WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize

A prophetic masterpiece. -- Ron Charles, Washington Post

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what--or who--is she willing to leave behind?

The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize

A prophetic masterpiece. -- Ron Charles, Washington Post

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what--or who--is she willing to leave behind?

The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off her hair, declaring, You are the strong one now. With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering, Grace is no longer safe at home. And so her mother outfits her in men's clothing and casts her out.

When her younger brother Colly follows after her, the two set off on a remarkable odyssey in the looming shadow of their country's darkest hour. The broken land they pass through reveals untold suffering as well as unexpected beauty. To survive, Grace must become a boy, a bandit, a penitent and, finally, a woman -- all the while afflicted by inner voices that arise out of what she has seen and what she has lost.

Told in bold and lyrical language by an author who has already been called one of his generation's very finest novelists (Ron Rash, author of The Risen), Grace is an epic coming-of-age novel and a poetic evocation of the Irish famine as it has never been written.

«No he leído un libro que me haya sacudido tan intensamente en muchos años [...]. Las comparaciones son inevitables -Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy-, pero esta novela se sostiene por sí misma . -Colum McCann

Una noche oscura y lluviosa, Eilish Stack abre la puerta de su casa de Dublín y se encuentra a dos agentes de la policía secreta. Están allí para interrogar a su marido, un sindicalista que ha participado en recientes manifestaciones. La casa, la familia y el país que Eilish conocía, y en los que confiaba, están a punto de desmoronarse.

Cuando su marido desaparece, ella intenta convencerse de que ha sido un malentendido. Pero los días pasan, las desapariciones se multiplican y los disturbios se hacen cada vez más frecuentes. A medida que el miedo se instala entre los vecinos, Eilish se divide entre buscar a su marido, cuidar a su padre enfermo y controlar a sus tres hijos -que tienen ideas dispares sobre las formas de enfrentarse a este nuevo orden totalitario que ha llegado sin que nadie se de cuenta-. Eilish tendrá que decidir qué es más importante: recuperar a los que se han ido o salvar a los que aún quedan.

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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize

A prophetic masterpiece. -- Ron Charles, Washington Post

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what--or who--is she willing to leave behind?

The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

A novel from the 2023 Booker Prize winning author of Prophet Song

Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful. --M John Harrison, The Guardian

The haunting story of two men stranded at sea pushing against their physical and mental limits to stay alive

Based partly on true events, Paul Lynch's haunting and sublime novel Beyond the Sea tells the story of two South American fishermen, Bolivar and Hector, who go to sea before a catastrophic storm. Needing cash, Bolivar convinces his boss to let him fish despite the weather. His fishing partner is nowhere to be found, so he brings Hector, a sullen and inexperienced teenager. The storm arrives, and though the two men survive, they've been blown hundreds of miles out in the Pacific Ocean with little hope for rescue.

Coming to terms with their new reality, they are forced to accept their separation from the modern world, their sudden and inescapable intimacy, and the possibilities and limits of faith, hope, and survival. As the days go by, they grapple with the mistakes of their pasts, the severity of their present, and the uncertainty of their future. And though Bolivar and Hector fight to maintain their will to live, nothing in the barren seascape or in their minds promises that they will make it.

Ambitious and profoundly moving, Beyond the Sea explores what it means to be a man, a friend, and a sinner in a fallen world. With evocative prose, Lynch crafts a suspenseful drama that refuses sentimentality or easy answers. Instead, Beyond the Sea is a hard-won and intimate rendering of the extremities of human life, both physical and mental.

It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country of the fledgling United States.

Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. With lyrical prose balancing the stark realities of the hunter and the hunted, Red Sky in Morning is a visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.

It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country of the fledgling United States.

Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. With lyrical prose balancing the stark realities of the hunter and the hunted, Red Sky in Morning is a visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.

In Donegal in the spring of 1945, a farmhand runs into a burning barn and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle are destroyed in the blaze. Following the disaster, the bull-headed and proudly self-sufficient Barnabas is forced to reach out to the community for assistance.

But resentment simmers over the farmhand's death, and Barnabas and his family begin to believe their efforts at recovery are being sabotaged. Barnabas is determined to hold firm. Yet his teenage son struggles under the weight of a terrible secret, and his wife is suffocated by the uncertainty surrounding their future. As Barnabas fights ever harder for what is rightfully his, his loved ones are drawn ever closer to a fate that should never have been theirs. In The Black Snow, Paul Lynch takes the pastoral novel and -- with the calmest of hands -- tears it apart. With beautiful, haunting prose, Lynch illuminates what it means to live through crisis, and puts to the test our deepest certainties about humankind.

Best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, Bruno Latour has inspired scholarship across many disciplines. In the past few years, the fields of rhetoric and composition have witnessed an explosion of interest in Latour's work. Editors Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers have assembled leading and emerging scholars in order to focus the debate on what Latour means for the study of persuasion and written communication.

