Authors starting with O from Gulls Nest Books

Nova Science Publishers, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. An excerpted and indexed version of US General Accounting Office Report GAO-08-351, dated February 2008, sets out challenges that have hampered Western efforts to stabilize the east African country and provide humanitarian and development assistance. It also shows that US strategic planning for Somalia is incomplete, and recommends executive action with hints for what qualities a good strategy might exhibit. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portlan... more information

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World Health Organization, 2004. New. CD-ROM; not a bound book. ... more information

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The Collins Press, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. O'Sullivan has worked with BirdWatch Ireland for 15 years and is the former editor of the Irish Bird Report; Wilson is an independent wildlife writer and broadcaster, filmmaker and tour leader, and a former chair of BirdWatch Ireland. They present a general introduction to the 56 birds most often seen in urban and suburban Irish gardens, written for people who enjoy garden birds but have little knowledge about them. Each profile includes identifi... more information

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Scarecrow Pr., 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. O'Brien (formerly, theological bibliography and research, United Theological Seminary) compiles and annotates listings of "published works and selected dissertations dealing with the various means and technologies used by clergy, churches, denominations, benevolent associations, printers, publishing houses, educational institutions, and related individuals or groups in their efforts to disseminate news, knowledge, and information about religious... more information

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U. of British Columbia Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. A team of Canadian social scientists conducted a study of workers based on what workers say, not politicians or government workers. They find that while the concept of social cohesion offers workers an opportunity to raise some significant issues, its actual practice often operates to their detriment. Social cohesion can be worker friendly in the context of renewed solidarity between workers, they explain, but otherwise is likely to remain... more information

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Marcel Dekker, 2002. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Explains the functions of chemokines, chemokine receptors and human genetic variability, and how they may lead to new therapeutic options for treating HIV-1 infection. Some chemokine receptors act as HIV-1 coreceptors, which allow the virus to enter lymphocytes, macrophages, and other target cells in consort with the CD4 protein. In addition to therapies that may inhibit chemokine receptor expression, the 12 contributions in this volume explore the role ... more information

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Four Courts Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The morale of An Garda Síochána, the new Irish national police force plummeted steeply during the early turbulent years of independence after 1922 explains, O'Brien (history, U. of Ulster), but the effort and sacrifice of police were not recognized until Walter Scott, born in Canada to Scottish parents, endowed in perpetuity a gold medal to be awarded for bravery. Having become wealthy through business, he had endowed similar medals... more information

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Dunedin Academic Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Education scholars O'Brien, Daniel Murphy (both U. of Edinburgh) and Janet Draper (Hong Kong Baptist U.) have revised the 2003 first edition to reflect the shift of emphasis in Scotland as well as elsewhere in Britain from school management to school leadership. They explore the thinking around the two issues, and the implications for the practice and development of leaders in school. They also link school leadership to research on leadershi... more information

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Kogan Page, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. O'Brien, who directs an international purchasing consulting firm and is a training provider, outlines the process of implementing purchasing category management so that executives and practitioners can apply it in line with a company's overall business strategy. He draws from his own experiences in purchasing and goes over the principles of category management and each stage of the process, from initiation to improvement, and the tools, techniques, ... more information

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Four Courts Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. O'Brien (media history, School of Communications, Dublin City U.) tells the story of the Irish Times, from its founding in 1859 as the voice of the southern unionism movement to its current status as the country's respected newspaper of choice. The author describes many of the paper's more controversial topics and stories and its sometimes idiosyncratic editors. Research for the book was based on personal papers, memoirs, archives, and th... more information

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U. of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Born in 1922, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, and translator O'Brien recalls not only her own life, but that of her parents and grandparents as well in a personal account of the entire 20th century in Ireland. This is not a textbook history, she warns; she has already done that, along with Conor Cruise O'Brien in Ireland: A Concise History. Still, she has tried to purge her memories of any conscious fictionalizing. (©2005 Book ... more information

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Syracuse U. Press, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. O'Brien surveys the poetic representation of what she calls the gray, infamously inhospitable slab of bog lake in County Donegal, Ireland from the 17th century through the 20th. (©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Anecdotal evidence about the health benefits of red wine have been bouncing around for some decades now, but here biochemists, microbiologists, and other researchers get down to the fundamental science. They revise the principal strategies for characterizing red wines by using compositional profiles of biogenic amines as a source of information, and emphasizing toxicological and organoleptic repercussions associated with the presence of these n... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Not surprisingly, many interests have weighed in on the largest expenditure of US public money since World War II. Here are 30 public-domain documents that have been gathered, reformatted, selectively edited, and indexed to provide a single-volume reference to many views presented by and to various US government entities. Among the documents are the Treasury Department's Financial Stability Plan, testimony before Congress by many bank repre... more information

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Sheed & Ward, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The sexual abuse scandal has made many American Catholics notice their bishop for the first and ask who the guy is and how he got there. A past president of the American Catholic Historical Association, O'Callaghan (emeritus history, Fordham U.) says that for the first millennium of Christianity, bishops were elected by the clergy and people of the diocese, but they are now appointed by Rome without any significant consultation with the people the... more information

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New Island, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Irish people in politics, arts, journalism, sports, academia, and other realms ponder the impact of the 1948 Declaration on the people and government of Ireland, and the Irish response to it and violations of it over the past six decades. Perhaps best known of the 30 are Niall Crowley, Theo Dorgan Diarmuid Martin, Emily O'Reilly and Seán Óg ÓhAilpín. Derek Speirs contributes a photo essay. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portlan... more information

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Lexington Books, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Jeffrey O'Connell (law, U. of Virginia) and Thomas E. O'Connell (former president of Bellevue Community College, Washington) find a great number of similarities between the friendship of Samuel Johnson with the much younger James Boswell and that of Oliver Wendell Holmes with young Harold Laski, which began 150 years later. The authors reflect in detail on Boswell's journals and biography of his mentor and on the correspondence between Holm... more information

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Four Courts Press, 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The Irish College at Lisbon was founded in the late-16th century by Portuguese nobleman and exiled Irish Jesuits, as a seminary for the education of Irish secular priests and clerical students. Connell recounts the 200-year history of the institution, the Irish Dominican community, and the laymen and women who lived and died in Portugal. Coverage includes the foundation, history, and administration of the college; the bishops and students; and earthq... more information

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State U. of New York Pr., 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Taking sexual orientation as a case study but acknowledging applications in other categories such as race and age, O'Connell (philosophy, Albertus Magnus College) investigates professions of identity in a way that does justice to the fears of those who recognize the very real possibility that adopting such labels would oppress, marginalize, and silence them. He enlists theories of contemporary thinkers. (©2001 Book News, Inc., Portlan... more information

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Editions Rodopi, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Because grief is so complex and sensitive, a narrow approach runs the risk of alienating the grieving person. The ideas in this book are expressed in a dialogue among three characters--a young man who has lost his mother, and the two friends who try to comfort him. Starting from the familiar consolation, She’s no longer suffering, and the grieving person's resentment toward the expression, the three friends articulate the value of life and per... more information

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