Gillespie: 272 books

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online—and the large societal impact of these decisions Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with “fake news”...

THOSE PLAIN-SPEAKING, CHEEKY BOTTOM DOLLAR GALS RETURN… “As tart and delectable as lemon meringue pie...a pure delight.” – Jennifer Weiner, Author of Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, and Little Earthquakes It isn’t every day a movie star steals your husband. When that day comes for...

Separately they were formidable—together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds (1850–1918) and Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880–1924) has never been fully told. Now Michele Gillespie...

In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland’s most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way. Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their...

A heart warming story of two KITTENS who through amusing happenings in their new home, soon learn that Christie, their guardian, is BLIND. Sharing her TRUE experiences of Tigger and Jasper, author Cheryl Gillespie,blind from early childhood, gently acquaints children to Christie, a young blind woman....

Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the world-as-we-know-it, brought on by a global super-virus. Beginning with a biting satire of an academic...

Few would argue that the scientific revolution that began in the early 20th century transformed virtually every facet of our everyday lives, but what has it done for us lately? Quite a lot, you might well say, but in This Changes Everything author and scientist Colin Gillespie suggests that the revolution...

At the beginning of the Twenty-First Century, a vanguard of young, affluent black leadership has emerged, often clashing with older generations of black leadership for power. The 2002 Newark mayoral race, which featured a contentious battle between the young black challenger Cory Booker and the more...

For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family...

MORD IM JAGDREVIER - UND EIN NEUER FALL FÜR DIE SCHNEEBERGER MISS MARPLE. Ein tragischer Todesfall in Neiselbach Im idyllischen Neiselbach am Fuße des Schneebergs herrscht Vorweihnachtsstimmung - alles ist verschneit, man backt Kekse und singt Adventlieder. Doch die besinnliche Ruhe trügt, denn...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian talks with some of twentieth century’s most iconic musicians—“Riveting . . . Just about every interview has a revelation” (San Francisco Chronicle). Through the second half of the twentieth century, Studs Terkel hosted the legendary radio show...

Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate, phenomenal bestselling author, and scribe for the people, Dr. Maya...

WARM AND WITTY, A FEAST FOR THE HEART … “Use your very last bottom dollar, if you have to. Just BUY THIS BOOK. You will laugh yourself sick and love every minute of it.” – Jill Conner Browne, The Sweet Potato Queen Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium in Cayboo Creek, South...