This text is the story of rootlessnes, of a London-Irish boy who has two identities and feels at home with neither. John Walsh found the Irishness of his parents' Battersea home stiflingly warm and puzzlingly foreign. Spellbound equally by Mick Jagger and by images of Irish martyrdom, he discovered at the age of 16 an extended family he had never known existed. In the hidden life of Galway was revelation that begged a crucial question: how do we know where our true nature Lies? By his mother's bedside in a Galway hospital, 30 years later, he starts to unpick the past, looking for clues to his identity.

The falling angels

John Walsh

Harpercollins

An exuberant Angela's Ashes meets When Did You Last See Your Father?; an intoxicating memoir of Ireland and being Irish (and Anglo-Irish as well) from one of literature's most flamboyant characters. John Walsh is one of literature's party animals and ever-present commentators, and he writes with terrific wit and panache. The Falling Angels is a book about being Irish and about the way the Irish see the English and vice versa; and how it feels to fall in between. It opens with the death of Walsh's mother, 'the Widow of Oranmore', as he learns the Irish Way of Death: 'the rosaries and mass cards and lilies and amaryllises, the curious mixture of innocence and guile with which distant in-laws from Kerry and Dublin would coo and sigh and claim close friendship and act at being saints, the increasingly direct conversations that the neighbours (and I) had with Mother about death and what she could expect in Heaven. Above all, there was my mother's own struggle with her growing doubts about God and the afterlife -- she who had once been the Pope's representative in Battersea.' Every sentence Walsh writes is witty, outrageous, illuminating and compelling; he explores the Irish identity in a warm, personal and confessional book that takes in issues of race, of place, of language, of song, of love, of religion and, crucially, the changing nature of Ireland as it wriggles out of the dwindling influence of the church towards a new sense of itself; and in England, Irish culture has a fashionable ascendency (Angela's Ashes, Father Ted) as indeed it always has had. Stuffed like a barmbrack (fruitcake to you English) with quotations from Heaney, MacNeice, the Pogues and Paul Muldoon, it will be intensely personal, lively rather than gloomy, full of literary and historical relish, and a completely glorious read.

The Falling Angels

Biographies & Memoirs

Flamingo

From dust jacket notes: "Illustrated with 19 full-color photographs, 22 black-and-white photographs, and 2 maps...Operation Gwamba began when ISPA (the International Society for the Protection of Animals) learned that thousands of forest creatures were trapped by the spreading artificial lake behind the new Afobaka Dam in Surinam - formerly Dutch Guiana. To Surinam, ISPA sent John Walsh, a young man trained in rescue techniques by the Massachusetts SPCA. what followed was one of this century's most extraordinary true adventures of man and animal....Time Is Short and the Water Rises, is John Walsh's own vivid story of his adventures written with Robert Gannon. It is the story of Walsh's first capture, a half-starved three-fingered sloth who, when released, fled in slow motion panic up the nearest tree...of a pygmy anteater whose unaccountable hostility was explained when, the night of its rescue, it gave birth to 'a single, thimble-size, hairless, big-nosed replica' of itself...of the anaconda which initiated a hair-raising wrestling match. But, above all it is an amazing adventure tale about the nick-of-time rescue of 10,000 helpless creatures - armadillos, tortoises, sloths, anteaters, opossums, giant snakes, kinkajous, tapirs, ocelots, and dozens of other species...."

Time Is Short and the Water Rises, Operation Gwamba: The Story of the Rescue of 10,000 Animals from Certain Death in a South American Rain Forest

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

E.P.Dutton

This book seeks to offer to managers practical help by identifying the most likely problems he or she faces and offering answers to them. It is not a manual of management theory. It espouses no single system or philosophy. It accepts that there are some problems to which no solutions can be found. It draws on several sources of business wisdom: the pronouncements of transatlantic management writers; pieces of advice gleaned from experienced businessmen around the world; specific answers to questions from consultants in specific fields, from finance to feminism; and several random incidents of lateral thinking and straight talking from colleagues and friends.

The Manager's Problem Solver: Practical Solutions to Managers' Questions

Business & Money

Business Culture

Time Warner Paperbacks*

Instructor's Manual to Accompany Severe and Hazardous Weather : An Introduction to High Impact Meterology

Donna Charlevoix

Bob Rauber

Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

Book by RAUBER ROBERT, WALSH JOHN, CHARLEVOIX DONNA

SEVERE AND HAZARDOUS WEATHER: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIGH IMPACT METEOROLOGY

Robert Rauber

Earth Sciences

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Bob Rauber, John Walsh, Donna Charlevoix

Severe and Hazardous Weather: An Introduction to High Impact Meteorology

Nanny Mango

TE PAPA PRESS WELLINGTON NZ

Master Brokers; Interviews with Top Futures Brokers

Queering Language Revitalisation: Navigating Identity and Inclusion among Queer Speakers of Minority Languages

Samuel Parker

Michael Hornsby

Eva J. Daussà

Renée Pera­Ros

Cambridge University Press

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