, amateur sleuth and occasional spy – is sailing off the west coast of Scotland with her cousin Colin when they stumble upon a suspicious sky-blue pole, rising from the ground on the desolate island of Erinish Beg. Colin, who works for the British Secret Service, immediately suspects Russian surveillance. Military Intelligence sends Colonel Jamieson to investigate this find, and together he and Julia must unravel the mystery. But as the Cold War rages, the pair are soon to find out that the antenna-like pole is only the beginning. As the conspiracy grows, so too does their affection for each other, which seems rather likely to complicate matters. The Dangerous Islands, book four of The Julia Probyn Mysteries, is a tale of love, adventure, and espionage.

Trouble Island
Trouble Island

Author: Franklin W. Dixon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1534450262

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Brother detectives Frank and Joe cook up a new case as a series of accidents threatens a remote island in the twenty-second book in the thrilling Hardy Boys Adventures series. When Aunt Trudy wins a competition to intern with celebrity chef Colton Spark, she invites Frank and Joe to join her on her trip to the remote Rubble Island off the coast of Maine, where she’ll be helping Colton cook for the prestigious Golden Claw Awards. They’ll be staying at the island’s beautiful Seaspray Inn where the event is being hosted, and though it’s the off-season, the boys will be free to check out the rocky beaches, learn about lobstering, and take in all the close-knit community has to offer. Still, even before the Hardys reach the island, it becomes clear that the locals are not big fans of Colton. As the big day approaches, the Seaspray Inn encounters a series of mishaps. Is it bad luck, or is someone trying to scare Colton off? And then, the night before the awards, the Golden Claw goes missing! But before the police can make it over from the mainland to investigate, a huge storm blows in. Cut off from the world, tensions on the island are higher than ever. Will Frank and Joe be able to figure out who’s behind the crimes before someone gets hurt? Or is this troubled island more than they can handle?

Troubled Waters
Troubled Waters

Author: Paul F. Paskoff

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0807133876

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In Troubled Waters, Paul F. Paskoff offers a comprehensive examination of the federal government's river improvements program, which aimed to reduce hazards to navigation on the great rivers of America's interior during the early and mid-nineteenth century. Danger on the rivers came in a variety of forms. Shoals, rapids, ice, rocks, sandbars, and uprooted trees and submerged steamboat wrecks lodged in river beds were the most common perils and accounted for the largest number of steamboat disasters. As such, improving the safety and efficiency of the nation's waterways was consistently at the forefront of political and economic discussions of the day.

Galápagos Islands
Galápagos Islands

Author: Cynthia Kennedy Henzel

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781616135638

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Introduces the Galâapagos Islands, describes how they formed, and discusses the importance of conservation on the islands.

The Dangerous Islands
The Dangerous Islands

Author: Clifford Gessler

Publisher:

Published: 1937

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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Chiefly the author's account of life on Tepuka (Napuka), Tuamotu Archipelago in 1934, with K.P. Emory, an ethnologist and member of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum Mangarevan Expedition.

Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States

Author: Alexis Dudden

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0231141777

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Whether it's the Vatican addressing its role in the Second World War or the United States atoning for its treatment of native Hawai'ian islanders, apologizing for history has become a standard feature of the international political scene. As Alexis Dudden makes clear, interrogating this process is crucial to understanding the value of the political apology to the state. When governments apologize for past crimes, they take away the substance of apology that victims originally wanted for themselves. They rob victims of the dignity they seek while affording the state a new means with which to legitimize itself. Examining the interplay between political apology and apologetic history, Dudden focuses on the problematic relationship binding Japanese imperialism, South Korean state building, and American power in Asia. She examines this history through diplomatic, cultural, and social considerations in the postwar era and argues that the process of apology has created a knot from which none of these countries can escape without undoing decades of mythmaking.

The Troubled Alliance
The Troubled Alliance

Author: Gerard E. Silberstein

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0813186617

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On August 1, 1914, the German and Austro-Hungarian empires stood on the brink of the greatest war history had known. Their great need was for alliances that would provide manpower and defense of their borders. In only one direction could these be sought—the Balkan Peninsula. Yet disagreements between foreign officers and high commands increased the difficulty of establishing such alliances. Austrian caution continually clashed with German persistence, for the expansionist drives of the Balkan powers threatened the monarchy's own ambitions. The differences between the two allies were smoothed over in the case of Turkey and Bulgaria, but the ultimate diplomatic failure in Rumania produced much rancor. The author's examination of little known documents in the German and Austrian archives brings to light details of an often tortured relationship. The personalities of those who shaped the course of the war and the playing off of power against power are here clearly revealed.

Bad Island
Bad Island

Author: Stanley Donwood

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1324001860

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A starkly beautiful, wordless graphic novel about the end of the world by the cult artist and longtime Radiohead collaborator. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and man appears, with clubs, with spears, with crueler weapons still—and things do not go well for the wilderness. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke choke the undergrowth and the creatures that once moved through it. This is not a happy story, and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood achieves with his art what words cannot convey, carving out a mesmerizing, stark parable of environmental disaster and the end of civilization.