Madigan: 53 books
Friendship and Happiness
And the Connection Between the Two
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle’s three categories of friendship—friends of utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern variations—casual friends, close friends, best friends—are described, along with the...
by Tim Madigan, Tim Delaney
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Why do billions of people around the world love sports? The popular media is increasingly dedicated to the heated rivalries of sports teams, academic institutions are held in its thrall, sports metaphors are commonplace in our language, and most individuals participate in athletics or follow a team...
Beyond Sustainability
A Thriving Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This book approaches the study of the environment from two academic disciplines: both sociologists and philosophers have concerns about our environment’s ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The book examines the differences between “sustainability” and “thrivability.” Such...
Faith Under Fire
Anglican Army Chaplains and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. This book examines the realities of Anglican chaplains' wartime experiences and presents a compelling picture of what it meant to be a clergyman-in-uniform in the most devastating war in modern history.
Cycle Touring For Beginners
A Guide To Exploring Near And Far By Bicycle
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Cycling is one of the loveliest ways of travelling, and anyone can have as much of an adventure cycling to a town or village twenty miles from their home as riding to the other side of the world.
Cycle Touring For Beginners has twin aims:
The first is to encourage you to try cycle touring...
Senegal Sojourn
Selections from One Teacher's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Senegal Sojourn: Selections from One Teacher's Journal is a personal account of experiences while working with foreign language teachers and writers of fiction in Africa during an academic year. Affording glimpses into that stay, whether in classrooms, on the streets of the capital, Dakar, at concerts,...
by Marie Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
During a cycle tour in France in 2012, Marie’s legs started talking to her. A year later, pedalling up a long hill in Corsica, The Legs piped up again.
‘And how long is it for this time? Two months? And we’re going where? Oh, just to the Atlantic. Fine. No problem.’
With...
Life's Big Instruction Book
The Almanac of Indispensable Information
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
An entertaining guide to everything, from the creators of The People's Almanac and The Book of Lists, answers virtually any question that might arise in these information-saturated times, including how to choose a bank, wear a condom, and buy fish.
Slum Clearance
The Social and Administrative Context in England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Originally published in 1976. Slum clearance is a particularly significant process because it places the ordinary citizen in a state of extreme dependence on his local authority. The local authority not only destroys his existing environment but controls access to a replacement council house. This...
Handbook of Emergency Management Concepts
A Step-by-Step Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book provides a step-by-step process that focuses on how to develop, practice, and maintain emergency plans that reflect what must be done before, during, and after a disaster, in order to protect people and property. The communities who preplan and mitigate prior to any incident will be better...
Heart Failure
Strategies to Improve Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Heart Failure: Strategies to Improve Outcomes, the first volume in the Cardiovascular Team Approach Series, presents the true integrated care approach to the common syndrome of heart failure. The authors, including advanced practice nurses, physicians, a pharmacist, a social worker, and a dietitian,...
The Clergy in Khaki
New Perspectives on British Army Chaplaincy in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
British army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the First World War. Like its commanders they have often been characterized as embodiments of ineptitude and hypocrisy. Yet, just as historians have reassessed the motives and performance of British generals, this collection offers fresh...
by Dan Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
He's the last thing you'll ever see...
Seven-feet-tall. Four hundred pounds. A blood-crusted, rusty steel plate screwed into his skull. But perhaps the most terrifying thing about reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight are the razor-sharp nails on his forefingers, the ones that circle around...
by Marie Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Proving once again that a cycle tour needn't be a cross-continental expedition, Marie heads off on her bike in search of discovery in the borders of England and Wales and the mountains of Snowdonia.