Michael Woods

On 1st June 2020, partly because of a spate of terrible night's sleep mixed with being mostly stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael Woods challenged himself to produce a piece of writing each day, with short bits of fiction in mind. The challenge he set himself was to do this for one hundred days straight. On 8th September, he hit this target. This book is a collection of all of these pieces of writing, which cover the themes of technology,...

Even before Vatican Council II, individuals like Virgil Michel and Catholic social movements like the National Catholic Rural Life Conference attempted to promote greater social justice by reconnecting rural life in the United States with the liturgical life of the church. Efforts to remedy this dislocation between agrarian life and church liturgy meshed the liturgical year with the rural agricultural cycle. The introduction of devotions, sacramentals,...

Ancient civilizations accomplished great works of engineering without electricity. From the Great Wall of China to Machu Picchu, discover the machines ancient civilizations used to build and how they influenced modern machines.

"Ancient civilizations developed advanced medical techniques and devices that helped to improve and extend people's lives. Uncover the innovation and ingenuity of ancient medical technology and learn how it laid the groundwork for modern medicine"--

"With dramatic images and eyewitness accounts-- plus the latest facts and figures-- this book gives you a close-up look at disasters at sea"--P. [4] of cover.