Downey: 162 books
The Cold War
Law, Lawyers, Spies and Crises
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtin has descended across the continent."—Winston Churchill, from a speech to Westminster College in Missouri, March 5, 1946
During the four decades of the Cold War, there were periods of intense crisis, when, almost...
President Trump
Parody
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Well, now you've gone and done it America. You've elected Donald K. Trump President and the U.S. will never again be the same! The problem for all of us is that he's got plans, lots of them--the list reads like a bad acid trip: Nominating Bernie Madoff for Secretary of the Treasury; "Trumpifying"...
The Creator’s Game
Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
A gift from the Creator – that is where it all began. The game of lacrosse has been a central element of many Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities. Focusing on the...
Think Complexity
Complexity Science and Computational Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Complexity science uses computation to explore the physical and social sciences. In Think Complexity, you’ll use graphs, cellular automata, and agent-based models to study topics in physics, biology, and economics.
Whether you’re an intermediate-level Python programmer or a student of computational...
Uncommon Grounds
New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The recent uprisings in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt were apparently spread via social media. Soon-to-become 'iconic', images of the events were captured on camera phones and uploaded onto Facebook live, as they happened. But looking beyond the 'Twitter revolutions', what role does social, or 'new' media,...
Speed Your Evolution
Become the Star Being You Are Meant To Be
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Unleash the Power you hold over your many lives! This workshop-in-a-book will teach you how to raise your vibration, speed your development, and avoid thousands of lifetimes of unnecessary repetition. Features exercises, illustrations, and anecdotes from the author’s nearly forty years of researching...
Library Service Design
A LITA Guide to Holistic Assessment, Insight, and Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Service design is a holistic, co-creative, and user-centered approach to understanding user behavior for creating or refining services.
Use this LITA Guide to help as a toolkit for implementing service design studies and projects at all types of libraries. It begins with directions for how...
Creative Imagination
STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERATURE
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Lucy Star @ 7
Let’S Celebrate Trans and Gender Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book is an educational resource for parents, teachers and adults to read to young children about trans and gender diverse people. It is a story about Lucy Star at age 7 who just wants to be who she really is - a girl. Lucy was born with a body that looked like a boy but she knows she is a girl....
by The Podiatry Institute, Joe T. Southerland, Jeffrey S. Boberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
The definitive text in its field, McGlamry's Comprehensive Textbook of Foot and Ankle Surgery, is the ideal reference for the podiatric or orthopedic surgeon, resident, or student preparing for certification exams. From perioperative management to postoperative complications and considerations, this...
Everything You Want to Know about Jesus
Well … Maybe Not Everything but Enough to Get You Started
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Jesus is the most influential person who ever lived. But for many of us, he has ceased to be a real person. We’ve sanitised him with pious jargon, framed him in stained glass, and reduced him to a religious puppet who floats through biblical landscapes dispensing Christian cliches and nice advice....
Everything You Want to Know about the Bible
Well…Maybe Not Everything but Enough to Get You Started
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
It’s the bestselling book ever. It’s been translated into more than 2,000 languages. It’s changed people’s lives around the world. No, it’s not Thin Thighs in 30 Days . . . it’s the Bible!Yet the Bible remains about as well-understood to many people as your typical software license agreement—and...
by Writings of Cardinal Roger Mahony, Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Michael Downey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A collection of writings of Cardinal Roger Mahony that covers a range of topics. What they have in common is a concern for ministry to meet the needs of the local hurch in Los Angeles. He focuses on priestly ministry and identity, and broadens to include attention to the ministry of lay persons, deacons, women, and bishops.
by Craig Downey
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
As we move into the next books in the series, I am probably skirting very close to the edge of what would be one of the symptoms of my condition. But it was very hard to leave much of this material out for a number of reasons. The first of these is that one cannot describe the lust for life that can...