Paul Sullivan: 42 books
by Dr Paul Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
In this important new text, Paul Sullivan introduces readers to a qualitative methodology rooted in the analysis of dialogue and subjectivity: the dialogical approach. Sullivan unpacks the theory behind a dialogical approach to qualitative research, and relates issues of philosophy and methodology...
Clutch
Excel Under Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Is clutch performance innate-or can it be learned?
Sooner or later everyone encounters a situation in which the stakes are high and the outcome is crucial. And even top performers can crumble when faced with such extreme pressure. Consider the CEO who panics in a desperate attempt...
The Thin Green Line
The Money Secrets of the Super Wealthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
“Wealth Matters” columnist for The New York Times reveals the decisions, behaviors, and worldviews that lead to true wealth.
For the better part of the past decade, Paul Sullivan has written about and lived among some of the wealthiest people in America. He has learned how they save, spend,...
Remixology
Tracing the Dub Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Dub is the avant-garde verso of reggae, created by manipulating and reshaping recordings using studio strategies and techniques. While dub was one of the first forms of popular music to turn the idea of song inside out, it is far from being fully explored. Tracing the evolution of dub, Remixology...
Unfinished Conversations
Mayas and Foreigners Between Two Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
A century ago, European and North American archaeologists first came upon the extraordinary ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulum—and started to converse with the Mayas who inhabited the forests of the Yucatan. In this thought-provoking history of a century-long "unfinished conversation" between...
The Weight Lifted
How the Cubs ended the longest drought in sports history
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Weight Lifted collects Chicago Tribune sportswriter Paul Sullivan’s coverage of the Chicago Cubs’ historic 2016 championship season. The 16-article collection traces the arc of the Cubs’ groundbreaking year, from their spring training in Arizona all the way to their rousing Game Seven victory...
Frogley, Cockhead and Crutch
A Celebration of Humorous Names from Oxfordshire's History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Willy Cockhead had to live with his name. So too did countless others lumbered with ridiculous names, safely hidden away in Oxford's records and censuses—until now. And what names! Some rhyme (Dick Thick), a few are odd (Silly Waters), others you have to say out loud (Rhoda Turtle) and some are...
Finding Your Feet in Berlin
A Guide to Making a Home in the Hauptstadt
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
The essential guide for all international Berlin conquerors. Living in Berlin since 2008 New Yorker author Giulia Pines takes you by the hand and tells you what to expect as an expat. Her lively book gives the answers to every existential question regarding: history, official stuff, finding a place...
Xuxub Must Die
The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2004
Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred years ago, they went for cheap labor, an abundance of land, and the opportunity to make a fortune exporting cattle, henequen fiber, sugarcane, or rum. Sometimes they found...
Berlin
A Literary Guide for Travellers
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Located at the epicentre of modern Europe's most significant and turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers. From nineteenth-century authors recording the city's dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 and the modernist intellectuals...
by Paul Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This is the history of Oxford as you have never encountered it before. The first historical record of Oxford laments that the city has been burnt to the ground by Vikings. Its religious houses were founded by a woman who blinded her would-be attacker. Its students were poverty-stricken desperados...
by Paul Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Secret History of Oxford offers the reader an off-the-beaten-track tour of the city’s landmarks and streets. Filled with hundreds of facts and anecdotes, it reveals the amusing, unlikely, and downright wonderful stories hidden beneath the surface. Some, such as the fact that the founder of Oxford...
by Paul Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Iceland is one of the most unique and fascinating countries in the world. A visually stunning island full of glaciers, volcanoes, lava fields and snow-capped mountains, the homeland of Bjork now boasts a thriving pop-music scene, its capital, Reykjavik, recently acquiring a reputation for being one...
by Paul Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The Little Book of Oxfordshire is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and...