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Now here's a coincidence. Two Royal Navy experts with the same initials!

I have a book by N A M Rodger "The Command of the Ocean".
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,97 80713994117,00.html

I think that none should trash any theory, unless there are some clear evidences and, much better, when there is one theory able to provide answers when the other ones cannot.
Evolution theory seems to be quite reasonable because it seems to rely on very few postulates when compared to other theories.
If other theories need fewer postulates and provide more answers, then chances there are that they will succeed.
I'd suggest a quick read of "The Fabric of reality" by David Deutsch for deeper details about this philosophy.
In any case theories about evolution are themselves subject to evolution whenever the objective is to provide answers.

oh.. wait..

Penguin knows this.

The practical problem is that copyright law is enforced by the victim taking the violator to court. They are using harassment, itself probably a crime, to intimidate a person without deep pockets. It's like trespassing or squatting, if someone uses your property long enough, it becomes their property. They have done the equivalent of publishing a map misidentifying her property as a publicly accessable racetrack. When people get there, they might notice that it isn't, but not until they have driven all over her pansies ruined her lawn.

I propose we do our due diligance and visit their websites, see what they have to say about it. Visit all their sites as many times as necessary to make sure they know we've done our homework. Here's a few:

Penguin Group USA

Penguin Group

Penguin UK Readers Group

If you find any nice high res images, recommend them in your reply.

Katie is in Europe, so is Penguin. It is in other places, too, but this is probably of interest. Notice in particular that in Europe, Big Guys aren't allowed to use trademark law to intimidate Little Guys. Other forms of harassment are probably illegal, too. and 3 lefts never make a right.

Okay, then. To start with:
http://us.penguingroup.com/Book/BookFrame/0,,,00.h tml?id=0452282535 or better yet, use the Search function on that site http://us.penguingroup.com/Search/QuickSearchFrame ?id=katie%21com Penguin UK (returns a "Sorry...")
Penguin Putnam (USA) search...
http://www.aftab.com
http://ParryAftab.blogspot.com/;
http://www.KatieT.com noting the various translations of the book that have all used the same (incorrect) URL/name;
http://www.KatiesPlace.org/pages/1/index.htm;
http://www.wiredsafety.org/

Email and work extension for Helena Kennedy, Penguin UKs head of legal can be found here I have a lot of respect for her - since Penguin UK stood up to David Irving - so I don't know how much she's responsible for this. A bit of polite pressure could do some good.

You do realize, of course, that posting Penguin's email addresses on a popular website such as Slashdot is CRAZY! Lots of spam spiders crawl Slashdot all the time, and they are likely to get spa...

oh. Right. -J

Perhaps also consider sending a note to Penguin Books, LTD. They have convenient email addresses for both Customer Service and International Sales

You can also slashdot their website

Perhaps also consider sending a note to Penguin Books, LTD. They have convenient email addresses for both Customer Service and International Sales

You can also slashdot their website

Perhaps also consider sending a note to Penguin Books, LTD. They have convenient email addresses for both Customer Service and International Sales

You can also slashdot their website

Ink on Paper? How messy! -For those of us too lazy to move our hands from the keyboard... customer.service@penguin.co.uk

No, I was stating that it is more recognizable. Anyone that has seen and realized what Tux is forever links it with Linux. It is a unique logo that can spread the brand name around all over the place.

Hardly. Unfortunately, the idea "let's promote our brand by adopting a cute penguin as our logo" was too obvious NOT to be already taken. In Great Britain, penguin is associated rather with a popular paperback publisher. In Poland, it is associated with a popular pre-paid cell phone operator. People can see Tux on screen and think it's just some cross-promotion of a computer manufacturer, paperpack publisher and phone operator.

Heck, England is where Professor Branestawm (sorry, Amazon doesn't list any of the original books) invented the pancake making machine. As I recall, it went awry and tossed 24-inch pancakes about 30 feet away.

A large extract of the book is available here at Penguin.co.uk (note that it includes many typos which are not in the printed book.

You can buy it directly here on Amazon.