Power shapes everything around us -- from the way governments are built to the way families, workplaces, and communities function. Yet most of us rarely stop to ask: What is power? How does it really work? And why do some people and institutions hold onto it while others lose it?In this collection of essays, Joseph Costello draws on history, politics, business, and culture to reveal the hidden and outright forces that govern our lives. Moving between vivid stories and clear framewo...

Desperate for a way to communicate after losing his hearing, young Patrick Costello set his heart on becoming a musician. Ignoring the odds, empowered by his family and a karate grandmaster, Patrick won a banjo in a bet, salvaged a guitar from the trash and wandered into the city of brotherly love looking for a teacher. What happened next is an unbelievable true story of chasing improbable dreams, kind-hearted strangers, the IRA, Taoism, the Philadelphia Mummers, and unconditional love.

In your mind's eye, Dimples is a live golf ball that has a dream of being in an important golf game and gets his wish.

In your mind's eye, Dimples is a live golf ball that has a dream of being in an important golf game and gets his wish

In Consent of the Governed — first published in 1980 as Consent of the People and now in its fourth edition — Joseph Costello, MD argues that the Founding Fathers' great experiment in majority rule lasted less than a century before being quietly dismantled by the same elite minority forces the Founders most feared. Drawing on political philosophy, American history, and decades of direct experience with government at every level, Costello diagnoses the structural flaw in all human governanc...

Think you know what rural America is like? Discover a plurality of perspectives in this enlightening anthology of stories that turns preconceptions on their head.Gracie sees a chance of fitting in at her South Carolina private school, until a “white trash”–themed Halloween party has her steering clear of the rich kids. Samuel’s Tejano family has both stood up to oppression and been a source of it, but now he’s ready to own his true sexual identity. A Puerto Rican t...

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the fourth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 4 in the series spans the years 1835 to 1869 and includes stories from a wide range of male authors; English, Irish, Scottish and American. Includes tales by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving. Readers new to this genre will discover ...

Esta colección de escultura propone una visión del arte occidental auténtica e innovadora que inicia en la antigüedad y acaba en el siglo XX. Aquí reunidas están las obras maestras más sensuales y harmoniosas además de las más provocativas y minimalistas. La escultura como actividad se caracteriza por esculpir nuestro mundo y nuestro concepto de belleza, dejando tras de sí imperecederas siluetas y siempre modelando otras nuevas e intrigantes. Estas obras maestras son el reflejo de una époc...

From its prehistoric origins to the conceptual modernity of the 21st century, sculpture has literally and figuratively moulded the art world. Offering an integral view at its evolution of form across civilisations and epochs, this work presents the masterpieces of sculpture that, with their timeless silhouettes, have shaped the current notion of beauty. Full of reflection on various eras, artists, and their times, this gallery in high relief presents numerous references, commentaries on wo...

Von ihren prähistorischen Anfängen bis zur konzeptionellen Moderne des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die Skulptur die Welt der Kunst buchstäblich und im übertragenen Sinn geformt. Einen einheitlichen Blick auf die Entwicklung der Formen in allen Epochen und Zivilisationen eröffnend, präsentiert dieses Werk die Meisterwerke der Bildhauerei, die mit ihrer Zeitlosigkeit die heutige Auffassung von Schönheit prägten. Als Spiegelbild von Ära, Künstler oder der Öffentlichkeit ist diese hochwertige Zusamme...

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization, reform, and economic successes and challenges, this period of relentless di...

Die Bildhauerei gibt der Welt Gestalt und formt unsere Auffassung von Schönheit. Sie hinterlässt Jahrhunderte und Jahrtausende überdauernde Kunstwerke. Die hier präsentierten Meisterwerke sind Spiegel ihrer Zeit, der Persönlichkeit ihrer Schöpfer und ihres Publikums. Sie verkörpern im eigentlichen Sinne des Wortes die Kunstgeschichte. Diese 1000 Meisterwerke umfassende Sammlung bietet ein breit gefächertes Panorama der westlichen Bildhauerkunst von der Frühgeschichte bis zur Gegenwart. Die...