Bücher von Stephen Morris

Can you always trust Kindness? The ghost writer of her autobiography thought so. The government that made her Lady Kindness and its minister thought so too. Kindness definitely believed it, but fact checking left some big questions unanswered. Whatever Kindness believed, it does matter that you are who you say you are.

"Gladys could tell fortunes but it was Harriet who made them." When Harriet tried her teenage hand at being a ball girl at the local tennis club the day after England won the World Cup, Ian's wife Betty was intent on winning the doubles trophy. Betty still had time to encourage Ian to take up Harriet's cause with the club officials who threw her out as unsuitable. Harriet may have had to leave Southport but she was prospering when Ian tracked her down in Whitstable and followed the notorious local trial where Harriet was a star witness. An end of the pier seaside romp where telling the truth is to no one's advantage.

"If the history of a country can be traced in a single life, then a history of Russia can be traced all the way back to suburban England. This is the path that runs through me, and for this reason it has not been possible to start anywhere else." Highly informed with a unique perspective, Black Tea chronicles the changing face of Russia.

Tells the story of the Eastern Othrodox Churxh from the days of the New Testament to the fall of Constantinople (AD 1453). Each chapter examines the personalities and theology that were inextricably entwined at the heart of the conflicts, debates, and events that shaped the medieval world.

A book of short stories may not, these days, be fashionable in publishing eyes. The sixteen presented here are not just a good read, they are helpful to those learning the art of clinical medicine. And if there is also an interesting history the book will be intriguing and helpful reading. The author has with skill spread this book over 100 years to give a clinical picture seen in a variety of ills and their sequelae in chronological order, 1910 to present day. While perhaps the emphasis is on such cases and emergencies once seen more often by the family practitioner, as in one story of toxaemia of pregnancy and in a primapara of 36 years, in the year 1941. This is told through family eyes and is a masterly piece of writing on an important aspect of obstetrics.

In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males. What most disturbed monastic leaders was adolescent males being accepted as novices; adult men were considered unable to control their sexual desires for these ""beautiful boys."" John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople (397-407), virulently denounced homosexuality, but was virtually the only Byzantine cleric to do so. Penances traditionally attached to heterosexual sins--including remarriage after divorce or widowhood--have always been much more severe than those for a variety of homosexual acts or relationships. Just as Byzantine churches have found ways to accommodate sequential marriages and other behavior once stridently condemned, this book argues, it is possible for Byzantine Christianity to make pastoral accommodations for gay relationships and same-sex marriage.

Offers an account of economic concepts relevant to the nursing profession. The aims of the book are to explain the economic theory underlying health-care policy in the National Health Service with particular reference to nursing, and to examine the economic techniques.