Energy recounts the life of Dr. John J. McKetta Jr., a first-generation Ukrainian American coal miner who worked his way up from the mines to become the world’s foremost energy expert, a university dean, an encyclopedia editor, and one of the most widely known and respected professors in his field. To honor his one hundredth birthday in 2015, thousands of his former students raised more than $25 million to celebrate his contributions to their lives and to chemical engineering at t...

"Humane, amusing, touching, and very satisfying."―Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction“Captivating and evocative and original.”―Grace Dane Mazur, author of The Garden Party“In the wise and funny essays that make up Awake with Asashoryu, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta asks vital questions about what it means to forge an adult life of one’s own.”―Lynn C. Miller, author of ...

"When someone is ill, many old cultures say that they have lost their story. I believe that reading the stories in What Doesn't Kill Her will help each of us to trust and tell our own." - Gloria Steinem"I am inspired. This treasury of stories by women of courage is an important and necessary book. What Doesn't Kill Her will make all of us stronger. - Barbara Morgan, NASA Astronaut (ret.)"What Doesn't Kill Her is a unique window into many brave women's lives. Their life stor...

One night.A chance encounter.Chemistry hot enough to melt the ice.Eavie Adams' hard work has finally paid off when she is offered the promotion she has been working towards for the last few years with the Toronto Royals, her city's professional hockey team. She's never been more ready to take on the next stage of her career, and there's nothing she would allow to stand in the way - especially not the team's hot captain Jax Morghan.If...

Early one May morning in 1874, in the hills above Williamsburg, Massachusetts, a reservoir dam suddenly burst, sending an avalanche of water down a narrow river valley lined with factories and farms. In just thirty minutes, the Mill River flood left 139 people dead and 740 homeless -- and a nation wondering how this terrible calamity had happened.In this compelling tale of a man-made disaster peopled with everyday heroes and arrogant scoundrels, Elizabeth Sharpe opens a rare window ...

Lyra Celtica is a sweeping anthology of Celtic poetry, edited by E. A. Sharp and J. Matthay with an introduction and notes by William Sharp. Drawing on Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and Manx traditions, it gathers ancient legend, devotional song, lament, love poetry, nature verse, and modern Celtic revival writing into one vivid literary map. The volume ranges from early laments for Deirdrê and Ossian to modern voices such as W. B. Yeats and George Meredith, tracing recurring th...

Evil has a new address...For over a century, evil has dwelled in the house on Red Lane, or Red Dead Lane as the locals call it. As one family after another meets with misfortune inside the aging Victorian, it has fallen into disrepair. Forgotten. Waiting.When the Maxwell family moved in, they were running from a long string of bad decisions. But their hope is quickly squashed by the evil. When police are summoned one summer night, all they find is violence and mysteries. Ca...

Do you work with angry children? Are you wondering why young people don’t listen when they are angry? Are you exhausted from trying to understand angry behaviour? Are you having difficulty finding specialist help as soon as you need it?Anger Management is a practical guide that will help you to stay calm in the face of angry outbursts from children and young people, and support them in learning to manage their anger better. Written by chartered psychologists with extensive experien...

In the quaint countryside, amidst rolling hills and whispering willows, resides a feline of extraordinary wit and wisdom—the Retired Cat. Once a renowned mouser, he has now traded his adventurous life for the tranquility of retirement. As the sun dips below the horizon, casting long shadows across the garden, the Retired Cat settles into his favorite armchair by the fireside. With a contented purr, he begins to recount his extraordinary tales of daring escapades, philosophical musings, and...

Doctor Who at the BBC combs the avenues of Time and Space for significant spin-off moments from the much-loved TV and radio series. In an exclusive coup, this third volume features a rarely heard ten minute mini-drama starring Jon Pertwee and Elisabeth Sladen. Specially recorded for Glorious Goodwood in 1974, it has never been broadcast and features a host of familiar enemies — including the Daleks! Elsewhere on this volume, the radio programme Wavelength meets the cast a...

What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging? So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation abou...

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first effo...