Payne: 828 books

Stanley G. Payne, uno de los más reconocidos hispanistas del mundo anglosajón, se embarca en un proyecto gigantesco: resumir los episodios más importantes y significativos de la Historia de España en 365 momentos clave. Guerras, días históricos, nacimientos famosos, coronaciones… así...

En el contexto de una Europa convulsa donde las guerras y las revoluciones se suceden sin tregua, en 1936 estalla la Guerra Civil española, cuyo final coincide prácticamente con el inicio del conflicto más sangriento de la Historia universal: la Segunda Guerra Mundial.  Stanley G. Payne...

«Las guerras civiles europeas, relacionadas con luchas típicas de la modernidad clásica, con ideologías radicales y con las consecuencias de desastrosos conflictos internacionales, llegaron a su fin en 1949, pero en el conjunto del mundo las guerras internas han sustituido a las internacionales,...

"This selection of twenty of Texas' proudest architectural achievements is a tiny sampling of the state's rich, but little-heralded, architectural heritage. The visual presentation of these buildings in Richard Payne's insightful photographs is evidence enough to any student of Texas culture that there...

Payne needs to do some research for her next story and asks her gay friends if she could watch them engage with each other for "research" purposes. Little does she know just how much she is going to learn about herself and them at the same time by spending the night with them. Warning:...

Jude Goldman did not choose this life – it had chosen him. He’s an auto mechanic by day but when the sun goes down, he works for Night Shade Entertainment, a high-paid escort service. It isn’t a perfect life, but it’s the only one he has. Everything is fine until the organization falls under...

STASH is a collection of four short stories each portraying a woman’s experience at a pivotal stage in her life.In STASH, the story the collection is named after, we meet Valerie. A girl on the cusp of her womanhood, who sneaks nips of her alcoholic mother’s vodka, steals away her fags...

Social work education has developed internationally over the past 50 years as part of wider processes of economic and cultural globalization. Diverse political and social events across the world have shaped social work and its education, leading to aims and methods that are shared and contested. This...

Food for Thought - Find out how to nourish your body and spirit through healthy eating and Bible study. Just as eating healthy foods nourishes your body, Bible study nourishes your spirit. You will learn practical suggestions and scriptural guidance to achieve your goals. You will learn: Healthy...

Tamara Decker’s lifelong dream was to run her own hotel. Making it a place that magic users could use openly seemed like the perfect niche for success. She could never foresee the results of pouring so much magic into one location, or the reactions of the community. Her staff struggles to support...

Four young friends, four fated mates. One secret that could separate them forever. Battling the demons of society and acceptance, can one of them handle the secrets that have been kept? Or will it be too much to bear? Some things are better left unsaid... Adult short story. No sex, some naughty language.

This book is a collection of jokes, wonderfully illustrated by Mike Payne, the original creator of Tatty Teddy. Mike's unique view of the world is shown in a humorous manner, with more than forty hilarious cartoons. Cheeky (but never rude), this book is sure to bring a smile to your face.

How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during...

Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things – with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intelligence...