Confessions & Thoughts of a Southern Storyteller is a collection of honest, deeply human stories about the things that shape a life — family, faith, mistakes, mercy, and the quiet lessons learned over decades of living. With a voice rooted in Southern tradition, John Stewart reflects on the people who raised him, the friends who walked beside him, the moments that tested him, and the grace that carried him forward. These stories are short, vivid, and unvarnished. Some will make you laugh. ...

A seminal exploration of animal emotion, sentience, and cognition, revised and expanded to incorporate a surge of new scienceWhen award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff penned the first edition of this book in 2007, he predicted that over time our understanding of animal cognition and emotion would grow “richer, more accurate, and possibly different.” Since then, not only has the field seen an explosion of new and startling research, but the popular interest in the su...

One of the most important topics in soil science is understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and soil ecosystem function. This relies on techniques able to accurately identify different soil organisms and how they interact in the soil microbiome.Measuring and assessing the biological health of soils provides a comprehensive overview of the range of techniques used to assess microbial/faunal diversity and activity in soils and its impact on key ecological pr...

The NASA Kepler and K2 missions have made fundamental, paradigm-changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science. While known for their breakthrough discoveries in exoplanets – especially small rocky worlds orbiting in the habitable zone of their host suns – these missions have also continued to make numerous scientific advances in solar system science, stellar astrophysics and extragalactic astronomy. This book is devoted to the Kepler and K2 missions and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly had a seismic and lasting impact on how the business of law is conducted. Whilst 2020 certainly expedited changes that were already trending – flexible work schedules, fully-remote offices, revised resource allocations, new client expectations – it also forced firms to adopt practices, methodologies, and strategies that pre-COVID they insisted they could not. These changes are not only here to stay but have become the expectation. Law firm attorneys, s...

Robin Friday dreams of being a professional footballer: rejection, drugs, borstal, and a near-fatal industrial accident won't stop him.In early 1974, Reading's manager, Charlie Hurley, signs Friday. After three games, it is plain to see that he's a very special talent, but it's also clear to Charlie Hurley that he has an untameable spirit on his hands. This fact-based fiction takes the reader into the nerve endings of Friday's character, into the smaller moments, a...

The sixteenth-century Puritan Solomon Kane has a thirst for justice which surpasses common reason. Sombre of mood, clad in black and grey, he 'never sought to analyse his motives and he never wavered once his mind was made up. Though he always acted on impulse, he firmly believed that all his actions were governed by cold and logical reasonings...A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things, and avenge all crimes against right and justice...