Three men are committed to Her Majesty's Prison Cairncrow on the same day. There's Paul - a young, tough inner-city robber. Simon, by contrast, is gentle, feminine, and obviously gay, and the third, John, is an ex-vicar. The prison is a corrupt and cruel institution, run by sadistic officers and bullying hard men. It's also a sexual minefield - the old-timers prey on the newcomers and the guards prey on everybody. Will the three new inmates find their niche in this brutish new environment?...

The fifteen articles republished here exemplify the many directions Robert Black's research in Renaissance studies has taken. The first five studies look at Renaissance humanism, in particular at its origins, and the concept of the Renaissance as well as the theory and practice of historical writing. Black also updates his monograph on the Florentine chancellor, Benedetto Accolti. Machiavelli is the subject of three articles, focusing on his education and career in the Florentine chancery....

‘Machiavellian’ can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself is far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of hugely influential political, military and historical works, Machiavelli was also a vernacular poet, first-rank dramatist and religious radical, rejecting not only the contemporary Catholic Church but Christianity itself. From champion of Florentine popular republicanism to political radical to co...

This is a manual that seeks to engage thoughtful but biblically focused and informed scholarship on worship. Dr. Black teaches about the 3T’s of worship-Transparency, Transformation and Transition. In simplistic form, worship expresses to God His worth and supreme value. It is the full expression of the heart (mind, soul and will) that suggests, a relational commitment and surrender to God, expressed in an act of obedience, submission, and declaration. Questions covered are what is worship...

Machiavelli is history's most startling political commentator. Recent interpreters have minimised his originality, but this book restores his radicalism. Robert Black shows a clear development in Machiavelli's thought. In his most subversive works The Prince, the Discourses on Livy, The Ass and Mandragola he rejected the moral and political values inherited by the Renaissance from antiquity and the middle ages. These outrageous compositions were all writ...

The year is 1885, and Dr Reynard, a brilliant young surgeon, is desperate for excitement. A chance meeting with Lord Spearman opens up a whole new world of sexual adventure. Swept along, Dy Reynard finds blackmail threatening to destroy him, and an even darker menace in the fog-bound streets.

This is a devotional based on coaching believers and seekers to a better place. Dr. Black takes the time to share 50 golden nuggets of truth with supporting scripture verses that point readers to the simple strategies needed to get better. In a simplistic form of prose Dr. Black shares revelatory truths that if incorporated into our daily walk will result in us surviving and thriving. This book is meant to be a daily motivational companion text to daily bible devotions. There is no set way...

Like spun silk, this mystery novel fl ows with an abundance of murder, beautiful women, sex, nasty violence and jaunts from New York City to Nassau, Jamaica and United Arab Emirates. John Shadows the investigative detective has to deliver 2.2 Million in cash to the Bhatar Emirs oldest sons.The Crown Prince Malumud lives in a fantastic dream house in Jamaica while the younger brother, Oxford educated Prince Gehalab lives on the Bahamian Island of Nassau. Shadows is involved in this ...

Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s imagination. In this searing, inspiring memoir, Black recounts how he devoted himself, body and soul, to his proud service as an elite U. S. Army Ranger ...

A generation before Vietnam, the war for Korea raged. It was as rough and dirty a war as has ever been fought—a war small in history, but very large to the men who waged it. . . .In the Korean War, one group above all others distinguished itself, a small elite band who volunteered for action behind enemy lines. They were the men of the U. S. Army’s legendary Rangers. They succeeded in making the first combat jump in Ranger history, destroying enemy headquarters, an...

One of the most famous units of World War II and all of military history. First Americans to see active combat in the European theater. Expands on events described in Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle.

Follows a legendary unit of American fighting men from D-Day through the end of World War II.