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Anglo-Irish Agrarian Fiction from the 19th Century

by Paul E H Davis ...

Paul E H Davis and the Irish Land QuestionIn his challenging new book, Paul E H Davis offers an entirely new critique of how novelists in nineteenth-century Ireland had to act -both as writers and historians - in their attempts to find a solution to what became the Irish Land Question.Callenging the widely-held nationalist view that Irish novelists of this period had little or nothing to offer, ... Read more

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Paul E H Davis and the Irish Land QuestionIn his challenging new book, Paul E H Davis offers an entirely new critique of how novelists in nineteenth-century Ireland had to act -both as writers and historians - in their attempts to find a solution to what became the Irish Land Question.Callenging the widely-held nationalist view that Irish novelists of this period had little or nothing to offer,
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The Supernatural Revamped

From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

by Simon Bacon, Jessica Birch, Scott Culpepper, Paul E. H. Davis, Sarah Heaton, Darren Hibbs, C. Austin Hill, Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, Tommy Kuusela, Kayleigh Murphy, Andrea Shaw Nevins, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer, Masaya Shimokusu, Ashley Szanter, Mark David Ryan, Matthias Teichert, Cynthia Vinney, Caryn Wiley-Rapoport, Todd K. Platts ...

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the ... Read more

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This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the
... Read more
The Eerie Silence

Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

by Paul Davies ...

"Refreshing . . . A penetrating analysis of the assumptions that underlie SETI and the entire enterprise of searching for life beyond Earth." —Chris McKay, NatureFifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search ... Read more

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"Refreshing . . . A penetrating analysis of the assumptions that underlie SETI and the entire enterprise of searching for life beyond Earth." —Chris McKay, NatureFifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search
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Echoes of '77: A Nation In Noise

by Paul Davies ...

Echoes of '77: A Nation in Noise is a chronicle of Britain at the edge of transformation — a country caught between collapse and creation, where music became both mirror and weapon. The year 1977 was not simply loud; it was diagnostic. Through punk's abrasion, disco's pulse, reggae's steadiness, and the emerging hum of electronics, Britain revealed the frequencies of its own unrest. This book ... Read more

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Echoes of '77: A Nation in Noise is a chronicle of Britain at the edge of transformation — a country caught between collapse and creation, where music became both mirror and weapon. The year 1977 was not simply loud; it was diagnostic. Through punk's abrasion, disco's pulse, reggae's steadiness, and the emerging hum of electronics, Britain revealed the frequencies of its own unrest. This book
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Locust Fields, The

by Paul Davies ...

Narrated by John Delino Ziegler Jr. ...

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13 hours 11 min

No one, on that warm summer's day, could have foretold the orgy of wanton death and destruction, which was set on a collision course towards the peaceful kingdom of Mercia. A small group; thrown together through fate. Tagan, a Prince of Mercia, Mortimer, an old man who has the look of a wizard, Faith, a fairy, Aaron and Tim, two brothers who look completely unlike each other, and Death, a spirit ... Read more

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No one, on that warm summer's day, could have foretold the orgy of wanton death and destruction, which was set on a collision course towards the peaceful kingdom of Mercia. A small group; thrown together through fate. Tagan, a Prince of Mercia, Mortimer, an old man who has the look of a wizard, Faith, a fairy, Aaron and Tim, two brothers who look completely unlike each other, and Death, a spirit
... Read more
Castles of England: A History in Stone

by Paul Davies ...

Across the length of England, from coastal headlands to river valleys and the high, windswept ridges of the north, the remains of a thousand years of fortification still rise against the sky. Castles of England: A History in Stone follows that long, uneven story, tracing how these structures emerged from conquest, adapted to rebellion, reshaped themselves for comfort, and finally settled into the ... Read more

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Across the length of England, from coastal headlands to river valleys and the high, windswept ridges of the north, the remains of a thousand years of fortification still rise against the sky. Castles of England: A History in Stone follows that long, uneven story, tracing how these structures emerged from conquest, adapted to rebellion, reshaped themselves for comfort, and finally settled into the
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What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers

