The Golden Jubilee year of Queen Victoria. The British Empire is on its way to spanning almost a quarter of the Earth and controls almost a fifth of the world's population. The British Empire is the foremost world power. Britannia rules the waves... Returning home for Christmas after three years away on the China Station, HMS Britannia stops in Egypt. While enjoying the pleasures of Alexandria, a sailor of her company steals a figurine from a market stall and unwittingly...

After falling in with an old school friend he's not seen for thirty years, Nick Robinson's down at heel life enjoys a fantastic transformation. A job to die for leads to love and a new life. A bright future seems assured. But then a shocking betrayal has catastrophic consequences. Overnight, Robinson's life becomes a hallucinagenic runaway roller coaster ride that plunges him headlong towards insanity. He escapes to the Undine Resort on the island of Tuscarora, a tropical paradise that hid...

Woods and brambles, hawks, and frogs. Mosquitoes, snow, and buffalo. This book celebrates nature of all kinds. And it gives you the seeds you'll need to grow your own poems. So open up, and discover the poet in you!

Friends make everything better even poetry! This book celebrates friendships of all kinds. And, like a good friend, it shares the tools you'll need to write your own poems. So open up, and discover the poet in you!

What’s a persnickle? And why is it floofing? Shouldn't it be flurfing, blurfing, or slurfing? This book celebrates all sorts of silly, nonsensical stuff. And it gives you the keys you’ll need to unlock your own poems. So open up, and discover the poet in you!

Hockey, baseball, basketball. Swimming, football, racquetball. This book celebrates sports of all kinds. And it provides the equipment you’ll need to score your own poems. So open up, and discover the poet in you!

In recent decades Christian spirituality, spiritual formation and spiritual theology have become important concepts in the global evangelical community. Consequently, an accessible and reliable academic resource is needed on these topics—one that will offer a discerning orientation to the wealth of ecumenical resources available while still highlighting the distinct heritage and affirming the core grace-centered values of classic evangelical spirituality. The Dictionary of Christian Spirit...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy.Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven ...

Over its 143-year history, St. John's has been a remarkable and enduring part of Brighton's educational landscape.This book charts the way in which Sister Jane Borradaile, its tireless and resourceful foundress, raised money to build a home for the care of less-fortunate children in Victorian England. They were predominantly victims of deprivation in the East End, who went to St. John's to convalesce. Also taken in were orphan girls who were trained for domestic service. The home adapted i...

Have you been hearing about QAnon or Q in relation to U.S. or world politics and wondered what it is all about, who make up the outfit and what impact it has had (or has) on the social, political and religious landscape?And are you looking for a guide that will uncover everything, from what you may have heard to the deep stuff that you may probably have no idea about even thought about?If you've answered YES, keep reading…You Are About To Discover The Ins And Outs O...

Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in applied linguistics and contribute to the expertise in corpus use in China.

Are you eager to learn about the QAnon, the New World Order, Illuminati and other names depicting the biggest conspiracy theories in history but have never found definitive answers to all the questions you've always had?And are looking for a guide that could literally cover every recent conspiracy theory, in depth and widely so you can have a broad and deep understanding of all the concepts and ideas?If you've answered YES, keep reading…You've Just Discovered A Comp...