Jim o'connell (19 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Zustand: Fine.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. as new unused.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. as new unused.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. as new unused.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: leichte Gebrauchsspuren. 1st Ed. Ready to send, nice, clean copy, the binding is slightly scuffed. In englischer Sprache. 157 p. 23 x 17 cm.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 171 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 384 pages. 9.19x6.00x1.46 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Incurable Gifts is a book that defies every expectation we have about memoirs of illness. It is not a story of suffering-it's a masterclass in finding grace where none should exist.With prose that alternates between laugh-out-loud funny and quietly devastating, O'Connell chronicles his 20-year journey with Parkinson's Disease, transforming what could have been a tale of decline into something far more profound: a meditation on what it means to truly live. His writing crackles with the energy of a career journalist who knows how to tell a story, but more importantly, knows which stories matter. From the opening scene of crawling barefoot through a parking garage to tender moments making avocado toast for his dying mother, O'Connell reveals truths about family, work, love, and mortality that will resonate with anyone who has ever faced their own limitations.What makes this book extraordinary is O'Connell's refusal to be defined by his disease. Yes, Parkinson's forced him from a successful journalism career. Yes, it makes simple tasks monumentally difficult. But it also gave him time- to really see his mother before she died, to understand his father's legacy, time to appreciate the love of his wife, and to discover that while he spent years trying to create a professional legacy, his real legacy was sleeping down the hall.This is a book about falling down-literally and figuratively-and finding unexpected gifts in the wreckage. It's about learning that courage isn't just running into burning buildings like his firefighter father did, but sometimes just getting out of bed. It's about discovering that the worst thing that happens to you might also teach you everything you need to know about what matters.Incurable Gifts is itself a gift-to anyone who has faced adversity, to anyone who has wondered about their legacy, to anyone who has asked themselves if it's wonderful to be alive. O'Connell doesn't just answer that question; he shows us why the answer, despite everything, is yes.This is a book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and most importantly, make you think differently about what it means to live a meaningful life. It's a reminder that sometimes our greatest catastrophes can become our most profound teachers, and that even an incurable disease can offer gifts we never knew we needed. …

Softcover. 1st thus. Small Quarto Size [approx 18x25cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs, Maps and Drawings. Pagination shows pp649 -862. Antiquity Volume 69 No 265, 1995. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 213 pages.

