Closer to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to a national park as well as a museum that is housed in the world’s southernmost prison. Ushuaia’s radial panopticon operated as an experimental hybrid penal colony and penitentiary from 1902 to 1947, designed to revolutionize modern prisons globally. A Carceral Ecology offers the first comprehensive study of this notorious prison and its afterlife, documenting how the Patagonian frontier and t...

S is for Slasher is the nineteenth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. Between these pages you will find a collection of thirteen violent tales from some of the best independent horror authors writing today. From universities to summer camps, holiday resorts to a blood-spattered movie theatre, S is for Slasher shows that nowhere, and nobody, is safe from the killer's blade.

Scholars have been arguing for years that Star Wars is more than light sabers, Wookies, Millennium Falcons, and troubling familial relationships. Star Wars is an exciting space fantasy that we can explore from multiple academic perspectives, such as philosophy and psychology. This volume adds to that conversation by asking, “what would it look like if we analyzed the Star Wars universe theologically?” In Theology and the Star Wars Universe, contributors from various theological traditions ...

When his world is devastated by an unthinkable attack Bellamy Leone's journey unfolds-a gripping quest for truth that will captivate your heart and ignite your imagination. Forced to witness his mother's tragic demise, Bellamy flees his village, driven by an unyielding determination to unravel the secrets behind the devastating assault that shatters his world in an instant. As he is guided by a band of extraordinary companions: Raine Rollo, Na'naya Adina, Inara Novik, Draemond Ignis, and A...

This outstanding biography is the story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and fall of his imperial master. Pierre Daumesnil was a loyal follower of Napoleon during his rise and his fall. Enlisting as a private soldier in 1793, he was caught up in the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, surviving campaign after campaign and emerging as a much-decorated general and Baron of the Empire. It was a meteoric rise but one earned through hard fighting, brav...

New in paperback! This book comes at a time when opera-lovers, singers, directors, and critics alike are taking a new look at the dramatic soprano heroines created by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, endeavoring to delve beyond inherited scholarly interpretation and gain a richer understanding of these compelling female characters. Artistically limited by the bel canto musical tradition popular at the time, Verdi launched a new style dramma per musica which also demand...

"With an Ambulance During the Franco-German War" by Charles Edward Ryan is a compelling narrative that offers a unique perspective on the harrowing experiences of war. The author, who served as a volunteer ambulance driver, provides vivid accounts of the battlefield, the suffering of soldiers, and the challenges faced by medical personnel. Through his eyes, readers gain insight into the chaos and brutality of the Franco-German War, as well as the resilience and courage displayed by those w...

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Afton Leer is a mercenary with too many years - and battles - behind him. Today, however, he has chosen the wrong side in a very one-sided fight. As the enemy closes in, he uses what time he has left to reflect on a life lived by the sword.

Tyris and Stilthius Menion and the sell-swords of the Black River Company find themselves at odds over the fate of a prisoner and the question of whether or not honor means more than the code that binds them.

Armed with the knowledge of who he is and where he comes from, Jantalus Kathias sets out to confront the people who tried to destroy him and steal his magic.His search leads him to family and old friends, but he quickly learns not all of them can be trusted. As he struggles to make sense of the world without, his magic continues to rage inside of him. Jantalus must learn to master the power before it consumes him.Struggling to control his increasingly wild magic becomes mor...

Tyris and Stilthius Menion have just had a falling out with their previous employer. In the brutal, unforgiving world of mercenaries, this makes them hunted men. Their flight takes them to a desolate town and a chance meeting with the only two souls who remain there. When it becomes clear that things are not what they seem, the brothers learn that there are forces beyond their comprehension at work in the world.