John O'Brien

Describes the love affair between a prostitute and an alcoholic gambler who has come to Las Vegas to drink himself to death

Leaving Las Vegas

Lisa Peebles

"Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." -Tom Barbash, New York Times bestselling author of The Dakota Winters Criminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to help unearth the truth and exonerate Gary Thibodeau, the man convicted in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Heidi Allen. Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant exposes the underbelly of a system built more for finality than justice. It's the true story of Peebles' pursuit of new evidence against three new suspects and her discovery that Heidi had lived a double life: convenience store cashier and undercover informant. The sheriff's office hid the truth after her death as the real killers roamed free. Peebles became a de facto prosecutor to prove their guilt and Gary's innocence. As Heidi's family stood by the sheriff, her remains were likely secreted right under their noses - probably inside a scrapped van and shipped to a car shredder in Canada.

Justice and a Teen Informant

Scrapped

A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American teenagers and good Muslims This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. Drawing on three and a half years of intensive fieldwork in and around a large urban mosque, John O’Brien offers a compelling portrait of typical Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues—girlfriends, school, parents, being cool—yet who are also expected to be good, practicing Muslims who don’t date before marriage, who avoid vulgar popular culture, and who never miss their prayers. Many Americans unfamiliar with Islam or Muslims see young men like these as potential ISIS recruits. But neither militant Islamism nor Islamophobia is the main concern of these boys, who are focused instead on juggling the competing cultural demands that frame their everyday lives. O’Brien illuminates how they work together to manage their “culturally contested lives” through subtle and innovative strategies—such as listening to profane hip-hop music in acceptably “Islamic” ways, professing individualism to cast their participation in communal religious obligations as more acceptably American, dating young Muslim women in ambiguous ways that intentionally complicate adjudications of Islamic permissibility, and presenting a “low-key Islam” in public in order to project a Muslim identity without drawing unwanted attention. Closely following these boys as they move through their teen years together, Keeping It Halal sheds light on their strategic efforts to manage their day-to-day cultural dilemmas as they devise novel and dynamic modes of Muslim American identity in a new and changing America.

The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys

Keeping It Halal

Andrew Cave

In a world where volatility is the new norm and change is a constant, the individuals and organisations that are flourishing are those with a clear sense of purpose based on authentic ethical values. Purpose is the secret ingredient - with purpose you have the key to exceptional performance, greater wellbeing and clarity in a VUCA world. But how do you find such purpose and ensure it propels your business forward? The Power of Purpose shares a simple 6-step framework you too can identify, clarify and shape your business purpose. You’ll gain a competitive advantage and boost your bottom line, but the benefits are not just commercial – you’ll also inspire a new generation of employees, foster innovation, simplify decisions and build customer and brand loyalty. Based on qualitative interviews with well-established and emerging leaders on how they bring ethical purpose in business to life, as well as sharing the results from a questionnaire with purpose-led businesses you’ll find a step-by-step approach for applying purpose to simplify complexity, harness a purpose-powered workforce and create customer loyalty. How can purpose provide clarity? How can it accelerate success? How can it build a long term sustainable business? The Power of Purpose is your secret ingredient.

Inspire teams, engage customers, transform business

The Power of Purpose

New French Fiction

Philip Terry

The Book of Bachelors by Philip Terry

The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Spring 1999)

Joshua Cohen

Featuring essays and tributes by Jonathan Lethem, Marjorie Perloff,and Gerald Howard among others, this issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction focuses on the life and work of Gilbert Sorrentino, with a special focus on his most popular novel, the endlessly fascinating, frustrating, and hilarious Mulligan Stew.

The Failure Issue

Charles Hickey

Todd Lighty

"The true story of a murderous mother and five innocent victims." - from front cover.

The True Story of a Murderous Mother and Five Innocent Victims

Goodbye, My Little Ones

Joe McKinney

Mark Tufo

Mike Evans

Heath Stallcup

Armand Rosamilia

Jack Wallen

Shawn Chesser

Jay Wilburn

Brent Abell

Eric A. Shelman

What happens when you give eleven of the best modern-day apocalyptic writers the same idea for a story and allow their twisted imaginations to go wild? Middletown Apocalypse... that's what. Set in America's heartland, these stories begin with chemistry student Charlie Noble and wind their way through the infected landscape of middletown America. Abel, Chesser, Evans, McKinney, O'Brien, Rosamilia, Shelman, Stallcup, Tufo, Wallen, Wilburn. Are you ready this?

Middletown Apocalypse

New issue featuring work, writings, interviews and,more of two of the most contemporary and important,writers today.

