Is Dai Morris a brutal murderer or the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice? Author and former solicitor John Morris investigates the Clydach murders, which occurred in 1999, for which Dai Morris was convicted in 2006. In a case which shocked the country Mandy Power, her bed-ridden mother and her two young daughters were battered to death. The crime sparked a huge investigation yet the police made little progress. This widely researched book contends that Morris, convicted for the m...

King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict in 1675–78 between Indian inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their Indian allies.The war is named for Metacomet, the Wampanoag chief who adopted the name Philip because of the friendly relations between his father Massasoit and the Mayflower Pilgrims. The war continued in the most nort...

The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 continue to exert a macabre hold on our imagination. Among the first serial murders, their brutality and bizarreness, and the seeming impossibility of detection have a terrible fascination. What kind of person could have performed such horrific deeds, and could have overstepped the boundary of what marks humankind? How could they not have been caught by the unprecedented police effort? The murders were reported on around the world and the murderer was th...

Martin is that most unusual of creatures - a successful banker with a conscience and sense of morality. He's shunned the trophy wife and call girls in search of Miss Right, even though he ends up spending many Saturday nights alone.On one particular Friday night he visits one of his usual haunts close to his place of work and as he drinks alone at the bar he is approached by a woman who asks if she could join him.His privileged life tumbles dramatically when he wakes up to fi...

The autobiography of Lord Morris of Aberavon, born to farming stock in Aberystwyth, and who went on to enjoy an illustrious career, assuming one of the highest positions in the land as Attorney General. Trained as a barrister, he went on to serve as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power and the Ministry of Transport, Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, Secretary of State for Wales between March 1974 and May 1979 and returned to Government as the Attorney General for En...

The Condition of Catholics Under James I is a pointed historical and polemical account of English Catholic life in the early Stuart period, when hopes for toleration after Elizabeth I gave way to renewed surveillance, recusancy fines, imprisonment, and suspicion after the Gunpowder Plot. Written in lucid, urgent prose, it combines documentary testimony with moral argument, situating private suffering within the broader literature of recusant witness and Counter-Reformation apologetics. Joh...

In 'The Condition of Catholics Under James I', John Gerard presents a nuanced exploration of the complex socio-political landscape that characterized the lives of Catholics during James I's reign in England. The narrative is meticulously researched, employing a historical lens that skillfully interweaves political discourse with personal testimonies, offering a rich tapestry of the Catholic experience. Gerard's literary style is eloquent yet accessible, utilizing vivid imagery and persuasi...

In "The Condition of Catholics Under James I," John Gerard delves into the complex social, political, and religious landscape of early 17th-century England, focusing on the challenges faced by Catholic communities during the reign of King James I. Utilizing a narrative style that juxtaposes rigorous historical analysis with personal anecdotes, Gerard vividly captures the precarious existence of Catholics who navigated a Protestant-dominated society. The book is steeped in historical contex...

This fascinating book, which explores an intriguing idea formulated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the very last months of his life, has up until now been available only to German readers. Since Polyphonie des Lebens first appeared twenty-five years ago, a whole new generation of scholars has come into contact, in English as well as in the original German, with the entire collection of his works, as well as with a huge body of Bonhoeffer studies that have provided an exhaustive assessment of th...

From Alabama to Congress—Arthur W. Mitchell’s fight for justice rewrote the rules of Black political power.A Carpetbagger in Reverse offers a landmark reassessment of the life, career, and accomplishments of groundbreaking Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, the first Black Democrat elected to Congress and the only Black member of Congress during his four terms of service from 1935 to 1943.Born to former enslaved people in Alabama in 1883, Mit...

This book and video collection provide a practical guide to the clinical neurological examination, an essential tool in the diagnosis of neurological conditions encountered in the outpatient clinic and hospital ward.Each chapter covers a different condition and uses a step-by-step approach selecting those aspects of the clinical examination which are most likely to lead to the correct diagnosisVideo clips accessible via both a companion website and by QR codes withi...

An accessible guide to understanding many of the complex technical and special terms implemented by the seventeenth-century philosopher.French philosopher René Descartes authored many works in his lifetime like Discourse on the Method and Principles of Philosophy. But while his "I think, therefore I am" may be easy to grasp, much of the terminology he uses can be challenging. Descartes would frequently introduce terms in his writings without expla...