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According to the Small Hours

By: Aidan Mathews

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In this, his first collection of poems in fifteen years, Aidan Mathews brings together the sacred and the profane, playful and profound, the iconic and the everyday - illuminating the variousness and commonality of human experience. These poems wear their erudition lightly: dazzling us with their fresh observations, the strangely intimate details ('mice among the breadcrumbs of the Last Supper') and a fluid, metaphysical wit that can link a saint's matyrdom to a Sunday roast. Mercurial, passionate and always surprising, According to the Small Hours is a triumphant return to the form.

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Random House

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1448129958

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9781448129959

Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability

By: Aidan Davison

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Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability

By: Aidan Davison

Argues that sustainability requires more than economic and technological efficiency.

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298

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SUNY Press

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0791449793

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9780791449790

The Psychology of Concentration in Sport Performers

A Cognitive Analysis

By: Aidan P. Moran

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The Psychology of Concentration in Sport Performers

A Cognitive Analysis

By: Aidan P. Moran

This text explores the attentional processes of athletes using a theoretical framework derived from contemporary cognitive psychology.

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341

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Psychology Press

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1317716027

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9781317716020

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By: Anthony E. Boardman,David H. Greenberg,Aidan R. Vining,David L. Weimer

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Cost-Benefit Analysis

Concepts and Practice

By: Anthony E. Boardman,David H. Greenberg,Aidan R. Vining,David L. Weimer

The fourth edition of Cost-Benefit Analysis is an authoritative, market-leading textbook that provides a practical introduction to cost-benefit analysis through problem solving. The text uses a consistent application of a nine-step framework for interpreting a cost-benefit analysis. This edition has been fully revised, updated and re-organized to provide the material more effectively. It presents application over abstract theory and clear discussion over mathematics to appeal to a larger, more diverse audience.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108694802

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9781108694803

Belfast Through Time

By: Aidan Campbell

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Belfast Through Time

By: Aidan Campbell

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Belfast has changed and developed over the last century.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445636603

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According to the Small Hours

By: Aidan Mathews

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According to the Small Hours

By: Aidan Mathews

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Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938

By: Aidan Beatty

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Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938

By: Aidan Beatty

This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism. It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread anti-Irish or anti-Jewish stereotypes and create more prideful (and highly gendered) images of their respective nations. Drawing on English-, Irish-, and Hebrew-language archival sources, Aidan Beatty traces how male Irish nationalists sought to remake themselves as a proudly Gaelic-speaking race, rooted both in their national past as well as in the spaces and agricultural soil of Ireland. On the one hand, this was an attempt to refute contemporary British colonial notions that they were somehow a racially inferior or uncomfortably hybridised people. But this is also presented in the light of the general history of European nationalism; nationalist movements across Europe often crafted romanticised images of the nation’s past and Irish nationalism was thus simultaneously European and postcolonial. It is this that makes Irish nationalism similar to Zionism, a movement that sought to create a more idealized image of the Jewish past that would disprove contemporary anti-Semitic stereotypes.

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Springer

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1137441011

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9781137441010

Rome and the Eastern Churches

A Study in Schism

By: Aidan Nichols

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Rome and the Eastern Churches

A Study in Schism

By: Aidan Nichols

In the second edition of this major work, Dominican theologian Aidan Nichols provides a systematic account of the origins, development and recent history—now updated—of the relations between Rome and all separated Eastern Christians. By the end of the twentieth century, events in Eastern Europe, notably the conflict between the Orthodox and Uniate Churches in the Ukraine and Rumania, the tension between Rome and the Moscow patriarchate over the re-establishment of a Catholic hierarchy in the Russian Federation, and the civil war in the then federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, brought attention to the fragile relations between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, which once had been two parts of a single Communion. At the start of the twenty-first century, in the pontificate of Benedict XVI, a papal visit to Russia—at the symbolic level, a major step forward in the ‘healing of memories’— appears at last a realistic hope. In addition, the schisms separating Rome from the two lesser, but no less interesting, Christian families, the Assyrian (Nestorian) and Oriental Orthodox (Monophysite) Churches, are examined. The book also contains an account of the origins and present condition of the Eastern Catholic Churches—a deeper knowledge of which, by their Western brethren, was called for at the Second Vatican Council as well as by subsequent synods and popes. Providing both historical and theological explanations of these divisions, this illuminating and thought-provoking book chronicles the recent steps taken to mend them in the Ecumenical Movement and offers a realistic assessment of the difficulties (theological and political) which any reunion would experience.