What I Wish I'd Known

by H. D. Thomson, S.M. Anderson, Jennifer Ashley, Steven Barnes, Jeremy Bates, Louise Bay, D.V. Berkom, Hunter Blain, Marci Bolden, Rhys Bowen, Elizabeth Bromke, Benedict Brown, Rachelle Burk, V.M. Burns, Lynn Cahoon, Ginjer L Clarke, Nancy Coco, Michael Cordell, Charly Cox, B.J. Daniels, Vincent B. Davis II, Ernest Dempsey, Delaney Diamond, Helena Dixon, Angus Donald, Lorna Dounaeva, Kerrie Droban, Jacqueline Druga, Donna Everhart, Chris Fabry, Erin Flanagan, Matt Forbeck, Stacy Green, Ross Greenwood, Lisa Harris, Paul Heatley, Rita Herron, Kate Hewitt, Kelly Hodge, Dwight Holing, Griff Hosker, Daniel Hurst, Pamela Fagan Hutchins, Rick Jones, Diane Kelly, Meera Kothand, Justin Leslie, Julie Anne Lindsey, Kristen Luciani, S.E. Lynes, JB Lynn, Michelle Major, Phillip Margolin, T. B. Markinson, Angela Marsons, Tina Martin, M.D. Massey, Cheyenne McCray, Cathy McDavid, Rhonda McKnight, Bruno Miller, J.J. Miller, Christopher Mitchell, Kiersten Modglin, D. J. Molles, Mary Monroe, Lynn Morrison, Lisa Morton, Barbara Nickless, Nazri Noor, Peter O'Mahoney, Dan Padavona, Phaedra Patrick, Elizabeth Penney, Carly Phillips, Lisa Regan, David Ricciardi, Arianne Richmonde, Matthew Rief, Miranda Rijks, Dahlia Rose, Jenifer Ruff, Sofia Ryan, Sharon Sala, Pat Simmons, Joanna Campbell Slan, Miranda Smith, Jeff Strand, Jacquelin Thomas, Bill Thompson, Eric Thomson, Michael J. Tougias, G. G. Vandagriff, Tim Waggoner, Dan Walsh, Rochelle B. Weinstein, Sherri Winston, D.L. Wood, Melinda Woodhall, Pamela Samuels Young ...

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As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy ... Read more

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As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy
... Read more
Echoes of ’64: The Sound That Carried Across Oceans

by Paul Davies ...

1964 was the year Britain found its voice — and the world stopped to listen. In a nation shaking off the last shadows of post‑war grey, a new sound rose from basement clubs, seaside ballrooms, and the restless hearts of the young. It was sharp, bright, insistent — a sound that refused to stay still, refused to stay local, refused to stay quiet. Within months it would spill across borders, across ... Read more

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1964 was the year Britain found its voice — and the world stopped to listen. In a nation shaking off the last shadows of post‑war grey, a new sound rose from basement clubs, seaside ballrooms, and the restless hearts of the young. It was sharp, bright, insistent — a sound that refused to stay still, refused to stay local, refused to stay quiet. Within months it would spill across borders, across
... Read more
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Quantum 2.0

The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology

by Paul Davies ...

Narrated by Marston York ...

Unabridged

7 hours 23 min

Quantum computers, quantum cryptography, and even quantum AI—a century after the discovery of an unexpected physical world, researchers are putting this puzzling science to work in dazzling new ways.In this exhilarating and mind-bending book, renowned scientist and author Paul Davies offers readers a glimpse of how quantum physics has led to a quantum technology revolution. Quantum 2.0 reveals how ... Read more

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Quantum computers, quantum cryptography, and even quantum AI—a century after the discovery of an unexpected physical world, researchers are putting this puzzling science to work in dazzling new ways.In this exhilarating and mind-bending book, renowned scientist and author Paul Davies offers readers a glimpse of how quantum physics has led to a quantum technology revolution. Quantum 2.0 reveals how
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Echoes of '81: Neon, Noise & Nation

by Paul Davies ...

Before the eighties found their swagger, before the neon glow became a cultural signature, before the machines took over the charts — there was 1981. A year raw with possibility, restless with invention, and charged with the electricity of a nation on the edge of transformation.Echoes of '81: Neon, Noise & Nation captures Britain at the precise moment the decade's identity began to crystallise. It ... Read more

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Before the eighties found their swagger, before the neon glow became a cultural signature, before the machines took over the charts — there was 1981. A year raw with possibility, restless with invention, and charged with the electricity of a nation on the edge of transformation.Echoes of '81: Neon, Noise & Nation captures Britain at the precise moment the decade's identity began to crystallise. It
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Echoes of ’88: Britain’s Year of Acid, Ecstasy & Upheaval

by Paul Davies ...

There are years that slip quietly into the past, and then there are years that refuse to fade. 1988 was the latter. A year that glowed, throbbed, and shimmered with a strange new electricity. A year when Britain felt as if it were standing on the edge of something vast and uncharted, when the nights grew louder, the colours brighter, and the youth of the nation found themselves pulled toward a ... Read more

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There are years that slip quietly into the past, and then there are years that refuse to fade. 1988 was the latter. A year that glowed, throbbed, and shimmered with a strange new electricity. A year when Britain felt as if it were standing on the edge of something vast and uncharted, when the nights grew louder, the colours brighter, and the youth of the nation found themselves pulled toward a
... Read more
Hitler and the July Plot

by Paul Davies ...

Hitler and the July Plot explores the dramatic events of 20 July 1944, when a group of senior German officers attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime. Led by Claus von Stauffenberg, the conspirators placed a bomb inside the Wolf's Lair conference hut in East Prussia — an explosion that killed four people but left Hitler with only minor injuries.Drawing on the roles of ... Read more

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Hitler and the July Plot explores the dramatic events of 20 July 1944, when a group of senior German officers attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime. Led by Claus von Stauffenberg, the conspirators placed a bomb inside the Wolf's Lair conference hut in East Prussia — an explosion that killed four people but left Hitler with only minor injuries.Drawing on the roles of
... Read more

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