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Thomas D'Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857, the first volume in a two-part biography, explores the development of those principles in Ireland and the United States. From his early temperance speeches in Wexford, Ireland, David Wilson follows McGee across the Atlantic, where at nineteen he became the editor of America's leading Irish newspaper, and traces his subsequent involvement with the Young Ireland movement, his reactio...

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The Southern Strategy shifts the traditional vantage point of the American Revolution from the northern colonies to the South in this study of the critical period from 1775 to the spring of 1780. Wilson suggests that the paradox of the British defeat in 1781after Crown armies had crushed all organized resistance in South Carolina and Georgiamakes sense only if one understands the fundamental flaws in what modern historians label Britains South...

It started as an ordinary school field trip. The bus pulled up, the kids got off. Their teacher told them where to explore and what to look out for. But when Code Lightfall spots what appears to be a tiny metallic bee, his world will never be the same again . . . literally.This "bee" leads Code from his world into Mekhos-the land of robots. And with bizarre robotic creatures around every turn-from infinipedes with razor-sharp mandibles to gian...

This work concerns forces and processes that continue to sustain persuasive inequalities in modern capitalist societies. It centres on the rise of structuration theory in geography and how this may be applied to various classes, races, ethnic groups and individuals in contemporary North America.

A panoramic account of how Virgil was interpreted by poets and scholars in the Renaissance, from Petrarch to Spenser.

A specially-photographedcelebration of animalfamilies, sure to capturethe imagination of any child.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

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My younger brother Bernard has some big ideas. At summer camp, he was only interested in doing one thing - designing costumes for the end-of-the-summer play! Even though the other kids might call him Bernadette forever...

Art. Photography. Using a large-format view camera, David Stark Wilson elevates the architecturally underappreciated utility buildings that dot California's great Central Valley. In both words and pictures, Wilson captures the disquietingly abandoned landscape that, neither "cultural" nor "natural" has, nonetheless, much of the beauty and consequence of both, though it is, like these buildings, an industrial ruin, still in use.

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* Concentrates on those concepts that usually give students the most difficulty. * Provides ample opportunity to test the mastery of this material. * Rates questions/problems according to their level of difficulty. * Additional information provided on the internet site related to this topic. .

The eighteen pieces collected in "Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories" bring together the many and subtle voices of Ethel Wilson, demonstrating her extraordinary range as a writer. From the gentle mockery of the title story to the absurdist reportage of "Mr. Sleepwalker, " Wilson exerts unerring narrative control. Revealing what is "simple and complicated and timeless" in everyday life, these stories also venture into irrational realms of experie...

Cycling around Ireland in search of traditional music, a tin whistle in his saddlebag, David Wilson follows the coastline from Presbyterian Islandmagee to Gaelic Cape Clear and back up north from Dublin to Belfast. Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle takes us on a journey across wild open spaces and through crowded pubs and festivals that pulse with energy and life. This is the Ireland of fiddles, harps and flutes, butterflies on bog roads, ...

A wry look at the way in which people in the past imagined their own future.

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The world in which we live is frenzied and furious, chaotic and confusing, daunting and discouraging. David Thatcher Wilson looks at all that is happening around us, and brings a collection of calming and consoling messages, based not in esoterica, but in common day-to-day life experiences.

Dagmar Shaw is one of the world¿s hottest designers of alternate reality games. She is the Puppetmaster and thousands of gamers are dancing on her strings. But when the campaign she is running in Turkey comes into conflict with the new, brutal regime, she realises that games can have very real consequences. When an old friend approaches Dagmar with a project so insane, so ambitious, she can't possibly say no, she is plunged into a world of spi...