New Releases by Peter Scott

Its said that there''s a light on Broadway for every fame seekers broken heart; in Hollywood, there''s a palm tree. An aspiring somebody soon discovers Tinsel Town is rarely what it seems. Taken under the wing of a playboy movie star, he also discovers that temptation and greed can negate the strongest of values, and silencing by murder can keep any secret safe.

Author Peter Scott presents a prequel to his popular Something in the Water in a panoramic portrait of an extended Maine island family at the onset of World War I. The Boy Who Came Walking Home is a vivid depiction of a close-knit island society — its morals, bigotry, family strength, and compelling hold on its residents. In particular, it is the story of young Henry Coombs, who abruptly leaves this hardscrabble fishing community to join the army. Within the context of Henry''s journey, the reader learns fascinating details about life in a military encampment, the war''s effect on the Maine home front, and the devastation of the 1918 influenza epidemic. Scott''s gift for period detail, subtle humor, and fully dimensional characters makes this an engrossing and haunting novel.

This book argues that the modern separation of humanity from nature can be traced to the displacement of the triune God. Locating the source of our current ecological crisis in this separation, Peter Scott argues that it can only be healed within theology, through a revival of a Trinitarian doctrine of creation interacting with political philosophies of ecology. Drawing insights from deep ecology, ecofeminism, and social and socialist ecologies, Scott proposes a common realm of God, nature and humanity. Both Trinitarian and political, the theology of this common realm is worked out by reference to Christ and Spirit. Christ''s resurrection is presented as the liberation and renewal of ecological relations in nature and society, the movement of the Holy Spirit is understood as the renewal of fellowship between humanity and nature through ecological democracy, and the Eucharist is proposed as the principal political resource Christianity offers for an ecological age.

"In this book, you''ll be taught how to assess both the level and the frequency of innovation in your organization and choose the structures that are most suitable for you at this time. You''ll also be shown how to make a smooth transition from one Stability Structure to another when and if the need arises. By putting appropriate Structures in place, you''ll have a system that automatically creates "shock absorbers" based on an in-depth understanding of how people react to change; maintains continuity across cycles to minimize disruption; encourages incremental innovation for people who can prepare in advance; creates safe places to fail; implements an early-warning system that recognizes disruption; trains experts who know how to pass on knowledge; and builds stability within teams."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Maine lobster fisherman Amos Coombs knows that German U-boats are hiding out along the coast by day and sinking American merchant vessels at night. Until one terrifying day, however, he is unaware that the enemy is quite literally in his backyard or that the presence of a Nazi submarine is about to change his life and those of his fellow islanders forever. More than just a war novel, this excitingly original novel presents a vivid portrayal of a community and a way of life.

: Porn star Karen Ann Dunn has just won a court battle to continue using her stage name, "Diva Stockwell," for the sale of her steamy adult videos, despite the humiliation and protest of box office starlett Eva Stockwell. The fact that the two women appear virtually identical only adds to Eva''s frustration and threatened appeal. When one of the women is victim to a freak accident, LAPD detectives David Perkins and Gail Cunningham sift through the ashes of her life to discover a tragic past, twisted relationships and motives for murder. Travel through the studio backlots and desperate Tinsel Town streets in this page-turning mystery thriller, as muted voices from beyond the grave whisper a sinister tale of sex, money, temptation, and some of Hollywood''s most powerful players.

The lanthanides and actinides (the f elements) are rarely studied in detail by chemistry undergraduates. More often they appear as an afterthought in bonding, spectroscopy, magnetism, coordination chemistry, and organometallics courses. This is largely because of a lack of an accessible text treating the chemistry of these elements in one cover. Moreover, the placement of lanthanides and actinides in the closing pages of standard inorganic chemistry text books serves to marginalise these elements further. The f elements has therefore been written to fill a gap in the undergraduate chemistry textbook market. It covers much of the fundamental chemistry of the lanthanide and actinide elements, including coordination chemistry, solid state compounds, organometallic chemistry, electronic spectroscopy, and magnetism. Many comparisons are made between the chemistry of the lanthanides and actinides and that of the transition elements, which is generally much more familiar to undergraduate chemistry students. The book uses the chemistry of the f elements as a vehicle for the communication of several important chemical concepts that are not usually discussed in detail in undergraduate courses, for example the chemical consequences of relativity and the lanthanide and actinide contractions. Many important modern applications of f element chemistry, e.g. the use of actinides in nuclear power generation and of the lanthanides in magnetic resonance imaging and catalytic converters in motor vehicle exhausts, are also discussed in depth.

This introductory text contains European data, cases and examples alongside traditional American material.

Based on far-reaching and forward-thinking curriculum, Acceleration Organization teaches new principles of managing people, teams, and complex organizations in a buisness world that''s been reengineered, downsized and more. With this book, managers and executives will successfully engage the hearts and minds of the entire organization in a coordinated quest for continually improving performance. Illustrations.

The governance of higher education in the UK was regarded until recently as the ''dignified'' element within the constitution of the academy. University councils were trustees rather than directors. But governance is now a contested area and, in particular, lay governors are seen as key change agents, responsible for reforming the old donnish culture of elite higher education. Governing Universities explores who governors are, how they conceive of their new roles, and what they think about higher education policy. It examines whether governing bodies have become more actively engaged in setting institutional policies; and whether governors have changed the old culture or gone ''native''. It sets university governance in the large context of the massification and ''marketization'' of higher education; and draws comparisons both with other parts of the public sector and the private sector, and with governance in North America and the rest of Europe.

This is a thorough exploration of the evolution of the commercial property investment and development markets from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It explains how the current investment scene emerged and fills an important gap in the literature on the property market.

How is theology liberating? In this post-Gorbachev world in which many demand freedom, and which the West seems ill-equipped to deliver, can we even envisage a liberative theology? Taking as his starting point the Marxist complaint that Christianity is ideological, Dr Scott argues that it is not enough for Christian theology to talk about liberation. It must be liberative. Stressing with feminist and liberation theologies the embodied, contextual nature of theology, the constructive proposal made here locates God''s liberating abundance towards society in an interpretation of resurrection as social. Only in this way can a trinitarian Christian account of liberation be adequately grounded. This study will be of interest to those who wish to know if theology may speak truthfully about the transformation of society. In a period of crisis and hope, the book offers the shape of a liberative theology that might nerve Christian practice towards social freedom.

In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge - scientific, social and cultural - is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies. Identifying features of the new mode of knowledge production - reflexivity, transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity - the authors show how these features connect with the changing role of knowledge in social relations. While the knowledge produced by research and development in science and technology is accorded central concern, the authors also outline the changing dimensions of social scientific and humanities knowledge and the relations between the production of knowledge and its dissemination through education.

Stories of lost innocence peopled with old movie stars, old loves, and imaginary childhood friends.

The Enlightenment, it is argued, has lost its intellectual force; a scientific view of society, no longer seems incontestable; and modernism is dead. Possible successors are neoliberalism, the back-to-basics conservative backlash associated with, in very different ways, Margaret Thatcher and Allan Bloom, or postmodernism, an inchoate eclectic intellectual movement that denies the imperial claims of overarching ideologies. But is it possible to distinguish clearly between modernism, a broad church by any measure, and its supposed rivals.