Coughlan: 24 books

There are times in our life when we feel stuck. Our noble desires for a successful career and family life get bogged down or derailed by the challenges before us. Whether it be a difficult circumstance or our own limiting beliefs and fears, we can’t seem to get past what holds us back. Jay...

Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan's battles with addiction, the problems in her personal life and career have been well documented. But until now she has never spoken of the traumatic events in her childhood that led to...

This book is an exciting adventurous story for young readers and old that traces the humorous tales of living in many cultures and societies and eventually coming of age. Once the reader learns what a WaWa is they will find it in the story along the way and eventually apply it to their lives. Once...

Welcome to a LEGENDARY volume of ROAR! That's right, the theme for the seventh volume is legend, and it will take you on a journey from a fortune teller's bamboo hut to the end of the world in the coils of a dead snake god, back in time to the Cretaceous and then up to the stars. You'll meet tigers...

This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance...

The Workplace Tutor: Professional Training In the Modern Workplace by Patrick Coughlan is designed for anyone who has to deliver training in the modern workplace. The workplace could be a commercial business, a government agency or a community organisation. The Tutor could be someone who is employed...

How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation and influence been affected? Is the recession...

This much-anticipated fifth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and in-service teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines -- history, philosophy, politics,...

This book is about organizing small groups on a variety of levels, from consciousness raising to action groups to collectives and beyond. YouÕll find models to choose from, no matter what type of task your organizing around.

How do I start my literature review? What sources can I go to for information? How do I analyse the work of others? This clear, practical book guides readers undertaking their own literature review through the process, giving them the skills and knowledge they need for success. The chapters...

Dr. Herbert Marriott has a problem that only murder can solve. Luckily for him, the perfect weapon is locked away in his rundown museum, one too incredible for any court to accept. The cursed chair kills all who rest upon it. But will Herbert’s victim be so easily drawn to her fate?   A four and half thousand word short story.

A desperate warrior carries a baby girl across a foreign desert. Although truth and honor are tattooed on his face, Tharo has abandoned both virtues in his quest to protect his charge. But it’s only a matter of time before he fails her. Another man stalks them, a hunter no prey can escape, the dreaded Souldiviner. A seven thousand word short story.

AscendantSun's memory stretches back to the bloody birth of the cosmos. Created to serve a dead god, he tired of his empty religion and adopted the faith of his former enemies. Now, a threat from the past is forcing him to choose between his new friends and his own people. Escaping enslavement...

This book provides a list of Irish names for boys and girls taken from the great store of more than 2,000 years of Christian and pre-Christian Ireland. Explanations are provided for the Gaelic names and biographies are included for saints' names. The author outlines interesting facts about the popularity, regional preferences and alternative forms of the names included in this collection.