Resilient Body: The Science of Longevity and Movement explores how consistent movement, smart training, and healthy habits can build a body that stays strong for life. Written by Adrian Locke and narrated by Naomi Price, this audiobook blends modern health science with practical fitness strategies designed for long-term well-being.Instead of focusing on short-term workouts or extreme routines, Locke explains how mobility, strength, balance, and recovery work together to cr...

'An utterly distinctive voice in contemporary Irish literature' Irish Times'One of our most original writers' Irish IndependentSummer, 1923. Six-year-old Catherine Carolan grows restless on her parents' farm. It's already clear that her intellect will soon outgrow the two-room schoolhouse across the fields. But in post-Civil War Ireland, an education is not an easy thing for a girl to access, and young Cath...

This book embraces the multiplicity of forms of writing inspired by rock and roll.Exploring a diverse range of formats including rock autobiography and gender, race and class in American rock journalism, rock obituaries, rock literature and spirituality, rock writing and promotion/packaging, and more, this book identifies and prioritizes writing forms often excluded from the categorization of rock music writing. Vitally, the volume places rock and roll writing with...

Updated for paperback with a brand new chapter on Parrot Cay Island.Legendary Iron Maiden guitarist takes you to the final frontier of fishing.Welcome to the world of Adrian Smith, playing onstage to millions of fans - while behind the scenes he explores far-flung rivers, seas and lakes, waterways and weirs, in a fearless quest for fishing nirvana.Hooked on the angling adrenaline rush since first catching perch from East London canals on outings wit...

AN IRISH INDEPENDENT AND IRISH TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR'An original voice' Colm Tóibín'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times'A deliberative and delicate reading experience, revelatory in the truest sense of that word' GuardianDuring winter season in a secluded Alpine city, John Molloy, an Irish restorative sculptor, meets Bernadette, an enigmati...

In einer düsteren Cyberpunk-Zukunft entdeckt der abgebrannte Gitarrist Adrian King eine mysteriöse, blau leuchtende E-Gitarre mit mächtigen Fähigkeiten. Schnell wird klar: Diese Gitarre ist nicht nur ein Instrument, sondern eine Waffe mit zerstörerischen Klangattacken. Verfolgt von Alien-Horden und einem finsteren Boss namens Xel’Tarok, muss Adrian seine Fähigkeiten verbessern, neue Verstärker finden und legendäre Gitarrentechniken wie Divebomb, Tapping und Bending meistern. Mit Hilfe eine...

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in advancing our understanding of the deep past. How has this been possible, given that the evidence they have to work with offers mere traces of the past? In Rock, Bone, and Ruin, Ad...

Politics: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and broad-ranging introduction to the terms that lie at the heart of political discourse. Entries are drawn from areas such as political theory, international politics, political science and methodology. As well as explaining core, established principles, this informative guide explores some of the more complex, topical and contested concepts from the world of politics. Concepts covered include:CapitalismClass

'When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology ...'It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of his illustrious namesake, is surveying a bog in the Irish Midlands, where he studies the locals, the land and their ways. One afternoon, soon after he arrives, he receives a telegram calling him back to Leningrad fo...

""Esta es la crónica de aquellos años que cambiaron el mundo demostrando que, como llevan diciendo desde hace siglos los profetas, son las pequeñas personas, con pequeños gestos, quienes generan los cataclismos", escribe en el prólogo El Gran Wyoming, roquero activo con Los Insolventes. Desde una perspectiva pop, Bikinis, fútbol y rock & roll nos sumerge en esas conmociones que sacudieron el mundo occidental desde la década de los cincuenta del siglo pasado, con consecuencias imprevisibles...

What if the most fundamental constant in the universe… stopped being constant?Across the world, reality begins to misbehave. Two dogs move in perfect mirrored synchronization. A door is both open and closed at the same time. Objects fall through solid surfaces.At first the anomalies seem unrelated. Small. Curious. Then the laws of physics begin to unravel. Dr. Maya Ellison, a particle physicist aboard the orbital research station Aurelius, is among...

'Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose' Irish TimesMichael has been away from Ireland for most of his life and lives alone in Bilbao after the death of Catherine, his girlfriend. Each day he listens to two versions of the same piece of music before walking the same route to visit Richard Serra's enormous installation, The Matter of Time, in the Guggenheim.As he walks, his thoughts circle around the five-year period of men...