Sheehan: 272 books
The Essential Sheehan
A Lifetime of Running Wisdom from the Legendary Dr. George Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Runners and readers whose connections to the sport date back to the 1970s surely remember Dr. George Sheehan, the New Jersey cardiologist and writer whose unique approach to the joy of exercise helped spark America's fitness boom. As a columnist for his local Red Bank Register and later as the medical...
The Grace of Incorruption
The Selected Essays of Donald Sheehan on Orthodox Faith and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Professor and scholar, teacher of poets and poetry and convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, Donald Sheehan wrote these wide-ranging essays with a common commitment to understanding the ways in which the ruining oppositions of our experience can be held within the disciplines of lyric art—held “until...
The People's Advocate
The Life and Legal History of America's Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Constitutional attorney’s memoir offers “fascinating and horrifying” accounts of over a dozen historic legal cases—from Watergate to Iran/Contra (Foresight).
In this captivating memoir, attorney Daniel Sheehan recounts his path to becoming a public defense lawyer and takes you behind...
Crush the Cell
How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Written by a man who is arguably the country’s most authoritative voice on counterterrorism, Crush the Cell demolishes, with simple logic, the edifice of false “terror punditry” that has been laid, brick by brick, since 9/11. A veteran of special ops, international diplomacy, and bruising clashes...
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The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose work captures the essence of 200 of our most prominent writers, historians, journalists, playwrights, and poets.
Beowulf Sheehan is considered to be his generation's foremost literary portrait photographer, having made...
In Bed with the Badge
The Barbara Sheehan Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
In Bed with the Badge is this generation's Burning Bed. Ms. Joyce and her brother, Raymond, tell the bloodcurdling story of how their father, Ray Sheehan, a retired NYPD detective, turned wife-beating into an art form by utilizing the very tactics he was taught in the police force. In a terrifying moment...
by John J. Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
John J. Sheehan, LTJG USN (ret.) John Joseph Sheehan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 27. 1935 to Margaret and Joseph Sheehan, Sr. He attended St. Timothy Parochial School in the Mayfair section of the city. He is a 1952 graduate of St. Josephs Preparatory School, (The Prep) and...
Running & Being
The Total Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A New York Times bestseller for 14 weeks in 1978, Running & Being became known as the philosophical bible for runners around the world. More than thirty years after its initial publication, it remains every bit as relevant today.
Written by the late, beloved Dr. George Sheehan, Running...
Why Confederates Fought
Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who...
Chasing the Hawk
Looking for My Father, Finding Myself
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
“I have always chased my father, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes.
I chased him even when I thought I was running in the other direction.
Today, even though he is gone, I chase him still.
I know he is the key to my freedom.”
To runners around...
by Daniel Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at a poet who is a frequent contributor to anthologies and collections...
by Jean Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Are you ready for the new millennium? "HELP! Am I going crazy? I am seeing aliens, hearing animals talk, and my husband is trying to lock me up in a psychiatric unit. What the hell is going on?" Jean Sheehan looked like the average wife, mum and nurse. She was efficient, logical and grounded. As a...
Saving the World On Thirty Dollars a Day
An Activist's Guide to Starting, Organizing and Running a Non-Profit Organization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Activist and Author Charles Sheehan-Miles, founder of the National Gulf War Resource Center and former executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, gives hard won practical suggestions and advice to people who want to set out to change the world. In 1993, starting with no money, resources, members...
by Jacqueline Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
“The Tiger in the House is teeming with excitement and heart-stirring emotion. A natural storyteller, Sheehan will draw you in with her finely crafted characters and hold you tight until the very end.” —Heather Gudenkauf
Love and resentment, fear and hope intersect for two sisters as...