Anything Is Possible is the inside story of Bournemouth's remarkable Championship winning season and tells how the smallest club in the division defied bookmakers, pundits and the Football League to emerge triumphant from a fiercely fought promotion contest and gate-crashed the richest league in the world.But that is just the end of the story! Only six years earlier, the club was on the brink of liquidation following a series of financial crises and points ...

Standard Shipping Vessel (SSV) Forger is in orbit around Ossirius Minor, awaiting its latest cargo delivery. Pilot and captain, Don Creighton, is the only person on board.When the planet-side delivery vessel turns out to be an Ossirian intelligence ship, Creighton gets curious...and discovers his cargo isn't at all what he expected. Someone is out to get him; but who is it? And why? Is it because he recently became part-owner of the Forger?The Shareholder, a five-thousand w...

Marney is the court jester for King Reginald. When the castle keep is devastated by Krause, a marauding black dragon, the king calls his jester to defend the realm. In this engaging fantasy short story, discover if Marney will be foolish enough to pursue and do battle with Krause!

Harry Redknapp spent 15 years at AFC Bournemouth, longer than at any other club in his colourful career. Yet his days at Dean Court have featured only fleetingly in his biographies to date. Now, with co-operation from Harry himself, the tale of his rise from washed-up winger to the country's brightest young manager is told for the first time.

As the automobile—long a pillar of American identity and economic power—faces its biggest transformation in a century, industry insider Michael Dunne reveals how China dominated the electric vehicle market and what it means for America’s economic and technological future.In Car Wars, veteran auto industry insider Michael Dunne reveals how China executed one of the most consequential industrial strategies of the 21st century: building a dominant manufacturi...

Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century. Calvinist doctrine views mankind as fallen, apt to engage in any number of imperfect behaviors. Calvinist humor, Dunne explains, consists in the perception of this imperfection. When we perceive that o...

The musical has been called "the most popular form of entertainment in the world." This work examines the subjects, themes, and contemporary relevance of Hollywood musicals through their long popularity, placing each show in historical and political context and analyzing it in detail.A chapter is devoted to how Golddiggers of 1933 (1933) and Stand Up and Cheer (1934) deal with the economic crises of the Depressions. Another addresses race issues by examining the p...

In the clinical microbiology laboratory, blood is a critical diagnostic sample that, in the majority of cases is sterile (or is it?). However, when microbes gain access to and multiply in the bloodstream, it can result in life-threatening illness including sepsis. Mortality rates from bloodstream infection and sepsis range from 25% to 80%, killing millions of people annually. Blood cultures are a vital technology used in the microbiology laboratory to isolate and identify microbes and pred...