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Michael O'Leary
Excerpt from Introduction by Iain Sharp:
"Irishness, Maoritanga, proudly held working-class values, rock 'n' roll, buses, trains, ferries, Baudelaire - you'll find them all in this book. Moods vary from…
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Alison O'Leary, Michael J Tougias
A remarkable WWII account of a maritime disaster, for fans of Steven Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman-now in paperback featuring historic photographs and a reading group guide!
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Neither Here Nor There is an intriguing story about two bohemian down and outs who are caught in an existential dilemma: They don’t know which city they live in, Auckland…
The Irish Annals of New Zealand is essentially a Joycean tour-de-force through New Zealand’s history from the Irish rather than the usual English point of view. However, as well as…
The final instalment of Michael O'Leary’s trilogy, ‘The Dreamlander Express’.
Straight is the first in Michael O'Leary’s trilogy, Dreamlander Express. It is the story of Paul Calvert who returns to his hometown, Auckland, after being away in ‘dreamland’ for several…
Michael O'Leary’s Dreamlander Express trilogy. It tells the story of factory worker Patrick Mika Fitzgerald, who after several years of working at the same job and looking after his ailing…
This collection of poems by New Zealand poet Michael O'Leary takes the reader through the several suburbs and areas that make up the poet’s hometown. O'Leary looks at Central. North…
Wednesday’s Women This study explores the reasons why so few women writers in Aotearoa New Zealand were seen as prominent figures in the literary scene from the end of World…
Michael O'Leary’s Selected Poems takes the reader through many and varied encounters with the world, both inner and outer. He writes of love and war, good and evil and several…
This volume focuses on an official Army Air Force report commissioned by the Eighth Air Force’s VII Fighter Command (FC) in May 1944.
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First published in 1987 this novel has acquired something of a cult status among both cricket fans and those interested in experimental prose and bohemian lifestyles.
It is set in…
Based on Dr O'Leary's PhD thesis 'Social and Literary Constraints on Women Writers in New Zealand: 1945-1970' this books explores and exposes the sexist mores of the NZ literary establishment…
A novel that explores the effect of modern technology on the individual. It looks at the generation of the 1930s Nazis whose mantra was 'All You Need is Hate' and…
During the writing of his autobiography, Die Bibel (published in 2016 by Steele/Roberts), Michael O'Leary began a parallel fictional autobiography which he conceived as an 'apocrypha' of additional aspects to…
With screaming demons in Wealdon copses and dragons lurking in bottomless ponds, the folk tales of Sussex truly represent the diversity of the area.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight folk tales
Michael K. O'Leary
Every year the Administration and the Congress battle over appropriations for foreign aid. This book reveals various factors that go into the making of American foreign aid policy. It presents…
Michael Kent O'Leary
Every year the Administration and the Congress battle stubbornly and often bitterly over appropriations for foreign aid
Based on the premise that in order to write proofs, one needs to read finished proofs as well as study both their logic and grammar, Revolutions in Geometry depicts how…
The Irish Annals of New Zealand is essentially a Joycean tour-de-force through New Zealand's history from the Irish rather than the usual English point of view. However, as well as…
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Michael O'Leary tells the story of factory worker Patrick Mika Fitzgerald, who after several years of working at the same job and looking after his ailing mother, is freed from…
"The history of small, private presses in this country is also (largely) the history of our literature." (Michael Gifkins' 1990 'Bookmarks', New Zealand Listener).
This quote graphically states the case…
Straight is set in early 1980's Auckland and begins with Paul Calvert's return to that city after several years in the mysterious place called 'Dreamland'. Fighting off several flash-backs he…
* Highlights from the history of geometry are intertwined with explanations on how to read and write proofs. * This is the first book to present the works of Euclid…
Matt Cooper
New biography of Ryanair’s controversial boss, Michael O'Leary, with unique insights into his role in the airline’s huge success and its recent troubles
September 2017. Ryanair cancels over 700,000 bookings…
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Haunting tales that can be enjoyed by readers time and again The stories in this haunting collection are as ancient and recent, powerful and fantastical, real and imaginary as the…
John Burnett,Michael O'Leary O'Leary
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Warren Valdmanis,Michael O'Leary
How everyone can use their power as consumers, investors, employees and voters to take back control of capitalism and hold corporations to account
Capitalism is failing and the tools we…
Michael O'Leary,Warren Valdmanis
Capitalism is broken, but corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government intervention won’t fix it. Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis examine how we can change the way corporations work…
Michael O'Leary, Mark Pirie
"After doing my research, soliciting and collecting all the articles, I started to think of a way to put together a book on the Earl. I had several ideas: one…
In this treasure trove of tales, storyteller Michael O’ Leary has collected stories from the Hampshire Downs (which are up), the New Forest (which is old), the copses and coppices…
Michael a O'Leary Jr
Hidden in the folds of the world we know is a world of monsters. Forced into discretion by the rules that govern reality, these powerful beings fight, love, and die…
Michael J O'Leary
Out of It concerns a game of cricket played between New Zealand and an ‘Out of It’ Eleven which includes several of the main character, PSM’s heroes and villains from…
ML O'Leary
Rather than teach mathematics and the structure of proofssimultaneously, this book first introduces logic as the foundationof proofs and then demonstrates how logic applies to mathematicaltopics. This method ensures that…
LINEAR ALGEBRA EXPLORE A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTORY TEXT IN LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH COMPELLING SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS, INCLUDING A COMPANION WEBSITE AND SOLUTIONS MANUALS
Linear Algebra delivers a fulsome exploration of the central…
Terence O'Leary
Beautiful and profoundly moving, Irish Crossings is a voyage of love, partings and new beginnings in the time of the Irish Potato Famine. Michael flees Ireland during the horror and…
Dr Tony Taylor,Michael O'Leary
A previously unpublished interview with John Lennon conducted during The Beatles’ 1964 tour of New Zealand. At the time Tony Taylor, as a young lecturer in psychology, became interested in…
Michael Bernard Buckley
Jeremiah A O'Leary,Michael A Kelly
Catherine O'Leary, Michael Thompson
This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain, analysing changes in censorship from the Second Republic to the post-Franco transition to democracy, and…
Maxine Harris, Ph.D.,Michael B. O'Leary, Ph.D
Businesses start and fail all the time, but the secrets to starting and running successful businesses can help entrepreneurs succeed in the for-profit or not-for-profit sector. This work discusses how…
Topics addressed include: the place of a priori inquiry in philosophy of mind, moral psychology, consciousness, social dimensions of intentionality, the relation of logic to philosophical psychology, objectivity and the…
Michael E. Kerr
An analysis of power sharing agreements in Northern Ireland and Lebanon, examining parallel journeys both societies took through power sharing to civil war, returning to power sharing again. This book…
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