This title is co-written by a licensed nutritionist and cancer survivor. This new edition of "What to Eat If You Have Cancer" provides you with an updated overview on how cancer affects the body, as well as personalized meal plans for coping with the side effects of chemical, surgical, and radiation treatments. This revised edition includes the ...
A novel of rural Ireland: "Furious, raging, passionate and . . . very, very funny."--"Boston Globe." "At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration. For those who wear the green, this book will provide a bounty of tears and laughs."--"Publishers Weekly."
In this biography, a professor of politics examines Tom Paine's special place as the Founding Father who perhaps most powerfully spoke out for democracy. Keane examines his life and times, the political contexts of the pre-Revolutionary period, and Paine's authorship of three memorable texts, COMMON SENSE, THE RIGHTS OF MAN, and THE AGE OF REASON.
This expertly written guide will show you exactly why Pro Tools shrinks a full music studio into a computer, replacing the bulky recording infrastructure of multi-track analog mixing boards and rolls of two-inch-wide magnetic tape. It is ideal for beginning, intermediate, and advanced producers, sound engineers, and musicians.
In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the common sense view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually sensitive to violence. He argues that we need to think ...
From one of Ireland's favorite writers and most popular storytellers, a stockingful of Christmas surprises for any season. In this winning collection of seventeen original tales, John B. Keane plumbs the rich folk culture of Ireland as he portrays the holiday dreams and everyday shortcomings of ordinary country people during the Christmas season ...
This edition has been fully updated based on the latest research. This new edition of "What to Eat If You Have Diabetes" is an invaluable guide to helping patients, their families, and their caregivers develop an individualized program for stabilizing blood sugar and maintaining an all-around healthy lifestyle. The book features revised diabetes ...
This work includes information on choosing the best foods to help combat the disease as well as the side effects of chemical, surgical, and radiation treatments.
It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility. In this important new book, John Keane shows how, in a wholly unexpected reversal of fortunes, this antiquated distinction has since become voguish among politicians, academics ...
This political biography of playwright and world leader Vaclav Havel looks at his life and career from his days as a political dissident under a Soviet-sponsored regime through his years as President of Czechoslovakia, where his high-minded principles and focus on democracy could not prevent the breakup of his country. It examines his political ...
From behind-the-scenes views of religion to the truth about Irish drinking practices, these 15 festive stories by Ireland's most popular playwright capture--in realistic Irish dialect--the essence of Ireland during the holidays and will delight anyone who believes in the spirit of Christmas. Glossary included.
At the moment, no other European city attracts so much fascination as the city of Berlin. An unrivalled symbol of modern urban life, Berlin is a dynamic city whose inhabitants, in the course of the past two centuries, have lived through both the rapid growth and the violent destruction of the institutions of civil society, several times over. This ...
John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, ...
A novel that traces the fortunes of the Irish labourers who emigrated to England in the 1950s. John B. Keane gives the reader fascinating details of their daily existence, their exhilerations and their sorrows. He has also written "Durango", "Letters of a Love Hungry Farmer" and "The Field".
In this essay, John Keane rethinks the relationship between the media and democracy. He opens up and explores a cluster of vital questions: where did the modern ideals of republican democracy and 'liberty of the press' originate? Have they been destroyed during the twentieth century by new forms of state censorship, or the emergence of ...
John B. Keane is one of Ireland's most popular playwrights. With his plays now reaching the cinema, his work has become known to an international audience. 30 years after John B. Keane made his professional debut as a playwright, biographers Gus Smith and Des Hickey join forces to tell the remarkable story of the man from Listowel. They mirror ...
Mollie's face clouded as it always did whenever she thought of the Ram of God. She was careful not to show her annoyance. The more she considered their relationship, the more her fury mounted. Somehow, in the course of time, she would bring him down. There was no doubt about that in her mind.
This bountiful, first-time-ever omnibus collection of more than fifty tales by one of Ireland's liveliest and most popular story writers offers holiday charm, human idiosyncrasy, and Gaelic humor by the Christmas stockingful. Drawing on the rich folk culture of County Kerry, John B. Keane brings new life to old custom in his portrayals of the ...
This comprehensive and up-to-date book brings together leading authorities to cover the entire spectrum of instruments, techniques, standardized measures, and procedures used to diagnose and measure the psychological and physiological aftermath of
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