Essays in this volume discern, rearticulate, and occasionally critique rhetoric and composition's growing interest in Latour. These contributions include work on topics such as agency, argument, rhetorical history, pedagogy, and technology, among others. Contributors explain key terms, identify implications of Latour's work for rhetoric and composition, and explore how his theories might inform writing pedagogies and be used to build research methodologies.

Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition shows how Latour's groundbreaking theories on technology, agency, and networks might be taken up, enriched, and extended to challenge scholars in rhetorical studies (both English and communications), composition, and writing studies to rethink some of the field's most basic assumptions. It is set to become the standard introduction that will appeal not only to those scholars already interested in Latour but also those approaching Latour for the first time.

Animals are everywhere on earth. This means if we were to travel to every country and continent we would find an animal living there. Some animals live in a hot climate and some in a cold climate. Animals have been around for eons. Some animals like lizards, turtles, and fish have been around longer than dinosaurs have existed. Read this short non-fiction book and learn all you can about our most beloved animals.

Aquatic life refers to animals that live in the water and also plants that grow in or on the water. Many scientists have made claims that life began in the sea, and some have said life began on the land. In any view, we know life is evident today in all parts of the earth. Earth is the only planet that supports life to date in the entire known galaxies and planets. Animals have been with us from since the beginning of the earth, and they will remain with us for a long time. The Jewish book of Genesis gives days and times of the creation of heaven and earth. In this creation story, God divided the waters on the earth into two categories; these are: ''seas or oceans'' and ''clouds or skies, '' he also made the dry land and called it earth, when God had done this water was already on the earth. In this story life started in the sea with God creating great whales and fish after their kind, before he created land creatures. Another thing God created after the sea creatures were birds of the air. To believe in life from the sea would be better to understand rather than from the point of evolution from on the land. However, it is still a great mystery in scientific circles of questions frequently being asked of 'how' and 'when' life began. The biblical story of creation is not much different from the scientific aspect of how this earth came about in truth. In fact, scientists used a major part of the Bible to investigate their research. The writer of Genesis clearly noted that life came forth abundantly from the oceans or seas.

Life in the sea began in a rapid period of earth's history called ''The Cambrian Period.'' During this time there was a rapid growth of different types of aquatic life in the seas or the world's oceans. This period lasted about 40 million earth years; during this time many species of animals began to emerge in the oceans, some were common others were uncommon. Deep sea corals are some of the oldest sea creatures on the earth, stemming from over 4,000 years of earth's history and also jellyfish from a period of over 650 million years. Some animals from the sea that existed in the predate Earth period still exist today; others are extinct. Sea animals were abundant at the time of the dinosaurs. There were even dinosaurs that lived in the sea, but somehow they got extinct with the rest of dinosaurs on the land.

Life in the seas is in a world by itself; there are many mysteries that surround this aquatic world of plants and animals dating from over 500 million years ago when the first animals and plants were developing in the earth oceans. The seas and oceans are one; the oceans ranging from the Atlantic, Antarctic, Arctic, Indian, and the Pacific Oceans are all one large body of water called seas. Water is 72 percent of the earth.

Water is what suggests that life exist especially pure water. Water is made up of two elements; hydrogen and oxygen. Only the earth has watery oceans with oxygen as our solar system proves to date.

Animals have been on the earth from the Cambrian period of 570 to 500 million years ago. During this time life was abundant, but only in the sea. The Ordovician period 500 to 430 million years ago, the first fish came about. The period of 430 to 400 years called the Silurian period life began to move on land. Animals have lived in remote places across the earth. We cannot think of a place that animals have not lived during Earth's history. Animals live in the sea. Aquatic life refers to animals that live in the water. Animals live on the land. Terrestrial refers to animals that live on the land. In jungles, rainforests, deserts, tundra's, icy cold region's animals can all be found, whether vertebrates or invertebrates, mammals or non-mammals. Those who have pets, animals live in your home. Even in our backyards animals live. Animals are all around. In the coldest regions of the earth animals are there. Each animal lives in a habitat that is suitable for them.

The nations of the global north find themselves in a post-secular or post-Christian period, one in which the practice, expression, and effects of religion are undergoing massive shifts. In Persuasions of God, Paul Lynch pursues a project of theorhetoric, a radical new approach to speaking about the divine.

Searching for new religious forms amid the lingering influence of Christianity, Lynch turns to René Girard, the most important twentieth-century thinker on the sacred and its expression within the Christian tradition. Lynch repurposes Girard's mimetic theory to invent a post-Christian way of speaking to, for, and especially about God. Girard theorized the sacred as the nexus of violence, order, and sacralization that lies at the heart of religion. What Lynch advocates in our current moment of religious kairos is a paradoxically meek rhetoric that conscientiously refuses rivalry, actively exploits tradition through complicit invention, and boldly seeks a holiness free of exclusionary violence. The project of theorhetoric is to reinvent God through the reimagined themes of meekness, sacrifice, atonement, and holiness. From these, Persuasions of God offers religion reimagined for our post-secular age.

