New Releases by Michael Moss

The broad, global perspectives of environmental management, sustainability, and stewardship provide the context for this book. Within this broad framework, a location in the Township of Centre Wellington, southern Ontario, serves as a case study to illustrate the evolution of its landscape, as well as the significance of landscape to various aspects of land planning and management. It is at this local government level that policy initiatives from regional and governmental bodies are actually implemented. The term ‘landscape’ is used to reflect the interrelationships between the physical, natural, and human characteristics of a location; this interaction produces the evolving land features and properties of an area. Increasingly, this recognition forms the basis of many local land management procedures and strategies. The book derives information and data from a wide range of sources. Throughout, each source is examined for its local availability, relevance, and veracity, with critical gaps and omissions noted. Through the various stages of the landscape’s development, the related management initiatives are discussed as they are reflected in the changing features of the local environment. The book demonstrates the application of landscape ecology principles and provides a case to illustrate emerging ideas in integrated landscape management.

This book traces the history of a 30,000-acre Highland estate and its people from after the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745 until the estate was sold to the 5th Duke of Portland in 1857. Using original research and archival sources including first-hand reports, court records, letters and contemporary newspapers, it sheds light on the lives of the crofters, their landlords, the sheep economy, the droving trade and the fishing industry. Langwell provides deep insight into the immense cultural and social changes taking place in the Scottish Highlands during the period.

"Primary Sources, Historical Collections: Seizure by the Japanese of Mr. Moss, and His Treatment by the Consul-general" offers a compelling firsthand account of an individual's experience with the Japanese authorities. With a foreword by T. S. Wentworth, this book delves into the intricacies of international relations and personal justice during a period of historical significance. Written by Michael Moss, the narrative provides a unique perspective on the diplomatic challenges and legal proceedings surrounding the seizure and treatment of an individual by a foreign government. This work serves as an invaluable primary source for understanding the complexities of historical events and the human stories behind them. This book is an essential read for historians, legal scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of historical interactions and the impact of international relations on individual lives. 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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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"Michael Moss on Archives brings together selected outputs from an internationally renowned archival scholar, who explored the theory and practice of archives and records management. Comprising a selection of 11 of Moss' most significant archival writings, the book demonstrates the development of his thinking in archival theory and practice over the past 20 years. Michael Moss was a towering figure in modern archival writing and was able to push the boundaries of the discipline, notably with his analysis of how modern governments create records and his speculations about the future of the archive in the digital world. Bringing together in one place Moss' most significant writings, alongside a comprehensive bibliography, this book documents a significant contribution to British and international archival theory and practice. Each essay is preceded by a critical introduction, written by a leading archival scholar, assessing the piece and setting it in a wider archival or historical context, while an overall introduction by the editors provides biographical information and describes the development of Michael's archival thinking. Michael Moss on Archives will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of archival science, library and information science, history, digital humanities, and media studies. It should also be of interest to professionals who work in archives and records management"--

Principal turnover is a serious issue across the United States with the turnover rate between 17 and 21 percent per year (Levin et al., 2019). School districts in Wyoming, a state with a rural population higher than 95 percent, are faced with principal turnover as well. If principals are not satisfied with their job, it could affect their interactions and relationships with important stakeholders within the system including with students, staff, and parents. The job satisfaction for school principals has been the subject of several research studies in recent years as concerns over principal turnover have become more widespread. Job satisfaction has been studied throughout the United States in many states and other countries, but not yet in Wyoming. What is the current overall level of job satisfaction of Wyoming K-12 public school principals compared to previous years? How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed job satisfaction over time? What conditions have led to increased job satisfaction in Wyoming K-12 principals compared to previous years? What conditions have led to decreased job satisfaction in Wyoming K-12 principals compared to previous years? Using quantitative analysis, this study investigates the overall job satisfaction of Wyoming principals to answer these research questions.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal) exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health. “The processed food industry has managed to avoid being lumped in with Big Tobacco—which is why Michael Moss’s new book is so important.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? And to what extent does the food industry know, or care, about these vulnerabilities? In Hooked, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss sets out to answer these questions—and to find the true peril in our food. Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical communities—as well as food manufacturers—already know: that food, in some cases, is even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. Our bodies are hardwired for sweets, so food giants have developed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying; we’ve evolved to prefer fast, convenient meals, hence our modern-day preference for ready-to-eat foods. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry—including major companies like Nestlé, Mars, and Kellogg’s—has tried not only to evade this troubling discovery about the addictiveness of food but to actually exploit it. For instance, in response to recent dieting trends, food manufacturers have simply turned junk food into junk diets, filling grocery stores with “diet” foods that are hardly distinguishable from the products that got us into trouble in the first place. As obesity rates continue to climb, manufacturers are now claiming to add ingredients that can effortlessly cure our compulsive eating habits. A gripping account of the legal battles, insidious marketing campaigns, and cutting-edge food science that have brought us to our current public health crisis, Hooked lays out all that the food industry is doing to exploit and deepen our addictions, and shows us why what we eat has never mattered more.

