M O Neill: 16 books

Book cover of Rivers by Design

Rivers by Design

State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control

by Karen M. O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006

The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains. Rivers by Design traces the emergence of the mammoth U.S. flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented...
Book cover of The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market

The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market

The Role of Employment Discrimination Policies

by June E. O'Neill, Dave M. O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012

The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market provides historical background on employment discrimination and wage discrepancies in the United States and on government efforts to address employment discrimination. It examines the two federal institutions tasked with enforcing Title...
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Taking Chances

The Coast after Hurricane Sandy

by Robert B. Gramling, Steven G. Decker, David A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
Book cover of Transgressive Imaginations

Transgressive Imaginations

Crime, Deviance and Culture

by M. O'Neill, L. Seal
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012

This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'.
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Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada

by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M. G. Vassanji
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...
Book cover of Fireside Popsicles
by M.C. O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

An anthology of the weird, the bizarre and the twisted. And we mean this literally. Fireside Popsicles features short stories, poetry and prose by great talents working in the literary worlds of bizarro, dark erotica, splatterpunk and alt-lit such as Bradley Sands, Jeremy C. Shipp and James Ward Kirk.
Book cover of The Ancients and the Angels: Archons
by M.C. O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013

The thrilling sequel to “Celestials” is here! Get “Archons” today and follow the new adventures of elfmaid Quen’die Reyliss as the malevolent forces from the Inferno attempt to infiltrate the earth! This time, it’s personal. The Hells have a vendetta to settle - and our heroine is the...
Book cover of The Ancients and the Angels: Celestials
by M.C. O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013

BOOK ONE: “CELESTIALS” Winner of the Winter 2012 NABE Pinnacle Award for best Science Fiction. On an ancient Earth not long before the dawn of mankind, a great and terrible war is imminent between mortals and the demonic forces from the hells. It falls on one young maiden’s shoulders...
Book cover of Individual Positive Behavior Supports

Individual Positive Behavior Supports

A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings

by Martin Agran Ph.D., Richard Albin Ph.D., Sharon Ann Ballard-Krishnan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Book cover of Free Radicals and the Liver
by E. Albano, B.R. Bacon, F. Biasi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Based on the results of the latest congress of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), this volume makes excellent reading since it explores in detail the role of free radical reactions in liver diseases. Studies in recent years using various methods have shown that free radicals...
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Ethnic Dress in the United States

A Cultural Encyclopedia

by Linda Arthur Bradley, Washington State University, Naomi Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing...
Book cover of Alcoholism

Alcoholism

A Guide for the Primary Care Physician

by A. Abrams, Julius B. Richmond, M.D. Aronson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Based on the Commonwealth Harvard Alcohol Research and Teaching Program, this clinically oriented work is designed to give internists and primary care practitioners the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and care for patients with alcoholism.
Book cover of Sex Work Matters

Sex Work Matters

Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry

by Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, Giulia Garofalo, Mashrur Shahid Hossain
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender...
Book cover of AP French Language & Culture All Access w/Audio
by Dr. Eileen M. Angelini, Ph.D., Editors of REA
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

AP French Language & Culture All Access Book + Web + Mobile Everything you need to prepare for the Advanced Placement exam, in a study system built around you! REA is the only publisher with an updated AP French Language & Culture test prep book geared to the new May 2012 exam! There...
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