In The Great and the Good, Ireland's leading football pundit and legend of the game John Giles looks back on more than fifty years of football, at developments in the game from the post-War period to the present day, the great players who drove it forward, the visionary managers and their teams, and the age-old question of what makes a player good and what makes one great.From his earliest days, John Giles can recall pondering the subject. 'You'd hear about certain 'great' ...

In "William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England," the author delivers a compelling narrative that intricately weaves history and biography, presenting a detailed account of English kings from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early medieval era. Composed in the early 12th century, this chronicle is characterized by its scholarly rigor, eloquent Latin prose, and a nuanced understanding of the socio-political landscape of the time. William's unique approach, blending historical fac...

1. Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus, * to all the followers of truth sendeth health.

'The dream was football . . .'John Giles had a gift. At the age of three, he could kick a ball the way it was supposed to be kicked. And he knew that every hour that passed without kicking a ball was an hour wasted.'It was the same dream that most of the kids had at that time . . .'In A Football Man, Giles tells the story of a dream pursued and realised beyond his wildest imaginings, from his humble beginnings in Ormond Squar...

After his surrender to the Royal Navy, Napoleon became the object of massive English public interest. He would live out his last years on the island of St. Helena without ever admitting to being a prisoner.This close study of Napoleon in captivity attempts to reconstruct an authentic portrait of the fallen emperor by examining contemporary documents and records of public opinion.Napoleon worked hard to obfuscate his history of tyranny with a legend elevatin...

What if Jesus was serious about loving our enemies?For too long, those who carry the name "Christian" have ignored the Christlike path of enemy-love and creative nonviolence. For many of us, the Second Amendment has become more important than the Sermon on the Mount. It's time we begin to walk the path of peace marked out for us by the Prince of Peace and learn to study war no more.

First established in the 1700s as a forge village, Waterloo--located in Sussex County, New Jersey--has endured several eras of decline and growth. An industrial hub and farming community, it played a role in the American Revolution. When the canal arrived, Waterloo reinvented itself into a vital transportation link that helped foster the new nation's first Industrial Revolution. The peacefulness of the canal belies the complex engineering required to integrate it into the village's footpri...

Panem & Circenses gathers thirty novels that imagine ancient Rome as spectacle, polity, battlefield, and moral laboratory. Spanning imperial intrigue, Christian persecution, military adventure, romance, archaeological reconstruction, and philosophical historical fiction, the volume displays the broad stylistic repertoire through which modern writers have revived classical antiquity. Its standout settings—from crowded arenas and imperial courts to provincial frontiers and early Christian co...

The Devil Will Need Deliverance from YOU!As our world advances, so does the enemy, modifying his age-old weapons to match these challenging times. So we, too, must modify our weapons in order to resist and defeat him at every turn.Exposing the enemy's eight updated tactics and strategies, leading prophetic voice Pastor John Veal offers a customized, hands-on battle plan for today. Complete with prophetic revelations and decrees, deliverance prayers, and sup...

The Roman Empire: 30 Novels of Power, Warfare and Defiance assembles a capacious nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century imaginative archive of antiquity. Across historical romance, adventure narrative, political melodrama, religious fiction, and psychologically inflected reconstruction, Rome emerges as both imperial spectacle and contested moral order. Battles, court intrigues, provincial frontiers, persecution, rebellion, and private acts of conscience give the volume its dramatic range;...

Over the past decade, Indonesia has implemented significant health sector reforms that include decentralizing responsibilities for service delivery, designing incentives for health providers, increasing the supply of midwives in remote areas, and analyzing demographic and epidemiological transitions causing changes in the patterns of disease prevalence. Financial protection against catastrophic expenditures has improved substantially, and legislation has been enacted to improve the quality...

In "History of the Britons," Nennius crafts a seminal narrative that delves into the early history of Britain, intertwined with legend and lore. Written in the 9th century, this text, steeped in the oral traditions of its time, employs a chronicle style that combines historical fact with mythological elements such as the tales of King Arthur and the Twelve Battles. Nennius's work serves not only as a historical account but also as a cultural artifact that reflects the complexities of ident...