This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists and geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States – have assembled the most up-to-date research from a wide spectrum of disciplines including medicine, folklore and literature, to give the fullest account yet of the background and consequences of the Famine. Contributors include Dr Kevin Whelan, Profess...

The Elder and His Work is a classic that conveys the gravity and importance of the elder's calling. Nineteenth-century author David Dickson provided this brief, complete manual describing the qualifications and duties of elders.According to Dickson, an elder is a shepherd of Christ's flock and a student of God's Word-a man growing in the gracious disciplines of the Christian life.

In the 1890s, Hugh Dorian (1834-1914), a native of Fanaid on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal, completed a remarkable memoir which he entitled 'Donegal Sixty Years Ago'. This fascinating text, although intended by Dorian for publication, is seeing the light of day only now, a century later. The author, an impoverished school-teacher and writing clerk, wrote with confidence and passion about the world of his childhood and the powerful alien forces that had destroyed that world. Dorian pr...

Before boarding the Sea Breeze for a leisurely cruise of the Tahitian Islands Hawkins is suddenly and strangely transported into another era-the days when pirates plundered the Spanish towns on the South American west coast and took refuge in Tahiti. How did he enter this world? Will he escape with his life? His is an exciting, surreal pirate story set in the South Pacific, with all its dangers, treason and dastardly deeds. And its colourful, if somewhat double-dealing characters....

It's an eerie mystery for uni student, Eddie Haite, whose casual summer holiday on a remote tropical island in Fiji, changes from an idyllic escape into a nightmare. Eddie, on a chance meeting, agrees to help a scientist, Rex King, carry out experiments on rats recovered from an old Pacific atomic testing site. As Eddie watches Rex descend into madness he realises there is something terrifying about the rats' strange behaviour.ReviewsOn completing this book...

The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrializationA backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent ...

People's behaviour can be rewarding to others through what they say or do: it may be no more than an appreciative smile, a sympathetic touch or a word of praise, but the impact can be highly significant. This book, first published in 1993, explores these social rewards and their relevance to the practice of people in the interpersonal professions.While much of its content is relevant to everyday life, the focus is on ways in which an understanding of the working of social rewards c...

The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine, and the Imperial Russian Navy to demonstrate why the war was won, not in the trenches, but upon the waves. It explains why these seven fleets fought the way they did and why the war at sea d...

On Seas Contested is an in-depth analysis of the Second World War's seven major navies. A team of expert naval historians have contributed chapters outlining the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. Each chapter consistently details key features such as weaponry, training, logistics, and doctrine. This definitive work will be a standard reference for years to come.

Learn more about World War II Battles - whether you are preparing for the History Test, a college final, or even if you simply desire to learn more about world history. Over 400 articles carefully checked for accuracy and completeness by a team of experts. Over 1,000 photographs. The Encyclopedia articles are based on Wikipedia.TABLE OF CONTENTS: Timeline of World War IIBattles of 1939Battles of 1940Battles of 1941Battles of 1942Battles of 1943Battles of 1944Battles of 1945Appendix - Winte...

Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of th...

Clay Blair's best-selling naval classic Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, is regarded as the definitive account of that decisive phase of the war in the Pacific. Nine years in the making, Hitler's U-boat War is destined to become the definitive account of the German submarine war against the Allies, or "The Battle of the Atlantic."It is an epic sea story, the most arduous and prolonged naval battle in all history. For a period of nearly six years, the German U-b...