In 2027, Wimbledon will celebrate 150 years of one of the world's most celebrated sporting events. But the very first Wimbledon champions, who were as famous as Federer and the Williams sisters in their day, have faded into obscurity. Who were they? Why aren't they household names today? Their stories have never been told...until now.Spencer Gore, Frank Hadow, John Hartley, the Renshaw twins, Maud Watson, Blanche Bingley, and Lottie Dod. Together, these first Wimbledon champions di...

Malta is the only country in the European Union, and one of only six countries in the world, that has not had a banking crisis since the 1970s. Despite its lack of raw materials, Malta currently has one of the lowest rates of unemployment and inflation in the EU, as well as a positive GDP. Yet there are only a few studies on the development of the industry that contributes most to its economy, the financial services industry.Drawing upon empirical findings, archival research, and i...

They were the pioneers, the thinkers, and the trailblazers who helped shape a broader vision of American identity at the dawn of a new century. In Representative American Negroes, Paul Laurence Dunbar steps away from fiction to present a series of powerful, intimate portraits of men and women who met the challenges of their era with unyielding dignity and brilliant intellect.Writing with the precision of a historian and the soul of a poet, Dunbar captures more than biograp...

A fantastic crime collection, including a brand-new Inspector Banks novella, from Number One bestseller Peter RobinsonWhen DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious busin...

Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring vitality of classic books and by articulating the theoretical and practical flaws of relativism and historicism, the contributors argue that Strauss and the Straussians have identified fund...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Originally broadcast in the ‘Saturday Play’ slot on 8 November 2008. Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he believes that his financial troubles are over. But it sparks conflict with his wife and brother, who question the ethics of the potential sale. Geral...

Embark on a mind-bending journey through the pages of Gordon Randall Garrett and Laurence Mark Janifer's electrifying thriller, "Brain Twister." Prepare to be immersed in a world where reality itself is up for grabs, and every twist could lead to a startling revelation.As the plot thickens and the stakes skyrocket, you'll find yourself questioning everything you thought you knew. Can you trust your own perceptions, or is there a deeper, more sinister game at play?...

In 2027, Wimbledon will celebrate 150 years of one of the world's most celebrated sporting events. But the very first Wimbledon champions, who were as famous as Federer and the Williams sisters in their day, have faded into obscurity. Who were they? Why aren't they household names today? Their stories have never been told...until now.Spencer Gore, Frank Hadow, John Hartley, the Renshaw twins, Maud Watson, Blanche Bingley, and Lottie Dod. Together, these first Wimbledon champions di...

A fast paced medical thriller that sets and follows Jo Hart’s life long quest to recover and rediscover her principle identity. Pasting back fractured pieces of forgotten memories Jo, an orphan of Taurus, receives a little help from her friends, a loyal and lovable group, all of whom must embark on a dark forensic journey of transformative self discovery. Through song, dream and diary, Jo is met in secret disclosures whose images paint a horrific picture, a past life of sexual and physical...

This book’s overarching premise is that discussion and critique in the discourses of architecture and urbanism have their primary focus on engagements with form, particularly in the sense of the question as to what planning and architecture signify with respect to the forms they take, and how their meanings or content (what is “contained”) is considered in relation to form-as-container. While significant critical work in these disciplines has been published over the past 20 years that enga...

This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s overall argument or premise, the reader is taken in Part I through a range of contemporary critical and political understandings of urban securitizing. This is followed by an historical urban landscape of emerging liberalism and neo-liberalism, in nineteenth-century Britain and twentieth-century United States, respectively. T...

In this totally altered world, William Forrester is an acolyte of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and a teacher of history. Only Maya Wilson, one of his students and a worshipper of Venus, Goddess of Love, had a different sort of grading in mind. Maya is the first of the many Trials of Forrester, every bit as mighty and perilous as the Labors of Hercules. In love with Gerda Symes (like him, a devotee of Athena and a frequenter of the great Temple of Pallas Athena -- formerly known as the 42nd S...