Tapa blanda. Zustand: Muy bien. Primera edición. Patrick Chase; Ray Russell; Robert L. Green; Michael O'connell; Jack Sharkey; Ken W. Purdy; J. Paul Getty; Thomas Mario; Arthur C. Clarke; William Iversen; John Dempsey; Herbert Gold; Shel Silverstein; Jim Beaman; Jules Feifer. MUY BUEN ejemplar. 210pp. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm ; ISBN: 0883637014; 9780883637012; LC: N6782; Dewey: 709/.415 ; OCLC: 32164804 ; large folio, color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: 1. Prehistory: ancient myths and legends -- 2. Christianity and the golden age -- from The Confession / Saint Patrick -- from Life of Saint Brigit / Cogitosus -- from Penitential of Vinnian / Vinnian -- from The Rules of Saint Columbanus -- Poems of devotion: Columcille the scribe; the Hermit's song -- The tale of the three treasures; from The voyage of Saint Brendan; from Crith Gablach -- / Geoffrey Keating -- Ireland's golden age / Donatus of Fiesole -- 3. From the Vikings to 1700 -- Viking influence / Seamus MacManus -- From the annals of Clonmacnoise: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- Visitor observes the Irish The song of Dermot and the Earl / Giraldus Cambrensis -- Dead at Clonmacnoise / Angus O'Gillan -- A time of change / Egan O'Rahilly -- From a letter to King Phillip of Sapin, 1589 / Francisco De Cuellar -- A letter of resolve / Hugh O'Neill -- A letter on the attack of Drogheda from 'The Jacobite War' / Oliver Cromwell -- An Irish will / John Langley -- Penal Laws / Seamus MacManus -- 4. Eighteenth century -- Kilcash from 'Drapier's Letter IV' / Jonathan Swift -- Speeches from the dock / Theobald Wolfe Tone -- Letter describing Dublin Social life, 1731 / Mary Delany -- Querist / George Berkeley -- A letter from an English gentleman / Oliver Goldsmith -- History of Carolan the last Irish Bard / Oliver Goldsmith -- Lament for Art O'Leary / Eileen O'Leary -- Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth -- 5. Nineteenth century -- Knocknagow; or the homes of Tipperary / Charles -- from Party fight and funeral / William Carleton -- Trinity College / Charles Lever -- Hedge School / William Carleton -- From a speech on the floor of the Commons, 1837 / Daniel O'Connell -- On the causes of the famine / Justin McCarthy -- from My own story / Peter O'Leary -- from 'Memories of the famine / Maire NI Grianna -- on Charles Stewart Parnell / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Boycotting defined / Charles Stewart Parnell -- from The Tenants of time / Thomas Flanagan -- from Namgay Doola / Rudyard Kipling -- from The Old Munster Circuit / Maurice Healy -- Some favorite Irish Folk Songs: "Wearing of the green"; "I know where I'm going"; "Green grow the lilacs"; "Cockles and mussels"; "You brave Irish Heroes" -- 6. Irish in America -- This Distant land / William D. Griffin -- John Barry, Father of the American Navy / Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- Captain at sea / Parry Miller -- A letter to his brother-in-law, 1785 / John Dunlop -- from An Irish immigrant's letter to his wife, 1818 / John Doyle -- Old Ireland / Walt Whitman -- from John Boyle O'Reilly / Richard Roche -- The Irishness of Billy the Kid / William D. Griffin -- Immigrant daughter's song / Mary Ann Larkin -- from The gift / Pete Hamill -- What Flaherty was / Patrick Fenton -- How Tammany Hall did it / Harry Golden -- from Mortal Friends / James Carroll -- President John F. Kennedy / William V. Shanon -- from Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- from The other side / Mary Gordon -- What is it to be Irish / Hal Boyle -- 7. Celtic revival begins -- from Celtic Twilight / W.B. Yeats -- The Piper and the Puca / Douglas Hyde -- The shepherd and the sunbeam / Lawrence Millman -- from Our Irish Theatre / Augusta Gregory -- from Aran Islands / J.M Synge -- from Celtic dawn / Ulick O'Connor -- from Riders to the Sea / J.M. Synge -- from The plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey -- 8. Twentieth century -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree; The wild swans at Coole; At Galway races / W.B. Yeats -- Wager / O'Connell -- from Trinity / Leon Uris -- A botanist looks at Shamrock / E. Charles Nelson -- from The Irish countryman / Conrad Arensberg -- from The green fool / Patrick Kavanagh -- from the Irish flag, 1916: proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916 / James Connolly -- from The murder machine / Patrick Pears ; G. Book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea By Allen, Jim (Editor); O'Connell, James F. (Editor). Softcover, very good condition, minor shelf/edge wear. Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd, 1995. The interval between the Last Glacial Maximum, roughly 18,000 radiocarbon years ago, and the mid- Holocene 'climatic optimum', at 5-7000 BP, has long been identified as a time of major change in human affairs. . these terminal Pleistocene' transitions' represented a fundamental shift in the pattern of human experience and, as such, have been an important focus of archaeological inquiry.' (p.vii) They suggest that Australia appears to differ from the rest of the world. All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.…

17 pp.; 17.7 x 25.7 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Summer 1996 issue of the quarterly publication Pink, edited by Donna Ghelerter and Ingrid Schaffner. Contents include: "Letter from the Editors;" "Duchamp's Suitcase;" "M.D.C. Crawford Brings the World to Design;" "Tour of Duty: Travelogue of a WWII Army Nurse," by Kelli Peduzzi; "Cleveland," by Josh Mack and Ron Warren; "Living with Luggage," by Paul Dean; "Travels with Our Aunts;" "Traveller to Tourist, a Photographic Evolution;" and "Dreaming in Color," by Joel Lobenthal. And Marginalia, including: "Pink Lift;" "Indian Princess," by Kelly L. Pickering; "Ajo Well;" "Lost and Found in Dali's Garden," by Peter Ayton and "Going, Going, almost gone," by Russell Bush. Very Good. 1.2 cm. and 1 cm. stain to recto. 5 mm. tear to bottom edge of verso. Bumping of corners and rubbing of cover edges. 2 mm. dog-ear to top left corner of publicationb with a 2 mm. tear at spine edge. Contents clean and unmarked. …