Cahill: 199 books
Ms. Cahill for Congress
One Fearless Teacher, Her Sixth Grade Class, and the Election that Changed their Lives Forever
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
The remarkable story of a teacher who ran a grassroots campaign for Congress . . . from her sixth-grade classroom
“You can’t run for office in this country unless you’re a millionaire or you know a lot of millionaires.” This offhand remark from one of her sixth-grade students dismayed...
by Frances Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Known to all as The General, Ireland’s most infamous criminal mastermind, Martin Cahill's life was the stuff of myth and urban legend. Even in death, fascination with him has not waned: leading Hollywood actors have starred in several films on his life, and many books have been published, with his...
The Fate of Wonder
Wittgenstein's Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of wonder around human life and language and its mysterious place in the world. Following the philosopher's spiritual and cultural criticism and tying it more tightly to the overall evolution...
Lost in My Own Backyard
A Walk in Yellowstone National Park
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
“Let’s get lost together . . . ”
Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has been “puttering around in the park” for a quarter of a century,...
by Sean Cahill, Sarah Tobias
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face the same family issues as their heterosexual counterparts, but that is only the beginning of their struggle. The LGBT community also encounters legal barriers to government recognition of their same-sex relationships and relationships to their own...
Joe Cahill
A Life in the IRA
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
'I was born in a united Ireland, I want to die in a united Ireland.'
Born in Belfast in 1920, Joe Cahill has been an IRA man motivated by this ambition all his life. IRA activists rarely speak about their lives or their organisation, but here Cahill gives his full and frank story, his viewpoint,...
I Can Breathe Clearly Now
Protecting Yourself From Air Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Author Thomas A. Cahill, an internationally recognized physicist and atmospheric scientist from the University of California, Davis, applies the best current science in exploring serious, even lethal, health threats ignored by air pollution agencies. Written for non-scientists and spiced with humor...
Desire of the Everlasting Hills
The World Before and After Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet.
How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization? Did his influence in fact change the...
by Danny Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Does it count as a midlife crisis if you screw up your life and you happen to be entering middle age, or did you screw up your life because you are entering middle age? And does it matter if you take the kind of life most people envy—wealth and success and recognition—and blow it up, hurting everyone...
Losing Big
The Incredible Untold Story of Danny and Darci Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
On December 8th, 2009, during the finale episode of NBC's The Biggest Loser, Danny Cahill stepped on the scales with the world watching and became "The Biggest Loser... EVER" by dropping over half his body weight-239 pounds in 6 1/2 months. For most people, that accomplishment alone would bring inspiration,...
Theological Bioethics
Participation, Justice, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
The field of bioethics was deeply influenced by religious thinkers as it emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s. Since that time, however, a seemingly neutral political liberalism has pervaded the public sphere, resulting in a deep suspicion of those bringing religious values to bear on questions of bioethics...
by Thomas Cahill
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Una biografia che è anche, e soprattutto, un libro sulla storia della Chiesa. Thomas Cahill racconta al lettore la vita di Papa Giovanni XXIII, in modo erudito, ma al tempo stesso divertente e popolare. L'autore ha colto con arguzia i due aspetti dell'irresistibile carattere di Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli:...
Heretics and Heroes
How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book.
In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us...
by Thomas Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.
Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how...