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God Promised Me Wings to Fly empowers readers and provides hope to those who feel powerless.

From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade. Guns from America reach more than 130 countries, and inundate Mexico, with over 200, 000 guns every year crossing the border and arming the drug cartels. In this groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, master of reportage Ioan Grillo delves into the enormous blac...

November 2 is a special day in Sicily. The Day of the Dead is considered an important festival, when children receive gifts from the dead and eat special bone-shaped cakes. Cemeteries are overcrowded with people walking in the lanes, placing flowers at gravesites, and lighting candles in their tombs. Many Sicilian tombs look like small houses: They contain a room, an altar, and marble-walled niches.Mario Chiaramonte goes to the cemetery on thi...

November 2 is a special day in Sicily. The Day of the Dead is considered an important festival, when children receive gifts from the dead and eat special bone-shaped cakes. Cemeteries are overcrowded with people walking in the lanes, placing flowers at gravesites, and lighting candles in their tombs. Many Sicilian tombs look like small houses: They contain a room, an altar, and marble-walled niches.Mario Chiaramonte goes to the cemetery on thi...

From the author of El Narco, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings.The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren'...

Comprehensive exploration of the artistic properties and intellectual complexity of Caesar's Bellum Civile, showing the interaction of literature and politics.

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This book explores forms of resistance among refugees in Tunisia. In Tunisia, refugees' condition of exclusion starts at a legal level: exclusion refers to the absence of a national asylum system. Exclusion can be explored in the economic and social spheres as well. Migration policies impact refugees' lives. In this scenario, refugees should not be perceived as victims of such systems. Refugees react to their condition of exclusion in differen...

This autobiographical novel offers a journey through music, theater, gibberish, meditation, Judaism, esotericism, and rare religious practices. It tells how the vibrations of words can influence body and mind. As an old man tells his memoirs to his nephew, a university student, he expresses how his travels to India and Israel shaped his thinking. The theme of vibrations starts with the rattling of windowpanes in the old man's house when his tr...

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In recent years, all over the world, the attention paid to local and traditional productions is growing, especially in the agro-food sector. Maybe, it is not only due to the impact of globalization and the social and economic changes but also due to the increased consideration to health and nutritional aspects of food. Hence, for economic, social, historical, and nutritional reasons, this trend has led to the rediscovery and reuse of landraces...

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Il volume analizza la vita politica, istituzionale e sociale di Milano nell'arco di un decennio, dal giugno del 1302 al gennaio del 1311, quando in città, allontanati Matteo Visconti e i suoi principali seguaci, dominarono i popolari e la famiglia della Torre, che aderirono con decisione allo schieramento guelfo "radicale", allora capeggiato dai "neri" fiorentini. Si tratta di un arco di tempo limitato ma di grande interesse: Milano per alcuni...

Medina Grillo is the voice behind the blog Grillo Designs, where she shares creative and affordable ways to decorate your home with a DIY approach. The blog has gained a large readership over the years and has won some prestigious awards, including the 2017 Best DIY and Home Improvement Blog by Amara, and the Domino magazine's Pinner's Choice Award 2017. Her DIY tutorials have been featured in a variety of both online and print publications, s...