Madigan: 53 books
by Leo Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Why is a Portuguese schoolboy desperate to see the Pope? What is the significance of the Five Stones that give the name, Cincopedras, to his village? How do the ashes of the Phoenix prevent a murder? The answers are revealed in the story of Dedo, who finds himself being chased through Europe by a...
by L. K. Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Lena has lived her whole life near the beach – walking for miles up and down the shore and breathing the salty air, swimming in the cold water, and watching the surfers rule the waves – the problem is, she’s spent her whole life just watching.
As her sixteenth birthday approaches, Lena...
The Sociology of Sports
An Introduction, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In its second edition, this book takes a fresh approach to the study of sports, presenting key concepts such as socialization, economics, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, the media and the role of sports in society. The authors offer a critical examination but highlight also the many positive...
The Hard Road to the Softer Side
Lessons from the Transformation of Sears
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2001
For the better part of a century, Sears, Roebuck and Company touched the lives of almost everyone in America. A stunning tale of marketing and savvy, the company started selling watches and quickly became an essential source of goods for the American home. Sears brought the Christmas dreams of distant...
The Burning
Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. 34 square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, known then...
Getting Grief Right
Finding Your Story of Love in the Sorrow of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
When the New York Times ran Patrick O’Malley’s story about the loss of his infant son—and how his inability to “move on” challenged everything he was taught as a psychotherapist—it inspired an unprecedented flood of gratitude from readers.
What he shared was a truth that many have felt...
What Happened at Fatima?
The First Objective and Comprehensive Retelling of the Story in 50 years
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Adhering faithfully to the memoirs of Sister Lucia, the longest surviving seer, this book follows the events of Fatima: from the first stirrings of the wings in the appearances of the angels before the six apparitions of the Blessed Virgin herself, the deaths of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, the subsequent...
Dropping out of Socialism
The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected...
Songs Only You Know
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A Rolling Stone Best Book: This memoir of a troubled young man’s escape into the Detroit punk scene is “a Kerouac-like saga fueled with energy and ecstasy” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Described by Darin Strauss as “Nick Flynn meets Karl Ove Knausgard” and “a book of relentless compassion,”...
by L. K. Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Winner of the 2010 William C. Morris Award!
Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who’s a girl. One of them loves him; the other one needs him.
When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo...
by Konstantine Paradias, D.A. Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Drug abuse. Demon worship. Governmental overreach. Child exploitation. The right kind of knowledge in the hands of the wrong kind of people. Cosmic catastrophes caused by super intellectuals meddling with closed entropic loops. The dehumanization that seems inevitable within a highly technologized...
Making it Right
Tap Zone Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Adrenaline junkie Nina Osborne never misses a hockey game or an MMA fight on TV. After the storage facility she owns is burglarized, one of her favorite MMA fighters, Drew “Juggernaut” Warner, shows up furious and blames her for his stuff getting stolen. When Drew returns to apologize and...
Equine Neonatal Medicine and Surgery E-Book
Medicine and Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
An ideal companion to Knottenbelt's Equine Stud Farm Medicine and Surgery, this comprehensive text covers all aspects of veterinary care of the foal — from birth through weaning. Describing appropriate procedures for clinical assessment of the new-born foal, it addresses emergency interventions,...
by Georganne S. Schroth-Cavataio, Jennifer C. Booker Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
The definitive guide for mentoring special education teachers
The national shortage and high attrition rate of special education teachers are impediments to serving students with special needs. This book helps meet an essential need for attracting, retaining, and supporting special educators....