'January River' translated means Rio de Janeiro. Irish woman Marie Byrne, takes us along the streets of Rio and the notorious favelas in preparation for world events. Marie includes her police meetings - interview with the former head of one of the toughest police units in the World the BOPE police and numerous encounters. Marie highlights the parallels that naturally emerge between Ireland today, Rio de Janeiro and international crime, poverty and drug problems. Colourful pictures choreograph the journey - Rio's beauty, people, poverty and above all resilience.

At the age of twenty-five, Mary Byrne Eigel finally found the answer she had pursued since childhood. The reason for her unexplained, persistent pain that compromised her legs and hips was finally named. She learned she had been born with bi-lateral hip dysplasia. Throughout her life, her parents had never provided an answer when she asked, "Why do my legs hurt?" Had this been an intentional cover-up? Was the cultural stigma of a physical defect too much for her family to accept? Eventually multiple surgeries relieved her physical suffering. However, the abrupt absence of her chronic pain forced Mary to confront the mental, physical, and spiritual dimensions of the healing. With gratitude for the lessons she has learned, Mary presents an insightful perspective on the attitude, tools, and resources she enlisted while navigating her own road to wellness and a pain-free lifestyle.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Ingram Place. A Novel: By A Cape Colonist. In Two Volumes, Volume 1; Ingram Place. A Novel: By A Cape Colonist. In Two Volumes; Mary Byrne Mary Byrne Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874

This book is a biography of Denis Charles Byrne who was a Australian geologist working for Texas Instruments in Saudi Arabia in the 1960's and 1970's. He died there mysteriously in 1976. The book contains drawings, poems, text and pictures. The author makes a comparison between the Stations of the Cross and the his sufferings during his lifetime. The cause of his death is not really known and many unusual events took place during the time between the death and the burial in Australia. Was the stranger who acccused him of stealing pipes from the company responsible? Did someone want him to leave Saudi Arabia? The story of his life and death is an exciting and interesting one and the description of life in Saudi Arabia is important for our understanding of this part of the world. There is original artwork and poetry included in the book.

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The stories in Plugging the Causal Breach explore the lives of a disparate collection of characters from French life. Many live in the shadow of the wonders of historic Paris, others in the villages of Normandy, others still in the French Midi. Here, tellingly brought together, they form the scattered mosaic of a historical puzzle that is far beyond the individual's grasp. Some choose to be loners: furniture vendor M. Pierre, the drunken truck driver at the door of a cheap hotel, the sculptor watching his building go up in flames, a depressed estate agent. Others fight something bigger than themselves: Zorica's trouble with the French administration, the harassment Chantal endures while working within it. There are traces of an older France in stories from Normandy, in the tale of a German ex-POW's war and his courageous local companion, in the account by a former chateau cook of what may be a rural myth. These stories depict a lesser-known France, brimming with communicative boldness, resilience, and humor.