Richard Hughes

Como Huracán en Jamaica, su primera novela, y a la que Richard Hughes debe su fama, En peligro, publicada en 1938, cuenta la apasionante aventura del barco de vapor Archimedes, que en 1929 zarpa de Norfolk (Virginia), a traves del canal de Panama, hacia el lejano Oriente. El barco, que transporta una serie de mercancias desde la Costa Este de Estados Unidos hasta China, se ve inmerso, de pronto, en una terrible tormenta. Las condiciones climatologicas cambian de forma repentina y, durante cuatro dias, el Archimedes se halla en el vortice de un inmenso huracan y debe enfrentarse sin tregua a un fuerte vendaval y unas olas inmensas.

En Jamaica, a mediados del siglo xix, los cinco hijos de la familia inglesa Bas-Thornton y los dos de la familia criolla Fernández viven en "una especie de paraíso". Pero, despues de que un terremoto y un huracan hayan reducido a escombros las posesiones de sus familias, son enviados a Inglaterra para su educacion. Durante el trayecto, el barco en que viajan es abordado por unos piratas y los niños se encuentran accidentalmente "secuestrados"; sus captores, sin embargo, distan de ser rudos y desalmados marineros y se resignan a navegar con esa inesperada compañia. Huracan en Jamaica ha conservado intacta la temible sugestion de ser una de las novelas mas perturbadoras sobre la crueldad infantil, cuya influencia en otros clasicos como El señor de las moscas es indudable.

It is 2023 and our intrepid Cape Cod health, safety, and environmental consultants, who some call the best in the business, are continuing to travel globally to help those in everyday headlines with their S, H, & E crises. Client problems range from military to millinery; autism to engulfment; Ukraine to San Franciscos historic Cliff House; Amazon to Mexican pig farms; confined spaces to massive Texas large garbage dumps; civil war submarine health to Boston light rail safety; and all manner of issues with the worlds new energy needs. Our consultants encounter people against nature, people against people, people against the dangerous machinery their own imaginations had created, people against misinformation, people against deliberate false information, people taking bad risks, and mans hubris toward outwitting obvious perils. These are all cutting-edge challenges for our savvy crew of experts. Can they make a difference? Will they make a difference? If not, how likely is the planets future if they dont make a difference? Entertaining, informative, educational, and mostly fun reading!

From the sinkings of the El Faro to the Andrea Doria, with dozens of similar maritime tragedies in between, the vague explanation of human error has been cited as the reason for the tragedies. For the first time, a 40-year safety consultant challenges much of that causation theory as too simple.The captain and crew, too often, in modern maritime history have become the scapegoats for far deeper failures of ship design, ship inspection and maintenance, shipping timetables, mechanical deficiencies, poor ship construction, overloading, improper loading, and delayed ship replacement, among myriad other circumstances. A common thread of greed, hubris, and miscalculation run through the dozens of international disasters. Ninety percent of our daily needs depend on the all but invisible world of international shipping. Are we racing toward disaster or greater transportation sophistication? In the worlds rush to autonomous shipping and supersized NeoPanamax ships, SeaBlameworthiness offers many reasons for caution.

Cape Safety, Inc. - Change of Climate, No. 5 in the Danger Dogs Series, takes us from land mine detection in Ukraine to refloating the Ever Forward in Baltimore, Maryland, from underground aquifers in California to entertainment submarines engaged in hostage exchanges, from preserving a historic Blue Riband contender; to choosing between lobsters or blue whales in Maine; the safety, health, and environmental specialists of Cape Safety, Inc., and now its West Coast branch, Cliff Safety, Inc., solve more, urgent and emerging world problems, and expand their footprint from coast to coast, while the climate clock ticks down.

Cape Safety, Inc. - Cast of Characters continues the travels and travails of the men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the "go-to" safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists. Look over their shoulders as they describe the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston, as a giant tank full of molasses exploded, covering the city. Learn how a team of hazmat specialists disposed of 70,000 lbs. of rotted food in the U.S.S. Cole, how to avoid getting hit by lightning, just how badly Hollywoods stunt performers--including Jackie Chan--get hurt in every part of their bodies and why no one is doing anything about it. Read a fascinating, true tale of how a 1300-acre lake in Louisiana literally "went down the drain" in one of the most bizarre stories ever told. The diverse collection of personable experts at Cape Safety, Inc. remain the busiest safety guys and gals around, but dont think for a minute its all work and no play. Cape Safety Inc. - Cast of Characters, the 2nd in his Danger Dogs Series, continues Mr. Hughess unique genre of "actual fiction" combining the elements of true news events with fictional characters, set on picturesque Cape Cod.

The 6th book in the series, Cape Safety, Inc. - S. H. E. - Safety, Health & Environmental, captures over 50 headline interventions involving the diverse cast of characters better known as the E. H. & S. consultants of C.S.I. Once more, the menand increasingly, the talented womenof the barely fictional consulting firm travel internationally from their Woods Hole, MA, or San Francisco, CA, headquarters to engage in forward-thinking problem solving at many of the global crises of 2022. Contemporary history in a fun format. A uniquely inspirational genre to keep up with current events in an easy read.

