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  • Thanks to One of My Favorite Teachers: A Collection of Personal Stories

    de John Morrissey ...
    No gift bears greater fruit than the nourishment from a teacher to a willing mind. Those who choose teaching as their vocation don't do it to inform their students, but to awaken their spirits and their ability to learn. John Morrissey believes, and has proven in this collection of stories written by a variety of contributors, that virtually everyone can instantly name his or her favorite teacher. ... Leer más

    $5.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Notorious John Morrissey

    How a Bare-Knuckle Brawler Became a Congressman and Founded Saratoga Race Course

    de James C. Nicholson ...
    Series series Horses in History
    An Irish immigrant, a collection agent for crime bosses, a professional boxer, and a prolific gambler, John Morrissey was—if nothing else—an unlikely candidate to become one of the most important figures in the history of Thoroughbred racing. As a young man, he worked as a political heavy in New York before going to San Francisco in search of fortune at the height of the Gold Rush. After returning ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Historical Geography

    de John Morrissey, David Nally, Ulf Strohmayer, Yvonne Whelan ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "This ambitious volume reviews the best recent work in historical geography... It demonstrates how a dual sense of history and geography is necessary to understand such key areas of contemporary debate as the inter-relationship between class, race and gender; the character of nations and nationalism; the nature and challenges of urban life; the legacies of colonialism; and the meaning and values ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Demanding Sustainability

    Pillars to (Re-)Build a Shared Prosperity

    de John Morrissey, C. Patrick Heidkamp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Longer term thinking and new approaches to development and prosperity have never been more urgently required. Since 2020, the precarity of the global economy, links between ecological destruction and public health and disparities in levels of exposure and vulnerability to systemic disruption have all been thrown into stark relief. In this book the authors put forward a series of principles on ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Long War

    CENTCOM, Grand Strategy, and Global Security

    de John Morrissey ...
    Series series
    Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they include the most energy-rich places on earth. From its inception, CENTCOM was tasked with the military and economic security of this ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Pisa nel medioevo

    Potenza sul mare e motore di cultura

    de Michael Mitterauer, John Morrissey ...
    Non solo nelle guide turistiche d’Italia, ma anche nella ricerca storica l’attenzione riservata a Pisa va solitamente ben poco oltre la Torre pendente e quanto immediatamente la circonda. Un atteggiamento che in realtà “pende” quanto il famoso campanile: Pisa giocò in Italia un ruolo di primaria importanza ben prima di Firenze, e fra le repubbliche marinare italiane fu al livello di Venezia. Nel ... Leer más

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  • Brandy for Heroes

    A Biography of the Honorable John Morrissey, Champion Heavyweight of America and State Senator

    de Jack Kofoed ...
    John Morrissey (1831-1878), also known as Old Smoke, was an Irish-born American who became a prominent figure of the 1850's. Raised in New York State, Morrissey moved to San Francisco at the time of the California Gold Rush in the early 1850's. There, he took up bare-knuckle boxing and, on his return to New York, challenged and defeated "Yankee Sullivan", then recognized as the American boxing ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ambitions; The Life and Love of John and Susannah Morrissey

    Ambitions, #1

    de Frank Baillargeon ...
    Series Libro 1 - Ambitions
    How does an impoverished and illiterate Irish Catholic immigrant rise from abject poverty and discrimination in mid-19th Century America to become America's boxing champion, a millionaire gambling entrepreneur, a twice-elected member of the United States Congress, and a twice-elected member of the New York State Senate?The accomplishments of John Morrissey (1831-1878) are well-documented. What's ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bare Knuckles & Saratoga Racing

    The Remarkable Life of John Morrissey

    de Brien Bouyea ...
    Series series Sports
    Chronicling the incomparable life of boxing and Saratoga Race Course legend John Morrissey.John "Old Smoke" Morrissey was one of the most dynamic characters of his time. He went from a career as an undefeated bare-knuckle boxer, founded the Saratoga Race Course and eventually won elections to Congress and the New York State Senate. A poor, uneducated Irish immigrant, Morrissey became a leader in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ambitions: The Life and Love of John and Susannah Morrissey Volume II

    Ambitions, #2

    de Frank Baillargeon ...
    Series Libro 2 - Ambitions
    How does an impoverished and illiterate Irish Catholic immigrant rise from abject poverty and discrimination in mid-19th Century America to become America's boxing champion, a millionaire gambling entrepreneur, a twice-elected member of the United States Congress, and a twice-elected member of the New York State Senate?The accomplishments of John Morrissey (1831-1878) are well-documented. What's ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Freedom of Speech

    The History of an Idea

    de Elizabeth Powers, Joris van Eijnatten, Javier Fernández Sebastián, Paula Sutter Fichtner, John Christian Laursen, Lee Morrissey, Helena Rosenblatt, Jonathan I. Israel, Douglas Smith ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain aswell as in Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. Representing the views of both moderate and radicaleighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars discover that twenty-fi rst-century controversies regarding the extent of permissible speech ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The State of It

    Stories from the Frontline of a Broken Care System

    de Chris Wild ...
    Narrado por Chris Wild, Jo Dow, Neil Morrissey ...

    Completo

    7 hora 52 minutos

    CAN WE FIX HOW WE LOOK AFTER CHILDREN IN CARE?The audio edition includes an exclusive bonus track with author Chris Wild and actor Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly, Line of Duty, Unforgotten, The Night Manager).Government cuts, unregulated care homes, inadequate staff training - campaigner and care home consultant Chris Wild has seen it all. The low standards and frequent abuse of children in ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD