As the Black Death drowns medieval Europe in blood and fear, two orphaned heirs are on the run with plague-scarred performers while behind them stalks an immortal flesh‑eater.In plague-ravaged fourteenth-century Europe, Elizabeth Malatesta, a sentient flesh-eater and queen of a growing cult, seeks the blood of her last living kin to halt her decay. The children, Maddalena and Bartolome, flee with a troupe of troubadours.When the Pope in Avignon posts a fort...

Dimostrare con precisione, grazie a nuovi documenti recentemente scoperti, le circostanze in cui Machiavelli scrisse le sue grandi opere, ricollocandolo nel Rinascimento italiano, costituisce uno dei motivi maggiori per dare alle stampe questa raccolta di saggi sul grande scrittore e sulla società e cultura del suo tempo.

It's not the story you think you know.Do you like stories? So do I. If you have time, I have an interesting one to tell.Our story begins somewhere in Turin, northwestern Italy. Specifically, Sacra di San Michele, a fortress-like abbey located at the pinnacle of Mount Pirchiriano. The time is the mid-14th century. The black plague, or the great mortality as it is sometimes called, is in full bloom across Western Europe.In Sacra di San Michele, we find the th...

Some argue existence is an exercise in futility. They claim there are no winners in life. Ultimately, we are insignificant in the face of vast cosmic intelligences that were old when the Universe began.The best minds gibber at the incomprehensibility of it all. Other minds lose themselves in strange geometries because they can't comprehend any alternative.Whatever. The rest of us have to get up in the morning, feed the cat, and go to work.The Cozy Cosmic contains 3...

En Florencia, en el verano del año 1501, un hombre llamado Antonio Rinaldeschi fue arrestado bajo la acusación de haber arrojado estiércol de caballo contra una imagen de la Madonna que se encontraba expuesta en una hornacina en la parte externa de una iglesia. Enjuiciado sumariamente en pocas horas, fue condenado a morir ahorcado. La pena fue extremadamente severa: ninguno de los crímenes por los cuales fue acusado -sacrilegio, blasfemia e intento de suicidio- se solían castigar con la pe...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

A thriller novel is a novel that uses suspense, excitement, apprehension and exhilaration to tell a story. Thriller novels have villains, suspense, and action in settings such as espionage, medicine, crime, politics, and high tech.They often involve life and death situations and have high stakes, like the control of the world or the possibility of widespread death or destruction.Many times innocent people are victimized, stalked, or caught in situations that are beyond thei...

Now you're playing with…TERRORDemons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die and live and die again and again, in bloody and brutal fashion. The denizens of a tortured cyberworld begin to wake up… and get very, very angry.Power up across fifteen shocking and s...

This book addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among our students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining 'habits of the heart' which will enhance citizenship, foster a sense of connectedness to a community stretching beyond the university, and ultimately, support the practices, basic values, and institutions necessary for the democratic process.

Enfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing the fields of Catholic Theology, Black Theology, Womanist Thought, and Semiotics. The book opens with a brief introduction, and then moves to an interview with Copeland, which connects her theology to her life stories. The conversation with Copeland also provides a backdrop to the seventeen essays that follow, extending Copeland’s theological worldview. The ...

No discussion of the 19th Century is complete without Napoleon. We begin with Charles Phillips’ eulogy, summarizing the strangeness and contradiction of the most influential man of his time. Followed by 7 brief speeches by Napoleon himself.Two speeches chronicle the injustice and tyranny of British rule. Robert Emmet’s Speech From The Dock in 1803 is a classic of Irish Republicanism, given after sentence of death has been pronounced upon him for treason against the British. It is a ...

Solution Focused Coaching in Practice is a practical ‘how-to’ guide that provides an invaluable overview of Solution Focused Coaching skills and techniques.Reflecting upon published research on the solution focused approach, Bill O’Connell, Stephen Palmer and Helen Williams bring their own experiences of Solution Focused Coaching together with others in the field to cover topics such as:the coach-coachee relationshipthe role of technology in coachin...