The Dictionary of Nautical TermsbyStuart WarrenThis dictionary is a layman's dictionary to nautical terms to help those who are just getting their feet wet in boating, know what the lingo means. Boating has its own language to describe various functions and features of a boat. I hope this dictionary will help you decode the mystery words used in boat literature, salespeople, and magazines.This is by no means the dictionary of ALL nautical term...

In Spirit of Orn, the cycles of human experience turn again as history repeats itself in the post-apocalyptic future. Centuries after the events that led to global ruin and the decimation of human civilization, almost everything about the former world has been forgotten—even that which led to its destruction. Now, as city states struggle for survival, merciless and ambitious men cloaked in ignorance seize power, rule with fear, and lead the people to war. Cowardice, redemption, and the sea...

In the cold wastes of the Midwest, a blizzard blows against John Henry. Flying over an oil well in a private helicopter, Pecos Bill is caught up in memories of the past. Preparing to lead a nature hike, Paul Bunyan argues semantics with a talking bear. In the sweltering heat of India, 120 miles from civilization, Johnny Appleseed is drinking himself into ignorance in an animal testing facility. Once pristine, the American West is now desolate. Struggle and disillusionment are commonplace a...

I have one chance at a new life. A college education. A future outside of Tanglewood's dark walls. For a breathless moment it seems like I might actually escape.Then I get a phone call from home.Damon Scott is my own personal dragon, the fight I've always lost, the secret hope of my heart. And he needs my help right now. Only my mind can solve the puzzle. Only my presence can keep him sane as the city fights against him.Only my heart can unlock a man with such a tra...

Providing an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers, this book investigates positive psychology and relationships theory and research across a range of settings and life stages—intimate, work, educational, senior/retirement, and in the context of diversity.Nearly universally, relationships are a key source of what we all seek in life: happiness, fulfillment, and well-being. The experts who contributed to this novel volume apply the framework of positive p...

The Inclusive Early Childhood Educator arrives when research confirms the first five years shape lifelong development. Seasoned professionals Dr Jane Warren and Blake Stewart equip educators with practical strategies for creating genuinely inclusive environments.Rather than offering simplistic checklists, the authors share evidence-based approaches that empower thoughtful, individualised responses to inclusion challenges. This book embraces the principle that every child d...

This book examines the range of new theories, research, and applications in the most generative areas of positive psychology, at the dawn of a new wave of positive psychology scholarship—one that is increasingly sensitive to real-world issues, adversity, culture, and context.In the 17 years since the inception of the movement, the field of positive psychology has grown tremendously and inspired research and practice across a range of sub-areas. Scientific Advan...

Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control is a sequel to Stuart Warren's bestseller Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach. The 'Disconnection' book concentrated on the planning behind the synthesis of compounds.The two themes of this new book are strategy and control: solving problems either by finding an alternative strategy or by controlling any established strategy to make it work.The book is divided into five sections that deal ...

Contract Law: Principles and Context presents the development of contract law through a considered selection of cases that are both authoritative and used as factual examples to explain the law. The text introduces readers to the nature and range of contracts, the process for making a contract, rights and duties, adjustments to contracts, vitiating factors and unfair conduct, ending contracts, and remedies and restitution. The text considers the historical development of contracts through ...

Teaches and enables students to build confidence in drawing and manipulating curly arrows, a fundamental skill for all organic chemistsThis book is an interactive approach to learning about chemistry of the carbonyl group—inviting students to work through its pages with pencil and paper in hand. It educates with the belief that the most effective way to learn is by practice and interaction. With this in mind, the reader is asked to predict what would happen under a...

Jeannie MacPherson left her ice cream empire to find peace on a rustic Maine island. Instead she found irascible Matthew Connelly, recovering from a suspicious gunshot wound.It didn’t help that he was drop-dead gorgeous. Or that he was just as reluctantly attracted to her as she was to him. Connelly had secrets, and Jeannie didn’t trust him.But that wasn’t enough to keep her away from him. Or to keep her from following him when he left without warning.Neither of the...

“Wickedly brilliant, dark and addictive!” – Jodi Ellen Malpas, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe price of survival…Gabriel Miller swept into my life like a storm. He tore down my father with cold retribution, leaving him penniless in a hospital bed. I quit my private all-girl’s college to take care of the only family I have left.There’s one way to save our house, one thing I have left of value.My body.A forbidden auction…Gabriel appears...