Michael Clifford: 19 books

Combining the most powerful elements of Foucault's theories, Clifford produces a methodology for cultural and political critique called "political genealogy" to explore the genesis of modern political identity. At the core of American identity, Clifford argues, is the ideal of the "Savage...

Driving home one evening through the English countryside, the narrator picks up a hitchhiker dressed in an old-fashioned Father Christmas costume. During their journey, the passenger reveals himself to be the real Santa Claus, how he is able to visit nearly every home in the course of one night and how this will affect the narrators life.

A group of individual destinies, together in the wrong place at the wrong time, can make the difference between life and death . . .Costa del Sol, Spain, 1974: in the dying days of the Franco dictatorship Robert Winter is the teacher on a school trip to Spain. 20 schoolchildren, from a London...

In March 2008, Bertie Ahern announced his resignation as Taoiseach, prompted by ongoing evidence in a planning inquiry that uncovered he had received large sums of money when minister for finance. Yet, even in defeat, he remained the most popular politician of his generation, one for whom the defining...

Medical schools often don't teach the up-and-coming doctor how to establish an independent practice. This book will teach them how to run an office smoothly, while incorporating the medical elements of the practice. This guide is for every doctor, dentist, chiropractor, massage therapist, naturopath, or other health-care professional who dreams of opening a medical practice

THE UPDATED BESTSELLER Sergeant Maurice McCabe never set out to be a whistleblower. When, in 2008, he complained of shoddy investigations into serious crime in County Cavan, nothing could have prepared him for what was in store. For exposing gross incompetence and corruption within An...

Karen Riney is a young woman desperate to put bad memories behind her and get back on her feet when she hits upon an idea to make fast money. In the depths of a recession, there's no business like the grow house business. But getting her venture off the ground requires some assistance.Enter Paschal...

The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...

Volume IV of the awesome and astounding Classic Sci-Fi Collection! Featuring: Hellhounds of the Cosmos, by Clifford D. Simak / The Sense of Wonder, by Milton Lesser / Make Me an Offer, by Con Blomberg / One-Shot, by James Blish / Pen Pal, by Milton Lesser / Man of Distinction, by Michael Shaara / The Girls from Earth, by Frank Robinson

Health care organizations are challenged to improve care at the bedside for patients, learn from individual patients to improve population health, and reduce per capita costs. To achieve these aims, leaders are needed in all parts of the organization need positive solutions. Transforming Health Care...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach. Offset programs can reduce the overall cost of achieving a given emission goal by enabling emission reductions to occur where costs are lower. Offsets have the potential to deliver...

Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities...

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...

Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the commemoration of the Reformation in conversation...