William Kelly: 51 books

George William Kelly wrote this collection of eight childrens stories over the lifetime of his daughter, Georgette. He named the heroines after her. By the time he published the collection, Georgette had reached the age of "sweet sixteen." Consequently, some of the stories aim at picture...

The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights...

Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism,...

Heretofore, children have always imagined “Mrs. Claus” baking cookies or knitting sweaters. They had no idea “Mrs. Claus” had a name of her own. Her real name is “Santa Christina.” Now they learn she is an active outdoor sportswoman. She mushes about the North Pole with seven sled dogs....

“Pumpkin Angel, The Angel of Halloween,” is a “storyteller” eBook for children. It has no pictures. It allows boys and girls to imagine the characters and scenes of the story—guided by their own ethnic, religious, or other background. Adults reading the story aloud to children are like storytellers...

The real name of Mrs. Claus is “Santa Christina.” For a long, long time, however, girls and boys (and parents and grandparents) never knew the real name of Mrs. Claus. They gave all their attention to her husband, Santa Claus, because he delivered toys to children who believe in Christmas. If...

For a long, long time Santa Claus and his reindeer delivered all the toys on Christmas Eve. Santa Christina (Mrs. Claus) and her sled dogs stayed at home, with the Elves, at the North Pole. Not very long ago, however, Santa Christina and her sled dogs began to help her husband and his reindeer deliver...

John Petersen is a war-weary lieutenant assigned to guard the highest ranking survivors of Hitler’s Reich at the Nuremberg trials. His job is to keep Hermann Goering alive until he can be tried and hanged. In the course of his duties, Petersen runs into trouble from his mercurial commanding officer,...

Reprinted November 2007; first published 2003. It is widely accepted that no understanding of modern Irish history is complete without an awareness of events in the 17th century. This is true in particular of the Ulster Plantation. Sir Henry Docwra’s military expedition, which arrived in...

Forty Days and One Night is a compilation of poems intended to be used as a motivational aid in the writings of other poets from the novice on up. This collection is a sample of examples of different poetry types and styles. Rhyming, non-rhyming, happy, sad, simple, complex (multiple rhyming schemed),...

Textual criticism as applied to Scripture has for its aim to set out the very words of the original, and the rejection of every intrusion, omission, or change through the copyist whether unintentional or designed. Such was the recognised task of the orthodox critic from the first; and the MSS., the...

Best book on Johannes Kepler, Bar None. This book is your ultimate resource for Johannes Kepler. Here you will find the most up-to-date 169 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Johannes...

The lectures which follow were delivered in London, during the month of May, 1870, and corrected from notes taken in shorthand, with additions. It may be painful to some that so much notice is taken of skeptical assaults on the Pentateuch. My object, however, is not only to promote the direct...

This is a story of an eighty year old man having difficulty recovering from the death of his wife. He is asked by a nineteen year old runaway for help to get off the streets. He is reluctant to get involved. He does help her and is brought out of his depression when the two take a trip to New Orleans....