The Hemlock: A Literary Arts Journal – Spring Issue 07 | May 2025The Spring 2025 issue of The Hemlock is a vivid tapestry of voices and visions from around the world. This edition brings together an extraordinary collection of poetry, fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction, visual arts, and book reviews, showcasing the work of writers and artists from diverse nationalities, cultures, and creative traditions.Each page is a doorway into...

"What a helpful book! This will be a ′friend ′ to many undergraduate students looking for clarification."- Helen Hazelwood, St Mary′s University College"This is a great book that really helps the students understand research and the complex processes that can often daunt even the most intelligent students."- Phil Barter, Middlesex University"Few can bring research methods to life like Mike Atkinson. His bread...

A friend named Jay is a book about a young male, who has become a vile product of his sordid surroundings. The once kind, caring, and loving Michael has finally succumbed to the drugs that surround his grotesque world, and is losing himself within.Alone again, Michael sees an incongruous cloud floating out of the sky toward him. He then meets a stranger with an unshaved face and long hair. Since then, things just have not been the same.

Anthony, on his way from basketball practice with his team mates, is left alone as usual. Not that he minds, he loves his esoteric world. Not tonight, though. He hears sounds emanating from one of Brooklyns sordid alleys, and with nothing better to do, he foolishly goes in to investigate. Now Anthony fi nds himself a witness to . . . He later fi nds out that the victim is an important man, from Washington. The icing on the cake, is that the man he saw committing the violent crime in the al...

This book provides practical and buildable solutions for the design of foundations for housing and other low-rise buildings, especially those on abnormal or poor ground. A wealth of expert information and advice is brought together dealing with the key aspects a designer must consider in order to achieve effective and economic foundation designs. This second edition of Structural Foundations Manual for Low-Rise Buildings has been completely updated in line with the new government ...

At a time when the public discussion of mental illness in society is reaching a high point, athletes and other sports insiders remain curiously silent about their private battles with a range of mental illnesses. While a series of professional athletes have exposed the deep, dark secret related to the pervasiveness of mental illness in high performance sport, relatively little is known, sociologically, about what mental illness culturally means inside sport.This edited collection s...

The Certified Enterprise: Taming Data Anarchy in the AI Era argues that enterprises adopting artificial intelligence face a hidden structural problem: the operational data feeding AI systems is rarely certified, reconciled, or governed in a way that can withstand scrutiny. Drawing on four decades of experience spanning restaurant operations, investment banking, and enterprise technology, author Michael L. Atkinson traces how modern organizations accumulated fragmented, ungoverned data syst...

Restoration is one of the basic building-blocks to Christian growth: it affects the way we relate to God, to ourselves, and to others. When we allow God to restore us, shape us and refine us into the people we were made to be, we can enjoy His presence more fully, live more freely, and reflect His image more closely.Drawing on the work of a close friend and counsellor, Ruth Miller, who died in 2013, Image Bearers has been inspired by Ruth's significant ministry of individu...

Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as actors, as pets, and in nature. The contributors propose that altering the representations of animals can change the way humans relate to non/humans. Our hope is for humans to generate more ethica...

For those obsessed with Premier League soccer, following your favorite team is a true collective experience, where it is easy to feel as one with thousands of others. It is also an individual one, in which the emotions you feel are your emotions, the experiences you feel are your experiences, and nobody else can perfectly understand.Over the course of the 2019–20 season, two longtime Liverpool FC followers wrote to each other about those emotions and experiences. American writer Mi...

Now ubiquitous in modern life, spatial data present great opportunities to transform many of the processes on which we base our everyday lives. However, not only do these data depend on the scale of measurement, but also handling these data (e.g., to make suitable maps) requires that we account for the scale of measurement explicitly. Scale in Spat

This issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America provides the endocrinologist with essential updates on treatment of type 1 diabetes, with an eye toward future trends and developments. The Guest Editors brought together a remarkable group of notable authors, such as Paul Robertson, President of the National Diabetes Association. Topics covered include epidemiology; economics; contemporary management; inpatient management; update on insulin pumps and continuous glucose mo...