Raymond Queneau/Carole Maso, Vol. 17, No. 3

Kevin Hefferan

Minerals and rocks form the foundation of geologic studies. This new textbook has been written to address the needs of students at the increasing number of universities that have compressed separate mineralogy and petrology courses into a one- or two-semester Earth materials course. Key features of this book include: equal coverage of mineralogy, sedimentary petrology, igneous petrology and metamorphic petrology; copious field examples and regional relationships with graphics that illustrate the concepts discussed; numerous case studies to show the uses of earth materials as resources and their fundamental role in our lives and the global economy, and their relation to natural and human-induced hazards; the integration of earth materials into a cohesive process-based earth systems framework; two color thoughout with 48 pages of four color. Readership: students taking an earth materials, or combined mineralogy and petrology course in an earth science degree program. It will also be useful for environmental scientists, engineering geologists, and physical geographers who need to learn about minerals, rocks, soil and water in a comprehensive framework. A companion website for this book is available at: www.wiley.com/go/hefferan/earthmaterials.

Earth Materials

John O'Brien's deeply evocative book re- veals a place and a way of life--and the lives of an estranged father and son whose differences rest, ironically, in their own powerful bonds to Appalachia. John O'Brien was born in Philadelphia, his father having left his beloved home in the West Virginia mountains after an impoverished childhood made all the more painful by family tragedy. Struggling to escape a father defeated by disappointment, displacement, and poverty, John too left home. When John decided to settle near his father's birthplace in West Virginia, he hoped to comprehend the elder O'Brien's attachment to the land, as well as the disabling fatalism he had carried north. What he discovered is hardly the mythic Appalachia most Americans imagine, but a world of extravagant beauty--lush with green mountains, deep forests, ice-cold trout streams, and small hill farms. The people we meet who inhabit this land are for the most part unpretentious, working class, straightforward, open, commonsensical, and easygoing. They tend to look back more than most Americans do, defining themselves by how they fit into an extended family that includes their ancestors. We are in a mountain culture that feels old and deeply rooted, that follows a traditional way of life. It is a world the author would finally love and call his own. We also come face-to-face with provincialism, intolerance, and--perhaps Appalachia's defining legacy--the horrors of the coalfields and chemical plants. We see clearly what rapacious greed and exploitation have done for generations to much of the landscape and to the lives of the people. And we learn of the stream of reformers and missionaries, ever readyto show Appalachia the way, whose real contributions tend to be negligible or absurd. In this clear-eyed, beautifully rendered telling of his story and his father's, John O'Brien gives us, as well, the history and true heart of Appalachia.

At Home in the Heart of Appalachia

Arthur M. Saltzman, "Where Words Dwell Adored: An Introduction to William Gass"/Arthur M. Saltzman, "Language and Conscience: An Interview with William Gass"/William H. Gass, "Simplicities"/William H. Gass, "Sweets"/Arthur M. Saltzman, "William H. Gass: Selected Correspondence"/Philip Stevick, "William Gass and the Real World"/Lucy Wilson, "Alternatives to Transcendence in William Gass's Short Fiction"/Kevin J. H. Dettmar, "'yung and easily freudened': William Gass's The Pedersen Kid'"/Melanie Eckford-Prossor, "Layered Apparitions: Philosophy and 'The Pedersen Kid'"/Richard J. Schneider, "Rejecting the Stone: William Gass and Emersonian Transcendence"/Reginald Dyck, "William Gass: A 'Purified Modernist' in a Postmodern World"/Ilan Stavans, "Kafka, Cortazar, Gass"/Heide Ziegler, "On Translating 'The Sunday Drive'"/Arthur M. Saltzman, "A William H. Gass Checklist"/Ilan Stavans, "Good-Bye to M. P."/Jorgelina Corbatta, "Brief Encounter: An Interview with Manuel Puig"/Manuel Puig, "Vivaldi: A Screenplay"/Guillermo Cabrera Infante, "In a Pampas of Dreams"/Juan Goytisolo, "On Being Morally Correct"/Suzanne Jill Levine, "Manuel Puig Exits Laughing"/Pamela Bacarisse, "Manuel Puig and the Uses of Culture"/Shari A. Zimmerman, "Manuel Puig and the Critique of Authority"/Lucille Kerr, "In the Presence of the Author"/Roberto Echavarren, "Manuel Puig: Contra Borges"/Brian Conniff, "The Learned Executioner and the Chick from Suburbia: Kiss of the Spider Woman as Prison Literature"/Jorgelina Corbatta, "A Glimpse of the Fantastic in Puig"/Steven DuPouy, "Brazilian Nights, Argentine Voices: Tropical Night Falling"/Elias Miguel Munoz, "Show and Tell: Notes on Puig's Theater"/Books by Manuel Puig/Paul West, "Deep-Sixed into the Atlantic"

