A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege….Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and ...

The fourth edition of Abuse of Process is a practical guide for barristers and solicitors, advising on and litigating abuse of process applications within criminal proceedings. Written by practitioners for practitioners, the judiciary, and students, this book provides the tools for understanding and developing abuse of process arguments. It offers authoritative and comprehensive coverage of abuse of process arguments at all stages of criminal litigation from pre-charge to appellan...

In an alternative Victorian Londinium and on the Moors of Devon, the search is on for answers for one family.

At the close of the eighteenth century, Timothy Dwight — poet, clergyman, and, later, president of Yale College — waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of “infidelity.” The Devil and Doctor Dwight reexamines this episode by focusing on The Triumph of Infidelity (1788), the verse satire that launched Dwight’s campaign and, Colin Wells argues, the key to recovering the deeper meaning of the threat of infidelity in the early years of the American Republic....

During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as pamphlets and broadsides), commenting on political issues and controversies and satirizing leaders like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Drawing on hundreds of individual poems—including many that a...

12SynopsisWorking Title: ForeverAuthor: Colin WellsThe town of Mill Creek is filled with all kinds of people. This story focuses on threefamilies in the small berg, each facing their own serous dilemmas as the Christmas Holiday rollsup. The Carters, The Dawkins and the Wells. The Carter's have just suffered the loss of theirfather, the patriarch of the family, Oliver Carter. They are gathering as a family for Christmas as...

During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as pamphlets and broadsides), commenting on political issues and controversies and satirizing leaders like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Drawing on hundreds of individual poems—including many that a...

A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege....Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschy...

After coming to the aid of an oldster, Chet Westoe finds himself being tracked by three unknown riders. A confrontation in the town of Desolation Wells leads to a shootout, but faced with the prospect of jail, Westoe breaks free. He heads for a ranch called the Barbed S, his only clue to the mystery, but when he arrives is entangled in a whole heap of trouble from which he barely emerges with his life. The tension builds to a shattering climax as the trail leads straight to an all-out clas...

**Dive into the cosmos of Midst with 3 stories exploring the Un, the Fold, and the discovery of Midst itself.An unexpected and unique graphic novel tie-in with the hit podcast Midst from Third Person in conjunction with Critical Role.**Third Person and Critical Role proudly present the collected edition of tales from the Midst cosmos.Between the bright Un and the mysterious Fold sits the islet of Midst…What do a crash landing on an...

Common Remedies brings together a wide collection of traditional household preparations used for everyday comfort throughout history. This volume focuses on how familiar ingredients and simple methods have been combined across generations to create the kinds of remedies people relied on long before modern products existed.Building directly on Book 1 (ingredients) and Book 2 (methods), this volume shows how classic preparations were traditionally assembled....

This is the story of a system that failed utterly, at almost every level, and with fatal effect. People died, hundreds of others were made horribly sick, and for days, no one knew what was happening, or why. There were rumours about the water, but the Public Utilities Commission blandly assured callers that the water was okay. Which left investigators trying to figure out if the problem was tainted food – or something else.Colin Perkel was among the first reporters to visit Walkert...