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View Rights PortalDer Concadora Verlag steht für inspirierende Medien und Veranstaltungen zu den Themen Mindful Leadership, Organisationsbezogenes Transformationsmanagement, Kommunikation und Mediation für Führungskräfte, BeraterInnen und MediatorInnen. Ein Schwerpunkt unserer Veröffentlichungen sind Medien zum Konfliktmanagement und zur systemischen Mediation.
View Rights PortalMit schönem Farbschnitt in der Erstauflage – Lieferung je nach Verfügbarkeit Sing me your songs – show me your soul! Die Journalismus-Studentin Allie will ihr Praktikum bei der Irish Times erfolgreich abschließen. Doch dann schickt sie ihr Chef ausgerechnet mit einer Boyband auf Tour, deren Musik sie so gar nicht ausstehen kann – und deren Leadsänger sie neulich auch noch völlig ahnungslos im Club geküsst hat. Auch Conor ist alles andere als begeistert, dass ihn die Frau, die ihm zuvor gehörig den Kopf verdreht hat, nun auf Schritt und Tritt verfolgt. Immerhin könnte sie ihn schneller zu Fall bringen, als ihm lieb ist, sollte sie sein wohlgehütetes Geheimnis herausfinden. Erst als Conor entdeckt, dass auch Allie ein Geheimnis hat, öffnet er sich ihr langsam. Je mehr Zeit die beiden miteinander verbringen, desto bewusster wird ihnen, dass sie viel mehr verbindet, als sie auf den ersten Blick dachten. Und dass es häufig einen zweiten Blick braucht, um zu erkennen, welcher Mensch sich hinter seinen Geheimnissen verbirgt. Der romantische New-Adult-Roman lässt die Herzen von Romance-Fans ab 16 Jahren höher schlagen. Die emotionale Liebesgeschichte zwischen Allie und Conor steckt voller inspirierender Antworten auf die großen Fragen des Lebens. Eine gefühlvolle Enemies-to-Lovers-Geschichte, die junge Erwachsene auf ihrer Reise zu sich selbst begleitet. All your secret Songs: Wer bin ich, wer will ich sein und was bin ich bereit, dafür zu geben? Gefühle, Liebe und Musik: Eine aufregende Rockstar Romance für Leser*innen ab 16 Jahren. Mitreißend und emotional: Die packende Story erzählt, wie aus anfänglicher Abneigung eine tiefe Verbundenheit entstehen kann. Voll im Trend: Die beliebten Tropes „Enemies to Lovers“ und „Forced Proximity“ sorgen für prickelnde Spannung. Tolle Mischung: Die Welt der Musik und zwei Menschen auf der Suche nach ihrer eigenen Identität. Genial ausgestattet in der Erstauflage: Softcover mit Klappen, trendig illustriertem Buchschnitt und coolem Lesezeichen zum Abtrennen. Die New-Adult-Romance für junge Leser*innen ab 16 Jahren erzählt eine mitreißende Geschichte über wahre Liebe und den Mut, gegen alle Widerstände seinen eigenen Weg zu gehen. Und sich vielleicht nicht immer an die Regeln zu halten…
'The Ends of Ireland' considers the work of a key group of critics emerging from Ireland through the 1980s and 1990s: Seamus Deane, Luke Gibbons, David Lloyd, W. J. McCormack, Gerardine Meaney and Emer Nolan. As the main representatives of the turn to theory in Irish Studies these critics have examined Irish culture in the light of ideas taken from psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism and postcolonialism. In a series of incisive yet accessible chapters Carville analyses the way in which these often provocative ideas have been put to work in the Irish context, transforming our understanding of writers like Joyce and Beckett, as well as informing broader debates around nationalism, modernization, memory and historical revisionism. Essential reading for anyone concerned with Irish Studies and its relationship with theory, the issues raised by 'The Ends of Ireland' set a new agenda for Irish Studies in the coming times. ;
Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology - the eighteenth-century brick terraced house - and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.
Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate and environmental change. The book explores the effects of fences on wild animals and human impacts on carrion animals; the impacts of tourism on animal welfare; philosophical questions about speciesism; and the quality and quantity of animal lives. The welfare impacts of human-animal interactions are explored, including human impacts on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, and companion and farm animals. Animal Welfare in a Changing World provides: Concise, opinion-based views on important issues in animal welfare by world experts and key opinion leaders. Pieces based on experience, which balance evidence-based approaches and the welfare impacts of direct engagement through training, campaigning and education. A wide-ranging collection of examples and descriptions of animal welfare topics which outline dilemmas in the real world, that are sometimes challenging, and not always comfortable reading. This is a 'must-read' book for animal and veterinary scientists, ethologists, policy and opinion leaders, NGOs, conservation biologists and anyone who feels passionately about the welfare of animals
Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate and environmental change. The book explores the effects of fences on wild animals and human impacts on carrion animals; the impacts of tourism on animal welfare; philosophical questions about speciesism; and the quality and quantity of animal lives. The welfare impacts of human-animal interactions are explored, including human impacts on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, and companion and farm animals. Animal Welfare in a Changing World provides: Concise, opinion-based views on important issues in animal welfare by world experts and key opinion leaders. Pieces based on experience, which balance evidence-based approaches and the welfare impacts of direct engagement through training, campaigning and education. A wide-ranging collection of examples and descriptions of animal welfare topics which outline dilemmas in the real world, that are sometimes challenging, and not always comfortable reading. This is a 'must-read' book for animal and veterinary scientists, ethologists, policy and opinion leaders, NGOs, conservation biologists and anyone who feels passionately about the welfare of animals
When a multinational games company recruit Tom, a smart, streetwise Dublin teenager, to get a team together and come to San Francisco to immerse themselves in a massive fantasy world, he thinks it is the job of his dreams. His challenge is to level up fast so as to eliminate an AI dragon that has gone rogue and is preventing the release of the game. As Tom comes closer to that goal, he starts to realise that the game is not what it seems, not least because a powerful crypto-currency company seem to have funded the creation of the game for their own purposes. Conor Kostick has experience of hitting the zeitgeist before. His 2006 Sci-Fi book Epic, also involving a fantasy game, sold over 100,000 copies world-wide. He is also a leading figure in the LitRPG community and literary movement.
This is It is a practical meditation guide that uses humour to teach the benefits of mindfulness through a series of accessible techniques. It’s also a hilarious account of one man’s attempt to find peace in a chaotic life and follows his journey from the bogs of Kildare to the bright lights of LA, and on to enlightenment in India. Now a meditation teacher in Berlin, Morocco and Dublin, Conor gently and skillfully explains the lessons he’s learned along the way to finding peace, and with warmth, wit and wisdom guides you on the path to a more mindful life.
In Blood Money, Conor leads us through the planet's underworlds, unravelling the stories and uncovering the characters behind the murky worlds of everything from cannabis cultivation in Birmingham to date rape in Bogota and currency counterfeiting rings in Buenos Aires to express kidnapping in Mexico City. Action-packed adrenaline journalism is Conor's signature, and it's exactly what he delivers here – his most daring reportage to date, reliving how he put his own safety to one side in the course of one breathtaking encounter after another, assembling a picture of a world you never knew existed, or how it worked. A truly hair-raising and vastly entertaining read.
Rethinking Cooperation with Evil: A Virtue-Based Approach applies Thomistic virtue theory to today’s most challenging questions of cooperation with evil. For centuries, moralists have struggled to determine the conditions necessary to justify moral cooperation with evil. The English Jesuit Henry Davis even observed: “[T]here is no more difficult question than this in the whole range of Moral Theology.” This important book addresses this challenge by applying the virtue-based method of moral reasoning of St. Thomas Aquinas to issues of cooperation with evil. Those who pastor souls report frequently receiving questions from attentive believers about whether a particular human action inadvertently contributes to some moral evil. Examples of potentially immoral cooperation with evil include whether one may shop at a particular franchise known for its support of abortion, whether Catholics may attend civil marriages outside the Church, or whether an organization may submit to government mandates that health insurance include payment for immoral practices. Although recent moralists have tackled specific topics related to cooperation with evil, agreement on an overall common paradigm has not yet been reached. Rethinking Cooperation with Evil proposes a method for Christian believers and others to approach these questions from the foundation of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and the magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church. This text provides both an overall method for how to understand the issue of cooperation, as well as practical counsel for specific cases. Rethinking Cooperation with Evil advances the theological conversation on this topic from both speculative and practical vantage points. To facilitate his argument, Connors utilizes historical analyses that contrast Aquinas’s method of moral reasoning with that of the casuist treatment of cooperation. Consequently, the book includes numerous case studies that will be of interest both to moral theologians and readers new to the topic.
