Set foot in the emergency room of a major university trauma center and follow the work of someone who has spent his professional life in that setting addressing every kind of life crisis: psychosis and suicide, depression and mania, violence and drug addiction, child and elder abuse, sudden illness and injury, death and grief. He has some stories to tell: a man whose methamphetamine use provoked a dangerous paranoid psychosis, a woman imprisoned by a controlling, violent boyfriend, a brill...

Scientists have made wonderful progress in preventing disease in the past two decades. To take one example, the human growth hormone was scarce and beyond the financial reach of most families with a child that needed it. Scientists were able to insert the genes for making it into the milk producing system of cows. Now ten cows can produce enough human growth hormone to meet the world's annual need.Unfortunately, many scientific advances can be misused. This has happened in the area...

In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias—societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence—have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day. While utopias aim at equality, the heroic imperative defends the need for personal and colle...

This book explores the logic and historical origins of a strange taboo that has haunted literary critics since the 1940s, keeping them from referring to the intentions of authors without apology. The taboo was enforced by a seminal article, “The Intentional Fallacy,” and it deepened during the era of poststructuralist theory. Even now, when the vocabulary of “critique” that has dominated the literary field is under sweeping revision, the matter of authorial intention has yet to be reconsid...

A is for Andromeda, our neighbor galaxy. B is for Big Dipper, that's an easy one to see. John Farrell takes kids on a rhyming tour of the night sky, from A to Z, with spectacular full-color photographs and facts about the wonders of space. From distant Andromeda, a galaxy made up of billions of stars, to the constellation of the zodiac, Farrell covers the high points of outer space. How do you find Jupiter or Venus? How does the Moon cause the tides of Earth's shores? How can you find the ...

The purpose behind the writing of this book is twofold; one, is to show that even though some may not believe that there's a God, that personally I do. And I also believe that everything that presently exist on the earth and above the earth, was created by Him. Second, it is my hope that this inspirational book along with its secular content would be a means of enlightening the minds of those who truly need hope in their life. It will also endeavour to show, that apart from God, we as huma...

The Goose Killer is a hauntingly vivid journey through the forgotten corners of America's past, told through the eyes of a boy who became a soldier, a survivor, and a witness to the rise and fall of a young nation.From the filthy alleys of New York's 10th Avenue to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War and the unforgiving plains of the West, Tommy "Lone Prince", an orphan train child turned soldier, tells his story with unflinching honesty. He i...

What is the picture you have of yourself? Everyone has an image of themselves; some keep that picture very private but everyone has one. Can you imagine any circumstance in which you might kill? And if you could, would that necessarily make you a bad person?To save the lives of his family, former boxer, John Farrell, must enter, and win, one of the original, brutal and illegal, cage fighting competitions: before there were rules and weight divisions, when people died!This i...

TavernBy: Bryan John FarrellTavern: A Historical Novel Based Upon An Early San Francisco Saloon And The Family That Operated It describes an underachiever inheriting his family’s saloon. In the process of dealing with the sale, he must make a choice between a woman’s love and his slacker lifestyle.About the AuthorBryan John Farrell was born in Montana, the last of eight children in an Irish France Catholic family. He was raised in San Francisco with very lit...

Everybody Calls Me Father is a collection of stories, reflections, and musings with a down-to-earth touch. From amusing anecdotes about Catholic geography to touching explanations of the gift of tears, from stirring thoughts on eternal values to remembering the last gift to a dying man, Everybody Calls Me Father will brighten your outlook and bring a smile to your days.

Rucker Sloan, thinks all he’s good for is a fighting, killing machine. Long-term relationships are out of the question.Until he meets a nurse who’d risk her life for someone she doesn’t know…After her mother died of a broken heart, nurse Nora Michaels joined the Army to do something to help others and to escape her sad memories. Deployed to Afghanistan, she hopes she’s making a difference, especially when she treats a cranky wounded soldier who just might be more b...

Delta Force Operative Asher Gray otherwise known as “Smoke” is on temporary assignment to the American embassy in Jerusalem. Never one to get involved too deeply with the opposite sex, he finds he can’t keep his eyes or hands off the ambassador’s niece who happens to be the man’s bodyguard.Danica “Danny” Turner learned her fighting skills in the Army and then in the MMA arena. When she’d had enough of beating her opponent’s heads in, her family convinced her to be her uncle, the US...