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The Autobiography of a Cad is the hilarious spoof memoir of one Edward Fox-Ingleby, an upper-class rotter and chancer of the first order. He will go to any lengths to get the things he wants: power, money and lashings of the fairer sex. From his earliest year’s on his father's estate...

The Autobiography of a Cad is the hilarious 'memoir' of an arch-rotter, chronicling the life of one (happily fictitious) Edward Fox-Ingleby. A. G. Macdonell had great fun in writing this book, undoubtedly his funniest. It is written as a tongue-in-cheek 'autobiography' of a man who ploughs his way...

The Fallen Prince That Never Was is a YA humorous Fantasy/Adventure Novel. Set in London 1909, two young orphans – Zack and Suzan – decide to leave all their troubles behind them and stowaway on a ship – The Queen Marry – bound for the Americas. However, after a strange shipwreck at sea they...

Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. Now all she has to do is graduate high school. That would be easier without...

While the church today looks quite different than it did two thousand years ago, Christians share the same faith with the church fathers. Although separated by time and culture, we have much to learn from their lives and teaching. This book is an organized and convenient introduction to how...

The Network Society is now more than ever the essential guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication. Fully revised, this Third Edition covers crucial new issues and updates, including: • the long history of social media and Web 2.0: why it's not as new as we...

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies, deepening. Taken from an international perspective, the book offers full coverage of the literature and research and a theoretical framework from which...

The first book to systematically discuss the skills and literacies needed to use digital media, particularly the Internet, van Dijk and van Deursen's clear and accessible work distinguishes digital skills, analyzes their roles and prevalence, and offers solutions from individual, educational, sociological, and policy perspectives.

How best can we understand why the application of information and communication technology in organizations succeeds or fails? Calling on technical, organisational, social, psychological and economic perspectives, this book provides a fresh and comprehensive framework for answering this question. Consideration...

The Garden is set in Dublin in the early years of the twentieth century.Dermot, whose family has settled in England, returns for his summers from English Public School to visit his Grandfather, and develops affection for the city. During the course of the novel, war breaks out, bringing an end to the Edwardian summer for a whole generation...

Why should a loving God allow suffering in the world? And if God is all-powerful, why is He not intervening in world affairs? What causes the innocent and the righteous to suffer? These and other related questions are answered in this book. In the world today, you either meet the seed of Cain or Abel,...

These essays were written over ninety five years ago, most of their subjects do not exist anymore. Despite this, the essays appear fresh, because the author's commentary about human nature, his observations about people, their thoughts, emotions are very perceptive and are true even today. While circumstances change, human nature does not change within just a hundred year. (Amazon)

OBSCURITY   before morning indeed there's been a night deprived of animals what could I think? and neither did I want to be alone but the mounts and the sky out of them star-abundant told me that very near right at my feet lies crouched...

The civil rights of Indian citizens are guaranteed both in the Indian Constitution and through the State's international commitments. Despite these guarantees, the civil rights framework encounters numerous challenges from the State—problematic counter-terrorism laws, continuation of the death penalty,...