New Releases by John Lambert

In the high-stakes world of corporate tech, reclusive genius Mark Stanford—neurodivergent and guarded against emotional ties—pitches a groundbreaking guest app to a skeptical hospitality giant. After winning the development contract, he hires an exceptionally perceptive executive assistant whose quiet efficiency and anticipation of Mark’s needs prove invaluable—especially protecting him from distractions and sensory overload. As long days and high pressure draw them closer, buried secrets and unspoken struggles surface, forcing Mark to confront feelings he never expected. What begins as a professional alliance ignites profound questions of identity, acceptance, and faith—challenging Mark emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Divergent, the first in the Intersections Romance series, is an uplifting Christian romance exploring redemption through unconventional paths, where divergent lives find unexpected wholeness in each other.

This book is arranged as a six-day Socratic dialogue in play form. It is a humorous explanation of ethical theory and covers all the main ones but in a lucid, uncomplicated way, using plenty of realistic examples. Amongst the theoreticians included are Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas, Kant, Spinoza, Hume, Mill, Moore, Sartre. The content is as follows: • Day 1: the process of good – good defined in a new way as a process of purposeful thoughts or intentions, perceptions, behaviours, emotions, and outcomes • Day 2: parts of the process – each of the parts above explained • Day 3: what is good – ie norms of good; summa bonum and bona as seen by philosophers and by ordinary people • Day 4: morality – social ethics; definitions of ‘ought’, ‘moral imperative’, ‘right and wrong’, ‘obligation’, and ‘duty’; particular examination of Kant’s ideas vis-à-vis our normal behaviour • Day 5: justice – starting from Plato’s Republic, justice as quid pro quo, types of justice, nature of moral responsibility • Day 6: beauty – new definition of beauty and examples of how this works. The book contains original ideas on what good, beauty, morality, virtue, and justice are and original critiques of other theories. Humour and philosophy is a rare duet; humour and ethics even rarer.

This is a fresh look at 100 paradoxes explained in a clear way without obfuscating philosophical jargon or esoteric language. It is lively and entertaining as well as being challenging with realistic examples and instructive diagrams to elucidate points being made. The paradoxes are organised into nine specific subject areas and a unique coloured page design is used to explain and solve them. It challenges our understanding in a wide range of areas: • deduction and induction • finity and infinity • force and matter • free will, randomness, and determinism • logic and self-reference • morality • metaphysics (God) • perception • probability • relativity • uncertainty, undefinability, unknowability, and unprovability. Only original sources are used, which are listed extensively. If you ever wanted to know what paradoxes are about and where they go wrong, this is the book for you.

A trip to the Everest region of Nepal becomes a promenade through a series of Himalayan portraits in this novel, revealing and entertaining book. Meet seamy Buddhist ‘saints’ and violent ‘god-kings’, grasping imperialists and ambitious mountaineers, tumbling travellers and expeditious benefactors. Discover the identity of the yeti, explore the Buddhist heavens and hells, scramble with the rhododendron plant hunters, listen to the Jataka tales, make an odyssey through Namche Bazaar, sneak around with Himalayan spies, mourn the mountain dead at Chukpilhara, appreciate Himalayan art, enjoy sex with Buddhist monks, eat tsampa and drink chang, get sick and visit a variety of Third World toilets. Are the Himalayas facing an environmental disaster? Are Sherpas all they seem? Where''s the only Buddhist kingdom in Europe? Is Buddha the Christian God? Where are the Himalayan hidden valleys? Did Buddhists invent cricket? Who were the first summiteers of Everest before Mallory and Irving? Which Himalayan country wants to ban smoking completely? What''s the connection between a yak and the Grinch? Herein a compendium of Himalayan themes and conundrums. Make the journey and discover them yourself.

A hilarious peek into the world of Canadian government, "Civil Service Jingles and other stories" by Harry McDonald Walters offers a satirical look at the lives and experiences of government workers. Through witty poetry and insightful prose, Walters captures the everyday absurdities of navigating the civil service. This collection provides a unique historical perspective on Canadian public policy and the individuals who shaped it. A delightful blend of political humor and social commentary, these jingles and stories offer timeless observations on bureaucracy and the human condition. A perfect read for anyone interested in Canadian history, political satire, or simply a good laugh. Subject matter includes: Canada - Officials and employees - Poetry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers served with distinction throughout the war, and in every theatre. They performed invaluable service as patrol boats, convoy escorts, minelayers and minesweepers, harbour defence vessels, light landing craft, RAF rescue boats and transports for agents and clandestine missions. Allied Coastal Forces, now a recognised classic work and first published in 1990, remains the only publication to deal comprehensively - in words, photographs and drawings - with the technical detail of all these boats. Design, construction and subsequent development are all covered, and the builders, construction lists, fates and the technical data are given for each type. Separate sections cover armament and equipment, sea-going qualities and habitability. This second volume covers sixteen Vosper MTB designs and the US 70ft, 77ft and 80ft ELCO designs. US-built Vosper designs supplied under lease-lend are also covered, while weapons systems and machinery are dealt with in detail. Some 700 finely detailed drawings were drawn by the authors for this second volume in their highly acclaimed two-volume work. AUTHORS: John Lambert spent nine years in the Royal Navy where he acquired his detailed technical knowledge of warships. His subsequent research on small warships and naval weaponry, combined with his remarkable technical drawing skills, led to the creation of a body of work some of which is displayed in this volume. He died in 2015. Al Ross II is the author of several books on small warships and since the 1980s has been producing a series of plans for modellers of small combatants of the Second World War and Vietnam eras. He lives in Bangor, Maine, USA. 150 b/w photographs, 700 line drawings, 12 colour camouflage schemes

