Mistress of Science: The Story of the Remarkable Janet Taylor, Pioneer of Sea Navigation

• Well-established and experienced writer who has published twenty-eight previous titles and worked with some of the biggest publishers, such as Harper Collins and Pan Macmillan 
• First published biography of this remarkable British woman 
• Taps into the popular area of the British Empire and maritime history  

John S. Croucher is a Professor of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published over 130 research papers and 30 books, and for 8 years was a television presenter on football. John holds 4 PhDs and in 2013 won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year. A fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Australian Mathematical Society, in 2015 John was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to mathematical science in the field of statistics, as an academic, author and mentor and to professional organisations’.

Rosalind F. Croucher is President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Macquarie University. In 2011 she was recognised as one of the 40 ‘inspirational alumni’ of UNSW, where she gained her PhD in legal history. In 2014 she was named as among the 100 most influential women in the country. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Australian Academy of Law, in 2015 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to the law as an academic, to legal reform and education, to professional development, and to the arts’.