Michael Kearney: 23 books

This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s,...

Start your kids on their way to a love of cooking with this exciting children’s storybook cookbook wrapped around Chef Giovanni’s pizza recipe. The story is depicted through delightful photographs of a girl and boy, Chef Giovanni, Mom, pizza pies and more, including snaps of the kids in white...

The school bus is late! And of all days, today! This is the day Mrs. Navarro is bringing in Fluffy’s puppies! What if they don’t get there in time to hug them? Finally the big yellow bus comes barreling to a halt, with Tim, a substitute driver, at the wheel. Cellphone in hand, he zooms...

There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%. Supplier...

Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...

WHAT IS MINDFUL MEDITATION AND HOW CAN IT IMPROVE MY LIFE?You hear people talking about it. You may have read research about its benefits. Perhaps you’ve even dabbled in it yourself. You have a sense that it could really make a difference in your life. You’re open and willing to learn.But...

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift’s writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it demonstrates how well informed Swift’s criticism...

This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care. It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...

This book contains some of the topics I investigate and the ways I describe life experiences creating meaning and purpose. Aware of a fluid imagination, driving curiosity, I move through adventures, dismantling thoughts and beliefs to recreate my life.