Fought in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, Daniel Ellis' Civil War was no less bloody than that of soldiers in the east. As a "pilot" in the American Civil War, he guided Union soldiers, runaway slaves, deserting Confederates, and others from the mountains to the Union lines.Already a veteran of the Mexican-American War, with compromised health due to bouts with malaria caught in Mexico, Ellis nevertheless served throughout the war at great peril to his life.After th...

Gentry Rhetoric examines the full range of influences on the Elizabethan and Jacobean genteel classes’ practice of English rhetoric in daily life. Daniel Ellis surveys how the gentry of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Norfolk wrote to and negotiated with each other by employing Renaissance humanist rhetoric, both to solidify their identity and authority in resisting absolutism and authoritarianism, and to transform the political and social state. The rhetorical train...

This highly regarded case-based book focuses on the principles of pre-hospital and retrieval medicine and the continuum of care provided for critically ill or injured patients in the field. The second edition has been extensively re-written and updated to keep up with the rapidly expanding sub-speciality of Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Medicine (PHRM)/Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM). Written by leading specialists in PHRM, each question and discussion is usually illustrated with a pho...

Cases in Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine is a supplementary case book with a self directed approach, designed to complement core texts such as Cameron, or Sanders.The book focuses on the principles of PHC and Retrieval medicine and the continuum of care of the critically injured trauma patient in the field. It is case based and uses real pre-hospital and retrieval situations, presented in question format followed by an extensive discussion highlighting key areas of the specialty...

While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church’s gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a genre of music born from suffering. The great Mississippi Delta bluesman, Muddy Waters, once said, "The blues was born behind a mule." Behind a beast of burden, the working man found in the blues a way to console the...

In challenging social science’s established orthodoxies, this first in a series of books is a call for its disciplines to embrace new theoretical paradigms and research methods to better understand the reality of life in a post-COVID world.By offering a detailed insight into the harmful effects of neoliberalism before the pandemic, as well as the intervallic period the world is currently living through, the authors show how it is more important than ever for social science to evolv...

In this new kind of introduction to ethical theory, Daniel Muñoz and Sarah Stroud present fifty of the field's most exciting puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Over the course of eleven chapters, the authors cover a huge variety of topics, starting with the classic debate between utilitarians and deontologists and ending on existential questions about the future of humanity.Every chapter begins with a helpful introduction, and each of the fifty entries includes references...

The East Asia and Pacific region has made great progress, relative to other regions, with regard to both economic development and, specifically, economic opportunities for women. However, aspiring female entrepreneurs continue to face unequal barriers to starting, operating, and growing their businesses. Not only does this hurt business women in the region, but it also ultimately hurts poverty reduction and economic growth.'Economic Opportunities for Women in the East Asia and the Pacifi...

Four walls. Three ridiculously hot roommates. One rule: Don't fall in love.Too bad rules were made to be broken.When Emily Harper catches her fiancé cheating, her perfectly planned life goes up in flames. With nowhere to go and nothing but a hastily packed bag of mismatched essentials, she answers a roommate ad on impulse. What she doesn't expect is to find herself living in a downtown loft-with three insanely attractive guys.Ash: The metrosexual pl...

She's bound to him by a debt, but now he craves much more than repayment.Katya never imagined becoming a nanny for Ivan Volkov's children would entangle her in the dark, dangerous world of the Bratva. Forced to work for the cold, powerful mafia boss, Katya tries to resist the magnetic pull between them. But every time Ivan looks at her with those piercing eyes, every time his touch lingers too long, the line between duty and desire blurs. Passion ignit...

"Previously published as The grace of truth (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Oil Lamp Books LLC, 2011)"--Title page verso.

One night. One mistake. One obsession.Nina DeWitt thought her life was under control-a budding art career and a stable job at her father's auction house. But everything changes when she meets Grigory Volkov. Dangerous, ruthless, and utterly irresistible, he's a man who takes what he wants.Their one night of passion should have been enough, but Grigory isn't done with her. When his smuggling operation is compromised, he uses Nina's fami...