Are you ready for a transformative journey towards a healthier, happier you? Lee A. Johnson’s ‘How I Lost 160lbs in 12 Months’ discusses the author’s inspiring journey towards drastic weight loss and overall well-being in just a year. It’s more than a mere weight-loss journal; it’s an intimate portrait of resilience, overcoming obstacles, and redefining one’s relationship with food. Through raw diary entries, practical tips, and valuable insights, Johnson provides a roadmap for those who d...

Women in the Biblical World: A Survey of Old and New Testament Perspectives is a volume featuring the most current research in biblical scholarship. This collection will whet the reader's appetite for cutting-edge research and encourage a closer look at some of the familiar passages that may have been overlooked in the biblical text. New insights will be gained, a greater depth of understanding in the biblical text will be fostered, and a greater appreciation for women in the Bibl...

From refreshing beverages to packable stews and casseroles perfect for feeding the crowd on branding days to cast-iron recipes perfect for a pack trip into the mountains, Cowgirls Cook for the Great Outdoors features more than ninety recipes that the modern cowgirl needs to keep her crew fed and her family happy on the trail or around the campfire. Start your day with the Cowgirl's Easy Chicken and Waffles, or Beer Batter Pancakes with Citrus Bourbon Syrup. Fill your backpack with Cowgirl ...

This book examines the criminal justice decisions of the Rehnquist Court era through analyses of individual justices' contributions to the development of law and policy. The Rehnquist Court era (1986-2005) produced a period of opportunity for the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial conservatives to reshape constitutional law concerning rights in the criminal justice process. It was an era in which the Court produced many hotly-debated decisions concerning such issues as capital punishment, searc...

Christmas Time Is Here… And Brown Girls Books is bringing you nineteen talented writers, sharing heartwarming stories filled with the joy, sorrow and downright drama of this magical season. Christmas time brings out the best – and for some, the worst – in us and these holiday tales capture it all, just in time to warm your soul for the holidays. All I Want For Christmas is filled with tear-jerking, treasured, and laugh-inducing stories. Like Sonia Johnston's "Home...

An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communicationWhat can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we currently deal with—making sense of information abundance, persuading others in our social network, navigating new media ecologies, and shaping broader cultural currents—also pre...

A first-of-its-kind theoretical overview and practical guide to wargame designGovernment, industry, and academia need better tools to explore threats, opportunities, and human interactions in cyberspace. The interactive exercises called cyber wargames are a powerful way to solve complex problems in a digital environment that involves both cooperation and conflict. Cyber Wargaming is the first book to provide both the theories and practical examples needed ...

Author Lee Johnson describes Mixing Memory and Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean as ‘a food book with a large side dish of history.’It is not a cookbook – there are no recipes – or a forbidding history text filled with events and dates, but a primer for all readers of how the Caribbean’s turbulent history led to its distinctive cuisine. It is told in an entertaining and readable style, infused with appropriate poetic and song lyric extracts, and garnish...

Author Lee Johnson describes Mixing Memory and Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean as ‘a food book with a large side dish of history.’It is not a cookbook – there are no recipes – or a forbidding history text filled with events and dates, but a primer for all readers of how the Caribbean’s turbulent history led to its distinctive cuisine. It is told in an entertaining and readable style, infused with appropriate poetic and song lyric extracts, and garnish...

Little introduction needs to be made of Hermes Trismegistus, also known as "The Master of Masters" or "The Thrice Greatest Intelligencer". After his death, he was deified by the Egyptians and gained the named Thoth, and the Greeks, as Hermes. In this small collection of his works are The Divine Pymander, "Aureus" or The Golden Tractate and The Book of Revelation of Hermes. This forms a solid basis for the Hermetic Teachings.

Whilst on a business trip to Shanghai, Peter Newton buys a beautifully carved jewelry box from an old junk shop in the crowded city. It is a gift for his girlfriend back home in New York. The box turns out to contain within, a daguerreotype - the original form of photography - of four persons, one of whom, he discovers to his shock, is him. He has never seen the others before. This is the beginning of a bizarre change in his life as he, his girlfriend and all who are associated w...

In his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature. In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth also employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related...