Henry Carter Hull

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors...

Photographs and text provide information about submarines, explaining what they are, looking at different types of submarines, and discussing how they are used.

Marine architect Hannah Bryson, working with her brother Connor to inspect the decommissioned Soviet submarine "Silent Thunder" and ready it to be used as a maritime museum, sets her sights on revenge when Connor is killed and she learns they have been used as bait by the CIA and former Russian crew member Nicholas Kirov to trap a Soviet crime lord who believes the vessel holds the secret to the whereabouts of a priceless artifact.

Provides information about various underwater vehicles and how they are used by the military and researchers. Includes a time line of submarine progress and a glossary.

Ken Hughes and Kate Ross race against time to prevent a Chinese submarine attack on unprepared and unprotected New York City and free Manhattan, held by the obsessed Admiral Tang Li.

Covers the history of submarines from the earliest proposal in 1465 to the rapid developments during the World Wars. Discusses what will become of submarines in the post cold war era.

In Paris, a young physicist performs an oceanographic experiment-then dies mysteriously after a romantic tryst with a beautiful stranger. In the jungles of Malaysia, powerful hypersonic cavitation technology-capable of toppling mountains with sound-is purchased by a private interest for an unspecified purpose. In Vancouver, a businessman leases a small research submarine for use in the waters of New Guinea. In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica,

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Purports to be the journal of Zoticus de Lesseps, written on an ill-fated 1863 voyage accompanying Captain Nemo to explore the mysteries of the deep sea.

When Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security Adviser, learns that the Chinese army has developed a submarine that has the capability to launch a nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean, he sends out America's most lethal weapon, a 9,000 ton submarine, to destroy the threat.

The enemy from within . . . Iranian-born British Commando Major Ray Kerman was a rising star in the SAS -- until he abruptly switched loyalties while on a mission in the Middle East. Fanatically determined to employ his brilliant talents and training in the destruction of those he once swore to protect, he is now General Ravi Rashood, leader of the world's most vicious terrorist organization -- and he has found his ultimate weapon: Barracuda 945....