His fans adore him, the critics hate him and Barry Manilow just keeps going on! But the career of the man The Rolling Stone dubbed "a giant among entertainers" and "the showman of our generation" had the strangest of beginnings. Biographer, Patricia Butler, unravels the strange stories behind Manilow's Brooklyn upbringing, his shortlived marriage, his cautious career change from youthful executive to freelance musician and his dramatic partnership with Bette Midler. Manilow's private life has always been the subject of speculation, and here the many sides of his personality are explored, along with his rise from Seventies hit-maker to timeless showbiz legend.
Angels Dance and Angels Die tells the story of the turbulent relationship between legendary Doors front man, Jim Morrison, and his common-law wife, Pamela Courson. Follow the lives of Courson and Morrison before their fateful meeting in 1965; their lives together until Morrison's death in 1971; and Courson's life without Morrison, including her fight to gain the rights to his estate until her death from a heroin overdose on April 25, 1974.
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches of church formation and leadership come together from the disciplines of organizational behavior, theology, sociology, history, and law, to foster the creation of a new code of ethics that is both ecclesial and professional. Touching on issues of governance, authority, accountability, and transparency, this volume goes on to specifically explore whether and how professional ethics can shape the identity and actions of Church leaders, ministers, and their congregations. While evoked by the sex scandal in the Church, the essays in this book raise questions that have implications far beyond this current issue, to much broader issues such as the role of professionalism in ethics and what it means for an organization to engage in moral action.
The final book in a series of five books set in Buffalo, New York, that focuses on fictitious people who grew up in Buffalo, love, it, and have helped its renaissance as the Queen City of the Great Lakes. They are senior citizens now, with different pasts, coming together with common goals.
Selections from William Butler Yeats' poetry revealing an autobiographical account of his sudden heart problem and severe depression. Both my father and I loved poetry; we quoted it to each other all the time.He had racks of it on his bookshelves and delighted in showing me the beauty and honesty of the mere arrangement of words. When I began to systematically read the later poetry of William Butler Yeats I was looking for the story of his extra-marital lover, a young Catholic woman who gave birth to his first beloved son. But she was murdered and he had to abandon his son. I found everything I was looking for right here in the poetry.
The joint-use college/public library can be an ideal solution to serving patrons while managing overextended resources, and this illuminating book scrutinizes successes and failures of the joint-use model.
The Unseen World is the realm of memories lived and eternal energy. It is explored by the sixth sense of feeling intuition, and insight. Buffalo has many sites of energy fields that exist to be explored. They are usually called haunted sites, but contain the energy and memories of lives lived, not ghosts or scary spirits. All places on earth contain some form of energy. Mediums or Readers are able to communicate messages from this energy field in order to help those of us who need to develop our sixth sense in order to live the potential of our higher selves.
Sometimes a child may seem "different." Other times a community may be "different." This story, set in the Southern Tier of New York State, uses the "differences" of the Amish and the Spiritualist Community of Lily Dale in a way that reveals universal truths of people everywhere.
The future of Buffalo, New York is looking like it is on its way to once again becoming 'the Queen of the Great Lakes.' This novel projects a future where the mayor is now a woman, Merrill Foster. She and her friends are making sure certain corrupt elements are not able to take advantage of Buffalo's new prosperity, renaissance, and location next to Canada. Lenore, Tina, Nicki, and Shelly are older now, but nonetheless, still vibrant in helping Buffalo prosper." -- Publisher.
William Butler Yeats had an extra-marital lover, Lily O'Neill or Honor Bright, from 1918 to 1925. Garda Superintendent Leopold Dillon murdered her on orders from Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. George, Senator Yeats's wife, reported falsely that Lily was a Republican spy. O'Higgins wanted to restore credence in the Free State, which would otherwise have been reclaimed by the British due to maladministration. Afterwards a bogus trial was concocted outside the court circuit by Chief Superintendent David Neligan, at which Lily was reinvented as a prostitute to conceal Yeats's affair and son, and hide the involvement of Free State officials. On the strength of false evidence the jury unanimously acquitted the assassin after three minutes deliberation.
This first in-depth chronicle of Irish watercolors and drawings is a remarkable visual record of Ireland's landscapes and its history. Trace the foundation and development of watercolors and drawings in that country, and discover their many aspects, traditions, and techniques. Over 70 color and 175 black-and-white illustrations reproduce miniatures, topographical views, classical landscapes, botanical and decorative studies of plants, caricatures, marine painting, and portraits. Concise biographies of more than 200 artists, from the relatively unknown to the widely acclaimed and sought after, summarize important aspects of the artists' lives or works.
People cross in and out of situations, emotions, and the lives of others through fate or planning. The characters in this book cross physical, mental, and emotional boundaries that confirm the premise: "Everything happens for a reason." Set in the Adirondacks and Niagara Falls of today, worlds collide and mesh, childhood friends lose innocence through fate and folly.
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