“That’s the Game, Dante. That’s called winning.”“It isn’t a game when the person who is losing can’t eat.”In the Cassino Region, every adult is assigned their rank through the drawing of a card from a standard deck. The higher the drawn card, the higher the rank, meaning more privileges and prospects in the Game.Tessa Gamble, a born and raised Elite, was taught to believe in the fairness of this system. However, she soon learns that all is not as it seems. Why do the...

This small volume introduces readers to John Henry Newman’s wiring, theology, and thought.Blessed Newman, the 19th-century’s most important English-speaking Catholic theologian, spent the first half of his life as an Anglican and the second half as a Roman Catholic. He was a priest, popular preacher, writer, and eminent theologian in both Churches.Before Newman, Catholic theology tended to ignore history, preferring instead to draw deductions from first principles. After Newm...

Epiphany of Escape is a collection of poetry compiled during one mans twenty-year journey through an unpredictable life as he learns to cope with the pain of stress and anxiety and discovers the comfort of love and hope in the process. Michael Marrs is a seasoned poet who shares a unique perspective on the emotions that accompany both dark moments and joyful times. From feeling self-doubt to accepting true fate to experiencing the simple beauty of sunlight on sparkling waters, Mar...

Spanish comics have attracted considerable critical attention internationally: dissertations have been written, monographs have been published, and an array of cultural institutions in Spain (the media, publishing houses, bookstores, museums, and archives) have increasingly promoted the pleasures, pertinence, and power of graphic narrative to an ever-expanding readership – all in an area of cultural production that was held, until recently, to be the stuff of child’s play, the unenlightene...

Tim Robinson is a very successful insurance broker based in Singapore. His world is turned upside down when he is accused of committing a murder. Banished from the south east Asian city; he returns penniless to England where he is forced to live on the streets as a down and out tramp. He is pulled into a terrorist plot which leads him into murder, bombings and an anti-American show down on the high seas. The story moves along at a very fast pace and the reader is compelled to keep turning ...

One-of-a-Kind Tool Speeds Mechanical Design WorkDesigners at all levels of experience need a handy, comprehensive reference that helps them get the job done faster... and better. Machine Designers Reference by J. Marrs fulfills the need, and then some. This hardcover 716-page volume benefits from the author's 20 years of experience as a working mechanical designer. The result is 12 chapters organized in a very practical way (click the TOC button, above). This popular work is packed...

Set in outback Queensland, Australia, this fast paced book takes you through the relationship between Billy Swan and Daphne (Daffy) Cooper and the results of Daffy's lust for wandering. Covering the vast open spaces of part of Australia this is a 'must read' for all who enjoy adventure.

This study approaches John Henry Newman’s writings on the church from a fresh perspective by examining the development of Newman’s ecclesiological outlook over time. It demonstrates that it can be misleading to refer to Newman’s “Catholic ecclesiology” (singular), because such an approach gives the impression that Newman maintained a stable ecclesiological perspective during his Roman Catholic period. In reality, Newman’s outlook on the church underwent significant developments over the la...

The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability studies, this study is set both within and against a conversation on cultural diversity—with respect to gender, sexual, and ethnic identity—which has driven not only much of the past decad...

**The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything“Lamott’s …most insightful book yet, Stitches offers plenty of her characteristic witty wisdom…this slim, readable volume [is] a lens on life, widening and narrowing, encouraging each reader to reflect on what it is, after all, that really matters.”—People**What do we do when life lurches out of bal...

In this thrilling mystery from the world’s #1 bestselling author, exclusive detective agency Private is on the hunt for London's most feared killer since Jack the Ripper.For Hannah Shapiro, a young American student, the nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when the owner of Private-the world's most exclusive detective agency-saved her from a horrific death. Now, after eight years, the terror follows her to London. The only man who can help is former Roya...

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative a...