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On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question. In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical ...

Blown to Bits, Second Edition is the brilliant, plain-English guide to digital technology, how it's changing the world, and what you need to know to survive in tomorrow's digital world. A best-seller when it was first published in 2010, the issues it addresses are more crucial than ever. Now, its expert authors have thoroughly updated Blown to Bits to demystify the social, political, and personal issues everyone is talking about: from social m...

Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world'Like the clay from which she sculpts figurines as a girl, Virginia is constantly shifting and changing. From her dreamlike childhood on Quiet Farm with her adored brother Daniel, through an adulthood wher...

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a powerful way to analyse a range of substances. It is used in everything from food safety to medicine. It has even been used to protect endangered vultures through analysis of poisonous pesticide molecules in their environment!I want to apply this technique, where do I begin? Is GC-MS is the right technique to use? How do I prepare my samples and calibrate the instruments? This textbook has the ...

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This attractively illustrated new collaborative work examines dress, style and performance as a significant pleasure of fiction. It illuminates many significant factors of Victorian life. The book examines the ways in which Victorian writers, illustrators, periodicals, designers and clothing manufacturers have critiqued the social ideologies inherent in dress, fashion and imaginative engagement with clothes.This is the first volume in the New ...

Dieses Buch richtet sich sowohl an Kursteilnehmer in der Erwachsenenbildung als auch an Studierende in Bachelorstudiengängen. Es enthält rund 60 Aufgaben aus unterschiedlichen Themengebieten der Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung sowie des Jahresabschlusses. Die ausführlichen Lösungen ermöglichen eine schnelle und einfache Lernerfolgskontrolle und eine effektive Vorbereitung auf Klausuren und Prüfungen. Dank der kostenlosen Online-Version des Buc...

Brian McClellan is an American epic fantasy author from Cleveland, Ohio. He is known for his acclaimed Powder Mage series and essays on the life and business of being a writer. Brian now lives on the side of a mountain in Utah with his wife, Michele, where he writes books and nurses a crippling video game addiction.

In Only the Dead, Bear Braumoeller assesses the claim that armed conflict is in decline and finds it wanting. In the course of his assessment, he also develops a powerful explanation for trends in warfare over time. His central finding is that, although there has been a drop in the rate of international conflict following the end of the Cold War, that drop followed nearly two centuries of steady increases in the rate of conflict.

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The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly div...

How conscious are you of the unseen power that drives results?

The concept of the 'dangerous classes' was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new societies, surviving by their wits or various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. This included beggars and vagrants, swindlers, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and pimps, ex-soldiers, ex-prisoners, tricksters, drug...

Those born since the digital revolution, seem to have the hardest time re-imagining the role of photography in the world today. Thinking of photography as a visual language is the approach this book adopts to addresses this challenge.

A fascinating in-depth look at some of the most endangered places on Earth

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Die ketogene Ernährung ist populärer denn je - aus einem bestimmten Grund! Verwandelt diese Ernährungsform unseren Organismus doch in eine Fettverbrennungsmaschine und bekämpft dabei gleichzeitig auf eindrucksvolle Weise die größten Volkskrankheiten wie Arteriosklerose, Bluthochdruck, Diabetes mellitus, Adipositas und anderes. Die Tatsache, dass unser Organismus zur Ketogenese fähig ist, hat unseren Vorfahren in der evolutionsgeschichtlichen E...

This book is for readers who may or may not be familiar with the Middle Ages, but are interested in race and racism, and want to know how far back in time racism begins to appear. The book does for race studies what feminism, queer studies, postcolonial studies, have done to change how we view the past.

On Law and Justice is a classic work of twentieth-century legal philosophy. Translated from scratch from the original Danish, this critical edition corrects errors in the original English translation, sheds new light on Ross's work, and resituates it firmly in the context of current debate.

An essential read for every woman, It's Not My Head It's My Hormones, by BHRT pioneer Dr Marion Gluck, teaches you how to optimise your hormone health and support your body, giving you the tools you need to stay well-balanced, energetic and happy. Too often women know only a little about how the complex system that controls their bodies works. Following on from Marion's first book, It Must Be My Hormones, this will directly link hormones and m...