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Ignatius Press

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1586172824

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9781586172824

Langrishe, Go Down

By: Aidan Higgins

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Langrishe, Go Down

By: Aidan Higgins

An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family--through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout the book. Their relationship, told in lush, erotic, and occasionally melancholic prose, comes to represent not only the invasion and decline of this insular family, but the decline of Ireland and Western Europe as a whole in the years preceding World War II. In the tradition of great Irish writing, Higgins's prose is a direct descendent from that of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and nowhere else in his mastery of the language as evident as in Langrishe, Go Down, which the Irish Times applauded as "the best Irish novel since At Swim-Two-Birds and the novels of Beckett.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564783529

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9781564783523

Saxophone Colossus

The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

By: Aidan Levy

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Saxophone Colossus

The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

By: Aidan Levy

**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** **Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the “Saxophone Colossus,” he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time, winning Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts. A bridge from bebop to the avant-garde, he is a lasting link to the golden age of jazz, pictured in the iconic “Great Day in Harlem” portrait. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called “the only jazz recluse” has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins’ extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. A child of the Harlem Renaissance, Rollins’ precocious talent landed him on the bandstand and in the recording studio with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, or playing opposite Billie Holiday. An icon in his own right, he recorded Tenor Madness, featuring John Coltrane; Way Out West; Freedom Suite, the first civil rights-themed album of the hard bop era; A Night at the Village Vanguard; and the 1956 classic Saxophone Colossus. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing, practicing up to 16 hours a day on the Williamsburg Bridge. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012. The story of Sonny Rollins—innovative, unpredictable, larger than life—is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny’s own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians’ own words, part chronicle of one man’s quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.

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Hachette Books

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0306902826

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9780306902826

A History of the Irish Language

From the Norman Invasion to Independence

By: Aidan Doyle

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A History of the Irish Language

From the Norman Invasion to Independence

By: Aidan Doyle

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main chapters that focus on a specific period in the history of the language; they each begin with a discussion of the external history and position of the Irish language in the period, before moving on to investigate the important internal changes that took place at that time. A History of the Irish Language makes available for the first time material that has previously been inaccessible to students and scholars who cannot read Irish, and will be a valuable resource not only for undergraduate students of the language, but for all those interested in Irish history and culture.

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OUP Oxford

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0191037745

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9780191037740

Windy Arbours

Collected Criticism

By: Aidan Higgins

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Windy Arbours

Collected Criticism

By: Aidan Higgins

In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, from relatively well-known authors such as William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and Jorge Luis Borges, to more obscure writers such as Ralph Cusack and Dorothy Nelson. Serving as an informative guidebook about contemporary fiction, Higgins's criticism is always insightful, and oftentimes entertainingly acerbic.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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156478391X

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9781564783912

Lions of the Grunewald

By: Aidan Higgins

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Lions of the Grunewald

By: Aidan Higgins

Here is the great Irish novel of Berlin, way back before the Wall came down. Dallan Weaver, a writer and professor who’s been fêted and flattered but has seen better days, has come to the great divided city as a guest of DILDO (Deutsche-Internationale Literatur-Dienst Organization). On arriving, Weaver’s life immediately begins to fall apart. Women fight over him. He is not always in the soberest state of mind. Moving from relatively conventional narrative to deliriously long lists, incorporating everything from children’s drawings to minute recollections of dreams, Lions of the Grunewald is—in the author’s own words—a “missionary stew,” marvelously served up in Aidan Higgins’s inimitable style.

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1628974249

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On Liturgical Theology

By: Aidan Kavanagh

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On Liturgical Theology

By: Aidan Kavanagh

Nearly everything that theologians write on liturgy, Father Kavanagh notes, is often called liturgical theology, although on closer examination such works appear to be either dogmatic theologies about the liturgy or systematic theologies making use of liturgical data. None truly reflects how liturgy shapes theology or is theology or even relates to theology. This work is Father Kavanagh's effort to substantiate the existence of a truly liturgical theology. It will raise almost as many questions as it answers, but it will also further insight into theology and liturgy as it assays their relationship.

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Liturgical Press

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0814660274

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9780814660270

Communion

By: Aidan Carl Mathews

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Communion

By: Aidan Carl Mathews

First play by established Irish poet and novelist.

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MIT Press

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1854596896

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9781854596895

Book's by Aidan Mathews

According to the Small Hours

According to the Small Hours

Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability

Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability

The Psychology of Concentration in Sport Performers

The Psychology of Concentration in Sport Performers

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Belfast Through Time

Belfast Through Time

According to the Small Hours

According to the Small Hours

Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938

Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938

Rome and the Eastern Churches

Rome and the Eastern Churches

Langrishe, Go Down

Langrishe, Go Down

Saxophone Colossus

Saxophone Colossus

A History of the Irish Language

A History of the Irish Language

Windy Arbours

Windy Arbours

Lions of the Grunewald

Lions of the Grunewald

On Liturgical Theology

On Liturgical Theology

Communion

Communion

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