A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers...

"Thought-provoking, inspiring and a triumph for complementing the much-needed coping mechanisms in nursing/healthcare today." Ibadete Fetahu, Nursing TimesA unique guide to coping and thriving in the NHS today. The book is wholly practice-focused, speaking to current standards of care for patients, and current working conditions for staff in the NHS. Written by academics specialising in mental health, nursing and well-being, each chapter provides guidance and support to pr...

Progress may be good, but progress will be an adjustment. When a change involves a change in living and uprooting of surroundings, it’s major. This book is about progress, “a squirrel’s dilemma”, and adjustment. About taking down beautiful trees full of pecan nuts in a park area. The park area provided food, shelter, play and sleep for the squirrels as well as safety. As trees were plowed down and taken away, squirrels scampered to other locations in areas of distance from their habitat. A...

Thanks to Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. He is more often quoted than read, his name invoked in party conversation on such diverse topics as marriage, sleep, deceit, mental concentration, and patriotism, to generally humorous effect. But in Johnson’s own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer: a gifted writer possessed o...

Bart Drake has recently returned from the Korean War and is anxious to make his mark in New York City. When his brother-in-law turns up dead and his sister is nearly murdered Drake is determined to find the culprits, and is thrust into a world of common criminals, mobsters, beautiful women and the top night spots in town. After narrowly avoiding death several times, Drake discovers that the answers are more surprising than he would have ever imagined!

In 2017 Martin Peter Kielty decided to abandon his life in Glasgow, Scotland, and move onto a narrowboat on the canals of England and Wales. It took two years to escape the shackles of a media career and city life. Those years were followed by a long period of building a new relationship with the world around him. This anthology of poems and short stories were written during that period, and reflect the flashpast ideas, recurring suspicions and offset observations that led to the creation ...

Positive thinking is a mind game that everybody needs to learn in order to be happy and content in life. If you are wondering how to get rid of all sorts of negative thoughts and be a more positive and happier person, this book is going to help you achieve just that. To develop a positive attitude toward life and practice positive thinking, you need to first believe that it's in your control. Yet, how do you do that? Not everybody is capable of believing that, right? While thoughts of worr...

This brief focuses on the “doing” of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK (Stanko, Bradford, Jackson etc al), the US (Tyler, Reisig, Weisburd), Israel (Jonathon-Zamir et al), Trinidad & Tobago (Kochel et al) and Ghana (Tankebe), the authors examine the practical ways that the police can approach eng...

Letter's of Peter are two ancient letters written by Jesus right-hand man Peter Simon.In Peter's first letter he tell his followers to live good lives and follow the law. He admits that it's a shame that their good deeds are not rewarded by God, but that the reward will come eventually, perhaps in the next life.In Peter's second letter he suspects that he won't live much longer and he warn people against switching from Christianity to another religion as that's a one way ti...

2D infrared (IR) spectroscopy is a cutting-edge technique, with applications in subjects as diverse as the energy sciences, biophysics and physical chemistry. This book introduces the essential concepts of 2D IR spectroscopy step-by-step to build an intuitive and in-depth understanding of the method. This unique book introduces the mathematical formalism in a simple manner, examines the design considerations for implementing the methods in the laboratory, and contains working computer code...

Not many young farmers of the early nineteenth century left diaries that have come down to us, still fewer from Shropshire, at a time when country life continued much as it had since long before the Industrial Revolution. In June 1835, twenty-three-year-old Peter Davis set out from his home in the Teme valley on a mini grand tour. As befitted a son of the soil, his eye lighted first upon the current agricultural scene. Not surprisingly, however, it was the great cities of Liverpool and Edi...

The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya is a bold and incisive look at the African Church in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the book, contributors explore how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragilities of African society as well as the weaknesses in the Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The African Church and COVID-19 analyzes the question of how the Church in Kenya should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era t...