“Every non-profit organization should follow the principles in this book, especially in today’s current climate where fundraising has become trickier. The book shows you step-by-step how to successfully run online fundraising campaigns so you can grow your organization faster and help more people.”—Corinna Essa, Author of Money on Demand and ReachThe legacy methods of fundraising have either exhausted their efficacy or undergone total extinction. With a brave new economic landscape...

This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice’s exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamen...

An account of the ups and downs of a six-month-long WWII campaign with "a well detailed chronological order of the battles [and] interesting photographs" ( Armorama).A selection of the Military Book Club.Following the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead in July 1944, the vaunted German Army seemed on the verge of collapse. As British and US forces fanned out across northwestern France, enemy resistance unexpectedly dissolve...

The British Centurion and the American M48 Patton, two leading tanks of the Cold War era, clashed in the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War. Expert author David P. Higgins assesses the strengths and limitations of the two tanks and explores their clashes in the largest tank battles seen since 1945.The two countries' tank regiments, many of which shared a proud legacy in the British Indian Army, fought one another in the difficult terrain of Jammu and Kashmir, the focus of a lo...

Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what it’s like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative, reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current...

By 1944, the evolution of armoured doctrine had produced very different outcomes in Britain and Germany.Offering a good balance of speed, protection and firepower, the British Cromwell tank was much faster than its German opponent, but the Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer had a high-velocity main gun and a lower profile that made it formidable on the defensive, especially in ambush situations. The two types would fight in a series of bloody encounters, from the initial...

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels, and film. John Wyndham's triffids, Algernon Blackwood's willows, and Han Kang's sprouting woman are just a few examples. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations, and inhabit our metaphors - but in many ways they remain opaque. The scope of their alienation is as broad as their biodiversity. And yet, literary reflections of plant-life are driven, as are many threads of science fictional inquiry, by the co...

This is a companion volume to Friedman’ s highly successful _British Battleship 1906–1946_ and completes his study of the Royal Navy’s capital ships. Beginning with the earliest installation of steam machinery in ships of the line, the book traces the technological revolution that saw the introduction of iron hulls, armour plate, shell-firing guns and the eventual abandonment of sail as auxiliary propulsion. This hectic development finally settled down to a widely approved form of pre-drea...

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “normal,” “real,” or “inevitable.” This act of speculation—known as worldbuilding—has become undeniably resurgent in our times of multiple crises. Worldbuilding has long been...

Heart rhythm problems—whether slow, fast, or irregular—are very common. Some are benign while some may lead to sudden death. That got your attention, didn't it? Learn about heart rhythm management while having fun reading interesting anecdotes, corny jokes and poignant stories about this growing field in medicine.If you or a loved one has a heart rhythm issue or you just want to learn more about this growing field, Live Better Electrically is your guide to symptoms, risk factors, d...

Lernen Sie London von seiner dunklen Seite kennen! Im November gibt es einen nächtlichen Rundgang vorbei an geheimnisvollen und gespenstischen Orten. Erfahren Sie in einem Interview, was Inez Sharp, Chefredakteurin bei Spotlight, im Tower erlebt hat. Außerdem können Sie ihr Hörverständnis trainieren und Ihren englischen Wortschatz erweitern, indem Sie Interessantes über irische Geschichte, Straßenverkehr und das Leben eines australischen Feuerwehrmannes hören. Hören und Verstehen ist der b...

Auf Spotlight Audio können Sie diesmal besonders viel über Westaustralien erfahren. Hören Sie mehrere Reiseberichte und Interviews über hohe Wälder und den Nutzen von Waldbränden, faszinierende Meereskreaturen und die typisch australische Unbeschwertheit. Mit aktuellen Themen, nützlichen Grammatik- und Hörverständnisübungen und, wie immer, mit jeder Menge neuer Vokabeln, können Sie ganz nebenbei Ihre Sprachkenntnisse verbessern. Hören und Verstehen ist der beste Weg zum perfekten Englisch....