Bøger af John Fitzgerald

Time to Stop Running is a fantasy for all ages: Light battles darkness in a magical showdown. Bullies run scared...hunters become the hunted!In this spine-tingling adventure, Tipsy the Hare takes on his deadliest foe. A terrifying challenge awaits him in the Land of the Humaniks. For Tipsy, a hare living on an offshore island, life is good, if not always wonderful: The winter months are tough...hares squabble among themselves as all creatures do ...over food, love, ruffled egos. And there's the falcon that hovers high above and occasionally swoops to snatch a leveret (baby hare) from the world of the living. Tipsy is no ordinary hare. From birth he has been gifted with psychic powers, including the ability to converse with other species and outrun all other hares.The seasons come and go, and the hares get on with their lives. But danger looms across the ocean, on the Big Island that is visible some days from the beach or cliff-top. From that fearful land boats arrive at dawn in the season of the fallen leaves. From the moment the Humaniks splash ashore nothing is the same again. The invaders are members of Ballycrossways Coursing Club, who aim to capture as many hares as they can for their live baiting fixture back on Broc Peninsula. The invasion leaves the island hares devastated and terrified. Their spiritual leader, the revered Golden Hare, summons Tipsy to his cave. He has a mission for him that will, if successful, deliver from persecution the hares of both his own island home and the ones who dwell on the Big Island across the sea. And Tipsy is told by the Great One that a Humanik female will assist him in his mission.A riveting page-turner, Time to Stop Running is an impassioned plea on behalf of an animal that threatens no-one and yet must bear the brunt of man's inhumanity. If Watership Down was a PR boost for rabbits, here's an equally deserved accolade to the gentle hare.This is a book of life, love, and liberation. You'll not be released from its enchanting grip until you reach The End... ***

'Scales and Modes for Bass Improvisation' provides Bass Players with a comprehensive reference collection of scales and modes in all keys. The book can be used in conjunction with the mobile app Chordbot, online backing tracks or looping software / pedal to provide backings to practice over. The idea is to use the scales and modes to learn improvisation mainly in a jazz context. The book starts with a basic musical theory section for beginners to musical notation. There are no prescribed lines to play, only suggestions of where to use the scales and modes. There are books and videos out there which will show you exactly what to play but it is far better to learn and build your own library of licks. Scales and Modes included in all keys: Major & Minor scales Major & Minor Pentatonic Blues Harmonic Minor Scale & Modes Harmonic Major Scale & Modes Melodic Minor Scale & Modes Bebop scales Altered Scales Diminished & Half Diminished Scales

A Baby-boomer or a child of one would enjoy reading this book. This novel tells the story of a group of high school friends who keep in touch over a fifty-year span through a reunion of sorts. The novel is set in a little town in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. The characters gather at their hometown Pub on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. They reminisce, cajole, and brag, revealing the events taking effect in their lives. The following morning they join others of the community at Thanksgiving Breakfast party preceding the annual High School game. This fascinating novel is poignant and humorous, but it

Studying British Cinema: 1999-2009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the institutional and financial factors that influence U.K. film production and assesses issues of genre, representation, authorship, and social, economic, and political contexts.

Looking for a hard-edged, gritty roleplaying experience? Looking to explore deep and nuanced facets of the human experience? Looking for a crunchy, detailed rules lexicon to facilitate a fantasy world simulation? Keep looking. Busty Barbarian Bimbos puts the players in the position of the exact kind of character that is all too often represented in gaming artwork but rarely present in the rules; the sexy sword-bunny hell-bent on scoring some coins, couture, and camaraderie. Featuring simple, intuitive rules. Streamlined character creation to get started quickly. Garment, equipment, and outfit creation tables to kickstart your wardrobe. Dozens of adventure seeds to keep the action moving. Requires three six-sided dice, some friends, and a juvenile sense of humor to play.

Now that Britain has left the EU it's a good time to ask ourselves where we should be going from here. Albion Awakening is the fruit of several years' speculation on the spiritual future of the British Isles. It includes articles on the history, mythology and current state of the country together with fictional meditations and suggestions of a new path we could take that would bring us closer to our destined goal. The book can be regarded as a 'crash course' in those people and events that make Albion - the phenomena that raise mere Britain to the mythic significance of Albion. It is intended to encourage all lovers of Albion in sustaining and growing the reality of our national myth. Albion still sleeps but the potential is there for awakening, even in our troubled times, if enough people can throw off their spiritual sloth and rediscover the light that shines deep in the heart of the country.

The Cork Remembrancer: Being A Historical Register (1783) is a book written by John Fitzgerald. It is a comprehensive historical register that provides a detailed account of the city of Cork, Ireland. The book covers a wide range of topics including the history of the city, its architecture, the social and economic conditions of the people, the political events that shaped the city, and the role of religion in the lives of the citizens. The Cork Remembrancer is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of Cork and provides a fascinating insight into the city's past. The book is written in a clear and concise style, making it accessible to readers of all levels of knowledge. It is a valuable addition to any library and is a must-read for anyone interested in Irish history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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While visiting a mental institution in upstate New York, a Catholic priest encounters a strange patient by the name of Jude Thaddeus. For some unknown reason Jude has been incarcerated and heavily sedated for many years. In a brief encounter with Father Mulrooney, Jude secretly passes an ingeniously disguised hand written manuscript. This political thriller reveals the greatest conspiracy in American history. Jude a former Wall Street power broker and a potential grandmaster had the chess skill and financial backing to set in motion an intricately crafted scheme, to fulfill the life long presidential dream of Nelson Rockefeller. The key to Jude's strategy was an amendment to the U.S. constitution. Also included in this captivating saga were manipulated elections, the oil crises, the Watergate setup, and other true historical events. This fascinating narrative seamlessly weaves fact with fiction. From the opening page to the final line, this is a storyteller's novel. Is this the imagination of a lunatic, or did this really happen? That's what the reader is left to ponder.

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China "woke up" in this century. Fiction and fashion, architecture and autobiography, take their places alongside politics and history, and the reader is asked to move about among writers, philosophers, ethnographers, revolutionaries, and soldiers who would seem to have little in common. Rumor is sometimes taken as seriously as truth, novels are consulted as frequently as documents, and dreams are given a prominence normally reserved for facts in the writing of history. This book follows the legend of China's awakening from its origins in the European imagination, to its transmission to China and its encounter with a lyrical Chinese tradition of ethical awakening, to its incorporation and mobilization in a mass movement designed to wake up everyone. The idea of a national awakening crossed all discursive boundaries to make room for nationalist politics in personal culture and helped to conscript personal culture into service of the revolutionary state. The book focuses on the Nationalist movement in south China, highlighting the role of Sun Yat-sen as director of awakenings in the Nationalist Revolution and the place of Mao Zedong as his successor in the politics of mass awakening. Of special interest is the previously untold story of Mao's role in the NationalistPropaganda Bureau, showing Mao as a master of propaganda and discipline, rather than as peasant movement activist.

September 11, 2001. A top-secret covert intelligence op, in the planning for years by the U.S. government, is activated at the moment that the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11. A former Special Forces soldier is plucked from the ashes and recruited to give up his very existence to become a phantom assassin to kill the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on America. Operation Hawk's Nest tells the story of a reluctant, middle-aged, former Special Forces soldier and an elite CIA woman spy operative as they team up together to hunt and kill Osama Bin Laden. It begins in New York and moves back and forth to mysterious capitals of culture and vast deserts and mountains across the globe. Their pasts collide with the future, bringing mystery and romance to a mission with impossible odds. What happens to this unlikely team is also a tale of the secrecy that lurks at the highest levels of government- the double-edged sword of power and shadows. This fast-paced, page-turning thriller is Fitzgerald's captivating debut novel. One man embarks on a mission so secret that even his children believe he perished in the Twin Towers. As the days count down to execution of the mission, no one can stop this man or can they? Can he change the course of history?

This book provides an introduction to practical formal modelling techniques in the context of object-oriented system design. It is aimed at both practising software engineers with some prior experience of object-oriented design/programming and at intermediate or advanced students studying object-oriented design or modelling in a short course. The following features make this book particularly attractive to potential instructors: § The relationship with UML and object-oriented programming makes it easy to integrate with the mainstream computing curriculum. Although the book is about formal methods, it does not have to be treated as a specialist topic. § The use of tools and an accessible modelling language improves student motivation. § The industry-based examples and case studies add to the credibility of the approach. § The light touch approach means that the material appeals to students with a wider range of abilities than is the case in a conventional formal methods text. § Support materials as listed above.

Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation's 40 million cadres - the managers and government officials employed by the ruling Communist Party to protect its great enterprise. This group has captured the culture and wealth of China, excluding the voices of the common citizens of this powerful and diverse country. Award-winning historian John Fitzgerald focuses on the stories the Communist Party tells about itself, exploring how China works as an authoritarian state and revealing Beijing's monumental propaganda productions as a fragile edifice built on questionable assumptions. Cadre Country is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of the Chinese Communist Party and the limits of its achievements. 'It takes decades of patient observation, experience and study of China to produce a book like this. Cadre Country is a must read for specialists and the general public.' - Anita Chan, Australian National University'One of the most important books on China written since Xi Jinping assumed power, Cadre Country is a forensic and profound explication of the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party.' - John Lee, Hudson Institute and United States Studies Centre'Everyone interested in China today should read this incisive analysis that explains exactly what China's own leaders mean by describing their country as a "party-state". Avoiding shibboleths like "totalitarian" and never assuming the inevitability of the paths China has taken in the past or will take in the future, Fitzgerald gives us a much-needed clinical description of the fundamental nature of Chinese politics.' - Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut

How can we make sure that the software we build does what it is supposed to? This book provides an insight into established techniques which help developers to overcome the complexity of software development by constructing models of software systems in early design stages. It uses one of the leading formal methods, VDM (Vienna Development Method), and combines training in the formalism with industry-strength tool support and examples derived from real industrial applications. The principles taught here also apply to many of the current generation of formal methods. This second edition has been updated to include advanced online tool support for formal modelling as well as up-to-date reports on real commercial applications in areas as diverse as business information systems and firmware design.

Future Proof Your Career is a practical book which deals with one of the great problems of modern life: how to make it through a 50-year career when all the rules for career success have changed.Professionals in organisations all over the world are too busy to find time to think strategically about their next ideal career move. This book will provide you with the latest insights into the future of work, the future skills you'll need to succeed and, most importantly, it will enable you to anticipate change before it happens.Sharing a rich mix of fresh insights, real life stories and best practice career models to stay ahead in your career, this book will help you to: Understand how you will be impacted by the Future of Work Prepare for the changing structure of organisations Develop the critical skills that increase your market value Clarify your ideal next role and why you want it Learn the new rules to stay employable, marketable and highly paid for life If you are curious, ambitious and determined to succeed in the future, this book is for you.

Pays attention to Chinese migration patterns, debates, social organisations, and their business and religious lives. This book shows that they had every right to be counted as Australians, even in White Australia.

This work analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China woke up in the last century.