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Ripples of Future Pasts
Thirty-five-year-old Tim Gibbs, hurled by an accident through a portal to a parallel in time, awakens as his thirteen-year-old self and must relive his life knowing little of his future past. In six stories that are part time travel, part mystery and part political thriller, Tim finds that even the simplest decisions can bring life-changing consequences - like pebbles cast into a pond, their ripples unsettling all in their path until they finally reach shore.
Lawyers and Immigrants, 1870-1940
Annotation Seeing American law as "both engine and mirror, cause and effect," this book explores the cultural history of law and immigration in the United States between Reconstruction and the Great Depression." Powerful forces formed the law that immigrants were to confront in trying to gain entry to the country and in coping with day-to-day life, but as migrants from southern and eastern Europe negotiated these realities, they acted as legal agents themselves, slowly transforming the contested arena of law. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Shadow of a Year
In October 1641 a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Dispossessed Irish Catholics rose up against British Protestant settlers whom they held responsible for their plight. This uprising, the first significant sectarian rebellion in Irish history, gave rise to a decade of war that would culminate in the brutal re-conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. It also set in motion one of the most enduring and acrimonious debates in Irish history. Was the 1641 rebellion a justified response to dispossession and repression? Or was it an unprovoked attempt at sectarian genocide? John Gibney comprehensively examines three centuries of this debate. The struggle to establish and interpret the facts of the pas...
Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne
The book is also concerned with the future of this protected cultural landscape and recommends actions to ensure its' preservation."--Cover.
