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

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*

Book by RAUBER ROBERT, WALSH JOHN, CHARLEVOIX DONNA

SEVERE AND HAZARDOUS WEATHER: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIGH IMPACT METEOROLOGY

Science & Math

Robert Rauber

Donna Charlevoix

Earth Sciences

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Bob Rauber, John Walsh, Donna Charlevoix

Severe and Hazardous Weather: An Introduction to High Impact Meteorology

Bob Rauber

Nanny Mango

TE PAPA PRESS WELLINGTON NZ

Master Brokers; Interviews with Top Futures Brokers

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

Nature & Ecology

E.P.Dutton

The host of the America's Most Wanted, John Walsh tells for the first time the full story of the 1981 abduction and murder of his six-year-old son, Adam. This is the heartbreaking chronicle of John Walsh's transformation from grieving father to full-time activist -- and the infuriating conspiracy of events that have kept America's No. 1 crime-fighter from obtaining justice and closure for himself and his family. From the day Adam disappeared from a mall in Hollywood, Florida, John Walsh faced a local police department better equipped to track stolen cars than missing children -- and a criminal justice system that would work against him in unimaginable ways. Outraged but determined, he ultimately enlarged the search for Adam's killer into an exhaustive battle on behalf of all missing and abused children, beginning with his efforts to put missing children's faces on milk cartons. Today, John Walsh continues the fight for legislative change and public awareness, driven by his own personal tragedy. Tears of Rage is the story of a true American hero: a man who challenged the system in the name of his son.

Tears of Rage

Arts & Literature

GALLERY BOOKS

The number of billion-dollar disasters attributable to weather and climate is unprecedented. Climate scientists have concluded that there is a detectable influence of climate change on the occurrence and severity of extreme weather events such as heat waves, cold waves, heavy precipitation, and drought.
Students of severe weather in this new century are in a unique position to apply what they have learned immediately to weather events occurring near home, across the country, or around the world.
Severe &amp; Hazardous Weather: An Introduction to High Impact Meteorology provides current, relevant, and scientifically accurate discussions of all types of hazardous weather. The NEW 5th edition of Severe &amp; Hazardous Weather has been updated to reflect new scientific findings as well as recent major weather events, including floods, drought, and heat waves. The discussion of the Coriolis force has undergone a thorough revision to provide a clearer yet rigorous explanation of one of the more challenging concepts in meteorology.
Severe &amp; Hazardous Weather:
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<li>includes weather maps, radar and satellite imagery, and upper air charts to explain and describe all types of hazardous weather events.</li>
<li>features “Check your Understanding” questions after major topic sections which encourage the reader to assess their knowledge of the most recently presented material. “Test your Understanding” questions that provide a thorough review of the contents of each chapter. “Test Your Problem-Solving Skills” sections are for more advanced students.</li>
<li>presents additional material under headings such as “Extreme event,” “Storms and society,” and “Advanced topic.”</li>
<li>features excellent instructor resources: a comprehensive Instructor’s Guide including lesson plans, tips for teaching, and answers to all questions in the book and test bank, as well as online resources including an electronic test bank as well as all figures and tables in PowerPoint format.</li>
<li>the text is supplemented by a workbook of active learning exercises that can be used in class or as homework exercises to help students understand the material in each chapter.</li>
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