Product Description: Colours is more than just a memoir about the formative years of someone born in the epicenter of political and sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. McDonald time travels in two directions—first back to the dark days of Ulster's violent past; and second, he uses some of the key incidents of his boyhood and youth to compare the Ireland of then with the Ireland of the 21st century...read more

Product Description: This work looks at the life and work of David Trimble, from his childhood in Bangor, County Down, through his university years and early involvement with extreme unionism, to his maturing into a politician seeking reconciliation and the power it might bring...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: McDonald posits a new method for studying and understanding culture. He proposes the adoption of a normative concept of culture, a concept based not on objects or facts (whether psychological or physical) but on the norms, rules, and values that govern a people's way of acting and thinking...read more