The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers served with distinction throughout the War, and in every theatre. They performed invaluable service as patrol boats, convoy escorts, minelayers and minesweepers, harbour defence vessels, light landing craft, RAF rescue boats and transports for agents and clandestine missions.Allied Coastal Forces, now a recognised classic work and first published in 1990, remains the only publication to deal comprehensively in words, photographs and drawings with the technical detail of all these boats. Design, construction and subsequent development are all covered, and the builders, construction lists, fates and the technical data are given for each type. Separate sections cover armament and equipment, sea-going qualities and habitability.This first volume covers all the designs of the Fairmile Marine Company (including those craft built and equipped for Canada), together with the 72ft Harbour Defence Motor Launch and the US Navy 110ft subchaser.The authors, firmly established as the recognised authorities on small warships, unearthed a remarkable body of information now included in this major work, and their finely detailed drawings, redrawn form original builders plans, offer an unparalleled view of all these remarkable designs. The new editions of their work will be welcomed by naval enthusiasts and modellers alike.

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Culver City High School Class of 1963 reunion keepsake book for the celebration marking the passage of 50 years since graduation.

Howard Weston is a wealthy ship owner and merchant in Plymouth when the English Civil War begins in 1642. Plymouth, as with many English ports, supports Parliament against King Charles I. The story describes Howard''s efforts to ensure the Royalist siege of Plymouth fails. The supplies the city needs are brought in by ship. Innovative military tactics are used against the Royalist armies. The climax is the successful defence of Howard''s home, Encounter Hall, east of Plymouth.

This portfolio of plans and photos is intended to provide visual reference to all those weapons whose workings are open to view – omitting those in closed turrets but including shielded and open gun mounts, torpedo tubes and anti-submarine weapons carried on deck. This will be of value principally to modelmakers seeking detail and accuracy but for enthusiasts and historians it also provides a convenient single-volume compendium of weapons data and an aid to identification. Within these parameters, its coverage is comprehensive, with each weapon accorded both multi-view scale plans and photographs, often backed with a description and tabular dimensions and performance details. With a few exceptions for which no information survives, all main armament for destroyer-size ships and downwards is included, along with open mounts and AA guns carried by larger ships. Significant differences in mountings are treated to separate drawings, and for completeness the book also includes significant older weapons brought out of storage and fitted to a host of small and auxiliary ships. In total nearly a hundred separate subjects are included, illustrated with 200 photos and around 1000 individual drawings, reflecting the amazing variety of weapons employed by the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Profiles ten of the world''s most impressive natural wonders, including Angel Falls, Mammoth Cave, and the Mariana Trench.

Somewhat mistitled, Lambert''s Travels through Canada and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, & 1808, would more properly be titled ""Lambert''s Travels along the East Coast of the United States, ending in Canada."" There is much discussion of agriculture (in particular the Southern plantations), religious observance, and social mores. Lambert''s journey is limited, focusing on South Carolina, New York, and New England.The author also provides biographical sketches and anecdotes about famous Americans. vol. 2 of 2

The complex and important relationship between public expenditure and economic performance has been the subject of numerous econometric studies. But the studies remain inconclusivesome results have shown positive relationships, while others are negative. Thus there is no conventional wisdom backed by statistical evidence on this relationship, nor is there any sort of clear theoretical underpinning that explains how the aggregate of government spending acts on the growth of total output. This book studies the role of public expenditures in a noneconometric way by examining a number of specific instances of these expenditures and their direct effect on economic performance. Specifically, the authors presents scenarios from Botswana, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, and Zambia and ask a series of questions to identify and illuminate the impact of these instances of public expenditure on a number of variables that help measure economic performance. These examples are then used to make generalizations about the relationship between public spending and economic performance.

This book is an examination of African homestead society in Natal during the colonial period. It is an account of dispossession - and of what dispossession meant in real terms. In delineating the wider implications of land deprivation, the author has provided vital background to the emotionally charged question of land redistribution.

Provides a background to understanding the make or break time that lies ahead for the European Union. This text evaluates the Union''s ability to respond to the challenges it faces: the rise of unemployment, the planet-wide threat to the environment; and local conflicts within Europe.