Though Will Stills is the most ordinary boy in the world, the whole world is convinced he is far from ordinary. Every January 7th, Will is forced to celebrate his birthday in the most peculiar fashion but it is not his proud parents who are planning these bizarre parties. The twisted minds behind the world's biggest media company, ViewYou, are pulling the strings. But what exactly are they trying to prove and why are they and everyone else so obsessed with this eight year old boy?

This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party’s thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party’s approach to the international stage.The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party, it is also often considered in isolation from the party’s origins, evolution and major domestic preoccupations. Yet nothing has been more divisive and more controversial in Labour’s history than the...

This book accompanies the Modern Queer Tarot deck - available from modernqueertarot.com. The Modern Queer Tarot has been created as both a divinatory device, as with any tarot or contemporary oracle deck, and as a means to educate and/or remind readers of the lives of seventy-eight richly memorable LGBT persons from history; every card in the deck, both Major Arcana and Minor Arcana, is assigned to one of these queer persons.With each of the seventy-eight classic tarot cards we ass...

A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a global force, on its way to becoming the world power.Starting from the premise that ideologies facilitate understanding by providing explanatory patterns or frameworks from which meaning can be derived, the authors study the relationship b...

A multimillion-dollar bounty brings out every vigilante in New York . . . "Chilling psychological suspense that will leave you at the edge of your seat." —Alex Kava, New York Times–bestselling author of the Maggie O'Dell seriesTourism in New York City is under siege. Visitors to the Big Apple have become targets of a pair of vengeful twins bent on exacting punishment on total strangers to right the wrongs perpetrated against them in a hellhole they called ...

**A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RTÉ GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT**An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences'Gorgeous' SARA BAUME'His most ambitious work to date' JOHN BANVILLE'A beautiful, layered novel' ELAINE FEENEY1980s Cork. Jack Shine discovers a...

Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in Newcastlewest, County Limerick, he moved to Dublin aged fifteen and worked as a junior clerk in a bakery. Already politically radicalised, he became captain of the first troop of Na Fianna Éireann, the republican boy-scout movement. An unswerving patriot and idealist, he worked tirelessly for the dream of an Irish-speaking, independent republic. Even before his execution, Colbert was held u...

Uncover Ethical Candidates: Your Comprehensive Guide to Informed Voting, AI's Impact on Politics, and Upholding the Rule of Law in Elections.Voting for Ethics is a non-partisan, practical guide that empowers you to make informed decisions in any election, from your local school board to the national stage. This book is not about choosing a political party; it's about identifying the ethical qualities in a candidate that align with your values and the great...

"Chilling forensics, riveting suspense sequences, grisly details, and a diabolical villain . . . [a] standout thriller." — Kirkus ReviewsNYPD's top cop, Homicide Commander Lt. John Driscoll, believes there's a sociopathic killer on the loose murdering prostitutes in New York City—someone who calls himself "Tilden" and claims to have been sexually abused as a child by his mother's john.But he soon discovers Tilden's not a run-of-the-mill sociopath. ...

In this suspense thriller by the author of The Screaming Room, New York City is terrorized by a serial killer leaving boneless corpses in his wake.A sociopathic killer is using the internet to lure seemingly random women to their gruesome deaths in New York City. During his heinous murderous spree, this madman is extracting the bones of his victims. His sheer brutality has the Big Apple's residents in panic mode.Who is this twisted psycho who's abduc...

When the Free State army captured Limerick city in mid-July 1922, Republican forces retreated south towards Cork and made their next determined stand around Kilmallock. This area barred the way to the heartland of the 'Munster Republic'. In one of the largest and most intense battles of the Irish Civil War, Free State and Republican troops fought for possession of Kilmallock, Bruree and Bruff, with the latter two towns repeatedly changing hands. The eventual Free State occupation of Kilmal...

Philosophers will be richly rewarded by reading John O’Callaghan’s new book, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn. Based on his broad knowledge of Aristotle and Aquinas, O’Callaghan provides not only an excellent treatment of Aquinas’s epistemology but also a superb demonstration of just how Aquinas might contribute to contemporary debates. Traditionally, the camps of realism and idealism fiercely engaged one another in the field of epistemology. Thomists participated in conf...