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Grim Sky Country
It has been a month since retired Army Ranger, martial arts expert Sean McConnell's battle with the murderous townspeople of Hadestville in which he barely escaped the deadly encounter with his life. With his scars from the savage ordeal still fresh, McConnell continues his bicycling expedition across America, leaving the sadistic town far behind. Now, pedaling across Montana's pristine countryside, captivated by the stunning, untamed beauty of the state's frontier land, life seems like it might finally be settling down for Sean McConnell. Then, in an instant, his peace is shattered once again when anguished cries belonging to someone clearly in distress erupt from within the heavily wooded forest nearby. The moment that Sean McConnell decides to investigate so begins a terrifying new adventure. Sean is once again plunged into a life or death struggle for survival, only this time his adversaries aren't human.
The Bicyclist
Months after his wife dies in a tragic accident, Sean McConnell, attempting to deal positively with his grief, decides to embark on a soul searching discovery of rural America using a bicycle as his only mode of transportation. His lone, self-contained travels ultimately bring him face to face with the evil residents of a town called Hadestville located in the remotest regions of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Built on foundations of corruption, the twisted residents of Hadestville have for years been preying on weary travelers who have unwittingly strayed into the remote area. Now, Sean McConnell, former Army Ranger and martial arts expert, finds himself the mewest target of the town's evil rituals, as he is inexplicably drawn into a life or death struggle that will take every bit of his deadly skill's and resourcefulness to survive.
On the Ugly
This study offers an original and innovative collection of fresh approaches to the investigation of the concept of ugliness. It is divided into three parts: the idea of ugliness; Kantian conceptions of the ugly; and ugliness and art. The papers in all three sections deal with problems in the way that aesthetics has understood the concept of the ugly, in aesthetic experience, in fine art, and in contrast with the beautiful. These are new papers from a range of scholars from diverse philosophical backgrounds, and use the most recent literature in their areas of expertise. There is no other book available that collects the latest research in this field, and, as such, it will be a key contribution to recent and growing theoretical interest in the place of the ugly in aesthetics.
Philosophical Life in Cicero's Letters
Cicero's letters are saturated with learned philosophical allusions and arguments. This innovative study shows just how fundamental these are for understanding Cicero's philosophical activities and for explaining the enduring interest of his ethical and political thought. Dr McConnell draws particular attention to Cicero's treatment of Plato's Seventh Letter and his views on the relationship between philosophy and politics. He also illustrates the various ways in which Cicero finds philosophy an appealing and effective mode of self-presentation and a congenial, pointed medium for talking to his peers about ethical and political concerns. The book offers a range of fresh insights into the impressive scope and sophistication of Cicero's epistolary and philosophical practice and the vibrancy of the philosophical environment of the first century BC. A new picture emerges of Cicero the philosopher and philosophy's place in Roman political culture.
Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy
Explores Cicero's thought on a range of issues including political leadership, persuasive rhetoric, and the right use of power.
Everything Louder Than Everything Else: Meat Loaf Guide
Meat Loaf, the larger-than-life rock icon, starred in the biggest cult film of all-time, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, before releasing one of the best-selling albums of all-time, Bat Out Of Hell, and some of the most celebrated and successful singles in music history, such as I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That), Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad and Paradise By The Dashboard Light. The Grammy Award-winning singer has released an impressive eleven UK Top 10 studio albums, including the #1 releases Dead Ringer and Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and his latest offering, 2016's Braver Than We Are. Meat Loaf's epic collaborations with songwriter Jim Steinman are legendary, as are his st...
Father
In 1942 everything is going good for Tanner Hill. He has a good job, two healthy sons and a wife who loves him. As he makes lots of extra cash with his moonshine, he can afford many luxuries his neighbours cannot. And he’s not worried about conscription. However, he soon realizes good things do not last forever. One argument after church with a disgruntled man with revenge on his mind and Tanner’s world is turned upside down. Forced into making a choice, Tanner chooses to follow his brothers and enlists. He leaves for the fighting so far away as a private in the Royal Canadian Engineers. It will be three years until Tanner returns home. It won’t be the same.
The Mobility Forum
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Being Alone in Antiquity
This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of ancient contexts in which problems of solitude, loneliness, isolation and seclusion arose and were discussed, and in doing so shed light on some of humankind’s fundamental needs, fears and values.
Healing Grief
Both our view of Seneca’s philosophical thought and our approach to the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981. The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on the earliest of Seneca’s extant writings, along with a revision of the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca’s intellectual program, strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca’s discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward the fundamentally moral project of healing Marcia’s grief and correcting her cognitive distortions. Through close reading of the Latin text, this commentary shows that Seneca invariably adapts different traditions and voices – from Greek consolations to Plato’s dialogues, from the Roman discourse of gender and exemplarity to epic poetry – to a Stoic framework, so as to give his reader a lucid understanding of the limits of the self and the ineluctability of natural laws.