An interdisciplinary mix of philosophy, sociology, rhetorical studies, and theology, this book draws on mimetic theory to answer the question of where religion goes next. It will be valued by religious studies and communications scholars as well as anyone interested in the future of Christianity in our modern world.

13 storie della Bibbia raccontate ai bambini. Leggi il racconto della Creazione, la storia di Abramo, Giuseppe, le 10 piaghe d'Egitto, Daniele nella fossa dei leoni, Ester la regina coraggiosa, e la vita di Gesù.

Gesù è vivo

Disse Pilato alla folla: Che farò dunque di Gesù chiamato il Cristo?.

Tutti gli risposero: Sia crocifisso!.

Il governatore aggiunse: Ma che male ha fatto?.

Essi allora urlarono ancora più forte: Sia crocifisso!.

Pilato, visto che non otteneva nulla, anzi che il tumulto cresceva sempre più, presa dell'acqua, si lavò le mani davanti alla folla: Io sono innocente del sangue di questo giusto: voi tutti lo vedete.

E tutto il popolo rispose: Il suo sangue ricada sopra di noi e sopra i nostri figli.

Allora rilasciò loro Barabba e, dopo aver fatto flagellare Gesù, lo consegnò ai soldati perché fosse crocifisso.

What does it mean to teach after pedagogy? For a long time, composition's pedagogical conversation has been defined by its theoretical disagreements.

Is learning a cognitive process or a social one? Is the self expressed or distributed? Can writing be understood as a process, or is any process too messy to be understood? These debates have finally run out of steam, argues Paul Lynch, leaving composition in a postpedagogical moment, a moment when the field no longer believes that pedagogical theories can account for the complexities of teaching. After Pedagogy extends the postpedagogical conversation by turning to the experience of teaching itself.

Though the work of John Dewey, After Pedagogy argues that experience offers an arena in which theory and practice can coexist. Most important, experience can fashion the teachable moments of postpedagogical practice into resources for further growth. We cannot know what precisely the student will do with what we have offered, but we can think with the student about the experience of the offer itself. By turning what students and teachers know about writing into an area of intellectual inquiry, a philosophy of experience can make teaching sustainable after pedagogy.

Read about 27 Bible Stories told with a twist. Join our young heroes on their adventure. David battles a Giant, Samson helps out a village by catching a monstrous fish, A wise Serpent tempts Eve in the Garden of Eden, Lucifer has ambitions to surpass God and the stars of Heaven, Satan tempts Job, the people fear Samuel, and Jesus Christ enters the world.

This is a collection of short stories and poems written for children. Some stories included are: The Miserable Pirate, The Fox and the Hare, The Boy Who Loved Music, Noah and the Dinosaurs, Into the Light, and Jesus Is Born. Poems included are: The Wind in Time, Wisdom Looks at Me, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? A Beautiful World, and From Glory to Glory. In The Miserable Pirate, Captain Jack a miserable and mean pirate and his crew, which includes his parakeet Screwy, his two buccaneers Risky Drivens and Timmy Sword set sail to the Caribbean island of Martinique in search of buried treasure from Africa. However, after passing by another island they are met with a terrible storm. The storm is so fierce that it blows the ship to pieces and sends them to a mysterious island. On the island Captain Jack and his crew explore and find food. While exploring some more Captain Jack discoveries gold coins to which leads a trail to a river. He instructs his Buccaneers to go into the river and retrieve the treasure. After his buccaneers bring the treasure to land it starts to affect them negatively and they all fight each other from bird, pirate, and buccaneer. Then, Screwy realized that the treasure is driving them crazy. The Captain asked what the bird knows. But they all realized that Screwy is right. They stopped fighting and decided to leave the treasure where it is. In the end, Pirate Jack learns a great lesson. But what did he learn? Read this great children's book and see.

This volume is the first to examine the commercial home from an international perspective, paying attention to the frequently occurring but often neglected forms of commercial accommodation including farmstays, historic houses, and self-catering accommodation. Conceptually, it helps to explain a range of behaviours and practices, for example the importance of setting and the nature of the host/guest exchange. The idea of home provides a conceptual bridge to related themes, for example identity, gender, emotional management and cultural mobilities whose investigation in a commercial home context offers fascinating insights into hospitality, tourism and society.

This book is structured around three themes. The first is dimensions of the commercial home and includes discussion of issues pertaining to forms and characteristics and female entrepreneurship. The second theme considers the commercial home as an investigative lens to examine wider issues of society, hospitality and tourism such as the commercial home as a tool for rural economic development. The third theme, extending the commercial home paradigm, looks at new areas of development, including the Malaysian Muslim home as a site for economic and political action and the use of the home in marketing regional localities.

Commercial Homes in Tourism is the first book to give recognition to this distinct, economically important and expanding form of tourism business by bringing together recent, international research on this common form of commercial tourism accommodation. Given the global nature of the commercial home phenomenon, and owing to the originality of its theoretical contributions and practical insights, this book will be of interest across a broad range of subjects and disciplines interested in the examination of the home phenomenon, including students, academics and business practitioners.