Connor: 1500 books
by Jane Catherine O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
The child star is an iconic figure in Western society representing a growing cultural trend which idolises, castigates and fetishises the image of the perfect, innocent and beautiful child. In this book, Jane O’Connor explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled...
Paw Tracks
A Childhood Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Scarred by the rejection and humiliation which he suffers at the hands of his unloving father, the young Denis O'Connor finds solace in the woods and riverbanks of his native Northumberland.
Nevertheless, his newly found happiness communing with nature and the local animals - a neighbour's...
by George Cooper Connor
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor
by George Cooper Connor
A Masonic organization modeled after the Templars of old
This is a nineteenth century 'Monitor' of the American Knights Templar. This is a Masonic organization which has its own distinctive rituals and regalia. While they are not...
Never Shower in a Thunderstorm
Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
The New York Times's intrepid health reporter investigates the truth about sex, eating, exercise, and other health conundrums
For more than two years, the New York Times's science and health columnist Anahad O'Connor has tracked down the facts, fictions, and occasional fuzziness of old wives'...
Take Control of Your Anxiety
A Drug-Free Approach to Living a Happy, Healthy Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Do you know what really triggers panic attacks? Are you aware of what thinking patterns create anxiety? Are you a chronic worrier? Have you ever self-medicated with alcohol or tranquilizers?
According to mental health professionals, anxiety disorders have emerged as the common cold of mental...
They Died With Custer
Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Dead men tell no tales, and the soldiers who rode and died with George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn have been silent statistics for more than a hundred years. By blending historical sources, archaeological evidence, and painstaking analysis of the skeletal remains, Douglas...
by Karen O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
With delightful wit, tongue-in-cheek humor, a good-natured sense of fun, and truths based on living, author, speaker, and humorist Karen O’Connor provides 365 great reasons that life gets even better when the senior years hit. One-line entries celebrate that “getting old ain’t so bad...
by John Charles O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The larger Dictionary is in course of preparation, though some time must necessarily elapse before its publication. For this the collaboration and counsel of the most eminent continental Esperantists have been secured. We shall be extremely grateful to those who use the present work for any suggestions...
Universal Father
A Life of Pope John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Pope John Paul II is now universally considered to have been one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and possibly the most politically influential pope since St Peter. His achievements are well documented, yet he once said, 'I can only be understood from the inside.' In this vivid and accessible...
by Brian Merriman, Frank O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece.
Translated by Frank O'Connor
Illustrations by Brian Bourke.
The Moment You Can't Ignore
When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Not just another day at the office
or is it?
The surgical technician ducks as a stapler flies past his head during the concluding moments of a lengthy and difficult operation
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The high-powered, internationally known finance guru seeks to turn fortunes around at the university of...
by Sharon O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
“Sustain me.”
Two words flung into the heights of heaven out of the depths of King David’s anguished, sin-broken heart thousands of years ago. I read them sitting at my desk surrounded by donor letters and marketing materials at my job. I was dwelling on my own version of impending distress....
Intellectuals and Apparatchiks
Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
This book traces the origins and activities of an alliance of conservative Communist Party authorities and Russian nationalists during the late Soviet era. Specifically, it examines how and to what extent hitherto orthodox Communists sought political allies in the Russian nationalist movement in order...
Fierce
Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Women in the Bible—some of their names we know, others we've only heard, and others are tragically unnamed. Pastor and provocateur Alice Connor introduces these women and invites us to see them not as players in a man's story—as victims or tempters—nor as morality archetypes, teaching us to...