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  • The Fake’s Excess
    Blaise Cronin
    Gunned down in the name of Allah, Sebastian survives against all odds. In time, he returns to Ireland from Salamanca, scarred and limping, his spirit indomitable. After selling his coastal properties, he establishes an antiques business in Galway, focusing on the material culture of wine. Before you can say kylix backwards, he is dealing not just in antiques, but Greek antiquit...
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    17,34 €

  • Your Newry Bucket List
    Blaise Cronin
    Newry is neither a tourist hot spot nor a candidate for Northern Ireland’s Best Kept Town, but even so there’s something a little bit special about the place. Eventually it will get under your skin. The town has history in spades, some notable buildings, no shortage of pubs and eateries, plenty of cultural and sporting activities-you can find all the basic information in books ...
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  • Basil Awoke
    Blaise Cronin
    He scratched his scrotum in mindless, metronomic fashion, then drew the plaid curtains to be greeted by fuliginous gloom. When would tourists realize that postcard Ireland existed but one day a month; that in the westerly extremities of the verdant isle the average annual rainfall exceeded damp Dublin’s by a factor of two? If you didn’t like rain, why on earth would you be livi...
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    10,04 €

  • The Fake’s Distress
    Blaise Cronin
    With George Kingsley’s unexpected death, Sebastian lost not only his closest friend but also his financial backer: George held almost all the equity in the business. The Conyers was Sebastian’s in name only. It really did seem that he was dogged by bad luck. But he need not have worried. In that peculiarly west of Ireland way, one thing would lead to another. To the surprise of...
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    20,57 €

  • Footie Doggerel
    Blaise Cronin
    A clerihew is a whimsical four-line verse of the form AABB, the first line of which is the name of a famous person. By way of contrast, a Japanese haiku typically comprises three unrhymed lines with seventeen syllables (5,7,5) and evokes the natural world. This personal collection of clerihews and haikus-some daft, some bawdy-has as its exclusive focus the wondrous, whacky worl...
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    8,33 €

  • The Fake’s Success
    Blaise Cronin
    What better time to launch a life-coaching business than during an economic depression? Such was Sebastian’s thinking. Few would have subscribed to the view. Predictably, the wheeze went the way of the Titanic. The west of Ireland wasn’t ready for the coaching malarky. But you can’t keep a good man down. His follow-up venture was bankrolled by George, long-time friend and suppo...
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    16,09 €

  • The Fake’s Egress
    Blaise Cronin
    ’Laissez les bons temps rouler!’ You don’t have to speak French to join in the party. The Irish economy has taken off. Every Tom, Dick and Harriet is clambering onto the bandwagon, singing along with gusto. Not Sebastian Conyers. Jilted and jobless, he stares out at the sullen Atlantic, his future as bleak as the landscape. And then it comes to him, the way things do in the we...
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    14,83 €

  • WESTPORTED
    Blaise Cronin
    ’One of the noblest views in the world...’ In rain-splattered, flower-powered Westport you’ll hear William Makepeace Thackeray’s fulsome words intoned more often than the Rosary. The much-fêted town, nestling at the edge of majestic Clew Bay and overlooked by conical Croagh Patrick-that most holy of holy mountains-is as tiny as it is tidy, as cute as it is cosmopolitan. Westpor...
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    10,32 €

  • The Fake’s Regress
    Blaise Cronin
    The Fake?s Regress is the sequel to The Fake?s Progress.Shortly before 9/11, Sebastian Conyers washes up in a remote corner of Ireland. Neither bowed nor chastened, he happy-go-luckily hitches his wagon to an unheard-of technical college with delusional aspirations to make a name for itself in Saudi Arabia. Though, like every Irishman, Sebastian knows the quote ?To Hell or Con...
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    16,06 €

  • The Fake’s Progress
    Blaise Cronin
    Sebastian Conyers emerged from the womb at a time when sex did not exist in Ireland. At age twenty-one he thought that a clitoris was a flower. When he eventually broke his duck, it was with the panache of an inebriated sumo wrestler. Women took an interest in the young professor as he cruised the conference circuit. If pressed, he would have described himself as an accidental ...
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    15,84 €

  • B-town Blues
    Blaise Cronin
    PRAISE FOR BLOOMINGTON DAYS’Why did I purchase six copies of Bloomington Days for Chanukah and Christmas presents last year? Blaise Cronin’s hilarious yet affectionate words capture the bucolic surrealism of B-town for its happy inhabitants and for those misguided souls only passing through.’Susan D. Gubar, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Indiana UniversityPRAISE FO...
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    8,94 €

  • Bloomington Days
    Blaise Cronin
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    22,98 €

  • Stickmen
    Blaise Cronin
    An autobiographically indulgent reflection on the goalie’s eccentric art. ...
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    13,96 €

  • Informationsmanagement in Wissenschaft und Forschung
    Blaise Cronin
    Vorwort Informationsmanagement ist seit wenigen Jahren zum Inbegriff der Bemühungen urn einen verbesserten Einsatz der Ressource Information zur Stärkung der Leistungs-und Wettbewerbsfáhigkeit in der Industrie wie auch in der öffentlichen Verwaltung 1 geworden. Ziel des vorliegenden Sammelbandes ist es daher, Notwendigkeit und Chancen des Informations...
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    72,80 €