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  • The Press Gang

    Tales from the Glory Days of Irish Newspapers

    by David Kenny ...
    In September 1931, Pádraig Pearse's mother started a revolution in Dublin. She pushed a button, and the presses began rolling at Éamon de Valera's legendary Irish Press Newspaper Group, changing the landscape of Irish journalism forever. In The Press Gang, for the first time, fifty-five of its former writers and editors celebrate its glory days, from the 1950s to its closure in May 1995 - when the ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Splendid Years

    The Memoirs of an Abbey Actress and 1916 Rebel

    by Maire Nic Shuibhlaigh, David Kenny ...
    Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh was a founder actress of the Abbey Theatre and its first leading lady on its opening in 1904, when she played the title role in W. B. Yeats's Kathleen Ni Houlihan. On that night, five members of her family were acting and working in the theatre. Her beauty and talent captivated audiences and critics at home and abroad. Portrait artists queued up to paint her. Revolutionaries ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mr Pussy

    Before I Forget to Remember

    by Alan Amsby, David Kenny ...
    In 1969, a young Englishman named Alan Amsby arrived in Ireland with a frock and a wig. He was booked for one week, but was an overnight sensation, and made Dublin his home. Catholic Ireland had never before seen anything like the beautiful and outrageous Mr Pussy. For almost fifty years, Alan has delighted audiences and demolished boundaries.Here, he recalls his early days as a drag princess and ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism, Law, and Literature

    by David Kenny ...
    This book uses literary examples to make the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism.For pragmatists, experience is everything; they argue against understanding the world through any abstraction, maintaining that it is simply too complicated to fit into categories or theories. Legal pragmatism is the application of this philosophy to the making ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Armor5 Double Trouble

    The Armor5 Series, #2

    by David Kenny ...
    Series Book 2 - The Armor5 Series
    After uniting the first time to form the full Armor of God, and defeating fear in Armor5's first adventure, a brand new challenge emerges with an evil enemy twice as powerful.What range for this book?Ages 8-16 and safe to read with a clean action-packed adventure.Will this book help my teen/preteen learn life lessons?In Armor5 Double Trouble, the team deals with the issues of jealousy and envy ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud

    Edited by Theo Lynn, John P. Morrison, David Kenny ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Digital Business & Enabling Technologies
    This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND license. It addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery architecture ... Read more

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  • The Stories Behind London’s Streets (Part Two)

    by Peter Thurgood ...
    The streets of London flourish like possibly no other city on earth, with stories from its rich history, stories of death - fire - disease, of riots, and grisly murders, but also of tales of hope, happiness, determination and success. Behind every story and every street however, are the people who lived, worked, played, and even murdered there. Did you know for instance that when Great Scotland ... Read more

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  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter?These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past two decades, literary theory is accused of undermining ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains

    Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools

    Edited by Joanna Kołodziej, Matteo Repetto, Armend Duzha ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the latter still lacking orchestration and agility to effectively address the dynamicity of the former. This book provides a comprehensive review of the main concepts, architectures, ... Read more

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  • My Old Man

    A Personal History of Music Hall

    by John Major ...
    Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences’ hopes, fears and the general absurdity of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics

    A Short Introduction to Ethics

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Big Data

    Related Technologies, Challenges and Future Prospects

    by Min Chen, Shiwen Mao, Yin Zhang, Victor C.M. Leung ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Springer Brief provides a comprehensive overview of the background and recent developments of big data. The value chain of big data is divided into four phases: data generation, data acquisition, data storage and data analysis. For each phase, the book introduces the general background, discusses technical challenges and reviews the latest advances. Technologies under discussion include cloud ... Read more

    $71.99 USD