Michael Daly: 11 books
Topsy
The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The true story of a nineteenth-century elephant caught between warring circuses and battling scientists, from the author of The Book of Mychal.
In 1903, on Coney Island, an elephant named Topsy was electrocuted. Many historical forces conspired to bring her, Thomas Edison, and those 6,600 volts...
The Book of Mychal
The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The inspiring story of New York Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge
His death certificate bears the number one. As chaplain to the Fire Department of New York, Father Mychal Judge was officially the first to go. A loving priest with a gift for the gab-gregarious yet humble, a healer...
by Michael Daly
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
With a 1958 portable typewriter in his suitcase, the writer wanders Havana’s crumbling back alleys, bullet-sprayed museums, and grand hotels where the relics of the Revolution and the ghost of Hemingway still speak loudly.
Whether getting grifted while watching a dubiously-billed piano player...
The First 90 Days in Government
Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges-from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments-that will make their transitions...
Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful...
After the Factory
Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity...
Six Traits of Self-Leadership
How to Create a Life of Success and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Are you allowing your past to hold you back? Do you spend your days dreaming about a better future? You are not alone. Six Traits of Self-Leadership will assist and support you to reach your full potential so as to have a more successful and happier life. It will help you to take ownership of your...
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines...
Decentering Discussions on Religion and State
Emerging Narratives, Challenging Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume explores dynamic conversations through history between individuals and communities over questions about religion and state. Divided into two sections, our authors begin with considerations on the separation of religion and state, as well as Roger Williams’ concept of religious freedom....
by Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Eva Lupold, Christiane E. Farnan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though series...
Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
China's continuing rapid economic growth and expanding involvement in global affairs pose major implications for the power structure of the international system. To more accurately and fully assess the significance of China's emergence for the United States and the global community, it is necessary...