Willaim H. Gass - Manuel Puig

Mike Green

Henry Moore

Dan Duncan

Developed in response to the question "I love ABCD (Asset Based Community Development); what do I do Monday Morning?"--and based on Mike Green & Henry Moore's highly regarded work as ABCD organizers, consultants and trainers--these materials support a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work. Enriching each other, the book and the DVD provide clear exposition of ABCD organizing principles and best practices, examples of ABCD organizing in action, learning exercises, worksheets, and reflections from experienced practitioners of ABCD organizing. Main topics include: ABCD Principles & Practice Discovering What People Care About Mobilizing A Community's Assets People & Programs: We Need Both Leading By Stepping Back: The Role Of Governments & Agencies Inclusion: There Is No One We Do Not Need John McKnight's Reflections On ABCD organizing. Lessons from Ashville NC, Marque.e, MI, Laconia, NH, Savannah, GA, Ames, IO.

ABCD in Action

When People Care Enough to Act

Irving Malin

Martin Riker

Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry John O'Brien, PhD

Jeremy M Davies

With the participation of editor and translator David Bellos, the Review's 1993 Georges Perec number is here updated to reflect the state of current Perec studies, and expanded to include a previously unpublished, full-length play written by Perec for German radio, as well as other new texts both by and about Georges Perec.The Review of Contemporary Fiction was founded in 1981 to promote a vision of literary culture that is not limited to the immediately popular, and to ensure that important world writers outside the popular attention continue to be written about and discussed. In 1984, Dalkey Archive Press was launched as an offshoot of the Review, and while the Press quickly grew into a leading publisher of world fiction, poetry, and criticism, the Review has remained the scholarly partner to the literary books, introducing readers to new authors and traditions or revisiting older writers whose works are of lasting value. Over the years, the Review has also published numerous anthologies of new writing from other countries, often of writers who have never appeared in English before.

Georges Perec Issue, Spring 2009

Review of Contemporary Fiction, Volume XXIX, No. 1

David Ames

Edmond Chiu

Ian McKeith

Filling a noticeable gap in the market for a new text solely focused on Dementia with Lewy Bodies, this book discusses cutting-edge topics covering the condition from diagnosis to management, as well as what is known about the neurobiological changes involved. With huge progress having been made over the last decade in terms of the disorder

and Parkinson's Disease Dementia

Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Roman

Break a Leg

The mission at Fort Campbell has changed over the past seventy-five years, and the city has grown and adapted to meet new challenges. It was conceived before Pearl Harbor as the Tennessee-Kentucky Armor Camp and has progressed in recent years to meet changing national security needs and the transformation of the U.S. Army. The fort is home to the army's most elite air assault and airborne units. It is also the largest employer in Tennessee and Kentucky and puts $2.6 billion into the local economy each year. Author and post historian John O'Brien details the historic ride that took Fort Campbell from a "Giant Bachelor City" to a "World-Class Army Home."

A History of Fort Campbell

Earth Materials Earth materials encompass the minerals, rocks, soil and water that constitute our planet and the physical, chemical and biological processes that produce them. Since the expansion of computer technology in the last two decades of the twentieth century, many universities have compressed or eliminated individual course offerings such as mineralogy, optical mineralogy, igneous petrology, sedimentology and metamorphic petrology and replaced them with Earth materials courses. Earth materials courses have become an essential curricular component in the fields of geology, geoscience, Earth science, and many related areas of study. This textbook is designed to address the needs of a one- or two-semester Earth materials course, as well as individuals who want or need an expanded background in minerals, rocks, soils and water resources. Earth Materials, Second Edition, provides: Comprehensive descriptive analysis of Earth materials Color graphics and insightful text in a logical integrated format Field examples and regional relationships with graphics that illustrate concepts discussed Examples of how concepts discussed can be used to address real world issues Contemporary references from current scientific journals related to developments in Earth materials research Summative discussions of how Earth materials are interrelated with other science and non-science fields of study Additional resources, including detailed descriptions of major rock-forming minerals and keys for identifying minerals using macroscopic and/or optical methods, are available online at www.wiley.com/go/hefferan/earthmaterials Earth Materials, Second Edition, is an innovative, visually appealing, informative and readable textbook that addresses the full spectrum of Earth materials.

John O'Brien

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