Sean Kelly

What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morrison. In a time of uncertainty, the country chose in 2019 to turn to a man with no obvious beliefs, no clear purpose and no famous talents. That we wanted Scott Morrison was the secret we did not know about ourselves. What precisely that secret is forms the subject of this book. In The Game, Sean Kelly gives us a portrait of a man, the shallow political culture that allowed him to succeed and the country that crowned him. Morrison understands – in a way that no other recent politician has – how politics has become a game. He also understands something essential about Australia – something many of us are unwilling to admit, even to ourselves. But there are things Scott Morrison does not understand. This is the story of those failures, too – and the way that, as his prime ministership continues, Morrison’s failure to think about politics as anything other than a game has become a dangerous liability, both to him and to us.

A Portrait of Scott Morrison

The Game

Ted Mann

Byron Preiss

John Jude Palencar

JoEllen Trilling

John Pierard

Overton Loyd

Ben Asen

The Secret

On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation

Becoming Gaia

A musical genre as tough and hard as the Canadian Shield. Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal, which grew out of the hard rock of the 1970s, exploded commercially in the 1980s, and then petered out in the 1990s as grunge took over, only to rise to prominence once again in the new millennium. The road to Canadian musical glory is not lined with the palm trees and top-down convertibles of the Sunset Strip. It is a road slick with black ice, obscured by blizzards, and littered with moose and deer that could cause peril for a cube van thundering down a Canadian highway. Drawing on interviews with original artists such as Helix, Anvil, Coney Hatch, Killer Dwarfs, Harem Scarem, and Honeymoon Suite, as well as prominent journalists, VJs, and industry insiders, we relive their experiences, motivations, and lifestyles as they strove for that most alluring of brass rings – the coveted record deal. It’s a new perspective on the dreams of musicians shooting for an American ideal of success and discovering a uniquely Canadian voice in the process.

Tales from Canada's Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes

Metal on Ice

A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s There may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock ’n’ roll of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s were taken to dizzying heights of neon excess. Attention to songcraft, showmanship, and musical virtuosity (especially in the realm of the electric guitar) were at an all-time high, and radio and MTV were delivering the goods en masse to the corn-fed children of America and beyond. Time hasn’t always been kind to artists of that gold and platinum era, but Don’t Call It Hair Metal analyzes the sonic evolution, musical diversity, and artistic intention of ’80s commercial hard rock through interviews with members of such hard rock luminaries as Twisted Sister, Def Leppard, Poison, Whitesnake, Ratt, Skid Row, Quiet Riot, Guns N’ Roses, Dokken, Mr. Big, and others.

Art in the Excess of ’80s Rock

Don’t Call It Hair Metal

With the threat of global climate change, a looming mass extinction of species, and increasingly complex and volatile geopolitical relations, the entire Earth Community has entered a most critical phase of what the author describes as the "Planetary Era." This era began some five hundred years ago with the conquest of the Americas and the Copernican revolution in cosmology, but it is just now becoming a defining feature of human consciousness on a global scale. How did the Planetary Era come about, and why was it initiated in the European West? What elements in the evolution of the Western worldview might contribute to the actualization of a sustainable planetary culture? Drawing from a wide range of panoptic, or "big-picture," thinkers--from Hegel, Teilhard, Jaspers, and Campbell, to Ken Wilber, Richard Tarnas, and Edgar Morin, among others--the author answers such questions and presents his own synthetic theory of the evolution of consciousness, leading to the birth and transformation of the Planetary Era. Beginning with a consideration of the fundamental pattern of world history, Sean Kelly reveals the role of a "Great Code" and the turning of a tightening spiral in the evolution of the past two millennia of Western--and increasingly, planetary--consciousness. Along with a vision of the path that has lead to our vexed and complex present, the author offers reason to hope that we are on the threshold of a new countercultural resurgence--a new planetary wisdom culture--that could signal the homecoming for which our troubled world so desperately longs.

The Birth & Transformation of the Planetary Era

Coming Home

Sean M. Kelly

Donald Jay Rothberg

A passionate conversation among the best minds in transpersonal studies about the ideas of Ken Wilber, the prominent contemporary thinker whose first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, published by Quest in 1977, launched the transpersonal psychology movement. Transpersonal thinkers taking part in this dynamic dialogue combine Eastern and Western spirituality with mainstream fields such as psychology, medicine, physics, and ecology to map the human drive toward Spirit. Contributors include best-selling authors Jack Kornfield (A Path with Heart), Joseph Goldstein (Insight Meditation), Michael Murphy (The Future of the Body), Stanislav Grof (The Holotropic Mind), and Jeanne Achterberg (Rituals of Healing). Wilber's spirited response to each probing assessment of his ideas and the authors' rebuttals give readers ringside seats at an engaging sparring match among intellectual and spiritual superstars.

Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers

Ken Wilber in Dialogue

Steve Thomas

Dave Smith

Ben Searle

The Racing Bike Book

For the first time since he was fourteen, Benjamin Keller is unemployed, relatively happy and ready to pursue his new path as a writer. Ben embarks on an impromptu road trip to Washington to visit his ill father, ready to take advantage of the opportunity and write about his experiences along the way. Ben's impulsive--and quite often irritating--best friend, Taylor, quickly invites himself along, hoping for all the traditional road trip mischief to ensue. Unbeknownst to the traveling companions, a grisly trail of bodies begins to pile up, following them through the Pacific Northwest from Grants Pass to Spokane. "The Drive Home is a dark and occasionally humorous tale fraught with love and lust, violence and heartbreak, foul language and family, that follows two best friends and an unfortunate series of events that will shake them to their very foundation." ~Sean Kelly, Author

A Tale of Bromance and Horror

The Drive Home

Rosemary Rogers

Hilarious and comprehensive, the ultimate guide to the universe of saints—and what each one means. Cross-referenced by birthdays, professions, and ailments, this is a must-have for any true believer with a proper sense of fun. Your name . . . your birthday . . . your nationality . . . your job . . . your hobby, each entitles you to the Papally Prescribed, Perpetual Personal Protection of a Plethora of Powerful Patrons in Paradise. Whatever your problem—social, sexual, or spiritual—or illness—mental or physical, chronic or acute—a Holy Host of Heavenly Helpers is at Hand. And you don’t even have to be Catholic! All you do need to discover the identities of Your Very Own Patron Saints, and to avail yourself of their Guaranteed Supernatural Assistance, is this Blessed Book. • Religiously researched! • Fanatically comprehensive! • Compulsively cross-indexed! • Incredibly credulous!

Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You'll Ever Need

Saints Preserve Us!

Ron Hauge

Collects the nicknames for a variety of people including athletes, musicians, authors, actors, and politicians

Nicknames

Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal. Drawing on interviews with the original artists of the 1980s, this book provides a new perspective on the dreams of musicians shooting for an American ideal of success ... and ultimately discovering a uniquely Canadian voice in the process.

Illustrated with drawings and woodcuts, this collection of one hundred popular and traditional Irish folktales includes classics by authors including James Stephens, Jeremy Curtin, and Lady Wilde

Irish Folk & Fairy Tales

Edward Lucie-Smith

Exhibition "The Self-Portrait: a Modern View" organised by Artsite Gallery, Bath International Festival, 1987.

A Modern View

The Self Portrait

A hilarious illustrated guidebook for all Irish or would-be Irish describes everything from "How to Have an Irish Name" and "How to Talk, Look, and Act Irish" to a "Brief History of Irish-American Sex" to "How to Eat and Drink Irish." Original. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

(Even If You Already Are)

How to Be Irish

This unique and delightful two-in-one book combines a fun, rhyming storythat helps children learn about the dentist and dental care through two cats, Cuddles and Bob. Cuddles knows how to properly care for her teeth. However, Bob doesn't do that great a job. When Bob finds out that the sugar bugs have made a hole to fill, he is brave and gets it fixed, earninghimself a new toothbrush and a prize. After enjoying the fun story of Cuddles and Bob, parents will find a wealth of useful information on teeth and dental care to keep their children happy, healthy, and hopefully cavity-free. The story and the dental information are both provided by Sean Kelly, a

Cuddles the Cat Goes to the Dentist

The life of Sean Kelly including his 3 year term as President of the GAA, including the opening of Croke Park to rugby and soccer. "

Rule 42 and All That

A gentle parody of the best-selling children's book, Goodnight Moon pokes fun at the trappings of modern babyhood, including bedroom intercoms, fireproof clothing, Walkmans, and au pairs. Original.

Boom Baby Moon

Data Warehousing in Action provides the tools to harness data and transform it into useful customized bytes of information. This book is a fully comprehensive account of how to proceed with the data warehouse project in a clear step-by-step fashion. It reviews the marketplace, the technology, the design issues, and the management issues. It includes real company experiences from research carried out in 30 countries. It focuses on the topics needed to design and implement a meaningful data warehousing architecture including: Identifying industrial applications for data warehouses; Frameworks for building a data warehouse; Choosing the right architecture and technologies; Outline methodologies for managing the project; and future proofing the design.· Planning the Data Warehouse· Integrating the Data--The Data Warehouse Infrastructure· Exploiting the Data--The Data Warehouse Applications· Looking to the Future--Next Generation Data Warehouse

Data Warehousing In Action

A guide to the universe of saints, cross-referenced by birthdays, professions, and ailments, features information on the saints of hemorrhoids, dog bites, public relations, and others. Original. 30,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

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