Lomas: 68 books

Many people have heard of Freemasonry, but few have any idea what it is, what it does, or why it exists. Freemasonry is not a religion, but rather a spiritual self-help society whose declared purpose is to help members become better citizens, and it has a strong track record of doing just that since...

Much has been written about the group of 14th-century warrior monks known as the Knights Templar. Some authors, such as Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code, portray them as folk heroes wrongly accused. Others disagree, saying the Templar story is ultimately one of greed, deception, and idolatry. Just who...

The Blood Group Antigen FactsBook — winner of a 2013 Highly Commended BMA Medical Book Award for Internal Medicine — has been an essential resource in the hematology, transfusion and immunogenetics fields since its first publication in the late 1990s.The third edition of The Blood Group Antigen...

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estache and Wodon explore the extent to which some key policies have hurt or helped progress in trying to speed the expansions...

A circus is coming to town, but this is unlike any other circus.

It's wonderful redesigning a planet all of your very own with the profits it could bring in, and just in time, too, as fortune would have it, but satisfaction is short-lived as 'lightning' strikes twice ...

Positive psychology is currently equated with theory and research on the positive aspects of life. The reality could not be further from the truth. Positive psychology investigates and researches some of the most difficult and painful experiences. Second Wave Positive Psychology: Embracing the Dark...

It started on a nice day, the happiest of most people's lives. And then it turned bad. Then it got worse. No one had any idea how bad it could get. Religion and cults warned us, and now it is happening. 'Evil' from the depths of time is back: and it is not happy ...

Introducing a new talent to the world of poetry. With this her first selection of thought-inspiring, entertaining, rhythmic, and dynamic poems. Her words dance of the page into the imagination. Written in a style that is both punchy and moving, these poems are in touch with people, reality, and the...

The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war, challenging prevalent myths of how working and domestic life was shifted by national conflict.

Suffragettes learned jiu-jitsu, repelled policemen with their hatpins, burnt down football stadiums and planted bombs. They rented a house near to Holloway Prison and sang rebel anthems to the Suffragettes inside. They barricaded themselves into their homes to repulse tax collectors. They arranged...

"L’uomo che ha inventato il XX secolo" è la biografia di Nikola Tesla, il testo più esauriente mai scritto sulla vita e sulle invenzioni del geniale scienziato, colui che ha regalato all’umanità la corrente alternata, l’illuminazione a fluorescenza, la radio, l’energia idroelettrica,...

First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The essays in this collection reflect two of Martí’s key observations during his time in the United States: first, how did he, an exile living in New York, view and read his North American neighbors from a sociocultural, political and literary perspective? Second, how did his perception of the...