It is often said that "Laughter is the best medicine." With that in mind, I hope you will find my philosophy to be true. Following my first book in 2012, I am writing this sequel. My intention is to keep the same principle with another collection of anecdotes, describing some stories from the classroom, hospitals, travel, and love for a certain baseball team in New York...no, not THAT one. Eventually, I retired. Piece of cake, right? Then why does it seem that every time I leave my man cave, something happens in this crazy world? If you get a laugh or two, I thank you in advance...if not, sorry, I tried.

Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast is the most visited property of the National Trust for Scotland. This lavishly illustrated book tells the whole history of the castle.

Sir Alexander Boswell (1775-1822) wrote Scottish songs that are still performed today, such as “Jenny’s Bawbee”. An extravagant character and a Tory, he wrote flagrant lampoons of his Whig opponents. One of them greatly incensed his Whig cousin James Stuart of Dunearn, who challenged him to a duel in which Boswell was killed. At his trial for murder, Stuart was represented as a peaceable man unaccustomed to the use of firearms. Nothing could be further from the truth. He served in the militia, was irascible and, at times, violent. This book tells the compelling stories of the remarkable tangled events that led to their quarrel. The duel marked a turning point in Scottish politics away from a turbulent and fractious past to a quieter future. The Whigs triumphed, paving the way for liberal Scotland. In addition, this volume includes, for the first time, many of Boswell’s poems and witty lampoons.

This book is intended to be a "RED PILL" for readers that will reveal the truth, and open your eyes to see the true reality of racism white supremacy. This book will attempt to decode, define, and enable the readers to defend, and counter act, racism white supremacy. The major areas of people activity including: education, economics, entertainment labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war, will each be explored individually and systemically. In order to provide a historical context, the history of the invented concept of race, Diop's Two Cradle Theory which explains the environmental conditions that produced the worldview that bred white racism, the concept of Maat which are the principles that govern man and the universe, the history of racism white supremacy and how it is manifested in all 9 people activities, including the added 10th people activity of "Health," will all be considered and explored in this book.

This book will consider the West African Akan concept of Sankofa. In addition to a providing a literature review of the concept of Sankofa, quotes from Kemetaphysicians (Practitioners/Griots of Sankofa), will also be provided. I believe that you can't heal "Bebe's kids" with the "Brandy Bunch" solutions. African people require African healing and restoration. We can do this by "KEMETAMORPHING BLACK TO THE FUTURE" and reclaim our African-Centered healing cultural and wellness practices.

If I could offer you a magic potion that would make you happier, healthier, more optimistic and more productive, and tell you that potion would cost nothing and will require very little effort to use, would you be interested? Each of us has something even better than a potion that will do all of those things and more. Gratitude! Gratitude is not only a gift to God; it is a gift from God. Gratitude serves those who are grateful. "Gratitude will open doors you didn''t know existed. Gratitude will release you from the prison you didn''t realize you were in. Gratitude is a gift to those that know what it is and how to use it. Gratitude will transform your life. Gratitude is more than just saying thank you. Acknowledging the source of your good and giving constant thanks is your assurance you will continue to receive more....in abundance, from that source. It''s MAGIC....

The purpose of this book is to inspire the reader with the idea that the ability to transform and heal, is within our own personal faith capability. We have to look no further than our personal inner selves for the power of God. The ancient wisdom that Jesus and others have shared, is that the kingdom and power of God is within. Some might call the teachings and ideas in this book "New Age." But it is really "Old Age" knowledge. Most of the ideas being presented are as ancient as Egypt, or Kemet as the Africans called the land, where many of the ingredients that make up Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other religions originated. It is only considered new because the traditional religions have been slow to teach the people a truth that would set them free. Free from dependence on the religion itself. Belief systems tend to be self-validating and self-perpetuating, but seldom self-critical. The ability to think out of your theological box will enable you to evolve and grow beyond the limits of any particular system of belief.

This book is about the power of black Love. Black collective and individual self love is the cure that will heal Black people and Black relationships. We must first love ourselves before we can love others. This book will address the history and state of marriage in the Black community as well as explore guidelines for healthy marriages and relationships.

This book is guided by the fact that the ingridients that make up Western Religions, are derived from Ancient African Spiritual Systems. What I am positing in this book, is that African people must deify their own African culture to be mentally and spiritually free. We must practice Sankofa, and reach back and get our culture and history. We must give up the white pictures of Jesus/Horus, because image and the color of deities, do make a positive or negative difference in the African mind.

