This book will take you on a journey back to the early part of the 5th century. Little information exists regarding life and conditions prior to that time in the land named Hibernia - the island lay on the edge of the known world beyond the fringe of the Roman Empire. It took the mission of the man we call Saint Patrick and the discovery of his writings to see the beginning of any real history of Ireland. More important still is the fact that these writings provide such a vivid picture of ...

In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke, addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, relig...

The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian culture—one that blends Incan elements with those of the aboriginal natives. Moreover, Sibundoy bridges two domains, the Andean highlands and the Amazonian basin, and inter-mixed with all of these elements are European influences, particularly folk and orthodox Catholicism. From this cultural enclave, John McDowell presents here a body of oral material collected from the Santiago Ingano community.This corpu...

It is 1966, when a nineteen-year-old boy from Three Rivers, Michigan, follows family tradition by enlisting in the United States Navy. A plan which he thinks will guarantee an uneventfful tour of duty aboard a US naval ship goes awry when he is deposited in the middle of a war zone in South Vietnam. For the next gruelling year, he performs the duties of a fleet marine force medic, caring for wounded and dying American marines. Dubbed Doc John by his comrades, he soon becomes entrenched in ...

Chris West’s deadly prowess with his weapon of choice had earned him the name Red Axe in the Stone Age world of Pellucidar at the Earth’s core. Sentenced to die along with the woman he loved by the merciless Mahars, West had fought his way free of the lethal laboratories and ghastly arenas of their underground city. Now he must carve a path for his small band of fugitives through a primordial landscape teeming with monstrous beasts and brutish men bent on their destruction.Also inc...

"[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented." — Library JournalAs a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather's writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston's army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In add...

This two volume set, LNAI 16748 and 16749, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2026, held in Ottawa, ON, Canada, during July 7–10, 2026.Bringing together cutting-edge research from a global community of scholars and practitioners, the proceedings reflect a competitive selection process, with 30 full papers, 21 short papers, and 82 poster and demo papers selected from 236 submissions spanning 53 count...

Young People, Alcohol, and Risk theorises the social, cultural and economic shifts that have underpinned significant declines in young people’s drinking in high- income countries.Since the early 2000s, alcohol use among young people has declined significantly in most high- income countries. Situated within a theoretical framework of ‘social generations’ and ‘risk’, this book explores the key interrelated factors that have cumulatively shifted the social and cultural positi...

Welcome to the enchanting world of Bedtime Stories. This time with a collection designed to soothe and inspire our youngest dreamers. Each story within these pages is a tender lullaby, transforming bedtime into a serene journey to the land of dreams.Prepare to be whisked away on a cloud of calm as each story, like a soft blanket, wraps the night in warmth and wonder. So tuck in, turn the pages, and let the lull of these stories drift you into a peaceful slumber. Goodnight, little o...

Welcome, dear young readers and listeners, to the enchanting realm of bedtime stories, a magical world where dreams take flight and imagination knows no bounds. As the sun sets and the moon takes its place in the starlit sky, a special kind of magic begins to unfold.This is the time when pillows become clouds, blankets turn into capes, and your bedroom transforms into the doorway to countless adventures. It is also the perfect time to let your imagination take you to fantastic plac...

As the former mayor of Smoky Vale, I hinged my campaign on getting rid of all bikers. They are everything that's wrong with our town. Everywhere they go they breed crudeness, chaos, and carnage.Then my son fell in love with not one, but two of them. Now I have no choice but to interact with the very people I tried to take down.My disapproval of their lifestyle wavers when a spawn of Goliath backs me into a wall, kisses me senselessly, and makes it clear in the most vulgar w...

This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises.The book draws on case studies from a range of educational contexts in the Global South which engage in creative arts methodologies to foreground decolonising approaches to intercultural communi...