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Our Moggy (Paperback)
Michael Hogan; Illustrated by Angela Gooliaff
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Case Studies of Successful Technology Transfer from Federal
Laboratories presents a case study protocol and analyses of nine
technology transfer success stories across federal agencies and
their research laboratories to begin to fill a gap in the existing
literature where there is less available research on the impact and
the mechanisms of technology transfer from federal labs. The goal
is to present a methodology for doing case studies of technology
transfer from federal laboratories and showcase a group of case
studies done using that methodology. In addition to providing rich
insights into different technology transfer processes, analysis
across case studies with the same methodology allows one to begin
to draw conclusions about similarities and differences in the
mechanisms and conditions leading to successful technology transfer
from national laboratories.
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Our Moggy (Hardcover)
Michael Hogan; Illustrated by Angela Gooliaff
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This most recent collection of Michael Hogan's stories is an
occasion for celebration. Lucid, real and unforgettable, the
characters are sometimes ordinary people trapped in their own lives
waiting for the rescue that surely someday will come. A college
girl tricked into becoming a confidential police informant, a
teacher caught up in a Mossad plot in Argentina, a Jewish family
trapped in Nazi-era Poland, all become as vivid as our neighbors.
Two of the stories are about dogs, heroic and sensitive, travelling
a long journey in the direction of what once was home. It is a book
of infinite betrayals and surprises, some delightful, some
heart-breaking. Two-time winner of the Ojo del Lago Fiction Award
in Mexico.
This book explores the culture of our thinking in relation to
spirituality. It focuses largely on psychological science and the
problems faced by scientists as they attempt to understand
spirituality in action. The book attempts to untangle the concept
of spirituality from various cultural attachments and it considers
the way different worldviews and different philosophical
perspectives can influence the models of spirituality we build. The
book moves toward a contextualist view of spirituality, focusing in
particular on the act in context, and it moves the reader to
consider spirituality as the ultimate testing ground for pragmatic
analysis. In this context, spirituality has to become more than a
simple abstraction to survive, because to survive the test of
pragmatic analysis it must facilitate successful action in context.
The fact that spirituality has survived as a working concept for
thousands of years suggests that it is resilient in this respect.
However, to survive in the modern culture of science it needs to
constantly reinvent itself as a working concept. Ultimately,
spirituality, in this book, resurfaces from the depths of
abstraction as part of an ongoing action state that has real
functional significance. Spirituality comes to be identified as a
worthy focus of analysis for children and adults alike as part of
the science of education itself. Spirituality is not an abstraction
to be feared and branded as anti-scientific. But to reverse
engineer spiritual consciousness and spiritual action is no easy
task either. Insight and out-sight must reach some form of
compromise.
This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the
purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing
rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these
issues-predominantly purpose-exists primarily as scattered journal
articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks on rhetorical
criticism. This book brings together 15 established rhetorical
critics, each of whom offers well thought out and argued opinion
pieces that stress the more personal nature of criticism. The
purpose of this book is to serve as a disciplinary resource, and as
a teaching and learning aid. Accessibility across areas of
expertise and experience is stressed in this book. Critics range
from junior faculty to emeritus, and represent a broad spectrum of
views on criticism. In this sense the book offers a snapshot of the
views of a wide swath of successfully practicing, contemporary
rhetorical critics.
Durante la invasion norteamericana a Mexico, ocurrida entre 1846 y
1848, una compania de soldados voluntarios irlandeses, conocidos
como "los San Patricios," se distinguio por su valor en el campo de
batalla. Llegados a Mexico como parte del ejercito invasor, pasaron
a las filas mexicanas por simpatia de ideales y religion. Ellos
participaron hombro con hombro junto a los mexicanos en la defensa
del territorio. Tras hacer gala de incomparable bravura, fueron
derrotados en Churubusco por avasalladora superioridad numerica del
enemigo y la falta de municiones. Dr. Hogan nos presenta un
analisis equilibrado, objetivo y autentico de esta invasion injusta
y los heroes irlandeses.
When Michael Regan falls off the rocks to his death on the Ocean
Drive, it is first seen as an accident. Regan's son Gary, a
washed-up tennis pro living in Mexico, returns home to Newport, RI,
for the funeral. He connects with an old friend who suspects Gary's
father was murdered and that evidence is being suppressed. The
death of a Latino teenager at Fort Adams State Park also seems to
be related. Soon the underside of Newport is exposed as Gary
discovers other deaths unresolved going all the way back to the
1960s with Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress a prime suspect. Full of
the richness of an island paradise with the colorful vistas of
Cliff Walk, Rough Point, and the Breakers' Mansion, this detective
novel also explores the dark side of a resort town with its
undesirables and socially marginal, as well as the super-rich, and
powerful landowner-politicians. Meanwhile, for tennis fans, it also
contains a compelling and action-filled match with sizzling serves
and volleys.
This colorful memoir of growing up in the Fifties and early Sixties
in Newport, RI by award-winning poet and historian, Michael Hogan,
provides a rich and multi-layered description of the city in the
days before the building of the Newport Bridge. Then the island was
still isolated from the mainland and only accessible from Jamestown
by ferry. Downtown Thames Street had its seamy side with sailors
and marines fighting in honky-tonk bars as Destroyer Fleet Atlantic
brought troops back from Korea. Still, it was the summer home of
the Vanderbilts, the Astors and Goelets, and the aspiring young
author greeted both Eisenhower and Kennedy at the Summer White
House and made a car trip to Amherst to meet Robert Frost.
PUBLISHER'S REVIEW "Before the Jazz Festivals, the condominiums,
the gentrification of Thames Street, the Bed and Breakfasts, and
the Bridge that let the tourists and New York investors turn my
hometown into a theme park, there was another Newport. Shrouded by
fog, slowed by cobblestone streets, full of abandoned mysterious
mansions, turreted and dark, it was a town that held history as
mysteriously as the true wine in some misplaced Medieval grail.
Like all really interesting towns, Newport had its seamy side as
well. Although nowadays it is largely upscale, in 1955 there was
still the Gas House Gang, the Irish toughs of the Fifth Ward, the
sailors and the Marines in the rough bars along Thames (pronounced
then in the English way, "Tems") Street, the "Colored"
neighborhood, the rough and tumble docks, Long Wharf, the cinder
lots and broken pavement near the railroad depot, the vacant lots
and haunted houses, Tim the Ragpicker, and the Crazy Lady on
Carroll Street. There was also the Newport of the Ocean Drive and
the Cliff Walk where one could see the magnificent homes of the
last of the robber barons of the 1890s: the Duponts, the
Rockefellers, the Pierponts, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It
was the vacation spot of presidents and the locus of the summer
White House for Dwight D. Eisenhower and later for John F. Kennedy.
The early mists rising from the trees, the sounds of flickers and
wrens, occasionally a song bird, were part of every morning. The
bleat of sheep from a hill off in the distance, the fog horns of
destroyers out in Narragansett Bay, the thin scrape of a garden
rake were my summer music. Had my parents wished me to become a
poet, they could not have planned it better. Always on these summer
mornings there was the sense of the world being born again."
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