New Releases by Kevin Lewis

Essay re John Newtwon (1725-1807), slave-ship captain, hymnwriter, and abolitionist, and the American reception of his song, "Amazing Grace"; deconstructs the verses of the song as it refers to Christianity and its impact on American society; also notes the work of journalist Bill D. Moyers.

When a dump truck "haulin'' a great big load" gets stuck in the mud, progressively larger vehicles try to pull it out.

Aimed at all levels of Java developers and technical writers, Lewis'' book takes a chapter-by-chapter approach to building concepts and gives lessons on how to create usable Java Help systems and integrate them into Java applications and applets.

JavaHelp is an online help system developed in the Java" programming language. Creating Effective JavaHelp covers the main features and options of JavaHelp and shows how to create a basic JavaHelp system, prepare help topics, and deploy the help system in an application. Written for all levels of Java developers and technical writers, the book takes a chapter-by-chapter approach to building concepts, to impart a complete understanding of how to create usable JavaHelp systems and integrate them into Java applications and applets.

Chugga-Chugga Choo Choo. It''s the perfect big book for your storytime. Of course, each big book is accompanied by an activity kit. This is the kind of "training" a dog could learn to love.

An historical account, by the great-great-great-grandson, of the life of a multi-faceted man - layman, attorney, merchant and lobbyist. From fortunate family beginnings he became an attorney, only to fall from grace and be transported to Australia for the term of his natural life. He attained respectability in the business world and became a pillar of the church. However following his marriage to a local girl he abandoned her and his children and returned to England to take up with another woman in a bigamous marriage. His contemporaries have described him as being humble and pious, as proud and worldly, responsive and law-abiding, vindictive and rebellious. Includes a reference list and an index.

The continuing importance of solid state materials has prompted greater interest in the understanding of fundamental processes which occur in the solid state. Phase transitions and reactions are crucial to the properties, production, and processing of solid state materials and yet remain phenomena which are frequently not well-understood. This thesis focuses on unimolecular solid state reactions. High pressure spectroscopic techniques are used in studies of isomerization reactions in organometallic copper(II) and nickel(II) complexes. Electronic absorption spectroscopy is used to assess configuration and changes in configuration induced by pressure. Pathways for solid state isomerizations reactions are discussed. Studies of polycrystalline complexes and of some of the complexes as dopants in polymeric media are presented. The effect of solid state environment on isomerizations reactions behavior is considered.