Throughout the whole of human history, people would kill each other in the name of God. They did not know that the God they fought for was the God of Power. The 11th century is known for two historical religious initiatives – the Crusades and Assassins of Syria. Since the 9/11 attacks, a new tragic era of terrorism began and spread from the US and all through Europe and Asia. The tragedy in Paris, France in November 2015 urged the writer to refer to the roots of religious extremism. In the ...

The book is a first person account of a soldier’s journey, and is based on Artem Chekh’s diary that he wrote while and after his service in the war in Donbas. One of the most important messages the book conveys is that war means pain. Chekh is not showing the reader any heroic combat, focusing instead on the quiet, mundane, and harsh soldier’s life. Chekh masterfully selects the most poignant details of this kind of life.

Nairda he has filled another booklet with subjects to think about and some melancholic/funny stories as a kind of reader reward.

Nairda doesn’t want to be right, he merely wants to stimulate readers to talk and listen, to discuss and argue, and to agree and compromise on important subjects and problems. He thinks that this will contribute to a happy life in a happy society for all.

Nairda garners his controversial wisdom, hopes, and

stubbornness, to keep his faith in humanity.

Democracy processes must be kept in a state ...

THE NO.1 BESTSELLER'Gripping' Guardian'Powerful' The Times The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power but it is beginning to rot from within.

Between industrial progress and artistic research, the Guatelli Collection of oil cans traces the developments of advertising graphics between the 19th and 20th centuries.Text in English and Italian.

A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects.

Once a powerful player in the regime, mercilessly dispensing with anyone who got in the way of his party's aims, Rubashov has had the tables turned on him. He has been arrested and he'll be interrogated, probably tortured and certainly executed. Darkness at Noon is as gripping as...

The International bestselling novel that is an unforgettable, sweeping tale of nineteenth-century China.

This novel is set in the Armenian mountains sometime in 1915-1960. An old man and a new born baby boy escape from the Hamidian massacres in Turkey in 1894 and hide themselves in the ruins of a demolished and abandoned village. The village soon becomes a shelter for many others, who flee from problems with the law, their families, or their past lives. The villagers survive in this secret shelter, cut off from the rest of the world, by selling or bartering their agricultural products in the vil...

The ninth edition of this textbook for hybrid introductory communication courses provides a balanced introduction to the fundamental principles of communication. This edition highlights how new technologies are changing the ways we think about communication, with updated examples, and gives special attention to relevant critical theory.