Cahill: 199 books

The only rule is the rules always change Modelling gave Lillian McDermott amazing experiences and enough money to leave it all behind to start her own perfume and fashion label, but it didn’t give her the man she’s always loved—Mackenzie Harris. Her brother’s best friend, Mac...

The author of A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg and Pecked to Death by Ducks gives new meaning to the words "going to extremes" in this exhilarating--and frequently hilarious--collection of adventure travel writing. "Cahill . . . (writes) with the precision ofJohn McPhee and Joan Didion tempered by a Monty Pythonesque sense of the absurd."--San Diego Union-Tribune.

Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for change to the Gospel. This book demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian...

Women from all over Arkansas—left out of the civil rights granted by the post–Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—took part in a long struggle to gain the primary civil right of American citizens: voting. The state’s capital city of Little Rock served as the focal point not only for suffrage...

The Etruscans remain one of Western Europe’s most enigmatic people. Where they came from is uncertain. Herodotus believed they were from Lydia. Dionysius of Halicarnassus argued they were indigenous to Tuscany. This overview sets out the models of causation used to explain their origins and incorporates the findings of recent DNA studies.

A New Life in our History is the first account of the settlement of Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people. Volume III, Crimson Ties, tells how the Edwards, Biggar, Nicholson and Petersen families helped build a new community at the Croydon Bush Village Settlement near...

This is the second part of A New Life in Our History, an account of the settlement of Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people.By the 1830s, reformers opposed to transportation were promoting a more enlightened solution to Britain’s social and economic difficulties:...

This work draws attention to the increasing localised extinction of native birds in Sydney, an issue of concern to environmentalists that has had very little media coverage.It is based on a case study of the species found in the western part of the Wolli Creek Valley, which lies between Kingsgrove...

This is a short account of five families that lived in and around the Newmarket-on-Fergus district in County Clare from the 1880s to the 1930s. It is an attempt to provide a short account of modern Irish history from the perspective of ordinary people in the aftermath of the Famine and during the...

Bessie Johnston, my great-grandmother, came from Crear in Argyll, not far from the Mull of Kintyre. When she came to New Zealand as a war bride, almost all contact with her family in Scotland was lost. Bessie's family cut her off and she died, tragically young, in 1922. For almost 80 years,...

This is a short, up-to-date account to the birds found along Wolli Creek, the last substantial remnant of the natural environment in Sydney's inner south-west. It is written for those new to the Valley and interested in its natural history.During my time in the Valley, I lived near the...

History teacher Madison Keibler is aloof, uptight, prim and proper—and Toby Moreland’s unlikely obsession. He doesn’t understand why the newest staff member at their private high school intrigues him, he only knows he has a burning need to loosen her severe bun, strip her of those dowdy schoolmarm...

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby… wait, scratch that. Can we start with the babies? Selling most of her possessions, breaking her lease and driving across the country in search of a man who might not want to see her probably wasn’t such a great idea. Throw in an aging...

Who needs 20/20 vision to find true love? There’s something familiar about the gorgeous woman across the crowded club. When he “accidentally” bumps into her, Alex Dean is shocked to discover what it is. The tall, leggy blonde is none other than Sadie Emerson, his college english tutor—and...