You were taught that medieval history is a story of castles and kings. This book proves it was a story of survival on a knife edge, where 1 wet summer, 1 shaking night, or 1 ship from the east could erase a community that had stood for 300 years.In 1315, rain fell for 14 months and the wheat never ripened. In 1347, 12 ships entered Sicily and half of Europe died within 4 years. In 1257, a volcano in Indonesia dimmed the sun and emptied barns in England that never saw its ash. These...

This is a story about a world that coexists with werewolves, vampires, and humans. A young man named Julius Grace is a normal guy who has lost his parents but remains human and is trying to coexist with the supernatural world around him. There are rules, and there is good. But where there is good, there is also evil!Join Julius on the first adventure of this trilogy as he is led toward his unknown destiny!

A man makes a terrible mistake at 13 years old and is sentenced to 30 years in prison. When he gets out, the world around him has completely changed. Can he adapt, or will he finally understand that the world has entered its own apocalyptic era?

Terry able is young and has everything ahead of him until terrible things happen to him. And the woman he loves is murdered.

You picked up this book because you come home tired and still lose the evening to the phone, the glow of the screen replacing the glow of the room, and the hour after dinner vanishing without you ever deciding to lose it. You have heard the slow evening is a luxury you cannot afford, and you have tried to rest and watched the scroll eat the quiet anyway. You may be the parent whose evenings belong to everyone else until the children sleep, or the couple sitting on the same couch scrolling ...

The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise explores resonances of "Southernness" in works by American culture’s leading literary couple. At the height of their fame, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald dramatized their relationship as a romance of regionalism, as the charming tale of a Northern man wooing a Southern belle. Their writing exposes deeper sectional conflicts, however: from the seemingly unexorcisable fixation with the...

The complexities of war are only truly known when you’ve experienced it.From 1992 to 1994, Jonathan Jones, an ex-serviceman of the Gloucestershire Regiment, found himself in the depths of chaos while providing humanitarian aid as a civilian truck driver in the former Yugoslavia.As part of the British Convoy Team, Jones, along with other civilian truck drivers, were able to access areas cut off to the military; allowing much-needed supplies to reach those who were affected b...

Education through poetry expresses my thoughts and education on numerous different topics and ideas. I expressed my knowledge and wisdom through lines that rhyme most of the time. You can say that it’s wisdom that rhymes. Among my favorites are the topics that address values including honor and integrity. Most of the values included have shaped me and made me the many have become. The different activities that are included are things I like to do or would like to do on the future. For exam...

The book (COST Action Final report) summarises the proceedings from COST Action ES1206. COST Action ES1206, Advanced GNSS Tropospheric Products for Severe Weather Events and Climate (GNSS4SWEC), was a 4-year project, running from 2013 to 2017, which coordinated new and improved capabilities from concurrent developments in GNSS, meteorological and climate communities. For the first time, the synergy of multi-GNSS constellations was used to develop new, more advanced tropospheric products, e...

Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day.As a young woman Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything. Y...

Plant Biology is a new textbook written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics and the excitement they have created. The book begins with a review of what is known about the origins of modern-day plants. Next, the special features of plant genomes and genetics are explored. Subsequent chapters provide information on our current understanding of plant cell biology, plant meta...

A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the most…sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story of a sexual revolution. The great artists of the 15th and 16th century were not just visionaries, but lovers. Jonathan argues that the famous nudes of Michelangelo and Titian are not abstract...