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Bowie - Starchild (Hardcover)
Michael O'Neill; Designed by Darren Grice; Edited by (editors-in-chief) Tom O'Neill
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Here is the story of the boy from Brixton who became one of the
most famous artists of the 20th century, returned to prominence in
the 21st with music and visions informed by a sense of his own
mortality and who through his life and work, changed lives and
those of generations to come.
This lavishly illustrated hard back book tells the incredible story
of Francis Albert Frank Sinatra and begins in Hoboken New Jersey on
December 12th 1915 where Frank is born the only child of Italian
immigrants. Beginning his musical career in the swing era as a boy
singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found success as
a solo artist from the early 1940s after being signed by Columbia
Records in 1943. Sinatra became one of the best-selling artists of
all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide
including the hits New York New York, My Way and Strangers in the
Night. He was a founding member of the Rat Pack with Sammy Davis
Junior and Dean Martin. Sinatra won an Academy Award for his
performance in From Here to Eternity. He starred in a number of
musicals including On the Town, Guys and Dolls and High Society. He
was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and the
Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of
eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award. One of the most popular and influential musical artists of
the 20th century, Sinatra had a popularity that was later matched
only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Michael Jackson. He has been
called the greatest singer of the 20th Century.
As featured on The Joe Rogan Experience
______________________________ A journalist's twenty-year obsession
with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories
about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of
one of the most infamous cases in American history. Twenty years
ago, reporting for a routine magazine piece about the infamous
Manson murders, journalist Tom O'Neill didn't expect to find
anything new. But the discovery of horrifying new evidence
kick-started an obsession and his life's work. What had he
unearthed and what did it mean: why was there surveillance by
intelligence agents? Why did the police make these particular
mistakes and why did Tom's greatest ally in this fight turn into
his biggest foe? Chaos is an explosive read that will shock, grip
and change our understanding of a case that has haunted the world
for over fifty years. ______________________________ 'Riveting ...
Sensational revelations ... True crime fans will be enthralled.'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY '[Full of] scandalous findings ... to me it seems
only too plausible. O'Neill's intricately sinister 'secret history'
often sounds incredible; that doesn't mean that it's not all true.'
OBSERVER 'Tantalizing ... Founded on prodigious research ...
O'Neill's 20-year investigation reads like a thriller.' LOS ANGELES
TIMES
Follow their incredible journey from students when the band formed
in Cambridge in 1965 and consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason,
Roger Waters, Richard Wright with Dave Gilmour joining in 1967. Syd
Barrett left in 1968 but remains synonymous with the group. Pink
Floyd rose to become the most commercially successful and musically
influential group in the history of popular music.
In 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the fort on Spike
Island in County Cork was the largest British-military-run prison
for Republican prisoners and internees in the Martial Law area,
housing almost 1,400 men from Munster and south Leinster. Tom
O'Neill has compiled an outstanding record of these men, using
primary-source material from Irish Military Archives, British Army
records, and prisoner and internee autograph books. This book
includes details of arrests, charges, trials, convictions,
sentences and transfers of the Republicans held on Spike Island.
From the establishment of the military prison in 1921, to the
escapes, hunger strikes and riots, as well as the fatal shooting by
sentries of two internees that took place there, Spike Island's
Republican Prisoners, 1921 is the first comprehensive history of
individuals and events on the island during the Irish War of
Independence. Spike Island is now a world-class tourist attraction.
Uprooted from city life by the death of his father, Dark is
beckoned into a rath as he wanders the fields near his new home.
There, he meets people big and small whose magnificent stories of
warriors, monsters and the fairy people provide an escape from his
crumbling school and home life and take him deep into the world of
Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Fianna. O'Neill's powerful new tales of
adventure, heroism, treachery, weakness and redemption entwine with
ancient Irish folklore as Dark realises that he, like his eccentric
uncle Connie, belongs to two very different worlds.
Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O'Neill has
traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to
undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and
carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative
and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during
those turbulent times. In his autoethnographic memoir, O'Neill
reflects on the complex relationships he developed with his
research participants: the carpet weavers, their families, and
others in the communities which he studied. A compelling account of
ethnographic fieldwork's personal dimension and the ethical and
emotional challenges that come with maintaining relationships
across substantial social distances, The Heart of Helambu
illustrates an important aspect of anthropological research through
O'Neill's engaging story.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was
incorporated into international law in 1989. Since its adoption, it
has been ratified by nearly all member nations. An outline of the
basic rights of all persons under the age of 18, the Convention has
various implications and its importance cannot be contested. This
collection focuses on children's rights as defined by the U.N.
Convention, and their relevance in both national and international
contexts.
The contributors discuss the Convention from different
disciplinary perspectives, but are united in the belief that it is
a tool to be utilized and contextualized by individuals,
institutions, and communities. If there is a single conviction to
be found throughout Children's Rights it is that the rights of the
child are far too important to be left to states alone to provide
and protect. To paint a detailed picture of the subject as a whole,
the volume looks at situations in which the basic rights of
children are often denied such as violent social conflict, parental
abandonment, and social inequality. Consisting of thirteen essays
by prominent scholars, it is an in-depth and interdisciplinary
exploration of the significance of children's rights, and a
tremendous resource for those working with children and youth in
institutional and educational settings.
When some drug dealers in Camden, New Jersey get blown away by a
smooth operator who's impersonating a cop, the case falls to two
bleary-eyed, wisecracking police vets. But before they can even
begin, an FBI team swoops in, headed by bossy and humourless Roger
Sorenson. He identifies the perp as James Sullivan, an attorney who
dropped out of sight a few years ago and has been taking out
criminals ever since. In bits and pieces, it's revealed that
Sullivan's vigilantism stems from criminal activity of his former
colleague Dennis O'Brien, whom Sullivan blames for the death of his
wife.
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