Michael Mccarthy: 42 books
The Moth Snowstorm
Nature and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species...
How to Cheat in 3ds Max 2014
Get Spectacular Results Fast
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Why take months to learn every button in 3ds Max when you can create great visuals with just a few key tools? Utilize the tool of choice, 3ds Max 2014, for generating realistic environments, seamless CG effects, and jaw dropping games in a matter of hours. You can use the memory-hogging methods that...
by Dr. Michael McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
“Anyone ever associated with football, as a player, a fan or as in my own case as a referee, will de nitely enjoy reading ‘Bull in the Ring’. I certainly did.”
Fred Swearingen Retired NFL Head Referee
“I think anybody who likes sports, especially football,...
by Michael McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Michael McCarthy grew up on a farm in West Cork, Ireland. His first poetry collection Birds’ Nests and Other Poems won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His children’s books have been translated into seventeen languages. He works as a priest in North Yorkshire.
Power Public Speaking Harness Your Fear
40 Minutes to Master the Top 15 Confidence Boosting Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Few things are capable of invoking the kind of anxiety and terror as the thought of making a public speech. The fight-or-flight response triggered by the idea is a defense mechanism no longer useful to us in this modern age. In this book, you'll learn easy and powerful techniques to override this...
Language as Discourse
Perspectives for Language Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both spoken and written, and the social and cultural...
The Moth Snowstorm
Nature and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love . . . A must-read' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk
Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can...
by Michael McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This story begins in the Concord State Prison a maximum-security facility in New Hampshire, in 1973, following the tragic uprising at the Attica State Prison in Upstate New York. It was a time of political turmoil, chaos in prisons, and the beginnings of upheaval in American education. The story ends...
How to Sell
Even When You Don't Want To
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Everyone likes to make money, but the act of selling can be uncomfortable and even stressful. By focusing on helping your customer rather than selling to them, you can overcome your resistance and turn a potential customer into a lifelong relationship. Even those who are timid, frightened and otherwise...
Ashes Under Water
The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and drown 835 passengers, including 21 entire families....
How to Engage, Involve, and Motivate Employees
Building a Culture of Lean Leadership and Two-Way Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book, which takes the employees' perspective, illustrates what works and what doesn't work to engage, involve, and motivate a workforce. Through examples, it shows how the "engage" methodology links to the Lean Process. While focusing on the softer/"people" part of Lean, it...
Ready? Set? Engage!
A Field Guide for Employees to Create Their Own Culture of Participation and Implement Innovative Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
All employees want themselves and their colleagues to be better engaged at work, but most just can’t get past the talking stage to actually developing an effective plan. This book is a step-by-step "how-to" guide for those who develop and complete projects – not just supervisors and...
Customer Care
A Training Manual for Library Staff
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Customer Care provides a detailed course suitable for delivery to library staff at all levels. It can be used as a stand-alone reference work for customer care processes and procedures or, alternatively, it can be used by library staff to tailor a customer care course to suit the requirements and...
by Ronald Carter, Michael Mccarthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. Two chapters describe the main foundations of lexical semantics and relevant research and pedagogical studies in vocabulary...