This vivid work, first published by UNC Press in 1954, reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as one of the best Confederate cavalry leaders — and certainly the most colorful.Born in Lexington, Kentucky, but drawn by the promise of the growing West, Shelby became one of the richest men in Missouri. Siding with the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized his Iron Brigade of cavalry — whose ranks included Frank and Jesse James — taught his men a slashing frontier sty...

Behold, the Meat Tree! This painless method of meat production seemed to herald the end of animal –and human- cruelty. At least that's what its creator, the long dead Solomon Rand, had envisioned. From this technology, the new elites have constructed a utopia: a world where anything goes and no one has to pay the price.. or do they? Certainly for the elites, safe in their gated fortresses, everything is ideal ; but outside the gates, things are rather different.Suddenly news appears...

A deeply personal story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse.Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God’s will that he managed to endure. H...

A Polish-American priest spends twenty-three years in Soviet prisons and labor camps during the Cold War in this classic memoir of faith and survival.After ministering in Eastern Europe during World War II, Walter Ciszek, S.J., was arrested by the Russian secret police. Accused of spying, and charged with "agitation with intent to subvert," he was held in Moscow's notorious Lubyanka prison for five years. The Catholic priest was then sentenced without trial to ten m...

Le narrateur, John O’Flaherty, nous fait vivre la transformation intérieure d’un homme qui entreprend une lente ascension vers la lumière. Sa logique inaccoutumée, teintée d’humour et de tendresse pourrait le faire prendre pour un "simple". En effet, ce petit prestidigitateur de village, qui court les routes d’Irlande, a reçu de son père un grand pouvoir : faire disparaître les objets. Mais les faire revenir ?... La vie de John, de sa douce femme Nell, de ses deux chats, Coleridge et Porri...

“. . . a human and historical document of compelling interest.” — The AtlanticPowerful and inspirational, With God in Russia captures the heroic patience, endurance, and religious conviction of a man whose life embodied the Christian ideals that sustained him.While ministering in Eastern Europe during World War II, Polish-American priest Walter Ciszek, S.J., was arrested by the NKVD, the Russian secret pol...

He Leadeth Me is a deeply personal story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse.Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some twenty-three agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. In He Leadeth Me, he relates how it was only through an utter reliance on...

A Fundamental Finding of Irish Success! is a sweeping multi-generational chronicle of courage, resilience, and legacy. Told through the intertwined voices of Dr. James Carneal O'Flaherty and his cousin Patrick David O'Flaherty, this powerful narrative uncovers the extraordinary story of Daniel Cullers O'Flaherty - an Irish immigrant whose life helped shape both his family's destiny and the Irish struggle for independence.

A Republican sniper of the Irish civil war waits on a rooftop, pondering whether he can risk giving away his position by lighting his cigarette. He decides to take the risk, and faces the unexpected consequences. Written while the Irish Civil War was still ongoing, The Sniper was Liam O’Flaherty’s first published work (published 1923 in The New Leader), and went on to become his most famous.

This book focuses on the impact of social stigma on adolescents who are at high risk of teen pregnancy. It describes and discusses personal and social factors that predispose them to becoming pregnant and having babies; factors that may subsequently protect or more often, compromise outcomes for both parents and children. The authors, who represent a range of social roles and perspectives, describe the pathways from stigma and its unfounded beliefs about disadvantaged adolescents, to the w...