Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know offers readers richly detailed accounts of pivotal engagements—many little known in the West—in the centuries-long defense of Christendom against militant Islam. Join military historian Michael D. Greaney as, in gripping prose, he describes the struggle, primarily on Christendoms eastern borders, against the dreaded Ottoman Turks in places such as:• Manzikert, which marked the beginning of the fight• Wallachia, where Vlad II, the real ;Dracula,; carri...

From a hidden spark in the early days of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic soon roared across every nation, decimating lives, economies, and social norms. Rather than uniting people to defeat a common enemy, the pandemic has widened economic, political, and social divisions everywhere. It has pitted faith against reason and inflamed the global scourges of poverty, racism, war, and environmental destruction.The pandemic has also surfaced proposals to remake the global economy and society....

From a hidden spark in the early days of 2020,the Covid-19 pandemic soon roared across every nation, decimating lives, economies, and social norms. Rather than uniting people to defeat a common enemy, the pandemic has widened economic, political, and social divisions everywhere. It has pitted faith against reason and inflamed the global scourges of poverty, racism, war, and environmental destruction.The pandemic has also surfaced proposals to remake the global economy and society. ...

From a hidden spark in the early days of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic soon roared across every nation, decimating lives, economies, and social norms. Rather than uniting people to defeat a common enemy, the pandemic has widened economic, political, and social divisions everywhere. It has pitted faith against reason and inflamed the global scourges of poverty, racism, war, and environmental destruction.The pandemic has also surfaced proposals to remake the global economy and society....

Una guida originale e divertente al mondo di Jane Austen, sul filo dell’alfabeto: dalla A di amico alla Z di zig-zag, passando per la N di no e la S di servitù. Per celebrare i 250 anni della Divina Jane, come la chiamava Virginia Woolf, Michael Greaney costruisce un dizionario affettivo che si può leggere tutto d’un fiato o interpellare voce per voce, saltando qua e là alla ricerca della pista più interessante. Ventisei parole chiave estratte dalle sue opere più amate, ma anche dalle scri...

This book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making – in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.The authors discuss how technosleep, at its simplest denotes the ‘comin...

Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words.Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar Austen themes (D is for dance; M is for matchmaking), casts light on under-examined corners of her imagination (R is for risk; S is for servant), and s...

Eine nordkoreanische Interkontinentalrakete stürzt ins Japanische Meer. In Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt wird ein CIA-Offizier ermordet, und ein Paket mit gefälschten Dokumenten verschwindet. Die Puzzleteile liegen offen da, sie zusammenzusetzen beansprucht aber kostbare Zeit. Zeit, die Jack Ryan junior und seine Agentenkollegen vom Campus nicht haben. Alle Spuren führen nach Nordkorea, wo ein junger, unerfahrener Diktator ein großes Nuklearprogramm umsetzen will. Bisher fehlten dem Land die finanziel...

Bloomsbury presents An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney, read by Jenny Dunbar.Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words.Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar Austen themes (D is for dance; M is for matchmaking), casts light on ...

Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering the narrativization of sleep in Austen, the politicization of sleep in Dickens, the queering of sleep in Goncharov, the aestheticization of sleep in Proust, and the medicalization of sleep in contemporary fiction, it...

Nordkorea und die atomare Gefahr – der letzte Kampf von Jack Ryan?Eine nordkoreanische Interkontinentalrakete stürzt ins Japanische Meer. In Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt wird ein CIA-Offizier ermordet, und ein Paket mit gefälschten Dokumenten verschwindet. Die Puzzleteile liegen offen da, sie zusammenzusetzen beansprucht aber kostbare Zeit. Zeit, die Jack Ryan junior und seine Agentenkollegen vom Campus nicht haben. Alle Spuren führen nach Nordkorea, wo ein junger, unerfahrene...