Marc: 4072 books

The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian new laws against lesbians and gays and their...

In Spirit Song: Afro-Brazilian Religious Music and Boundaries, Marc Gidal investigates how and why a multi-faith community in southern Brazil utilizes music to combine and segregate three Afro-Brazilian religions: Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Batuque. Combining ethnomusicology and symbolic boundary studies,...

Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of political violence and new terrorist actors. More recently, Marc Sageman's understanding of how and why people...

With the Christian vote more widely polarized than ever, Marc Nuttle offers a must-read book for conservative America. In Moment of Truth Nuttle exposes the escalating trends in our government toward regulation and overspending while taking a critical look at the increasing power of Trade Unions, and...

Written by Dr Paul McCarthy, the first-ever resident Sport Psychologist at the home of golf, St Andrews, and Professor Marc Jones - here is a book to help all golfers.You do not have to play many rounds of golf to understand how much of the game is played in the mind. Different courses, conditions,...

Després de l'èxit d'Un home cau, torna el detectiu barceloní Albert Martínez amb un nou cas. L'Albert Martínez, de vacances a Nova York, rep un missatge: «Han matat una dona a la Boqueria». Un matí de finals d'estiu, el famós mercat de la Rambla ha despertat amb una escena macabra...

New city, new job, new life. Harry’s leaving Rome on the overnight train to Paris. But he isn’t too pleased about starting his new life by sharing a cabin with a complete stranger—even if she is an elegant and beautiful Parisian.

Mathen is a successful businessman thanks in no small part to a magical crest he wears around his neck that gives him glimpses into the future. His life is turned upside down when one of these glimpses shows him someone destined to become the worst and most evil tyrant the world will ever know, and...

Rocket is a local musician playing as a weekend warrior until he gets the opportunity of a life time. He's been chosen as the new lead guitar player for a mega-rock band. But, before he can do that, Rocket has to give up one thing to become the rock guitar god he dreams of.

In his riveting debut, Hammerjack, Marc Giller unspooled a futuristic thriller of global intrigue, corporate espionage, and techno-terrorism. Now he delivers a gritty new novel of deadly resurrection and a no-holds-barred fight for the future. . . . Once an elusive hammerjack plunged into a...

Amrûn präsentiert die neueste Ausgabe der Horror Legionen – eine Sammlung mit den besten Geschichten deutscher Genre-Autoren. Jeder von ihnen hat seine eigene Art, sich mit dem Bösen zu beschäftigen, das Horrorgeschichten innewohnt. Mal blutig und grausam, mal leise und kaltblütig von hinten...

2017 American Book Award Winner Winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice. In Year of the Rat, an artist returns to the dystopian city of...

This book deals with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental impacts and providing sustainable development. In this regard, several key topics ranging...

The song Hey Joe was a momentary blip on the pop music scene in 1965 courtesy of a Southern California band called The Leaves. It would be their only hit. But over the next 50 plus years, the quirky song about premeditated murder went on to become something special, a musical rite of passage for the...