Brian O Connor: 10 books
by Brian O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the post-war period. Crucial to the development of Critical Theory, his highly original and distinctive but often difficult writings not only advance questions of fundamental philosophical significance, but provide...
Idleness
A Philosophical Essay
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The first book to challenge modern philosophy’s case against idleness, revealing why the idle state is one of true freedom
For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement...
Add A Zero
From 5,000 to 50,000 in an Irish Racing Season
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
It's March in Ireland - the flat season is about the start and Irish Times racing correspondent, Brian O'Connor has decided to boldly go where no racing correspondent has gone before. He puts his money where is mouth is and attempts to turn Euro 5,000 into Euro 50,000. But can he actually do it ...
In...
Kings of the Saddle
Ireland's Greatest Jockeys
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The recent retirement of Mick Kinane, doyen of flat racing jockeys whose swansong was his 2009 Classic victories on the great Sea the Stars, reminded us once again how many of the greatest jockeys in racing, over jumps as well as on the flat, hail from Ireland.
Brian O’ Connor is the experienced...
The $1,000 Challenge
How One Family Slashed Its Budget Without Moving Under a Bridge or Living on Gov ernment Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Are You Brave Enough for the $1,000 Challenge?
Middle-class incomes are stretched more than ever. Feeling the strain himself, personal finance columnist Brian O’Connor decided to put his own family’s spending to the test. He began a ten-week experiment to see if his family could cut its...
by Brian Merriman, Frank O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Award-winning edition of this outstanding translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth-century erotic masterpiece.
Translated by Frank O'Connor
Illustrations by Brian Bourke.
HALO: Fractures
Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A sensational short story collection in the expansive universe of HALO, the New York Times bestselling series!
Launch once more into galaxy-spanning conflict and legendary heroism…shards of an ever-expanding journey where human and alien alike find their finest hours in facing their greatest...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Watergate
But Were Afraid to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The story of Watergate is usually told through the prism of the straight, white male journalists and politicians who were at the center of the scandal—but Watergate happened to all of us – wives, mothers, children, black, white, queer, immigrants. Those voices and perceptions are rarely heard...
With Us Always
A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1998
Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts...
Sentient Performativities of Embodiment
Thinking alongside the Human
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective...