Patrick Patrick: 6740 books
An Irish Country Cottage
An Irish Country Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An Irish Country Cottage is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved New York Times and internationally bestselling Irish Country series.
The New Year brings challenges and changes to the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. The Christmas holidays have barely passed before a fire engulfs...
An Irish Country Practice
An Irish Country Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An Irish Country Practice is the twelfth heartwarming installment in New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series.
Once, not too long ago, there was just a single Irish country doctor tending to the lively little village of Ballybucklebo:...
Remembering the Road to World War Two
International History, National Identity, Collective Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
‘This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing the necessary nuances of interpretation.’
Stefan Berger, University of Manchester, UK
Remembering the Road to World War Two is a broad and...
by D. Patrick Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
A meditation on the root attitudes behind justice and vengeance, using contrasting examples of capital punishment and successful rehabilitation of convicted murders for perspective. This is the fourth in a series of "6 Miracle Essays" originally published by THE SUN magazine.
The Naked Future
What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
“A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive
Thanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry,...
The Life You Save
Nine Steps to Finding the Best Medical Care-and Avoiding the Worst
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Millions of Americans suffer from indifferent, outdated health care; an estimated 40,000 incidents of medical harm happen every day. The good news is that you can prevent this from happening to you or a family member. Better yet, you can find the very best care in the world. Patrick Malone’s sensible...
Raw Life
Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Rare views of human lives in turmoil are revealed in several hundred trials conducted in 1890s Muskoka by Magistrate James Boyer of Bracebridge. The charges and evidence show how raw life really was in Canada's frontier towns, with cases ranging from nostalgic and humorous to pitiable and deeply disturbing.
While...
Adventure In The Air
Memoirs of a Flight Test Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
A young colonial boy's life experience in India, prior to that country's indenpendence are linked with later episodes relating to testing aircraft. As a Flight Test Engineer, the author takes the reader on many close encounters. The development of a Nuclear Bomber, a high altitude Spy Plane, an Unmanned...
For Slavery and Union
Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for southern independence....
by Patrick Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Free Energy Here and Now and Then: Velocity power sources. Affords the reader a historical background of free energy over unity devices.
Included in the book is "The Four Elements of Free energy." This provides a theoretical explanation of where exactly this free energy is arising...
Moral Combat
Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In family rooms across America, millions of children and teenagers are playing video games, such as Call of Duty, Halo, and Grand Theft Auto, roaming violent virtual worlds-with virtual guns in their hands.
In what sometimes seems like an increasingly violent world, it’s only natural to worry...
Behind the Mask
The Extraordinary Story of the Irishman Who Became Michael Jackson's Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is the story of a boy from a small Irish village who became an adventurer, a humanitarian and a doctor to the stars. Part travelogue, part thriller, part celebrity tell-all, you’ve never read anything quite like it. Patrick Treacy grew up in rural Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Determined...
by Patrick Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In Reloading for Handgunners, the reader will learn the benefits of serious handgun ammunition reloading (decreased cost, increased reliability) in an accessible, step-by-step way. In addition, the reader will learn how to avoid the costly, wasteful errors that plague many reloaders, experienced and...
Pain
The Science of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught...