Bøger af Jim O'Brien

Running involves body, mind, and spirit. Spend a year with the authors' essays and observations about running, racing, and life while recording your own experiences. This journal invites you to read, reflect, run, and write.

Scooter, the dog sees the front door is open and decides to go on an adventure. Heading up the street, he checks out a park and an ice cream truck. As the sun goes down, he looks around and realizes that he doesn't know where he lives. He tries to remember his address, but can't. So, he takes to the street to try and find his way home. Along the way he meets an interesting group of friends who teach him a few things along the way.

It's late Thursday night. Mason "Peeker" Powell spends an evening with friends. On his way home, a deputy pulls him over on a rural road. The deputy gets out of his car. Powell, a bit drunk, does not. The deputy, halfway to Powell's car, his face hidden by the headlights, orders Powell to produce hisidentification. Powell slowly gets out of the car, spreads his hands, and bolts into the field nearby. He's brought up short by an electrified barbed wire fence. He hears the deputy right behind him. He turns and shouts that he surrenders. There's a shot.The Sheriff stonewalls the media. However, there is unrest brewing at what happened. Protests over the shooting spring up, and unrest boils up in what was once a peaceful community. Can reporter Annie Peterson uncover the truth before the tipping point?

Lily lived a sordid life. It was filled with drugs, sex and violence. Suffering through an abusive relationship with a cold-hearted sociopath and a less than loving foster family, Lily knew what hell looked like, and she was fed up living it. She worked hard to leave her small town as soon as she turned eighteen in search of a new life, vowing never to look back. Unfortunately, never is a very long time...Thirty years later, the ghosts of Lily's past have come calling and they are digging up all kinds of dirt. Lily must fight to discover what the past wants from her without her family finding out or she runs the risk of losing everything. As she attempts to keep dark secrets buried where they belong, she is forced to confront the deep rooted guilt she had pushed aside so long ago. She must confront an abusive ex-boyfriend turned convicted murderer, the mutilated bodies of missing women and unsettled spirits looking for justice. It is a nightmare become reality as Lily realizes that her past is even darker than she remembers.Knowing her dark secrets may be too much for her present life to handle, Lily embarks on a journey into the past in order to protect her present. But she may not be able to protect anyone, even herself, from the hellish truth she discovers lurking at the foothills of the small town she left behind. When her curiosity leads her back to the one place she swore she would never set foot again, she learns the harsh lesson that sometimes it is better to let sleeping dogs lie.

In the Archaeology of Peace, Jim O'Brien uses a lens of logical analysis to focus on who we humans are, the purpose of governments, the nature of freedom, and how we perceive self defense. O'Brien challenges each of us to consider the way we think, how we as a species came to perceive our realities and identities, and with our free will, how to re-create our unexamined paradigms into a more human and logical model for peaceful coexistence.

This book explores the interrelationships between nations, regions and states in the landscape of contemporary international sport, focusing on identity. Using case studies, the book explores themes such as the geopolitics of sports events, contested identities, and ownership of sport.

Two young detective brothers are assigned to investigate a murder committed in a small, upscale town. The evidence obtained uncomfortably leads them to assume that their father, a prominent local retailer, may be responsible for the crime. The detectives hunch is tossed into further turmoil when it is discovered that their father is being pursued by a different killer. The second would-be killer is equally deadly but far more sinister and even more terrifyingly cruel than the one who committed the murder. Is it possible that the murderer whom the brothers are seeking to bring to justice can be capable of committing such horrible,

Home distillation isn't for everyone. It's for you! While some homebrewers are happy enough with beer or wine, others want to take it a step further, by distilling those grain and fruit mashes and concentrating their alcohol into true spirits worthy of any bar. Let me invite you into the fantastic world of the craft alcohol. I'll bring you through any "what", "why", "where" and "how" Let's plunge into a wondrous world beyond the ordinary. This is the world of the craft alcohol. You will go through all what", "why", "where" and "how".

Effective school leadership is essential. As schools become increasingly complex organizations and their role in socializing young people is recognized, the task of leading the school community is receiving greater attention than ever before. School Leadership summarizes current thinking about leadership in schools and suggests ways forward. School leadership is set in its social context. Is leadership associated with function within a bureaucratically ordered hierarchy, is it widely shared across communities, or is it both? The school is considered both as an institution of the State and as an agency of democratic values. Ideas as to who the leaders are and what leadership involves are recast. The authors recent experience with Scotlands Headship preparation and development is discussed and analyzed. The Scottish experience provides examples of general issues facing many schools and school leaders. School Leadership is required reading for head teachers, education administrators, and for those aspiring to leadership roles in schools.