This exciting Audiobook version of the groundbreaking hardback novel, which includes over 20 original and compelling songs, is the fascinating tale of the ‘Lonely Dog’ – an orphan hound growing up in Alveridgea, where cats and dogs live alongside each other, but on quite different sides of the tracks. A fable of finding purpose amidst social division, it is highly relevant to today's world.Lonely Dog is a story of music and passion, love and loss, defeat and victory. But beneath it...

This little book will teach you all you need to know about the most frustrating yet entertaining pitch in baseball: the knuckleball. It makes batters look foolish when it works; it embarrasses pitchers when it doesn't...or if it works too well. It humiliates catchers and umpires. It confounds spectators. Dave Clark has spent most of a lifetime studying the knuckleball, talking to the major league pitchers who have thrown it, and throwing a few of his own. His book explains the strange work...

L’ASCESA DELL’AVATAR OSCURO! Dopo la grande sconfitta di Nekron, la Lanterna Bianca ha riportato in vita alcuni supereroi e supercattivi. Anche se la gioia per la resurrezione dei compagni caduti è grande, risulta chiaro fin da subito che quello della Lanterna Bianca non è stato un dono incondizionato. La vita restituita, infatti, sembra essere un passaggio intermedio verso qualcosa di più grande… e, forse, di tutt’altro che salvifico. Perché una forza oscura ha iniziato a muoversi, e anco...

Writing matters: it plays a key role in the circulation of ideas in society and has a direct impact on the development of democracy. But only a few get to do the kind of writing that most influence this development.The Politics of Writing examines writing as a social practice. The authors draw on critical linguistics, cultural studies and literacy studies, as they explore and analyse:* the social context in which writing is embedded* the processes and practice...

While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies. The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives sets out to enrich the limited existing body of critical analysis on the subject with a landmark collection of essays offering a far larger perspective than the books or collections published so far on the topic. This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach includes li...

DOPO L’OSCURITÀ, LA LUCE ACCECANTE! La notte più profonda è finita. Si è trattato di uno degli eventi più devastanti che l’intero Multiverso abbia mai affrontato, ma ora, con la definitiva sconfitta di Nekron, sembra che sia finalmente giunto il momento di smettere di temere la fine della realtà per come la conosciamo. Ma è successo anche qualcos’altro: alcuni eroi caduti in battaglia e alcuni supercattivi sono misteriosamente tornati in vita. Ed è tempo di scoprire il perché. Geoff Johns ...

At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the development of cities and regions. It discusses the uncertainties associated with the stalling of hyper-globalization and asks whether this creates opportunities for resurgent regional economies driven by local capabilities, resource efficiencies and domestic production. Theory and evidence on socio-economic and environmental transitions underway in many regions are...

This volume explores contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity. These issues are analyzed from the perspective of seven nations: China, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine, Wales, and the United States. While different, these perspectives are not mutually exclusive lenses through which to review the discourse between ethnic and educational dynamics. The chapters in this book illustrate how these seven perspe...