Crickets and locusts are the squeaky wheels of summer. Guards are selling explosives to the patients. Stories are tricky, and so is the act of telling them.This isn't a rulebook. It's not some dusty tome claiming to hand you the keys to the kingdom of Story. It's a field guide for navigating the strange, electric territory where imagination meets nature, and where narrative becomes survival.Rooted in the five-element model-Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void-The Fictive Drea...

How Will Climate Change Affect You?Climate change is the biggest threat to the world today. Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns are already creating havoc in parts of the world. The issue has been hotly debated by experts and policy-makers; it is now widely accepted that human activity has played a crucial part in climate change. Nobody now denies the urgency of the situation.But how will climate change affect Ireland? What do we know about climate change? Wha...

In Ancient Algorithms, Katrine Øgaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Danish Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s poetry based on a series of self-imposed rules and rituals in collaboration with poets Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, CAConrad, Baba Badji, Paul Cunningham, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen herself. Envisioned as a shared debut, this collection of collaborative poems is equal parts exercise and exorcism, a haunting of literary influences that r...

The BASICS Handbook is designed to show personnel at all levels within a manufacturing operations environment that, with easy to understand continuous improvement tools, they can make a difference to operational performance where safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people are paramount to business success. The tools and techniques throughout, based upon examples from the author’s experience, demonstrate that no matter what industry, they can bring the desired added value....

‘Frankie’ is a Dublin-based paedophile hunter. By creating a fake online profile, pretending to be a minor, he lures men into conversations and eventually a meeting.Instead of a paedophile meeting a child they are confronted by Frankie who offers them an ultimatum. Pay him €10,000 or he’ll send all of their information to the Gardaí (Irish Police Force).Either way, every paedophile caught in Frankie’s web will pay for their actions. Snared takes the reader from the darkest corners ...

Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants. The Interface has become a way of life, connecting all people to limitless information, nonstop personal messaging, and instantaneous news flashes. Gone are the days of cell phones and laptops—even loneliness itself is obsolete. But when the genius behind the Interface turns against his own creation and threatens to unleash a deadly electronic brain virus on the public, the fate...

The most concise, current, and comprehensive overview of general ophthalmology – extensively revised and updatedFor five decades, General Ophthalmology has offered authoritative, state-of-the-art coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of all major ophthalmic diseases, as well as neurological and systemic diseases causing visual disturbances. The eighteenth edition builds on this tradition of excellence by offering an increased number of color illustration...

Introduction to Transpersonal Psychology: Bridging Spirit and Science provides an accessible and engaging introduction to this complex and evolving field. Adopting a modular approach, the book systematically relates key themes of Transpersonal Psychology to three major areas within psychology: general psychology, experimental psychology, and clinical psychology.Covering a wide range of topics including transpersonal states of consciousness, biological foundations, research methods,...

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2019 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival.Edited by Tracy Cunningham and Paul J. Willis

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2021 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival.

From 1 April 1945 to 21 June 1945, the United States Tenth Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, Jr., executed Operation Iceberg--the seizure of Okinawa for use as a staging base for the expected invasion of Japan. The Tenth Army, which included the U.S. Army's XXIV Corps and the U.S. Marines Corps' III Amphibious Corps, executed an amphibious assault on Okinawa against the Japanese 32nd Army. The Japanese defenders allowed the Tenth Army to land virtually unopposed, pref...

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