Bøker av John O'Brien

In 2003, the largest recorded solar flare collided with Earth. The sensors measuring the solar storm were destroyed at an X28 rating, but it was determined later to be an X45 class flare. A satellite monitoring solar activity picks up something far surpassing that classification and on a collision course.A solar storm, so strong that X classifications no longer apply, hits the CERN large hadron collider at the moment of particle collision, sending a quantum wave around the world. Souls are ripped from the over 7 billion people that are in its path, many immediately succumbing. Those remaining either feel nothing or are tormented by endless agony. Only a few escape its path.Sam and his teenage daughter Erin return to the surface to find a very different world from the one they left. Stranded, they must adapt quickly or become one of the creatures that now roam the earth.In the Middle East, a small team of soldiers may be the only ones left in a harsh environment overrun by creatures. With very few options and far from any refuge, they set out on a quest for help. Will the reapers hunt them down before they make it to the coast?Commander Lawrence resurfaces after a successful deep dive test of the Navy's new toy, only to find a transformed world. The floating derelicts of his escort vessels don't begin to show the horrors of what he'll find ashore.

Following their emergence into a foreign and hostile land, survivors strive to cross the barren country, many intercepted by the darkness which has thundered out of the gates. Those who make it arrive either at the budding city striving to erect their once great nation or to the protected lands in the north.Those in the valley are struck by the demonic riders which now roam the land. Will they survive this assault into their lands? Will they be able to halt the deadly invasions?Those captured are taken to the gates of hell which have opened up, there to fuel the fires. Lucifer plans on opening the final gate, giving him the power to break through heaven's gate. Alone on Earth while his brothers and sisters fight at their very gates, can Michael do anything to alter the outcome? And, what is it that Elohim has planned?

Stories of restlessness, disruption, conflagrations, faraday tents, myth-makers, bubble-worlds, local nomads, transformation, resilience and the power of the exponential. The VISIONS 2100 Project was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015. In the first instalment, Stories from your Future, the 80 contributors told of their hopes and fears for the long term. This took away the practicalities of today and considered what they really wanted. The stories were challenging, amazing and sometimes heart-warming. But 'vision without action is merely a dream' so the hard work of action must accelerate. The 82 contributors to 'Stories from 2030' work on identifying risks, harnessing finance, developing or deploying solutions and driving government action. They are the people that are driving the critical actions of this decade. In their stories, they address climate justice, collaboration across countries, companies and communities, adaptation of cities and economies, of ecosystems and biodiversity, of health and wellbeing. They tell what you can do to help. Contributors are from business, innovation, finance, journalism, politics, storytelling and the environment. Many are unsung heroes delivering immeasurable progress for world. Some have a bigger stage, such as Connie Hedegaard, Tony Juniper, Sir David King FRS, David Lammy MP, Katharine Hayhoe, Hunter Lovins, Jules Kortenhorst, Achim Steiner, Sharan Burrow and Bill McKibben. Read their stories as they report back from 2030 and decide on the part you will play this decade. It is time to stir!

Analytical Psychology of Football provides for youth trainers, accessible, scientifically based tools and techniques to develop resilence and sustain motivation in grass roots and elite footballers.

Harness the opportunities for marketing in the age of purpose and learn why it's so important to be a 'truth teller' by creating authentic communication campaigns, generating honest content and avoiding accusations of 'purpose washing'.

"Around the Boree Log and Other Verses" is a wonderful collection of poems by Australian Poet Patrick Hartigan. This work celebrates the lives and mores of the outback pastoral folk that the author ministered when he was a peripatetic curate to the southern New South Wales and Riverina towns of Thurgoona, Berrigan and Narrandera. Patrick Joseph Hartigan (1878 - 1952) was an Australian Poet and pastor. He was most famous for his poems of the Australian bush, which were an instant success and enjoyed popularity as far abroad as Ireland and the United States. Contents include: "Around the Boree Log", "Calling to Me", "The Little Irish Monster", "One by One", "Ten Little Steps and Stairs", "The Trimmin's on the Rosary", "The Birds Will Sing Again", "The Old Bush School", "Six Brown Boxer hats", "The Libel", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

This work, first published in 1879, is an informative look into the ceremonies of the Mass in both the Eastern and Western Churches. Included are historical pieces about parts of the Mass as well as how the liturgy developed over time. Also included are fascinating pieces of information about now defunct customs and numerous references to scholarly and historic works.

In his affectionate and gently humorous verses John O'Brien (Patrick Joseph Hartigan)sang of farming life and of the life of Irish settlers in Australia - at home, on the land, and at the Church upon the Hill that is the center of their lives. Around the Boree Log is verse that is simple and sincere and lit with a kindly understanding of the lives it chronicles.

Philip Landon, Introduction/ Markku Eskelinen, From Nonstop, or Missing in Fiction: A Synoptic Margin to a Trilogy/Mariaana Jantti, From Amorfiaana/Kari Kontio, From The Last of His Kind/Leena Krohn, Lucilia illustris/Kirsti Paltto, From Run Safely, My Flock/ Petter Sairanen, From Electric Lighting/ Hans Selo, From Cloudcomplexion/ Raija Siekkinen, The Black Sun/Lars Sund, From Colorado Avenue/Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa, From The Sun, My Father

"The Review of Contemporary Fiction "is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.