Bartender Donovan Graham discovers someone wants to destroy the country with an ancient, horrifying ritual. Have America's sins come due?In SINEATER Donovan's courage, displayed when he rescues three women from political thugs in New York City, thrusts him into a world where reality can be flexible...and deadly. Newfound employment in a presidential campaign introduces him to sharp-witted lawyer Joann Clery and philosophy professor Father Maurice Carroll, ...

An Anthology of Rhode Island VeteransServicemen are often thanked, but seldom understood.Afterthoughts is a multi-genre collection of fiction and poetry by Rhode Island Veterans that explores themes of comradery, service, disillusionment, and the duality of civilian-soldier identity.The authors featured in these pages offer an unflinching look at the people behind the uniform, sharing not only their challenges and traumas, but their passions, joys, humor, and triump...

Edward Cahill SJ was a well-known and influential figure in Ireland during the early decades of the new Irish state. As Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Sociology at the Jesuit House of Studies in Dublin, his research led him to view liberalism as the great enemy of the faith and spiritual values of the majority of the Irish people. He identified with liberalism the exclusion of God from public life and a strong emphasis on secularism, and also the excesses of laissez-faire capitali...

Daniel Murray was undoubtedly the outstanding Irish Catholic archbishop of the nineteenth century. He was a man of elegance and charm, ready to listen to others and to find good in them. To the redoubtable Bishop Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin, the archbishop was ‘an angel of a man’.His concern for the education of the poor led to the founding of the Irish Sisters of Charity and the invitation to Dublin of the Sisters of Mercy and the Irish Christian Brothers. His interest in the education ...

William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a good employer, Murphy was an international financier, and a contractor of railways and tramways on three continents as well as in Britain and Ireland. He revolutionised the Irish newspaper industry, was a patriot who opposed concessions in the Home Rule Bill, supported Sinn Fein as a political party, and vigorously opposed conscription and partition. Although he was a...

Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times. As a professor of canon law at the University of Padua and later cardinal, and as a major theorist in the conciliarist movement, Franciscus Zabarella (1360-1417) tried to do what a good legal mind does: find and explicate a viable and legal solution to the crises of his time, a solution that would stand up in his own era and for the generations that followed...

Both Germany and the United Kingdom have economically vital cities and peripheral locations that contain historic industrial structures or districts. This prompts the question of how to manage historic industrial buildings, and how they can be preserved to maintain their value while simultaneously benefiting future generations. This book focuses on the potential and redevelopment opportunities of historical industrial buildings. While on the one hand, these historical industrial buildings ...

LILIAN PIERCE is a serial killer. After an unspeakable attack left her horrifically scarred at the age of 7, Lilian chose to spend her life ridding the world of evil men-walking a fine line between villain and vigilante as the folk-hero "Azrael." But after 19 years of taking justice into her own increasingly bloody hands, Lilian is starting to wonder if there is more to life than her unusual profession. Only one major roadblock stands in her way: the original bringer of her trauma is far f...

In 16th and 17th century Ireland religion and nationality fused together in a people’s struggle to survive. In that struggle the country’s links with Europe provided a life line. Members of religious orders, with their international roots, played an important role. Among them were the Irish Jesuits, who adapted to a variety of situations – from quiet work in Irish towns to serving as an emissary for Hugh O’Neill in the south of Ireland and in the courts of Rome and Spain, and then founding...

In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates social change from the pre World War One era to the present. The authors argue that most Americans know a trivialized, diluted version of the tale, one such source is Disney's perennial classic. The authors also discover that when adults are introduced to the 'real' story, they often deem it as unsuitable for children. Placi...

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this increasingly popular field, the eminent contributors discuss almost every aspect of a field that once was the province of historians but now has become increasingly democratized and available ac...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American...