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Cormac McCarthy's House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls

Cormac McCarthy's House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls

Peter Josyph

In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it is achieved, and how it is ...
In Search of the Missing: Working with Search and Rescue Dogs

In Search of the Missing: Working with Search and Rescue Dogs

Mick McCarthy

The captivating story of a dog handler and his rescue dogs, who save lives on raging seas, in thick woodland, and on treacherous mountains- often in the dead of night.
Bahama Burnout: A Mick Sever Mystery

Bahama Burnout: A Mick Sever Mystery

Don Bruns

Sent to get the inside story on the opening of the new Highland Studio, Mick finds this is hardly the Phoenix-rising-out-of-the-ashes story he expected.
Joseph R. McCarthy

Joseph R. McCarthy

Allen J. Matusow

Mass Movement In 1967 Michael Paul Rogin published an important book entitled The Intellectuals and McCarthy. Rogin used quantitative techniques to attack those pluralists (or New Conservatives) who contended that McCarthy's support in ...
Ennis in Old Photographs

Ennis in Old Photographs

Sean Spellissy

In 1959 the club had a social in The Queen's Hotel where this photograph was taken. The two men standing, from left to right, are Ralphie Burns and Josie Cronin, while Nancy Guinnane, Patsy McCarthy, Patsy McCarthy and Ciss McCarthy ...
Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses

Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses

Mick Wall

And this is where Mick Wall first met them, and became part of their inner circle, before famously being denounced by name by Axl Rose in the song 'Get in the Ring'. But this book isn't about settling old scores.
The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel

The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel

Colm Toibin

She watched Mick Joyce going into the garden, finding Manus and lifting him on his shoulders, making him laugh and shout; Cathal and his friend followed them as they moved around the garden. She remembered that each time Mick had ...
AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be

AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be

Mick Wall

Mick Wall penetrates the closed world of Aussie rock legends AC/DC. AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club.
Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography

Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography

Mick Wall

Mick Wall moves on from Led Zeppelin to produce a definitive doorstop on Metallica.
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

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In District and Circle, Heaney remembers the dead Mick Joyce ('Out of your element'; 'To Mick Joyce in Heaven', DC 8) as he remembered the casualty of the Troubles who would not honour the tribal demarcations, but in this recent memory ...
Cormac McCarthy: A Literary Companion

Cormac McCarthy: A Literary Companion

Erik Hage

"Intended for both the scholar and lay reader of McCarthy's works.
On the greens of Massachusetts: the story of the Women's ...

On the greens of Massachusetts: the story of the Women's ...

Moira McCarthy

the story of the Women's Golf Association of Massachusetts, 1900-2000 Moira McCarthy, Dawn Ciardi, Kathleen Ring James ... 21: Glenna Collett, USGA; 18: Fashion of the Day - Scituate Country Club, Moira McCarthy Collection World War II.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

Derek B. Scott

103–24); Roy Orbison: seePeter Lehman, Roy Orbison:The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity (Philadelphia, 2003); Mick Jagger: see Sheila Whiteley, 'Little Red Rooster v.The HonkyTonk Woman: Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style ...
Agri-Food Quality II: Quality Management of Fruit and Vegetables

Agri-Food Quality II: Quality Management of Fruit and Vegetables

M Hagg

P. Chen, M. J. McCarthy, and R. Kauten,Trans. ASAE, 1989 32, 1747. P. Chen, M. J. McCarthy, R. Kauten, Y. Sarig, and S. Han, J. of Ag. Engng. Res., 1993, 55, 177. B. Zion, P. Chen, and M. J. McCarthy, J. Sci Food Agric, 1995, 67,423. B. Zion ...
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Tom McCarthy

One of the most brilliant books to have hit the shelves this year' Sunday Telegraph 'McCarthy is fast revealing himself as a master craftsman who is steering the contemporary novel towards exciting territories' Observer
Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy

Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy

Peter Josyph

In Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, Peter Josyph considers, at length, the author's two masterworks Blood Meridian and Suttree, as well as the novel and film of All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's play The Stonemason, and his film The ...
Remainder

Remainder

Tom McCarthy

A prize-winning modern classic by the Man Booker shortlisted author Tom McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

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Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Cormac McCarthy.
The Everything Guide to Raising Adolescent Girls: An ...

The Everything Guide to Raising Adolescent Girls: An ...

Moira McCarthy

An Essential Guide to Bringing Up Happy, Healthy Girls in Today's World Moira McCarthy. THE GUIDE TO RAISING ADOLESCENT GIRLS Reassuring advice to help you and your daughter navigate these turbulent years Moira McCarthy with ...
Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of ...

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of ...

Arthur Herman

A re-interpretation of one of the most hated figures in American history shows that many of McCarthy's general suspicions about security risks and communist infiltration did have a basis in truth.
Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period

Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period

Dianne C. Luce

In Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy s early works crafted during his Tennessee period from 1959 to 1979 to demonstrate how McCarthy integrates literary realism with the ...
Reading Cormac McCarthy

Reading Cormac McCarthy

Willard P. Greenwood

Explores Cormac McCarthy's novels and relates them to current events and popular culture for students and book club members.
Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy

Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy

Tom Wicker

An examination of Joseph McCarthy's ambition and record attempts to discover the motivations behind his demagoguery as the anti-Communist cause already had been embraced by the Republican Party as a whole, a cause that turned into a flood. ...
C. Tom McCarthy

C. Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy

Cfollows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who – as his name suggests – surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.
Tintin And The Secret Of Literature

Tintin And The Secret Of Literature

Tom McCarthy

McCarthy shows how the themes this story generates - expulsion from home, violation of the sacred, the host-guest relationship turned sour and anxieties around questions of forgery and fakeness - are the same that have fuelled and troubled ...
Joe McCarthy: Architect of the Yankee Dynasty

Joe McCarthy: Architect of the Yankee Dynasty

Alan H. Levy

Yet a perusal of the Internet and a careful check of the catalogues of the Library of Congress revealed for me a surprising fact—there has never been a biography of Joseph Vincent McCarthy, arguably the greatest manager in the history of ...
The Stones of Florence

The Stones of Florence

Mary McCarthy

Her most cherished sights and experiences color this timeless portrait of a city that is as famous as it is alluring. “Mary McCarthy...may be writing the most stimulating guidebooks of our time.”—Lincoln Kirstein, The Nation “Miss ...
The Crossing

The Crossing

Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain.
Paris Light

Paris Light

Moira McCarthy

For Moira McCarthy, this is a rare opportunity to nurture her creativity amidst a Paris which never ceases to provoke or inspire.

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