Andrew Johns is a retired, 62-year-old gay male.Being raised by fundamentalist Christian missionary parents, Johns faced ongoing personal struggles due to his emerging attraction to other males, which his church and parents impressed upon him was an abomination to God. Growing up in a Christian environment Johns was shamed and persecuted by his parents and church (as well as his peers) simply for being who he was, Gay.Oscillating between church and gay environments througho...

WordPress is not just a blogging platform these days. It's a complete Content Management System (CMS) that will allow users to build pretty much any type of website imaginable using various plugins and themes. One of the big problems with WordPress, however, is its serious lack of native SEO. It has only basic SEO functionality, and the rest must be taken care of manually. There are myriad plugins available for WordPress SEO, but none of them will handle 100% of the optimization for your s...

Do you always struggle to see the best in a situation? Does it seem like it's raining both outside and in? If you're blind to the lighter side of life then you're clearly a grump, but don't despair—you're in good company. Are You a Miserable Old Bastard? is an amusing celebration of the grouchiness in life, featuring wittily downbeat sayings from famous grumps including P. J. O'Rourke, Dorothy Parker, Michael Moore, H. L. Mencken, Fran Lebowitz, Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx, an...

Originally published in 1900. This volume is a compilation of the Jatki or Western Punjábi language. The compiler has worked entirely in the South of the Punjáb, and the work does not pretend to be more than a contribution to a very widely spokn and full language. No one man could hope to complete a dictionary of dialects spread over so wide an area.

Introducing Language in Use, second edition, provides a lively and accessible introduction to the study of language and linguistics. Drawing on a vast range of data and examples of language in its many forms, this book provides students with the tools they need to analyse real language in diverse contexts.The second edition of this best-selling textbook has been fully revised and updated with entirely new chapters on Phonology and Sociolinguistics, two separate chapters on...

Tales of Vengeance is a collection of short stories based in the same world as the five star fantasy novel Spirits of Vengeance: The Stone of Spirits. While set during the same period as events in that book, the themes and issues in Tales are decidedly different, offering expanded views on minor characters, as well as hints at what lies in store in the sequel, Spirits of Vengeance: The Assassin of Araneque.

With growing and ageing comes changes and more responsibilities for kids. One of the biggest and sometimes most difficult is starting school. Adjusting to the new people, adapting to new schedules, with time away from home, are just a few of the challenges Grecko learns to overcome. Grecko shows, through strength, acceptance, and determination, that growing up and starting new things can be scary, but these have great rewards. He proves that school and learning is important and fun. With s...

This book describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the twentieth century – Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf – wrestled with a geopolitical situation in which national boundaries had come to seem increasingly permeable at the same time as war among (and within) individual nation-states had come to seem virtually inescapable. Drawing on Jean-François Lyotard's analysis of the elements of performativity in J.L. Austin's speech act theory, and making critical ...

A married guy games the system and becomes a priest. The people who help him have their own agenda, and Brian Linse finds himself trying to follow his priestly vocation among the poor, the rich, and even the rural Mormons.

All seems lost as the homeland of the Gaties is attacked by an evil Virie that consumes the light energy they depend upon. On a quest to find their creator and seek his help, five intrepid Gaties set off on a race against time and experience the greatest adventure of their lives. There is much danger to be faced. The evil Mibies seek to destroy their rivals and absorb their energy so they may become ever more powerful and take over the land. Can the Gaties save the day or do the Mibies fin...

Contemporary Christian Culture: Messages, Missions, and Dilemmas studies Christian media, its meanings, and its impact on social perceptions and lived experiences in a multicultural context and from within a communication framework. This interdisciplinary collection expands the dialogue surrounding race, culture, and Christian messages and provides a valuable resource for researchers, educators, and church practitioners who are interested in understanding how racial and cultural identity a...

The effects of domestic politics on the Vietnam War are revealed in this groundbreaking historical study by the author of The Price of Loyalty.In Vietnam's Second Front, Andrew L.Johns examines how American domestic politics effected the Vietnam War. He pays special attention to the role of the Republican Party, from the Nixon administration to grassroots organizations. The revealing analysis sheds new light on the relationship between Congress an...