New Releases by Michael Moss

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.

Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in Nelson''s defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory at Trafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson''s flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, he became Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty''s career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war. The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he was a prominent figure in London''s business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of the nineteenth century. In Beatty''s case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson , he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero''s last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.

The story of one man''s journey growing up on the rough streets of Chicago, who against all odds through faith in God, determination, and family became a successful businessman and entrepreneur. Despite tragedies, including his son''s death and the loss of over 1 million dollars in the stock market he has persevered and is now more successful than ever.

A history of Scotland''s second oldest university from its foundation to the present.

This commentary on the Epistles of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus highlights insights into ministry, enduring hardships, and understanding the essentiality of good works. It is part of the College Press NIV Commentary Series.

From exclusive interviews with relatives and close association with the couple, the author writes a biography of real estate billionaires Leona and Harry Helmsley.

Cold flow tests of a four nozzle eductor system were conducted to evaluate the effects of certain geometric parameters on eductor performance. Eductor performance was related to non-dimensional parameters governing the flow phenomenon developed from a one-dimensional analysis of a simple eductor system based on conservation of momentum for an incompressible gas. An experimental correlation of these parameters was developed and used to determine the effects of several geometric parameters on eductor performance. The geometries tested consisted of: two mixing stack lengths, 2 and 3 mixing stack diameters long; varying the distance between the primary nozzle exit plane and the entrance to the mixing stack; and addition of a conical transition to the entrance of the constant cross section part of the mixing stack. Within the range of variables tested, the longer mixing stack with a distance between the primary nozzle exit plane and the entrance to the mixing stack of about 0.5 mixing stack diameters without an entrance transition gave the best overall performance. (Author).