Gathers Irish short stories, songs, anecdotes, and essays that wittily depict the land and its people

Looks at the history and structure of music, describes its therapeutic values, and recommends music for promoting earning, creativity, relaxation, and exercise

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Already at odds with the San Francisco Police Department, private investigator Sharon McCone is determined to stay on the case of a murdered, small-time antique dealer, despite some alarming mayhem

Product Description: Instructor Required Material This COMPLETE textbook includes not only the paperback copy textbook new, but also contains the Online Edition. This is a complete interactive study guide with quizzing functionality that reports to the instructor...read more

Product Description: This introductory natural resources text discusses the ecologic processes and problems related to the physical environment. It focuses on North America, explaining how and why environmental problems exist and how they are being solved, and introducing the concept of the biotic pyramid and how it relates to the natural laws of the biosphere...read more

Operators of commercial vessels have known and favored diesel engines for years. Now more and more pleasureboaters are choosing diesel power. Despite their apparent complexity, diesels are elegantly simple machines that can be given an almost-indefinite life span by painless preventive maintenance techniques and proper operation. In many cases, these methods differ sharply from ingrained automotive practices. In fact, some of these habits, ported over from the family passenger car, can be the death of a good marine diesel. In Keep Your Marine Diesel Running, Richard Thiel has written a survival guide for the owners of all types and sizes of diesel-powered watercraft. Using the premise that the reader knows (and cares) little about engines of any kind--as long as they provide reliable service--Thiel gives a brief and painless overview of how diesel engines work, and outlines an easily followed program to dramatically extend the lives of marine engines. And if you should need repairs, Thiel tells you how to find and deal with a mechanic, how to read a bill, and how to tell if you're being taken care of or being taken for a ride. Written specifically for the non-mechanic, Keep Your Marine Diesel Running is the complete survival guide for owners of diesel-powered boats of all types and sizes. Here is: How a Marine Diesel Works, including turbochargers, cooling, fuel, lubrication, and exhaust systems. How to Operate a Marine Diesel Engine to provide the longest, most troublefree life. Includes daily and periodic logs and checklists, and details proper operation from start-up to shutdown. How to Care for Your Diesel's oil, fuel, and cooling systems; how to do it yourself; how to choose and deal with a mechanic; how to do your own basic troubleshooting; and what tools and spare parts you should carry. This is the book that should come with every marine diesel ever sold--but didn't. A marine diesel is a big investment. Follow the simple program presented here and you'll be able to keep it running troublefree for years to come. "Simple, easy-to-use, and easy-to-understand advice . . . "--SAIL "A good place to start your education."--American Sailor "If you own a diesel, you owe it to yourself to buy Keep Your Marine Diesel Running."--The Ensign

An irreverent examination of the political career of the California governor considers how he rose from a bodybuilding champion and action-movie star to the leader of the world's fifth-largest economy, exploring the recall process that ousted Schwarzenegger's predecessor and his victory over more politically experienced candidates. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: In One Last Hope, author Frank Camelio offers America a path away from its current course of national decline toward a better future. Camelio’s solution is a “Triad of Change”: three decisive remedial actions that will reverse our nation’s weakening ways and reclaim national vitality, clarity, and strength...read more

Product Description: America is being tested in a way that she has never been tested before. Since taking the oath of office in January 2009, President Barack Obama has cheered our enemies and demoralized our allies. He is hard at work "remaking" America by destroying the free-market system and nationalizing major segments of our economy, demonizing dissent and restricting freedom of speech, turning against our longtime friends, and, above all, subjecting us to the determinations of foreign authorities...read more

Product Description: "We must go forth from here united, determined that what a great general said a few years ago is true: There is no substitute for victory." –Ronald Reagan, 1976 Republican National Convention The New Reagan Revolution reveals new insights into the life, thoughts, and actions of the man who changed the world during the 1980s...read more

Product Description: Crisis of Conservatism? assesses the status of American conservatism--its politics, its allies in the Republican Party, and the struggle for the soul of the conservative movement. This struggle became especially acute with the controversial policies of the Bush administration and Republican losses in the 2006 and 2008 elections...read more

Product Description: ''America is exceptional, and all of us who believe in America must resolve to stand firmly for American Exceptionalism.'' So says Newt Gingrich in his blockbuster book A Nation like No Other. In this powerful and game-changing book, Gingrich explains what American exceptionalism really means, why the Left has waged an assault on it, and why a rededication to American exceptionalism is imperative to our country's survival...read more