The purpose of this book is to enable and encourage the reader to have a made up mind. A made up mind means your mind is focused. The number one reason that stops people from getting what they want in life is a lack of focus. The people who know what they want, and focus on what they want, prosper. Reading this book will increase your self-awareness, people skills, and ability to deal with your environment. In other words, you have a made up mind! The power of a made up mind will allow you to block out the "haters". You will have no time to notice them because your mind is made up and focused on your desired outcomes. And what you make up your mind and focus on, you bring on. Because wherever your mind goes, your energy flows, and results show. You bring about that you think about, want it or not.

"Just Decide It! Wellbeing is a Choice", is about the power of decisions and choices. Happiness and wellbeing is a constant, ongoing, choice. Circumstantial happiness is temporary. Happiness is like a fire that needs to be constantly fueled. This book will consider the examples of prolific decision makers like Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, and Will Smith. Their lives, deeds, and life choices will be explored. In addition to providing a literature review of the subject of happiness, the book will also provide examples of choices that lead to wellness and personal empowerment, including using affirmations. So, "Just Decide It! Wellbeing is a Choice."

The story of how you overcame the tests of life is your testimony. No test, no testimony. How we came through the test, becomes a life best practices or L.B.P. I have learned L.B.P's from my mother and father, mentors, ministers, brothers in the barber shop, teachers in school and from the cold hard streets of Detroit Michigan where I grew up. The idea of seeking out the best practice for any endeavor is wise. It is not necessary to reinvent the wheel. In order to take it to the next level, we must build on the wisdom of those who came before us. To go from just trying to survive, to learning how to thrive. From survival, to thrive-all. Success leaves footprints, and these steps to success are L.B.P's for others to follow. I once read that wisdom is learning from others mistakes. Wisdom is also learning from others successes or L.B.P's.

This book is a critical analysis of the African American religious spiritual system from an African centered perspective. Critical analysis must begin from a frame of reference, or a context. This analysis will be centered and contextualized from an African worldview frame of reference. Only an African centered worldview, will allow African people to understand themselves and Europeans, without the effects of contamination and brainwashing, which results from the European mis-education process inflicted upon African people.

The purpose of this book is to enable the reader to answer the demand of success. To be focused. The number one reason that stops people from getting what they want in life is a lack of focus. The people who know, and focus on what they want, prosper. Reading this book will increase your self-awareness, people skills, and ability to deal with your environment.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men’s Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATURE Every year, the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese and seventy pounds of sugar. Every day, we ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we ended up here. Featuring examples from Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Frito-Lay, Nestlé, Oreos, Capri Sun, and many more, Moss’s explosive, empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous, eye-opening research. He takes us into labs where scientists calculate the “bliss point” of sugary beverages, unearths marketing techniques taken straight from tobacco company playbooks, and talks to concerned insiders who make startling confessions. Just as millions of “heavy users” are addicted to salt, sugar, and fat, so too are the companies that peddle them. You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again. Praise for Salt Sugar Fat “[Michael] Moss has written a Fast Food Nation for the processed food industry. Burrowing deep inside the big food manufacturers, he discovered how junk food is formulated to make us eat more of it and, he argues persuasively, actually to addict us.”—Michael Pollan “If you had any doubt as to the food industry’s complicity in our obesity epidemic, it will evaporate when you read this book.”—The Washington Post “Vital reading for the discerning food consumer.”—The Wall Street Journal “The chilling story of how the food giants have seduced everyone in this country . . . Michael Moss understands a vital and terrifying truth: that we are not just eating fast food when we succumb to the siren song of sugar, fat, and salt. We are fundamentally changing our lives—and the world around us.”—Alice Waters “Propulsively written [and] persuasively argued . . . an exactingly researched, deeply reported work of advocacy journalism.”—The Boston Globe “A remarkable accomplishment.”—The New York Times Book Review

Providing the first ever statistical study of a professional cohort in the era of the industrial revolution, this prosopographical study of some 450 surgeons who joined the army medical service during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, charts the background, education, military and civilian career, marriage, sons' occupations, wealth at death, and broader social and cultural interests of the members of the cohort. It reveals the role that could be played by the nascent professions in this period in promoting rapid social mobility. The group of medical practitioners selected for this analysis did not come from affluent or professional families but profited from their years in the army to build up a solid and sometimes spectacular fortune, marry into the professions, and place their sons in professional careers. The study contributes to our understanding of Britishness in the period, since the majority of the cohort came from small-town and rural Scotland and Ireland but seldom found their wives in the native country and frequently settled in London and other English cities, where they often became pillars of the community.