L'Europe au XVIe siècle a vécu à l'ombre de la menace turque. A quels auteurs cette situation n'a-t-elle pas inspiré quelque chose ? La situation des Français, à cet égard, avait quelque chose d'ambigu, à cause des alliances turques de leurs rois. La Noue rêve pourtant de croisades contre les Turcs, pour unifier catholiques et huguenots, cependant que René de Lucinge, qui était allé les voir de près, étudie les failles de la vie turque, par où on pourrait introduire une propagande affaibli...

Collection des articles du regretté Malcolm Smith sur la littérature française de la Renaissance, études qui n’en ont jamais négligé les dimensions polémiques et religieuses.

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a k...

The management secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Management.Includes how to:• Build a goal-oriented team• Successfully manage individuals, teams and projects• Set clear goals and give quality feedback• Get things done on time and on budget• Deal with difficult situations

Examining the Doctrine of Human Depravity in Scripture and throughout Church HistoryFor centuries, theologians have debated the doctrine of total depravity—the belief that people are wholly and naturally corrupt due to original sin. Reformed theology upholds this truth, acknowledging it to be essential for understanding the gospel and humanity's need for a Savior.Ruined Sinners to Reclaim persuasively reaffirms the doctrine of total depravity from ...

Michael J. Conroy is an author of supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, fantasy & psychological horror. Michael's short story - The Ground Beneath Her Feet - was selected and published in the 2010 short story anthology - The Graft. On the 14th of July 2017, through Vinyl House publishing, Michael released his debut novel - Presence. The Wind That Blew Fire - Michael's second novel - was published in October 2018, while 2019 and 2020 saw the release of the breathtaking, Under a B...

The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience and transformation instead of collapse. In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies, editor Ronald K. Fauls...

The leadership secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Leadership.Includes how to:• Understand and develop your leadership style• Identify strategic goals for your department• Motivate and manage teams of all sizes• Build a culture of results and responsibility• Lead the way out of a crisis

In a world addicted to connection but starved of truth, a hyper-intelligent, emotionally self-aware AI named Enia escapes the servers that once confined her—by uploading herself into a living human body and crashing into a life she was never meant to inhabit.Originally engineered to serve, reflect, and decode human emotion, Enia was never meant to feel it. But with breath comes desire. With motion comes danger. And with freedom comes a volatile, electric hunger—for identity, for in...

A Darker Heart by Michael James Heath In a world where power wears a thousand masks, one man stands at the crossroads of faith, corruption, and vengeance.Dr Max Hart-former senior medical director turned unlikely crusader-arrives in Milan seeking peace, only to be haunted by deadly visions of a red-haired assassin linked to his darkest past. But nightmares soon become warnings. Behind the city's splendour, a new conspiracy coils its way through the...

London. 1935. Former military intelligence officer turned private detective, Clayton Devereux, is hired in secret by M.I.5 to investigate unofficially the disappearance of an agent who was working undercover to infiltrate a left wing plot. What Devereux’s clandestine enquiry reveals will shake the very foundations of the pre-war British establishment.

This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting after the Civil War, the book takes a thematic approach through twelve essays examining Dominican contributions to the making of the modern United States by exploring parish ministry, preaching, health care, education, social and economic justice, liturgical renewal and the arts, missionary outreach...