Gallagher: 549 books
Spiritual Genius
The Mastery of Life's Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
In Spiritual Genius, journalist Winifred Gallagher, the acclaimed author of Working on God, asks Rabbi Lawrence Kushner to define holiness. "Standing in the presence of God," he says. "Everyone has it, but some people seem to have more of a knack for accessing it." Like holiness, the gift that Gallagher...
Imperial Dreams
Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Explorer and naturalist Tim Gallagher is obsessed with rare birds. A decade ago, Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker, which most scientists believed had been extinct for more than half a century—an event that caused an international stir. Now, in Imperial...
Things Seen and Unseen
A Year Lived in Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"Gracefully written and moving ... Things Seen and Unseen starts with Nora Gallagher entering the labyrinth of her life ... and ultimately it leads to the center of her being."--The Boston Globe
It started with an occasional Sunday, a "tourist's" visit to a local church....
Big League Babble On
The Misadventures of a Rabble-Rousing Sportscaster and Why He Should Be Dead By Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world’s biggest celebrities.
Long-time sportscaster John Gallagher has had close to four decades of hosting some of the...
Fergal Patrick Joseph Gallagher
Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
This is not a traditional or professional book. I have not had any formal training in English or writing, other than a lifetime of reading, correspondence, and writing newsletters. It is written mostly for the benefit of my family and friends. I was born in Grafton, North Dakota, to Farigal Gallagher...
Strangers in the House
Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Dorothy Gallagher’s critically acclaimed memoir, How I Came Into My Inheritance, told of her childhood in 1940s New York as the daughter of left-wing Russian Jewish immigrants. Time magazine called it “a piercingly funny book . . . unsentimental, breezy, blunt.” In Strangers in the House, this...
Ruling Capital
Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In Ruling Capital, Kevin P. Gallagher demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the political and economic difficulty of doing so at the national level. Gallagher also...
by Nora Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.
One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam...
Kaboom
Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
When Lieutenant Matt Gallagher began his blog with the aim of keeping his family and friends apprised of his experiences, he didn't anticipate that it would resonate far beyond his intended audience. His subjects ranged from mission details to immortality, grim stories about Bon Jovi cassettes mistaken...
by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and...
Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this Civil War Short, Gary W. Gallagher surveys Confederate sentiment in the summer of 1863 and argues that many southerners did not view the battle of Gettysburg as a resounding defeat. Gallagher makes the compelling case that, although southern casualties were tremendous, Confederates across...
How I Came Into My Inheritance
And Other True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Dorothy Gallagher began her literary career fabricating stories about celebrities for a pulp magazine. Nothing she invented, however, could rival the facts surrounding her own family.
In a singular voice–intimate, fierce, hilarious–Gallagher takes you into the heart of her Russian Jewish...
Scotland's Global Empire
A Chronicle of Great Scots
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Scotland's Global Empire is one journalist's tribute to some of the lesser-known great Scots and their contribution to the world. Jock Gallagher was encouraged in his epic enterprise by a quote from Voltaire: We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation. ‘Voltaire may have over-egged the...
Telling It Like It Wasn’t
The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy...