Paul Buckley: 12 books

Ever wondered where the worse restaurant in the world is? I offer up one on the Big Island in Hawaii for your consideration. Is airport security these days a form of harassment? I think I have discovered the most subtle and cleverest Keep Our sign ever, or perhaps you know a better one? Changing trousers...

When I came to Massey University in 1968 there wasn’t much here. Yes the Agricultural college was but as to real science such as Chemistry, there was very little. Len Blackwell, Ken Jolley and I became part of the new group of chemists at a time when the Department was really starting to expand....

Delinquent Pipe Bands, Car Conversion by a 10 yr old Boy and a Trouserless Man in Kids Play Area. Find out about the hen that crowed, a house break-in that wasn’t, the truck driver who lost his bale and the fire alarm that wouldn’t stop and much more. Read about the majesty of Zion National Park...

I don’t know about you but it’s the small things in life that fascinate me. Some advice. Don’t put up with a 70 birthday it you’re not ready to be seventy. Just rename it. How often have you read instructions telling you even a child can assemble it. Don’t believe them. What to do when a...

Life is full of surprises but fortunately you are not alone when you deal with them. Whether you want to learn the best way to keep your wallets safe, or how not to buy a new chest-of-drawers, or write a will (urgently) or fast track a US passport, this is the book for you. So you thought making a...

Elias Hicks was a minister, a mystic, a farmer, an environmentalist, an abolitionist, a father and a husband. This book aims to reveal the real Elias Hicks and his understanding of what it means to be a Quaker. Elias Hicks has much to say to Friends today.

Primitive Quakerism Revived challenges contemporary Friends in each of the Society's branches to reexamine their fundamental beliefs and practices, to identify the changes and additions that have been made in the past three and a half centuries, and to acknowledge which of those are unacceptable compromises...

This book contains interviews with physicists, biologists, and chemists who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought. The conversations—with Bohm, Pattee, Penrose, Rosen, Rosenfeld, Somorjai, Weizsäcker, Wheeler, and Nobel prizewinners Heisenberg,...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...

  This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and...

In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world. Formed to serve a strategic need in the most intensive war that Britain had then fought, the RAF continued in the inter-war era to play a key role in the political and diplomatic world, and in defending the Empire....

Originally published in 1979. This reprints the revised and expanded edition of 1996. In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at...