Considered by many to be the greatest account of The Beatles at work, song by song. It's full of revelations about how and why some of the best known songs in the world were created.

This book is the first major examination of the history of physical education in Irish primary and second level schools in the twentieth century. Set within the context of major international developments in the subject, it examines its state in these schools prior to the partition of Ireland in 1921. It assesses the reasons why physical drill’s status was reduced in the Irish Free State’s primary schools in the mid-1920s and accounts for the failure to fully implement the Sokol system in ...

Simon Wells breathtaking account of life and murder with Manson and The Family, charting the influence of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and the Black Panthers on their enduring legacy of horror.

NKUDBKAH, IRAK – VOR SECHS JAHREN Eine Einheit der Republikanischen Garde in einem abgelegenen Dorf wird von der CIA für ein grauenhaftes Experiment auserkoren: den Test von Project BioGenesis, einem genetisch modifizierten Organismus, entworfen für den Einsatz als Biowaffe. Doch der Test erweist sich als furchtbarer Fehlschlag. Als ein Erkundungsteam vor Ort von den Parasiten angegriffen und sogar infiziert wird, gibt es nur einen Ausweg – die infizierten Organismen unter einem Teppich au...

Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics in critical political economy studies are well represented here: market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, informat...

«In this excellent, readable and important study,　Curran reveals a rich vein of migrants who went to ply their trade as soccer players in the USA. This textured study illustrates the human side of the story enlivened by rich interviews of both female and male players. It is a must for students of the diaspora and sports studies. A major contribution».(Professor Donald MacRaild, London Metropolitan University).«This is a fascinating and timely contribution to debates on spor...

Auf dem Grund eines prähistorischen Sees in der Antarktis liegt eine Stadt so alt wie die Zeit selbst. In ihren labyrinthischen Tiefen wächst unaufhörlich eine Energiesignatur heran, die unwägbare Gefahren in sich bergen könnte. Deshalb wird ein Team aus Elitetauchern der Navy ausgesandt, um dem Phänomen auf den Grund zu gehen. Doch was sie dort finden, ist ein Albtraum jenseits aller Vorstellungskraft. Die Stadt ist nicht tot, und die Gegenwart der Taucher hat sie aus ihrem Millionen Jahr...

Movin’ on up!Do you approach prayer with the same attitude and same requests—now you can flow into a new realm.Prayer Changes Things shows you how to pray the Jesus way—responding to His Father with “yes” as a matter of habit. You, too, can learn to trust Him with that same response in your everyday life.Prayer Changes Things includes excerpts from the following books and authors:Let Your Yes be Yes by Do...

‘One of the best novels of the year so far’ The TimesA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Unlike anything I’ve read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It’s wonderful’ Tessa Hadley‘I just enjoyed it so very much’ Philip PullmanIt is the 17th century and a wall is being built around a great house. Wychwood is an enclosed world, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, landscape-maker. A...

“Sophisticated and erudite. . . . Hughes-Hallett is a natural heir to A.S. Byatt, delivering a densely patterned novel that shimmers with human interest as it probes our cultural story.”—Wall Street JournalThe Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary historical novel in the spirit of Wolf Hall and Atonement—a great English country house novel, spanning three centuries, ...

A comprehensive series of essays exploring Peter C. Phan’s groundbreaking work to widen Christian theology beyond the Western worldPeter C. Phan’s wide-ranging contributions to theology and his pioneering work on religious pluralism, migration, and Christian identity have made a global impact on the field.The essays in Theology without Borders offer a variety of perspectives across Phan’s fundamental work in eschatology, world christianity, interre...

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he only met her twice in person.Dickinson’s poems are all short; few...