Nonfiction

The purpose of this book is to introduce a concept that, if management execute it capably and sensibly: (1) will cost very little, except time; (2) is virtually guaranteed to...

During World War II, the Irish Free State was neutral, but both the Allies and the Axis powers violated Irish air space from time to time. This work is a...

Terry Prone once thought plastic surgery was for the vain, the self-regarding and the rich. She thought herself the person least likely to submit to the plastic surgeon's scalpel. But...

Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home was for good. Half a million Irish men and women left these shores in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation to make...

Dublin Made Me, the first of C.S. ('Todd') Andrews' two celebrated volumes of autobiography, describes in loving detail the pre-independence Dublin in which the author grew up and provides a...

Killarney National Park, with its lakes, woods and mountains, forms the backdrop for most visits to Kerry. Despite the popular image of a commercialised tourist destination, the National Park is...

Ireland - Our Island Home takes the reader o n a pictorial journey around the Emerald Isle, through aeria l photographs taken between 1992 and 1996 by Cork photograph er...

In the 18th century, ground-breaking discoveries in science bought about a vast moral, scientific and political upheaval, in which the age-old authority of the church was challenged. It was thought...

Proceedings of a conference held in the National University of lreland, Maynooth in 1995. The papers given consider in detail the impact of global environmental changes projected for the coming...

Includes a special illustrated section on France's renowned cuisine and wine. Information on getting off the beaten track in Caen and where to be seen in Cannes; informed recommendations on...

A book about management, described by guru Peter Drucker as 'a first rate as an introduction for the non-manager and especially for the beginner, but equally excellent as a rounded,...

On New Year's Eve, 1942, four British destroyers fought off a massive German attack in the Arctic by the pocket battleship "Lustzow", the heavy cruiser "Hipper" and six destroyers. Not...

In Great Catherine, this remarkable woman em erges as neither victim nor demon, but rather as an attracti ve personality with humanitarian leanings who devoted her pr imary energies to...