Mary O Connor: 17 books
by Alastair Gunn, William D. O’Connor, James Hain Friswell
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the second in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 2 in the series spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains...
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots
An Exploration of Joy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Explore and connect with the niches and nuances of the earth, the sea and sky, our bodies, minds and soulsthe places where joy resides. Come away with new understanding of life and how its beauty and powers make us inwardly hum, how gardening or stargazing, touching something wild, listening to the...
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
All Talk Monologues for Young People
6 Solo Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A series of short, single voice plays by writers based in the North West of England. These powerful, contemporary monologues share the struggles, courage, conflicts and joys of different characters facing difficult decisions in their lives. Developed through consultation with young people, they offer...
Analyzing Social Policy
Multiple Perspectives for Critically Understanding and Evaluating Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
From formulation to implementation, an approach to the analysis of social policy through the lens of research
Analyzing Social Policy prepares professionals and students to make better informed decisions related to identifying and understanding the intricacies and potential impact of social...
Mixtec Evangelicals
Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
by Mary-Anne O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
An Anzac tale of three families whose destinies are entwined by war, tragedy and passion.
At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy...
by Mary-Anne O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
From Darwin to Pearl Harbour, Sydney to Papua New Guinea, a compelling story of courage, honour and a great love set against the epic backdrop of the Second World War
Eighteen–year–old Junie Wallace is a smart girl and, with her two brothers away at war and her third brother just killed...
Organization Practice
A Guide to Understanding Human Service Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new edition provides a new, practical...
by Pat Adams, American Association of Museums, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This handbook is designed to be a one-stop source for future and current centers, and anyone interested in the important roles these institutions play in their...
by Mary-Anne O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Set against the colourful backdrop of a swinging sixties Sydney and the brutality of the Vietnam War, War Flower follows the journey of six young people through their lives in a turbulent era, and asks — can love still prevail when horror becomes almost too much to bear?
Can love prevail,...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9
Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.
Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,...
by F. Ellen Netting, Mary Katherine O'Connor, David P. Fauri
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
"As a practitioner in the field for over thirty years, I have been exposed to endless 'planning' sessions that are prescriptive to the point of being oppressive. Thistext 'gives permission' to the practitioner to allow for emergence, uncertainty, and ambiguity in the planning process. Comparative...
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