Eleven interviews with Irish people all aged over 75: from an 82 year old in Tipperary who still lives where he was born to an ex-High Court Judge. All walks of life are caught candidly on the page. Eamon Kelly talks about becoming an actor with the Abbey Theatre; Michael-Joe Tarpey worked all his life for the forestry department, but still managed to be a musician, builder, naturalist, maker of musical instruments and custodian of local history and folklore; Bridget Dirrane, now 106 years old, was an active member of Cumann na nBan, the women's branch of the Irish independence movements in the 1920s. Against a background of world-shattering events at home and abroad, Margaret Hickey's subjects lived lives of extraordinary diversity and recount them with the poetry for which their country is renowned.

Mullen is a master storyteller and Kelly goes to prove it. Rollicking fun laced with philosophical realities. Wonder, whimsy and magical moments abound. You'll find yourself reflecting on certain scenes, particular lines, and Kelly's kaleidescopic life!

Can't wait to see this one. Lilla and Dworkin is like a collaboration between Ken Vandermark and Wynton Marsalis.

The perfect read for anyone who has great affection for London and its "Tube". The author explores those enigmatic destinations at the ends of the lines - places with names which excite the imaginations of those who confine their use of the Underground to city center stations. As I read on with great pleasure, I could almost sense the acrid smell of the still resident soot from the extinct coal burning trains, and hear the cautionary "Mind the gap!" as the carriage doors hiss open. It made me so homesick - and I'm not even English born.

The MIA is a parable about modern terrorism.
The publication date predates the DC Sniper, 9/11, and even Oklahoma City, and it looks directly into the heart of evil.
Technology crosses art in the modern world, with tribal impulses and individualized insticts of creativity and violence as hard-wired into the human condition as DNA.
Published in 1994, I the author naively hoped in my dedication that telling this story might illuminate a brighter world for future generations, but in a culture of violence beholden to the likes of Stephen King, The MIA is a horror story of social-science fiction.
Is Orrels Doloshean a modern American Bin Laden? Is Squillace a prototype for Lee Malvo?
There are times when I would like to unwrite or unpublish this fiction novel out of fear that the worst of the imagination could come true.

An excellent book with the most complete listings anywhere. The only problem is most of the info is of role playing games

This book is perfect for a geologist studying Iceland. It has hard to find data tables, and the authour has aflair for making radiocarbon dating easy to read. A must!

Do you know need a reason to buy this book? I can give you an excellent one -- it's called the Table of Contents. It lists 700 pages worth of Robin Hood ballads, plays and more. It has the earliest ballads and plays where Robin is merely a yeoman, the first play that casts him as the Earl of Huntington, and later ballads that give the "origins" of Little John, Maid Marian and Will Scarlet. Also, there's an introductory article on the history of the legend and complete introductions and notes to all the ballads and plays. The notes and introductions are by Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren, two top Robin Hood scholars. If you want to read the original tales of the outlaw, or if you are teach a course in Robin Hood, this book is an excellent buy. Just treat it with care. I notice my cover is fraying somewhat.

Michael Kelly Blanchard has a unique, uncanny way of weaving a tapestry of graceful lyrics, causing you to wrap your mind around a topic once thought simple, with newfound insight into God's grace in everyday life. He helps you empathize with the commonplace things of life, from old age to childhood memories long forgotten to harsh failures, with a introspective view of the human capacity for joy and hurt viewed through the redemptive lenses of God's grace. He seems to look at life from the inside out, often touching nerves where we didn't know we had nerves. Some of his writings "sneak up" on you, releasing pent up emotions. Some songs even seem to create memories that you swear could belong to you. A troubadour for fools and the thinkers. This book expresses some beautiful sentiments that we can all relate to, but buy a few of his CD's and I think you'll be quick to agree he's one of the best kept secrets in the music world, setting social commentary to wonderful melodies and harmonies. A master wordsmith with remarkable musical skill to convey his thoughts in a way that could almost make you know what he's saying before he even sings the words. His voice is a bit like Burl Ives, but his tunes are signature Michael Kelly. Do yourself a favor, and check some of his stuff out!

VRX is interactive environmental education software that helps undergraduate students learn by performing realistic field research without leaving the classroom. The theme of the program is to "Learn Science by Doing Science", and each of the three virtual worlds that the student explores allows the student to perform several research projects. The program includes a CD-ROM and 200-page workbook. The three virtual reality worlds include a landfill, a nuclear waste repository and coal power. The pedagogical premise is that the students learn by questioning. Each research topic prompts the student to think about posing a question and then trying to answer it by following the scientific method.

The introduction in the workbook is excellent, it provides four sections as a resource for the students. They include: Doing Science, Learning Science; What's the Question?; Who's Responsible for Teaching and Learning; and Choose a Pathway to Learning. Each provides valuable information to the undergraduate student on how to conduct research and learn from it, how to work with your professor and taking charge of your own learning.

The introduction to each individual research section provides a link between the students' daily lives and the topic being researched, which connects the student to the research and makes the work mean something to the student on a personal level.

The easy to use CD-ROM features a computer-generated landfill with groundwater, leachate and gas monitoring wells, analytical instruments for collection of samples and real time analytical parameters. The workbook provides the lesson activities along with tables for data compilation by the student, background information, and additional prior knowledge information to be used in each research project.

The opening frame shows a virtual office with an extensive library of reference materials on the bookshelf to the left and a Simulation Selector to the right. It also features login feature that requires the student to login to begin the simulations.

The library includes easy to understand text on use of the instruments, landfill construction, solid waste laws, landfill gas, landfill leachate, geology and geographic maps which provide information needed to successfully complete the program. The simulation selector provides the student access to the three virtual worlds.

The landfill VRX main screen includes a plane view map with locations of the roads and various monitoring wells, a navigable windshield view of the landfill that allows the student to "drive" the landfill roads to reach the monitoring wells. This screen also provides a running total of fieldwork costs based on the amount of time the program is in use by the student or team.

After arriving at a monitoring well the student clicks on one of several analytical instruments to obtain realistic data from the wells. The data is then used in conjunction with the workbook to construct a groundwater elevation map, determine ground water flow direction, contaminate load and contaminate migration and potential risk of contamination to drinking water wells.

The program encompasses 5 of the 7 Earth System Education Understandings and makes strong use of number 4, that the earth is composed of the interacting subsystems of water, rock, ice, air and life.

As both a student and an instructor, I found the program interesting, scientifically accurate and up to date with current rules and regulations pertaining to landfills. Students learn better by seeing the subject matter and by performing the subject matter as the program terms it "learning by doing". This program provides the students with the opportunity to learn by doing either in groups or as individuals, in a time frame that allows the instructor to perform high quality science in a short period of time and at a very low cost.