Raphael earns his living as a butcher in a hillside village in rural Trinidad. He is also a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions to the novel he has been writing for forty-one years that many of the characters have lost patience and gone off to do their own thing. But somehow, miraculously, the novel, as Raphael has planned it in one hundred chapters of a thousand words, seems to write itself...Time in this richly ambitious and multi-levelled novel is both circ...

The poet and musician Anthony Joseph met and spoke to Lord Kitchener just once, in 1984, when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in the heat of Port of Spain's Queen's Park Savannah, one Carnival Monday afternoon. It was a pivotal meeting in which the great calypsonian, outlined his musical vision, an event which forms a moving epilogue to Kitch, Joseph's unique biography of the Grandmaster.Lord Kitchener (1922 - 2000) was one of the most...

"Tirant lo Blanch" is a seminal work in the realm of medieval literature, attributed to the Valencian author Joanot Martorell. This chivalric romance intricately weaves themes of love, honor, and adventure, set against the backdrop of the Mediterranean. The narrative follows the exploits of the knight Tirant, who embarks on a quest filled with battles, courtly intrigue, and romantic entanglements. Vaeth's study delves into the text's rich tapestry, exploring its influences and the historic...

The Sphere.—A sphere is a solid figure bounded by a surface which curves equally in all directions at every point. The rate at which the surface curves is called the curvature of the sphere. The smaller the sphere, the greater is its curvature. Every point on the surface of a sphere is equally distant from a point within, called the centre of the sphere. The circumference of a sphere is the distance around its centre. The diameter of a sphere is the distance through its centre. The radius ...

Examine the inflection points in Chicago's history of protest. A word packed with meaning and emotion, "protest" can be synonymous with both free speech and rioting. Chicago's citizens and city officials have a long and reactive relationship based on the tension between those differences of perspective, from the 1855 Lager Beer Riot to the conversation surrounding Black Lives Matter and the flashpoints of extreme political polarization. But what led to pivotal events like 1886's Haymarket ...

Elements of the government have discovered that former FBI Special Agent Dominick Buonomo and imprisoned Mafia Capo Joseph "Joey Nails" Neglia have colluded to prove that the Kennedy assasination was indeed a conspiracy. In 1963, the FBI, CIA, and the Mafia conspired to eliminate JFK as a threat to their power and position. Read about the painstaking process they went through to travel back in time to 1963, and once there, to do everything possible to derail the government's and the Mafia'...

Raphael earns his living as a butcher in a hillside village in rural Trinidad. He is also a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions to the novel he has been writing for forty-one years that many of the characters have lost patience and gone off to do their own thing. But somehow, miraculously, the novel, as Raphael has planned it in one hundred chapters of a thousand words, seems to write itself... Multi-levelled and diverse in scene, The Frequency of Magic traverses an a...

This comprehensive history examines more than a century of politics and protests from centennial garment workers to millennials with megaphones.As the major industrial center of the Midwest, Chicago provided a welcome home for Socialism in America. The city provided a soapbox for firebrand speechmaking, a home for political exiles, and a springboard for activism. When Josephine Conger-Kaneko began printing The Socialist Woman in 1909 and then ran for alderwoman in ...

Are you looking for a children's book that is highly entertaining, great for beginning readers, and is jam packed with stories, jokes, and more? Yes, your child will be entertained for hours!In ‘The Dino Time Travelers’, four young dinosaurs Leo, the courageous leader, Luna, the agile flier, Tiny, the curious thinker, and Spike, the steadfast protector embark on a thrilling journey across prehistoric lands to stop Malakar, a tyrannical shadow-dinosaur intent on seizing the legendar...

This history and guide presents the significant sites and events of the Haymarket Square riot, a major turning point in the fight for workers' rights.On May 4th, 1886, a bomb exploded during a labor demonstration near Haymarket Square in Chicago. The ensuing gunfire and chaos brought a grisly end to what began as peaceful support for an eight-hour workday. With both officers and civilians dead, newspapers proclaimed an anarchist conspiracy. The investigation led to...

Thank you for your interest in this book. The "Easy Guide" series, is a series of books designed to help you get the foundation about a subject matter. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason Joseph Anthony created this series. It is a series of small quick and easy to read and understand books, designed to give you a quick idea on a subject. Instead of spending a lot of time and money on a subject to find out that it is not what you exp...

Thank you for your interest in this book. The "Easy Guide" series, is a series of books designed to help you get the foundation about a subject matter. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason Joseph Anthony created this series. It is a series of small quick and easy to read and understand books, designed to give you a quick idea on a subject. Instead of spending a lot of time and money on a subject to find out that it is not what you exp...