The Market Impact of Wartime Political Rhetoric: Voices of the Russian-Ukrainian War offers a striking new account of how political speeches became an economic force during the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Focusing on 2022, it shows how public addresses by Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky influenced energy markets, investor expectations, inflation, and currency stability across a deeply interconnected global economy.This book draws on forty major wartime s...

What is England, and who are the English?The man who first posed and answered these questions lived 1,200 years ago in Northumberland. The Venerable Bede spent almost his whole life in two monasteries looking over the North Sea, far from the centres of civilisation. Yet he became the foremost scholar of the first millennium, writing a history that continues to illuminate the Dark Ages, while also popularising our modern dating scheme.Faced with a Britain of competing kingdo...

The story of the Bamburgh Sword – one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests. When the results came back, he realised that what he had in his possession was possibly the finest, and certainly the most complex, sword ever made, which had been f...

Michelangelo, thirty years old, was a sailor in the Mediterranean, a train driver in South America, a driver in Northern Europe and dreams of becoming an airplane pilot.The thirst for adventure and the need to experience his solitude lead him to Kenya, where the casual discovery of a poster will push him to travel to Tanzania to face the highest mountain of the continent: Kilimanjaro. Climbing is an opportunity to test himself once again, to return to experience the thrill of the un...

An Astra Militarum NovelAn elite squad of Cadian Kasrkin are tasked with a critical mission behind enemy lines. They must rescue their general in xenos-held territory before his dangerous knowledge falls into enemy hands. But not all is as it seems...READ IT BECAUSEHear the legendary elite soldiers of Cadia in action as they take on a mission so dangerous it could only be trusted to troops with their training and equipment.

Cello 1 part of Vesuvian Hits, neapolitan medley for Cello Quartet, Intermediate level, duration 7.00(+-) . Contents: Torna a Surriento, Funiculì Funiculà, Io te vurria vasà, Comme facette màmmeta. Score and parts available in series. Scan Qr code (in cover) for audio demo or visit www.glissato.it. product code: EG1172____________________________Parte di Violoncello 1 : "Vesuvian Hits" medley di canzoni napoletane ar...

C soprano Flute 1 part of Vesuvian Hits, neapolitan medley for Flute Quartet (four C flutes) Intermediate level, duration 7.00(+-) . Contents: Torna a Surriento, Funiculì Funiculà, Io te vurria vasà, Comme facette màmmeta. Score and parts available in series, audio demo on www.glissato.it. product code: EG0548____________________________Parte di Flauto 1 : "Vesuvian Hits" medley di canzoni napoletane arrangiate per

A Carcharodons novelWith a millennia-long hunt close to its end, Carcharodons Chaplain Manu must redouble his efforts as he ventures into the nightmare city of Commorragh.READ IT BECAUSEThis is your chance to learn more about the secretive savages of the Carcharodons Astra as they tangle with some of the most terrifying predators in the galaxy… almost as terrifying as themselves.THE STORYIn the darkn...

The reason I am writing this book is because it has never been properly given credit to the real cradle of the Who's success: San Francisco. The concerts the Who played at promoter Bill Graham's Bay Area venues made them grow exponentially and unified them as a band at a time that guitarist Pete Townshend recalled as artistically and financially draining. San Francisco held the band together, gave it confidence and the right input that made it become what it is known for today. The two Win...

Exhausted from a hard day at work, Edoardo is having trouble putting his two energetic kids, Leo and Bea, down to sleep. Desperate to get some shut-eye himself, Edoardo promises them that he will organize a game between the Superdads and the Superheroes—footballers.Unfortunately, he didn’t consider the fact that his kids are more social than him. And so, the next day, the news about the game spreads across the radio, TV and the Internet. Faced with the improbable task of actually h...

An extraordinary account of how one man defied the most powerful ruler of his age and in doing so changed the course of European history.Throughout the 16th century, wars raged across Europe as kings and republics jostled for wealth and power. Yet one man exceeded all these medieval princes of Christendom: Suleiman the Magnificent. As ruler of the Ottoman Empire, he governed 25 million people from Constantinople, his realm stretching from Persia to the Atlantic Oce...

The transatlantic slave trade is one of the most shameful chapters in human history. Between 1500 and 1900 it's estimated that around 12 million African men, women, and children were stolen from their homes by Europeans, before being forcefully transported thousands of miles across the Atlantic. Those who survived the horrific 'Middle Passage' would then be sold, often separated from their families, and put to work as enslaved labor on plantations throughout the New World. While this inhum...