"Billy Dixon was a typical frontiersman of the highest order. The perils and hardships of border life were exactly suited to his stoical and imperturbable nature. This does not mean that Billy was not a kind-hearted, generous and hospitable man, for he possessed all these admirable qualities to a high degree but he ...

This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming international conflict in cyberspace. Over the past three decades, cyberspace developed into a crucial frontier and issue of international conflict. However, scholarly work on the relationship between AI and conflict in cyberspace has been ...

'I like listening to people who know things that I don't,' Gareth Southgate told me. 'That's how you learn.' Former Olympian and best-selling author Matthew Syed is one of the advisors Gareth Southgate engaged from outside football in order to find new ways of working as a team. In Rebel Ideas, discover how Southgat...

Gene Keifer’s 1944 details the thrilling story of a downed bomber crewman and his experiences with the French Resistance during the D-Day invasion. Keifer was born in Germany but came to Oklahoma City at the age of six and grew up as the All-American Boy. He details his life in the city and subsequent military caree...

This open access book demonstrates how data quality issues affect all surveys and proposes methods that can be utilised to deal with the observable components of survey error in a statistically sound manner. This book begins by profiling the post-Apartheid period in South Africa's history when the sampling frame and...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single n...

In 1895–96, William Matthew Flinders Petrie and James Edward Quibell discovered a shaft-tomb below the ‘Ramesseum’, the funerary temple of Ramses II at Thebes, Egypt. This is most famous for having the largest group of Middle Kingdom papyri – also known as the Ramesseum Papyri – found in a single spot together with ...

This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways...

Edward Heawood's "A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" meticulously chronicles the period marked by significant advancements in exploration and mapping. Heawood employs a scholarly yet accessible literary style, weaving together rich narratives and critical analyses of not...

In "A History of Ireland and Her People," Eleanor Hull masterfully weaves a comprehensive narrative that delves into Ireland's storied past, artfully combining socio-political analysis with rich cultural insights. Hull's literary style is characterized by its clarity and accessibility, making complex historical even...

In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narrati...

Are you ready to embark on a journey? Enter a world steeped in legend... A moon rising from a shimmering lake, A woman turned into corn by the sun, A cave that gives birth to a civilisation, A boy who cries tears of blood, A girl whose icy body is preserved for hundreds of years, A man who regularly asked his dead m...

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of post-classical narratology and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, the contributions to this edited volume in...

أطل سحبان السواح بوجهه القبيح على شاشات أقنية دس السم الوهابي في الدسم متهماً الأقليات في سورية وخاصة المسيحيين والدروز بأنهم عملاء مضمرون لفرنسا والكيان الصهيوني، وأن سبب عدم انخراطهم في الثورة السورية يعود إلى أن الثورة السورية كانت ثورة المسلمين السنة في وجه نظام العلويين في سورية، والذي يتبع ولاية الفقيه ونظام ح...

A thrilling narrative of personal experiences and adventures in the wonderful gold regions of Alaska and the Klondike, with observations of travel and exploration along the Yukon. Portraying the dangers, hardships, and privations of a gold-seeker's life; with a faithful description of life and scenes in gold mines a...

Rheta Childe Dorr's "Inside the Russian Revolution" provides a riveting and intimate portrayal of a transformative period in Russian history, capturing the tumult and fervor surrounding the 1917 revolutions. Written in a journalistic style that blends vivid narrative with incisive observation, Dorr immerses readers ...