Unearth the origins of Napa Valley's prosperity. Chinese laborers were once the backbone of Napa Valley. Throughout the late 1800s, they toiled in the grape fields, mines, hop farms, leather tanneries and laundries, and carved out neighborhoods in towns throughout the Valley. These contributions did little to deter discrimination and Anti-Chinese Leagues sprang up to harass and intimidate immigrants like Chan Wah Jack, who ran the successful Sang Lung store in Napa's Chinatown. In 1882, th...

Red Riding Hood is walking through the woods, taking a lovely meal to her ailing grandmother. She has been warned about the big bad wolf, but when she meets a shaggy stranger, he insists he is the big good wolf. Should she trust him?With Twisted Tales you have uniqe opportunity to listen to the story from the Big Bad Wolf's point of view.Twisted Tales have:- absorbing narration,- multiple voice actors- immersive sound effects and music.

Set in Belfast at the end of the 1980s, Crawl takes a light-hearted look at the lives and loves of a group of friends coming to terms with growing up in a society distorted by political and religious division.The action takes place, largely, over the course of one day - Christmas Eve - and follows the friends as they attempt to enjoy their traditional annual pub-crawl. As the day progresses, however, events unfold that will have long-lasting repercussions and force at least one of ...

Rise is the second novel in the Ballad of Beliefs trilogy and follows the lads from Crawl as they take a trip to the Mediterranean for a short break from their woes.Hannah, in the meantime, takes her first hesitant steps on a journey towards reality, while Rosie is in for the shock of her life.

Creating a connection with the knowledge of the universe is a matter of eliminating obstacles to that connection. We all have a responsibility to unite with that knowledge . By uniting with that knowledge we perform our necessary role in the evolution of consciuosness .

The concluding volume in the Ballad of Beliefs trilogy seeks answers to several questions, including;Can Seamus find love?Will hannah ever make up her mind?And can a six-foot-four skinhead from Sandy Row uncover one of ancient history's greatest ever secrets?

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed scholarly activity. Contributing significantly to the renewal was John McCormick's 1987 biography, the fi...

Acid rain was one of the major environmental issues of the 1980s. But while industrialized countries have taken measures to reduce the emissions that lead to acidification, the problems have not gone away. Trees are still dying, lakes are still being made uninhabitable; buildings are still corroding; and human health is still suffering. The most worrying trend is the repetition in the industrializing countries of Asia and Latin America of the problems that have long afflicted Europe and No...

As the essays in this book attest, in a time of specialization John McCormick chose diversification, a choice determined by a life spent in many occupations and many countries. After his five years in the U. S. Navy in the Second World War, the academy beckoned by way of the G. I. Bill, graduate training, and a career in teaching. Prosperity in the American university at the time meant setting up as a "Wordsworth man," a "Keats man," or a "Dr. Johnson man": all chilling to the author. He c...

Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. John McCormick describes the fascinating story of the political growth of that law, and the pressures, the compromises, the parliamentary and civil service opportunism that allowed the edifice to grow over the greater part of a century.He tells the story of the absolute change in political climate over the last ten years and deciphers the nature of Thatcher's ''conversion'' to greenery. He...

In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans. He argues that regardless of the doubts associated with the exercise of European integration and the work of the European Union, and regardless of residual identities with states and nations, Europeans have much in common. Opening chapters deal with the historical development of European ideas, and are followed by chapters addressin...

Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction. The exact nature of that impulse has resisted analysis like so much associated with romanticism. In Fiction as Knowledge John McCormick reaches for precision, proposing that much of the vitality of modern fiction derives from romantic conceptions of history which made available to fiction not merely historical subject matter, but new perceptions o...