LIBROS DEL AUTOR: David O'Brien

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  • Ashes & Sakura
    David Paul Gormley-O’Brien
    Ashes and Sakura is the second novel in the Becoming Australia series, following on from An Attractive Naivety.The story reunites readers with Tom and his sister Evelyn, both last seen in the earlier novel, as they face the upheavals of the postwar world.Japan, 1946. Haunted by what he witnessed-and did-during the fighting, Australian soldier Tom joins the British Commonwealth ...
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    14,76 €

  • Fredtime Stories II
    David O’Brien / Fred Liljegren
    Fred is back.It turns out that Fred Liljegren did not reveal all in Fredtime Stories: A Mostly Rural Life, so he’s back with more tales from a mostly-rural life.Fred was born during the Baby Boom, grew up in the Cold War, and came of age during the Vietnam War. He ran a successful farm during the farm crisis and was witness to the decline of the small dairy farmer. Along the wa...
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    16,50 €

  • Little Victories
    David J. O’Brien
    Nicky and her two new friends, Mark and Ash, spend spring racing their mountain bikes through south Dublin – both down hillsides and hitching rides from HGVs – and exploring their feelings towards one another. They’re aghast to one day find an illegal fire on the mountain, just set by a farmer. When the police say they can do nothing about it, the three determine to catch the c...
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    14,20 €

  • People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China
    David O’Brien / Melissa Shani Brown
    In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region. Significant international attention has condemned the CCP’s use of forced internment in ’r...
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    47,69 €

  • Last Light on the Sage Flats
    David J. O’Brien
    A Collection of twenty-three Short Stories written over thirty years in a dozen parts of a half dozen countries in three continents... An eclectic mix of short moments and longer experiences, set from the intimacy of the bedroom to the immensity of the South African veld, projecting back into the past, forward into the future as well as grounded in the present of each tale. ...
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    11,88 €

  • Fredtime Stories
    David O’Brien / Fred Liljegren
    Fred Liljegren was born during the Baby Boom. He grew up in the Cold War and came of age during Vietnam. Raised in rural Minnesota, he milked cows during the farm crisis years and witnessed the decline of the small dairy farmer. We all live history in our own unique way; how we respond to the barrage of life is what makes us who we are. In Fredtime Stories: A Mostly Rural Life,...
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    12,18 €

  • Remember David
    David O’Brien
    Remember David is a simple story that reminds us that God is bigger than any problem we may face in our life.Especially now, facing the pandemic and taking all the precautions can be a little scary to young children, but God is bigger than COVID-19. Just as God helped David face the lions and the bears, God also prepared him to face Goliath. If we put our faith and trust in God...
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    20,27 €

  • The Soul of Adam Short
    David J. O’Brien
    The cares of life are beginning to cloud fifteen-year-old Adam Short’s carefree existence. Important exams are looming, his girlfriend Julie thinks he’s not focused, and right now he’s about to be late for the school trip. Neither his teacher, nor Julie, will be pleased if the misses the bus.But suddenly Adam has much bigger problems when, in an extraordinary accident, his soul...
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    13,01 €

  • Peter and the Little People
    David J. O’Brien
    You’ve heard stories about Little People: leprechauns and their like. Ireland is full of people who’ve had strange experiences out in the fields in the early morning. All just tall tales and myths, of course.At least, we assume so...But Peter knows better.A boy with a love of wildlife and talent for spotting animals, Peter often sees what he calls elves in the fields as he trav...
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    11,00 €

  • Once Is Enough
    David Wright O’Brien
    As consciousness returned to him, Thane fought to push aside the thick curtain of nausea and pain which blanketed his mind. Somewhere in the distance a telephone was ringing with evenly spaced insistence, and Thane tried to struggle to his feet to answer it.“A minute...jus’ minute,” Thane mumbled thickly.He managed somehow to push himself upward on his elbows. Pain lanced molte...
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    9,55 €

  • The David Wright O'Brien MEGAPACK®
    David Wright O'Brien
    In just a few years, David Wright O'Brien became one of the mainstays of Ray Palmer's Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures magazines. Called to duty in World War II, he continued writing even as he flew bomber missions. He died in combat, a casualty of war, but he left behind a legacy of more than 75 great fantasy and science fiction stories. This volume collects so...
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    14,97 €

  • The politics of everyday China
    David O’Brien / Neil Collins
    China’s rise from the poverty, isolation and stagnation of the 1970s to the world’s second largest economy is a transformative event perhaps unequalled in human history. The world today pays more attention to China, looks to it with more admiration than perhaps any other time. Yet, this rise also hides many deep-rooted problems and competing ideologies. Economically, socially a...
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    17,91 €

  • Judges on Judging
    David M. O’Brien
    Thoroughly revised and updated for this Fifth Edition, Judges on Judging offers insights into the judicial philosophies and political views of those on the bench.  Broad in scope, this one-of-a-kind book features “off-the-bench” writings and speeches in which Supreme Court justices, as well as lower federal and state court judges, discuss the judicial process, constitutional in...
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    143,44 €

  • The Films of Alan Parker, 1976-2003
    David F. Gonthier / Timothy M. O’Brien
    The offbeat musicals Fame 1980), Pink Floyd--The Wall (1982), The Commitments 1991) and Evita (1996)... The stylized biopics Midnight Express (1978), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Road to Wellville (1994) and Angela’s Ashes (1999)... The visceral social dramas Shoot the Moon (1982), Birdy (1984), Come See the Paradise (1990) and The Life of David Gale (2003)... The one-of-...
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    58,88 €

  • Neighborhood Organization and Interest-Group Processes
    David J. O’Brien / David JO'Brien / David JO’Brien
    Since the end of the civil rights era in the sixties it has become increasingly clear that social and political conflicts cannot be resolved entirely at the national level. Struggles between residents of poor neighborhoods and local interest groups or public authorities present some of our most explosive domestic political problems today. This study seeks insight into these pro...
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    65,15 €

  • Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum
    David O’Brien / Richard Beach
    How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students’ disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculumpresents a wide range of different apps and also assesses...
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    91,96 €

  • Heroes of the Seventh Crisis
    David E O'Brien / David E O’Brien
    The math is clear and simple. We have, at most, forty more years of living this self-serving lie before the combined forces of overpopulation and resource depletion expose Global Civilization for what it really is-an unsustainable mirage.We, the over-40, have timed it perfectly. The planet will run out of fresh, unpolluted water and nutrient-rich topsoil just as we are finishin...
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    9,56 €

  • Supreme Court Watch 2003
    David M. O’Brien / David MO’Brien
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    18,63 €

  • Supreme Court Watch 2002
    David M. O’Brien / David MO’Brien
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    18,82 €

  • Abortion and American Politics
    Barbara H. Craig / Barbara Hinkson Craig / David M. O’Brien
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    101,89 €