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"Classics from Moby Dick to A Perfect Storm have sought to capture mankind's obsession with the might and the mystery of the sea. And the greatest minds for centuries, including Isaac Newton, Napoleon, and Benjamin Franklin, have worked to understand and predict when its next act...
Draws on a wide range of verse forms such as epigrams, street ballads, classical poetry, Augustan satire, and advertising jingles.
With six-thousand ex-offenders returning to Washington DC each year, these 'Returning Citizens' make up ten percent of the population. Due to the recent bi-partisan push for prison reform, the number of newly released men and women is rapidly rising, as are the rates of crime and...
Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves stories of unpredicted natural disaster with those of scientific discovery. The result is a journey from ancient man's first crude tide predictions to today's advanced early warning ability based on the Glo...