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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024
Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean
Interdisciplinary perspectives
by Finola O'Kane, Ciarán O'Neill
Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians, and literary scholars to produce a genuinely interdisciplinary collection that spans from 1620-1830: the high point of European colonialism. By exploring imperial, national and familial relationships from their building blocks of plantation, migration, property and trade, it finds new ways to re-create and question how slavery made the Atlantic world.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2022Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean
by Finola O'Kane, Ciarán O'Neill, Alan Lester
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2021The plantation of Ulster
by Micheál Ó Siochrú, Eamonn Ciardha
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2014The plantation of Ulster
by Edited by Micheál Ó Siochrú and Eamonn Ciardha
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2012The plantation of Ulster
by Micheál Ó Siochrú, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Eamonn Ciardha, David Edwards
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2012
The plantation of Ulster
by Micheál Ó Siochrú, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Eamonn Ciardha, David Edwards, Rebecca Mortimer
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April 2024An Introduction to Taxation
by Butler, Eamonn
Eamonn Butler provides a jargon-free guide to taxation, its history, its aims and purposes, and its impact on individuals and economies. He puts forward different ways of funding public services, whilst exploring the principles that would make for a much better – and much simpler – tax system.
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2022The Startup Lexicon
Demystifying the everyday language of startups
by Ken Valledy and Eamonn Carey
With simple definitions of the most frequently used words, alongside stories that give more context and colour, The Startup Lexicon is an incredible primer for anyone interested in one of the biggest and fastest growing sectors in the business world.
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Medicine: general issuesNovember 2014Acute Medicine 2015
by Declan O'Kane
Acute Medicine is written for registrars, junior doctors and medical students working on the wards. It is a current and concise guide to hospital emergency medicine which provides: • detailed management of acute medical and surgical emergencies, including in pregnancy • general ward management issues • descriptions of key procedures • normal laboratory values • drug formulary covering the common drugs you will use every day. It is not just a list of instructions, but contains detailed pathophysiology and useful clinical pearls. It is designed to be carried round in a pocket for easy reference.
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June 2022An Introduction to Economic Inequality
by Butler, Eamonn
If you could instantly make the world’s poor twice as rich – but at the same time make the world’s rich twice as prosperous – wouldn’t you do it? This intriguing question lies at the core of An Introduction to Economic Inequality.
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August 2022Scaling the Heights: Thought Leadership, Liberal Values and the History of The Mont Pelerin Society
Thought Leadership, Liberal Values and the History of The Mont Pelerin Society
by Butler, Eamonn
The Mont Pelerin Society brings together individuals to defend, support and promote liberal values across the globe.
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Economic theory & philosophyMilton Friedman
A Concise Guide to the Ideas and Influence of the Free-market Economist
by Eamonn Butler
"One of the most important economic thinkers of all time"- Paul KrugmanMilton Friedman changed the world. From free markets in China to the flat taxes of Eastern Europe, from the debate on drugs to interest rate policy, Friedman's skill for vivid argument and ideas led to robust and often successful challenges to a dizzying amount of received wisdom.Relying on big-picture economic analysis and an insistent faith in human freedom, he took on the economic and political orthodoxies of his day - and if he didn't always win, he never failed to change the terms of the debate.Rarely an uncontroversial figure, with his disciples and detractors to this day, this is neither a credulous nor a critical look at the Nobel laureate. A brand new guide, it simply sets out to explain his economic and public policy thinking in a straightforward and accessible way for the general reader and student.Find out:- how Friedman undermined Keynesianism and the prevailing wisdom of large-scale economic intervention- how he demonstrated the true cause of the Great Depression and identified its real culprits (they weren't the ones jumping out of the windows)- what Friedman believed really destroys the value of the money in your pocket and how it can be stopped- his arguments for why regulations and minimum- wage laws actually achieve lower standards and greater poverty- his reasons for why big corporations prefer markets that aren't free, and how high taxation harms the wealthy less than anyone else.With more, too, on democracy, equality, global trade, education, public services and financial crises, this is a concise but comprehensive guide to the influence of a key 20th century thinker.It is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the economist whose work changed everything.
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EducationNavigating Through the Storm
Reinventing Education for Postmodern Democracies
by Aviram, A.
This book aims to systematically tackle the most severe crisis to ever beset Western education systems, which stems from the growing clash between the Platonic-modern civilization – still very much at the core of prevailing education systems – and the postmodern civilization which has become dominant in Western societies in the last generations. The book counters this crisis by radically and systematically rethinking education for postmodern democracies, beginning by comprehensively analyzing the main features of current postmodern "storms" along with their engulfing socio-cultural and educational implications, and proceeding to offer a theoretical and practical blueprint designed to harness these storms for optimally realizing the basic Humanistic values that should guide education in liberal democracies: personal autonomy, morality and dialogical belonging. Intended audience:Researchers, students, practitioners and policymakers in all fields of education; parents of school-age children; and anyone who values the importance of education for the future of developed societies. A terrific book. Aharon Aviram's trenchant critique of massive educational failure in postmodern democracies is combined with a hopeful agenda for radical educational change. An outstanding contribution to educational research.— Eamonn Callan, Professor of Education, Stanford University Educational practices no longer prepare individuals to become effective co-creators of their own futures, and educational establishments are undergoing irrelevant reforms. Aharon Aviram analyzes this state of affairs and presents a set of thought-provoking and fresh proposals for an alternative that deserve the serious consideration of all who truly wish to re-envision learning and education for the 21st Century.— Jim Dator, Director - Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Former President - World Futures Studies Federation The book gives us a very timely wakeup call from the 19th century slumber that many still inhabit and the ensuing common mythical quick fix solutions usually suggested for the deep crisis of Western educational systems in postmodernity. It offers detailed and valiant democratic-humanistic educational goals and guidelines for policy and decision making in the "uncharted waters" of postmodernity.— John P. Portelli, Professor and Co-Director - Centre for Leadership and Diversity, OISE, University of Toronto A magnificent book, enormously interesting, important and disturbing. Essential reading for those struggling to understand the tectonic shifts in philosophy, technology and general lifestyle responsible for that weltanschauung which has pushed contemporary educational systems 'beyond their expiration date', so necessitating a fundamental 'reinvention of education from scratch'.— John Abbott, President - The 21st Century Learning Initiative