In a North Carolina tiger sanctuary, she found new love and a new purpose. Sylvia Holt has lost her dream of the perfect suburban Atlanta life—via infertility, a painfully failed adoption, and a husband who’s cheating on her with a younger woman. Her divorce leads her to a North Carolina vacation home, where she settles in with no other goals than to become a sad recluse. But then her next-door neighbor, Ethan Montgomery, lures her into the amazing world of his tiger sanctuary. Sylvia slowly heals, and her bond with Ethan and the tigers—many of them rescued from abuse and neglect—turns her into a fierce advocate for the big cats. She and Ethan battle a sinister dealer in black-market potions made from tiger parts. Sylvia’s maternal instincts kick in even more with the rescue of a tigress and her tiny cub. Despite challenges, threats, and doubts, Sylvia and Ethan forge ahead, falling in love and working against all odds to secure a future for the endangered cats they adore. Valerie Joan Connors is the Michigan-born daughter of an artist and a musician. In addition to her career as the operations manager for an architecture, engineering, and design firm, she makes time for her true passion, writing. She is the 2013 president of the century-old Atlanta (Georgia) Writer’s Club. IN HER KEEPING is her first published novel. Visit her at www.valeriejoanconnors.com.
Before there was an immigrant American Church, there was a Native American Church. The Native American Catholic Studies Reader offers an introduction to the story of how Native American Catholicism has developed over the centuries, beginning with the age of the missions and leading to inculturated, indigenous forms of religious expression. Though the Native-Christian relationship could be marked by tension, coercion, and even violence, the Christian faith took root among Native Americans and for those who accepted it and bequeathed it to future generations it became not an imposition, but a way of expressing Native identity. From the perspective of historians and theologians, the Native American Catholic Studies Reader offers a curated collection of essays divided into three sections: education and evangelization; tradition and transition; and Native American lives. Contributors include scholars currently working in the field: Mark Clatterbuck, Damian Costello, Conor J. Donnan, Ross Enochs, Allan Greer, Mark G. Thiel, and Christopher Vecsey, as well as selections from a past generation: Gerald McKevitt, SJ, and Carl F. Starkloff, SJ. These contributions explore the interaction of missionaries and tribal leaders, the relationship of traditional Native cosmology and religiosity to Christianity, and the role of geography and tribal consciousness in accepting and maintaining indigenous and religious identities. These readings highlight the state of the emergent field of Native-Catholic studies and suggest further avenues for research and publication. For scholars, teachers, and students, the Native American Catholic Studies Reader explores how the faith of the American Church’s eldest members became a means of expressing and celebrating language, family, and tribe.
A Novella about a boy named Mick, and his struggles with life. His parent's divorce and a friend's suicide make his world unbearable. Each "cut" has a deeper meaning. A cry for help.
Striking photographs of the final days of the Stinson Seafood sardine cannery in Maine
Brian Conaghan's first novel"innovative and insightful... couldn’t wait to devour part two" - Times Educational Supplement"I was utterly flabbergasted... one of the most compelling novels I've ever read" - Heffers Review, Cambridge "Brilliant writing, brilliant structure, brilliant book" - Des Dillon, author of Me and Ma Gal"definitely up there with the modern classics" - What? Magazine"A Must-Read for Teens and Adults: The Boy Who Made It Rain is an innovative novel that will keep you glued to the story until you turn the last page and learn the final outcome." - Fran Lewis, New York Reviewer.The bookWhen a school tragedy happens, you probably lay the blame on society, the Internet, TV or violent films. Not many of you think it could be the parents' or the teachers' fault, do you? But then, is it? We all have our say, spout off opinions in different directions according to our view of the world. In this novel, too, they all have their say, but who's right?At only sixteen Clem's world is turned upside down. His Willy-Loman-like father, a travelling salesman and a loser, is transferred from Eastbourne to Glasgow and along with him go Clem and his meek accommodating mother. But Glasgow is rough and Clem's posh English accent is not well-accepted in the sink school he attends. And he's a brilliant scholar. He soon becomes the target for McEvoy's group of thugs for whom slashing faces is the most important ambition in their depraved lives.
In 1777, General George Washington experienced a divine visitation at Valley Forge. “Three great perils will come upon this nation.” An angelic being describes the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, but warns, “The Third Peril will be the worst.” Today, this message is revisited. Five-year-old Connor Hays, son of the Chief Economic Advisor to the President of the United States, insists that an angel told him, “War is coming to America!” But who will believe a child? The Third Peril is a modern-day, epic-suspense novel that builds on General George Washington’s divine vision. Frighteningly relevant today, this is a story about people, faith, and providence in times of cultural upheaval and national insecurity. This is the first book of a thought-provoking trilogy that will inspire all who are thirsty in a dry and weary land.