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Margaret Heffernan
It has never been more necessary for us to become actors in our own future. Margaret Heffernan argues for the vital integration of art into all aspects of our lives…
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Olive Heffernan
The race to control, protect and profit from Earth's new blue frontier
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Julie Heffernan
From acclaimed painter Julie Heffernan, a wholly original and visually stunning four-color graphic work of autofiction about a young mother who-lost overnight on a hike with her infant son-experiences an…
Maurice Heffernan
A compelling and poignant memoir about the struggles and triumphs of survivors, and for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of life within the Residential Institutions in Ireland. Prepare to be…
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Troy Heffernan
The important insights collated here provide guidance to progress towards institutions where academics possess more control of the policies that guide their careers, the knowledge they create, the knowledge they…
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James A Heffernan
The subjects in this collection include science, mysticism, spirituality, philosophy, politics and government, A.I., environmental awareness, spaceflight, neuroscience, and many others. It is a book for virtually all ages, and…
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Gret Heffernan
Following the end of oil, Mad Cow Disease ravages the land and divides the population into infected or uninfected camps. A pearl that can seed a blank planet is hidden…
Two years have passed. Dark Ansley, presumed dead, has been writing poetry in London, a city of contaminated outcasts. The serpent Jude stole the infant containing The Original Seed and…
A.M. Heffernan
A book of poetry written by a sixteen-year-old girl that depicts the struggles of growing up in an image-driven culture and grieving the death of her grandmother. It is unnerving…
Addison Heffernan
Join Dani on an epic journey where magic and prophecy intertwine. Chosen as the Savior, Dani grapples with newfound powers and faces formidable adversaries led by the cunning Giselle. With…
Brian Heffernan
This book examines how modern Catholic contemplative nuns in the Netherlands envisioned their spirituality, offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female…
Essay, poetry, and photography, exploring fanatical, extremist politics and religion in Midwest America. Gret Heffernan was raised a Creationist Republican in rural Iowa. After a decade, she returns home and…
In this "essential guide to the half of our blue planet we call the high seas" (Will McCallum, author of How to Give Up Plastic), one of the world's leading…
James A. W. Heffernan
Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations…
Brian S Heffernan
Explore the rich tapestry of emotions and memories encapsulated in this anthology. Dive into a poetic journey, each verse a gateway, opening doors to a heart's whispers and echoes of…
Julian Jimenez Heffernan
The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James's fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition, those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and…
Margaret Heffernan,Heffernan
Turning a blind eye in our professional, civic, and personal lives is the biggest risk we run–but we are all capable of clearer vision.
This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.
Ali Dunworth
A Compendium of Irish Pints delves into the culture, customs and craic surrounding pints in Ireland, from airport pints to unplanned pints, pints for celebrations and pints for commiserations, festival…
Leading business strategist and former CEO Margaret Heffernan draws lessons from long-successful companies to dispel the myth that competition has to be a zero-sum game, and shows corporations, institutions, and…
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Through interviews with hundreds of women entrepreneurs, Heffernan has discovered that women are more values-oriented, more flexible, and less ego-driven than their male counterparts. As a result they are creating…
This book traces long-term projects that shrewdly evolved over generations to meet the unpredictable challenges of every new age. Heffernan also looks at radical exercises and experiments that redefined standard…
‘An urgent read…Karl Popper for the 21st century’ Robert Phillips, author of Trust me, PR is Dead
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Margaret Heffernan,Margaret Heffernan
Foundational introduction to the concept that organizations create major impacts by making small changes.
Margaret A. Heffernan
With support, humor, and perspective, this provocative book outlines new options for businesswomen. Margaret Heffernan, who has run five different companies in the UK and US, states her case directly…
An engaging and anecdotal examination of how and why as individuals and as a society we choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable truth
William Heffernan,Willian Heffernan
A one-armed young Civil War veteran investigates the death of a troubled fellow soldier in 1860s Vermont and Virginia.
Ripples on an Infinite Sea is an eclectic collection of poems written on a wide variety of subjects. From Evolution Revolution to Intention Processor to Mathemagical to The Pit and…
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Shelagh A. Heffernan
Looks at the theory and practice of modern banking, and at the prospects for the future. This text is devoted to micro issues of banking, including competition, structure, performance, risk…
Thomas J. Heffernan
This collection of articles explore such concerns as the efficacy of various critical approaches to the art of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their literary relationships and reputations, and the artistic…
Laura Heffernan
Is it real love or all part of the game?
Life after college isn’t as seen on TV: Jen’s low-paying job is uninspiring, her boyfriend won’t commit, and she just…
Britt has always loved first dates. But she has zero interest in second dates. Until she meets Colin.
With six weeks of school to go before she gets her degree…
Kevin Heffernan
Tucked away in the northwestern corner of Bergen County, Oakland was for years a peacefully undiscovered outpost. Yet as Kevin Heffernan chronicles in A History of Oakland, the town’s placid…
Michael Heffernan
A thoughtful and elegant collection from accomplished poet Michael Heffernan.
Maureen Heffernan
Hershey Children’s Garden celebrates the beauty of the horticultural design of the Hershey Children’s Garden at Cleveland Botanical Garden, considered one of the best of the new public children’s gardens.
Ken Heffernan
Based on a thesis involving extensive fieldwork in regions bordering the Incas in southern highland Peru. The aim was to study the spatial organisation of late prehistoric Quichua society and…
Elizabeth Heffernan
For parents who have unique and diverse children. This book has been written for children who do not fit into the norms and love snakes and lizards. Children with special…
Rob Heffernan,Rob Heffernan
This is the inside story of how Rob Heffernan’s dream led him from the council flats of his tough Cork city upbringing to the winners’ podium of the Olympic Games…
Shev Heffernan
Alfie is so excited to be Leo's new pair of undies. The excitement is short lived, when Leo takes Alfie to the toilet. Come on a journey with Alfie as…
Leanne Heffernan
All Leanne ever wanted was a horse of her own. At the age of 14 her dream comes to life when she becomes the proud new owner of Consuela, a…
Shelagh Heffernan
Directed both at students of international finance and practitioners in the field, the book stresses the importance of treating the analysis of sovereign risk in a more general framework than…