Follow the adventures of the CSI consultants as they battle 21st-century problems like artificial intelligence, environmental issues, and the ethics of gene editing, among other new matters. Investigate the ramifications of letting AI decide loan applications, prison sentences, and drone targets; if a computer is doing it, what could go wrong? Why has architecture become hostile? Cow burps really are more damaging to the planet than you thought. Whales are better for the planet than you thought. Rat snakes arent the bad guys anymore. Dickens characters were among the first recyclers. A filled diaper is loaded with plastics. Cobalt mining the next frontier. Why our Outer Space Treaty is starting to mean something. Armadillos have migrated as far north as North Carolina; will they soon be in your backyard? Attack of the Stinkbugs a modern-day horror tale. All the above and more are tackled by our CSI heroes.

Cape Safety, Inc. Where Problems Perish continues the global adventures of the expert men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the "go-to" safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists. Proud of your designer clothes? Look behind the scenes at the factory conditions in Pakistan who tire over your designer duds and rethink it. Read a laymans explanation of how religious extremism results in the long-term far-reaching effects of deforestation. See how the love of money is a sin, but not for the reasons you think. Eavesdrop on a conversation between experts about how and why the World Trade Centers construction exacerbated the quick fire spread on that fateful day of September 11, 2001. What are they really doing at New York states Plum Island laboratory? Why the term "spelunker" is an insult. Explore the Japanese superstition of the Number 4. Backpacks for bees? Its so crazy it just might work. A serious warning about not being coy when giving your weight to the clerk at the airline counter. Where Problems Perish chronicles the continued workplace excitement experienced by the best and brightest, their canine acquaintances, political allies, celebrity friends, and many Cape Cod connections at their headquarters in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

From their Cape Cod compound, the brightest safety consultants in their profession take you into their world to resolve local as well as global safety, health, and environmental conflicts. Meet characters you wish you knew, maybe even characters you do know dealing with true incidents set in a fictional context. Written by a Cape Cod-based safety consultant with over 40 years of experience, Richard Hughess first novel in an exciting new series happily takes the reader into different kinds of adventures, ones that you quite likely never thought existed. Politics and purpose together in a great little company. A safety course in a novel or a novel kind of safety course?

CAPE SAFETY, INC. - NEW BLOODDanger Dogs Series No. 7 by Richard Hughes New Blood takes a far stricter look at how American politics in 2023 is affecting the national and international safety, health, and environmental decisions of the premier S. H. & E. firm, Cape Safety, Inc. and their California branch, Cliff Safety, Inc. "People are ultimately the firms engineering specialty," says a staff member of the barely fictional consulting firm. Whats really going on in the world? They travel internationally from their Woods Hole, MA, or San Francisco, CA, headquarters to engage in forward-thinking problem-solving at many headline crises of 2023. From East Palestine, Ohio; to Guanabara Bay, Brazil; to the badly exploited African miners in the hidden cobalt mines of the Congo, so we can get the rare earth mineral to power our cell phones; to Divest Food in Massachusetts; to shipbreaking yards in Turkey; to airline bottlenecks with the DOT in Washington, D.C.; to Hanford Atomic Energy in Washington State; even browbeaten Indian welders and pipefitters in Mississippi; to name just a few spots visited by our old friends (and some New Blood, too). Its not all bad news! Learn about progress in autism; Rhode Island gun control; harvesting the heat off of computers and recycling it; environmentalists plan to reduce companies use of plastics; finally, barnacles can be eliminated by getting them to kick away from ships hulls; nanotechnologies quickly suppress vapor formation, reducing confined space entry safe operation procedures; renewable energy from garbage; innovative lifeboats; Africas tectonic plates are shifting and creating a new sea, cutting the continent into two. Contemporary history in a fun format. A uniquely inspirational genre to keep up with current events in a fun way.

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Deep Sea Decisions introduces the Evergreen Group, the owners of the largest container ships ever built, and details their recent high-value losses jumping off every headline. Why? Who is really to blame for these incidents? And why are the officers and crew the first ones, often the only ones, blamed? An updated 2022 version of the highly acclaimed Deep Sea Dominoes, this new book adds further evidence of responsibility to those previously told historical disasters. From the sinkings of the Andrea Doria to the El Faro, with dozens of similar maritime tragedies in between, the vague explanation of "human error" has been cited as the reason for many modern maritime tragedies. A 45-year safety consultant challenges much of that causation theory as too simple. The captain and crew, too often, in modern maritime history have become the scapegoats for far deeper failures of ship design, ship inspection, maintenance, shipping timetables, mechanical deficiencies, poor ship construction, overloading, improper loading, and delayed ship replacement, among myriad other circumstances. A common thread of systemic failure, greed, hubris, and miscalculation runs through dozens of international disasters. Ninety percent of our daily goods arrive via the all but invisible world of international shipping. Are we racing toward disaster with our greater transportation sophistication? With the worlds rush to autonomous shipping and supersized NeoPanamax ships, Deep Sea Decisions offers many reasons for caution.