Böcker av John O'Brien

Stories of restlessness, disruption, conflagrations, faraday tents, myth-makers, bubble-worlds, local nomads, transformation, resilience and the power of the exponential. The VISIONS 2100 Project was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015. In the first instalment, Stories from your Future, the 80 contributors told of their hopes and fears for the long term. This took away the practicalities of today and considered what they really wanted. The stories were challenging, amazing and sometimes heart-warming. But 'vision without action is merely a dream' so the hard work of action must accelerate. The 82 contributors to 'Stories from 2030' work on identifying risks, harnessing finance, developing or deploying solutions and driving government action. They are the people that are driving the critical actions of this decade. In their stories, they address climate justice, collaboration across countries, companies and communities, adaptation of cities and economies, of ecosystems and biodiversity, of health and wellbeing. They tell what you can do to help. Contributors are from business, innovation, finance, journalism, politics, storytelling and the environment. Many are unsung heroes delivering immeasurable progress for world. Some have a bigger stage, such as Connie Hedegaard, Tony Juniper, Sir David King FRS, David Lammy MP, Katharine Hayhoe, Hunter Lovins, Jules Kortenhorst, Achim Steiner, Sharan Burrow and Bill McKibben. Read their stories as they report back from 2030 and decide on the part you will play this decade. It is time to stir!

Analytical Psychology of Football provides for youth trainers, accessible, scientifically based tools and techniques to develop resilence and sustain motivation in grass roots and elite footballers.

Harness the opportunities for marketing in the age of purpose and learn why it's so important to be a 'truth teller' by creating authentic communication campaigns, generating honest content and avoiding accusations of 'purpose washing'.

"Around the Boree Log and Other Verses" is a wonderful collection of poems by Australian Poet Patrick Hartigan. This work celebrates the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk that the author ministered when he was a peripatetic curate to the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera. Patrick Joseph Hartigan (1878 - 1952) was an Australian Poet and pastor. He was most famous for his poems of the Australian bush, which were an instant success and enjoyed popularity as far abroad as Ireland and the United States. Contents include: "Around the Boree Log", "Calling to Me", "The Little Irish Monster", "One by One", "Ten Little Steps and Stairs", "The Trimmin's on the Rosary", "The Birds Will Sing Again", "The Old Bush School", "Six Brown Boxer hats", "The Libel", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

This work, first published in 1879, is an informative look into the ceremonies of the Mass in both the Eastern and Western Churches. Included are historical pieces about parts of the Mass as well as how the liturgy developed over time. Also included are fascinating pieces of information about now defunct customs and numerous references to scholarly and historic works.

In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the center of their lives. Around the Boree Log is verse that is simple and sincere and lit with a kindly understanding of the lives it chronicles.

Philip Landon, Introduction/ Markku Eskelinen, From Nonstop, or Missing in Fiction: A Synoptic Margin to a Trilogy/Mariaana Jantti, From Amorfiaana/Kari Kontio, From The Last of His Kind/Leena Krohn, Lucilia illustris/Kirsti Paltto, From Run Safely, My Flock/ Petter Sairanen, From Electric Lighting/ Hans Selo, From Cloudcomplexion/ Raija Siekkinen, The Black Sun/Lars Sund, From Colorado Avenue/Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa, From The Sun, My Father

"The Review of Contemporary Fiction "is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.

The Review of Contemporary Fiction was founded in 1981 to promote a vision of literary culturethat is not limited to the immediately popular, and to ensure that important world writers outside popular attention continue to be written about and discussed.

What is the best Dalkey Archive fiction that never got the attention it deserves? In this issue of the Review we introduce a new format and also go out on a limb to make the claim that here is the fiction that reviewers missed the boat on. Since Dalkey has the quixotic mission of keeping in print all the fiction it publishes, we want to give these books another chance, and we are staking our reputation on these selections being among the best fiction of the past thirty or so years. The first of what will become a regular feature of the Review, The Dalkey Archive Annual I includes work by authors as diverse as Wallace Markfield, Piotr Szewc, Osman Lins, Deborah Levy, Gert Jonke, Vedrana Rudan, Felipe Alfau, Gilbert Sorrentino, Mati Unit, Aidan Higgins, and many others. Future numbers of the Annual will feature work from forthcoming Dalkey Archive titles, introducing readers of the Review to the best new writing from around the world.

This issue publishes short stories by Cuba's most exciting contemporary writers, providing readers a unique opportunity to view both the life and art of a culture that has been shut off for almost half a century.

From The Mirror in the Well, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom From Prairie Style, by C.S. Giscombe From Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine, by Stanley Crawford From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Burton Pike) From Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique, by Gert Jonke (translated by Jean M. Snook) From The One Marvelous Thing, by Rikki Ducornet From The Bathroom, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (translated by Nancy Amphoux & Paul De Angelis) From Talking Out of School, by Kass Fleisher From A Nest of Ninnies, by John Ashbery & James Schuyler From Pigeon Post, by Dumitru Tsepeneag (translated by Jane Kuntz) From Dust, by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (translated by Evgeny Pavlov) From Anonymous Celebrity, by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão (translated by Nelson H. Vieira) From Hoppla! 1 2 3, by Gérard Gavarry (translated by Jane Kuntz) From News from the Empire, by Fernando del Paso (translated by Alfonso Gonzalez & Stella Clark) From Encounters with Samuel Beckett, by Charles Juliet (translated by Axel Nesme & Tracy Cooke) From Western, by Christine Montalbetti (translated by Betsy Wing) From Jerusalem, by Gonçalo M. Tavares (translated by Anna Kushner)