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Just as Midshipman Alexis Carew thinks she's found a place in the Royal Navy, she's transferred aboard H.M.S. Hermione. Her captain is a Tartar, liberal with the cat, who thinks girls have no place aboard ship. The other midshipmen in the berth are no better and the only advice she's offered is to keep her head down and mouth shut - things Alexis is rarely able to do.

After years of service in the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Alexis Carew finds herself adrift—physically and emotionally—on her homeworld of Dalthus IV. Haunted by injuries and political intrigue from her last mission, Alexis struggles to reclaim the precision and strength that once made her a formidable officer. But even the peace of a quiet retreat proves elusive when shadowy threats from her past resurface. Summoned by the Queen herself, Alexis is thrust back into the heart of interstellar danger and royal politics.

Trapped on a hostile world, hunted by pirate bands, and abandoned by her fellow captains, Alexis Carew must lead her small band to safety, even though it seems every hand is set against her. Stalked by pirates in the skies above and shadowy alien figures on the planet below, Alexis must convince former enemies to trust her even as she discovers where the tendrils of her true enemies lead.

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Jon Bartlett's path is clear before him: finish his last year of schooling, then off on the family's ships to learn the intricacies of interstellar trade. But a message of tragedy at home comes for him, and his expected life is flung far out of reach and he's cast into a role he never wanted.

For Lieutenant Alexis Carew, it should be the perfect assignment - a command of her own and a chance to return to her home star system. What she finds is a surly crew, the dregs of every frigate and ship of the line to pass through on the way to the war's front, a first officer who thinks the command should have been his, and colonial worlds where they believe a girl's place is somewhere very different than command of a Queen's starship.

Rosa and Mason once had a billion credits - sure, they stole them from a corrupt private-prison corporation, but the bastards deserved it. Now, that company's tracked them down and kidnapped Mason's mother. The only way to keep her, and themselves, alive is to go to work for the company that once imprisoned them, then head for the Asteroid Belt to hack a pirate king's datastream - oh, and give back the billion credits. Rosa's not sure it's a fair trade.

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O Scrum é a arma secreta por trás de algumas das empresas mais bem-sucedidas da atualidade. Google, Facebook, Amazon e Apple usam esse método de gerenciamento de projetos para impulsionar inovações incrivelmente rápidas mantendo o foco nos clientes e no aprimoramento contínuo. Em seu primeiro livro, Scrum: A arte de fazer o dobro do trabalho na metade do tempo, J. J. Sutherland expôs a estrutura do Scrum, aplicada por quase todas as atuais líderes em tecnologia.

Niemand könnte ein Praxisbuch schreiben, das anschaulicher erklärt, welche großen Herausforderungen Unternehmen mit Scrum bewältigen können, als die Erfinder der Methode selbst. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus Branchen, die disruptiven Veränderungen ausgesetzt sind - wie Bosch, Saab oder der Ölförderer Schlumberger - verdeutlicht Sutherland die positive Kraft von Scrum. Denn diesen Unternehmen ist es gelungen, ihre Leistungsfähigkeit zu erhöhen, bessere Zahlen zu schreiben und ihre Zukunft selbst zu gestalten.