From the outside, Mary Lambert appeared to have the life she had always dreamed of-a husband, children, and a family built on hope and love. But behind closed doors, a far different reality was unfolding. In Second Chance in Life, Mary shares her deeply personal journey through betrayal, fear, heartbreak, and emotional survival. As her marriage unravels under the weight of infidelity, manipulation, and intimidation, she is forced to confront painful truths about the life she thought she kn...

Explore these tested and true strategies to bring more light, happiness, and health to your relationship.You love each other, but how much do you love your relationship? Too often, and for many, the busy-ness of work, parenting, and family obligations means the time and effort we once put into our romantic partnerships wane over time. Creating a thriving long-term relationship takes real skills. The good news is that these can be learned, are fun to do, and, practiced every day, can truly ...

Most people lose the will to live the moment their hair starts to turn white. Well! This is a natural response to aging. However, I just couldn’t allow that catastrophe to fall upon me. Why would I? After all, life is a gift, and a gift must be cherished. So what if people abandoned me? So what if my health got to me? So what if there was no hope in sight? I wasn’t going to succumb to any of those things. I was destined to write my own story, and so I did. I write it every single day when ...

In this wise and thrilling book, Criag Lambert turns rowing--personal discipline, modern Olympic sport, grand collegiate tradition--into a metaphor for a vigorous and satisfying life.This beautifully written sports memoir explores the deep connections between the boat and the soul:A Journey of Self-Discovery: Follow the author’s path from an uncertain freshman coxswain to a competitive masters sculler, proving that the greatest athletic battles are fo...

This comprehensive, forward-looking text is the first holistic research overview and practical methods guide for researching the role that affective and conative factors play in second language learners’ task performance and language acquisition. It provides a long overdue update on the role of the learner in task-based language teaching (TBLT).The book brings together theoretical background and major constructs, established and innovative methodological and technological tools, cu...

This book has been nominated for The Mountbatten Award for Best Book in the Maritime Media Awards 2021.The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field.Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of...

Task-based language teaching is an approach which differs from traditional approaches by emphasising the importance of engaging learners' natural abilities for acquiring language incidentally through the performance of tasks that draw learners' attention to form. Drawing on the multiple perspectives and expertise of five leading authorities in the field, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced account of task-based language teaching (TBLT). Split into five sections, the book provid...

The conflict between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimulating edited collection, inspired by the Problems in Focus volume originally published in 1971, provides a fresh and accessible insight into the key aspects of The Hundred Years War. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, based on new methodologies and recent advances in scholarship, this book places the Anglo-French wars into a range of wider contexts, such...

This book investigates the Battle of Agincourt—which continues to be of immense national and international interest—as well as the wider conduct and organisation of war in the late Middle Ages. In England, Shakespeare’s Henry V ensured that the battle holds a place in the English national consciousness, and through the centuries that followed the story of Henry’s famous victory was used to galvanise English national spirit in times of war. In France, the immediate impact of the ba...

With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work.Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizat...

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use. Building on insights from over 50 years of research on the relationship between task demands and language use, it examines how referent similarity relates to developmentally-relevant variation in the use of nominal structures, comparative structures and abstract lexis among first and second language speakers of English. In addition to providing an empirical basis for future research on tasks, i...

This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the key issues, examples, benefits and challenges that teachers, program designers and researchers face in using tasks in a diverse range of contexts around the world, and aim to understand practitioners’ concerns with the relationship between ta...