AMERICAN HISTORY REMEMBERS THE REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF A NATION-THIS IS A STORY THE EARTH REFUSES TO BURY.Set in the southern Appalachians during the most violent decades of colonial expansion, Indigo: A Warrior's Burden follows Yona Equa, a young Cherokee hunter, as his world begins to fracture under the weight of a foreign culture spilling over the mountains. Change comes fast-iron, rifles, and sickness carried in the wake of trade. Yona clings to the old ways, even as the li...

Spectral Evidence: Where Ghosts, the Occult, and True Crime CollideStep into the shadows with Michael Ryan in this gripping exploration that intertwines the eerie realms of true crime and the supernatural. In Spectral Evidence, Ryan guides readers through an unsettling journey, delving deep into real-life horrors, occult rituals, and haunted legends, effectively blurring the line between psychological darkness and paranormal terror. As each page unfolds, this chill...

The Accountant's Secret- Unmasking Financial Deceit"The Price of Silence: Unmasking Deceit in a World Ruled by Numbers" plunges readers into a world where financial records hide a dangerous truth. James Sullivan, an accountant seemingly lost in the crowd, finds his meticulously constructed life crumbling when a massive embezzlement scheme is uncovered.Suddenly, James is no longer a mere observer. He's a key player, inextric...

✨ Spirit and Soul: Discovering Your Life’s True PurposeAn inspiring journey inward to uncover what you were truly meant to do.Have you ever felt that there’s more to life than just going through the motions? That deep within, your spirit is quietly calling you toward something greater — something more you?Spirit and Soul: Discovering Your Life’s True Purpose is a heartfelt and empowering guide designed to help you reconnect with your...

“Unlike too many poets who tumble into print at the first twitch of feeling, Michael Ryan takes time to listen to himself, and such listening contributes immeasurably to the subtlety of his address to the reader . . . [He] reminds us on every page that poems can be about lives, and about them in ways most urgent and delicate.” —William H. Pritchard, The Nation“The twin ancient powers of poetry are story and song,” Michael Ryan said in a recent interview. “I like a lot of b...

An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism.Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such as evolutionary theory, cognitive studies, ethical criticism, and ecocriticismOffers explanations of key works and major ideas in literary criticism and sugg...

An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through:-the basic technical terms-shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences-set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-production, art direction and more-each chapter provides clear examples and full colour images from classic as well as contemporary films...

If you are gay or think you might be gay or if you are someone who needs to understand the world of a gay person - then this book is for you.It has over 200 questions and answers to help you understand what life is like for a gay person and how to make the most of that life.It covers all the questions an emerging gay person has in relation to this new discovery, as well as questions their family and friends might be asking. It helps the reader come to terms with being gay, ...

This book looks at the physical and metaphorical attributes of the human body as a site of contention, politics, and cultural protest. It discusses a range of issues, from torture and moral panics to the "AIDS plague" and the homosocial subtexts of George Bush's political speeches.

In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that came into being at different moments in human evolution.The book argues that the varying requirements of survival at different points in history explain why leftists and rightists have anatomically different brains as well as radically distinct behavioral traits. Rightist traits such as callousness and fe...

Pacifism as Pathology is a dissident classic. Originally written during the '80s, the seminal essay 'Pacifism as Pathology' was prompted by Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing - and deliberately self-neutralising - 'hegemony of nonviolence' on the North American left. The essay's publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the US and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan's penning of an essay reinforcing Churchill's premise th...

By consulting the work of well-known and obscure al-Qaeda theoreticians, Michael W. S. Ryan finds jihadist terrorism strategy has more in common with the principles of Maoist guerrilla warfare than mainstream Islam. Encouraging strategists and researchers to devote greater attention to jihadi ideas rather than jihadist military operations, Ryan builds an effective framework for analyzing al-Qaeda's plans against America and constructs a compelling counternarrative to the West's supposed "w...