During his 1920s heyday, Arnold Bennett was one of Britain's most celebrated writers. As the author of The Old Wives' Tale and Clayhanger he was a household name, writing just as much for the common man as London's literati. His face was plastered over theatre hoardings and the sides of West End omnibuses. His life represents the ultimate rags-to-riches story of a man who 'banged on the door of Fortune like a weekly debt collector' as one of his obituaries so vividly put it. Yet for all hi...

Scion of the great Quaker chocolate dynasty, Adrian Cadbury (1929-2015) was educated at Eton and Cambridge, yet never quite fitted into the mould of the British establishment. As one of the most influential business personalities of the later 20th-century, he was a committed capitalist, but championed workers' rights and backed numerous social causes. By his death, he had given most of his fortune away. To most people, however, his private life remained a closed book, overshadowed by a str...

A soulless ex-con navigates the gritty streets of Boston in this thrilling urban fantasy novel from the author of the Jonah Heywood Chronicles.Hell is what you make of it.Fifteen years ago, Jack died and was presented with a simple choice: stay dead and go to Hell or sell his soul to a demon and keep living. Now, soulless and out of prison, Jack is living as a drifter in the streets of Boston, trying desperately to be nobody.It's all working out unt...

From Patrick Donovan, the author of the Demon Jack series, comes a peek at beleaguered antihero Jonah Heywood ahead of the events of The Ledberg Runestone.Before becoming an alcoholic grifter in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Jonah Heywood was a sixteen year old learning the magical ropes under the tutelage of Gretchen, his mentor. Gretchen helps Jonah process that he can see and influence two simultaneous realms: the spiritual and earthly....

The author of Demon Jack delivers the first novel in a daring Southern urban fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Jim Butcher and M.D. Massey.Magic: To some, it's spectacle. To Jonah, it's pure profit.A shaman for hire, Jonah can tap into his powers as easily as turning on a light switch, but the real money is in putting on a show. And after putting himself in debt to the Carver brothers, Asheville's version of a mafia, in order t...

First in a series, The Ledberg Runestone is a thrilling urban fantasy following Jonah, a hard-living shaman for hire who can make his debt disappear if he can find a legendary stone for a mystery woman loaded with cash. The problem? Jonah's not the only one on a hunt for this dangerous runestone. Magic: To some, it's spectacle. To others, it's proof that there's more to life than meets the eye. To Jonah, it means one simple thing: money. A shaman for hire, Jonah knows how to tap into his p...

After forty-three years in the sacred space of caring for patients, Dr. Donovan shares his observations and thoughts about illness and healing. He believes illness serves us by acting as lifes transformative process. As such, the journey through our illness may be precisely the very experiential journey we need to realize our healing and ourselves more fully. After all, we dont get cancer. Cancer, like any illness, is a process. We are the cancer we manifest. Our cancer arises out of our o...

This research paper focuses on oil and its importance to operations in the Pacific during World War II. It specifically concentrates on the period before Japanese-U.S. hostilities, through the strike on Pearl Harbor, and concludes with operations in the Solomon Islands. A secure and reliable source of oil was one of the primary reasons that Japan chose to go to war with the United States that fateful Sunday in December 1941.The Japanese understood their country's need for oil and ot...

Die Liebe findet immer ihren Weg ...Für Carly McCormick ist der St. Patrick’s Day kein Grund zum Feiern, denn an diesem Tag verfolgt sie seit Jahren das Pech. Darum will sie am 17. März um jeden Preis raus aus Dublin. Eine spontane Radreise entlang Irlands atemberaubender Westküste scheint die perfekte Flucht zu sein. Doch unerwartete Pannen und emotionale Herausforderungen warten auf die bunt zusammengewürfelte Radtruppe und den mürrischen, aber leider attraktiven...

A soulless ex-con navigates the gritty streets of Boston in this thrilling urban fantasy novel from the author of the Jonah Heywood Chronicles.Hell is what you make of it.Fifteen years ago, Jack died and was presented with a simple choice: stay dead and go to Hell or sell his soul to a demon and keep living. Now, soulless and out of prison, Jack is living as a drifter in the streets of Boston, trying desperately to be nobody.It's all working out unt...

Seven of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays— As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, Romeo & Juliet, and The Winter's Tale— have been specifically adapted by Edith Nesbit to introduce young listeners to the Bard' s works. Made accessible to young readers without sacrificing any essential elements, these classic retellings capture the drama and flavor of each original play while simplifying plot...

Made available to mark the centenary of the establishment of George Allen & Unwin Ltd on 4 August 1914, this brief account tells the story of Allen & Unwin from the founding of George Allen Publishers in the 1870s through the arrival of Stanley Unwin in 1914 and the setting up of a Sydney office in 1976, which in turn led to the management buyout in 1990 and the emergence of Australia's largest independent book publisher.