Publisher: Gill ISBN: 9780717180424 Number of pages: 304 Weight: 484 g Dimensions: 234 x 152 x 26 mm You may also be interested in. Here, with Alison O'Reilly, she pieces together the erased chapter of the life of her mother Bridget Dolan and her forgotten sons. ×Close Hooray You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. Anna was left to wonder, were her brothers among them? My Name is Bridget The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and The Tuam Mothers and Baby Home by Alison O'Reilly 0Ratings 0 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Donate this book to the Internet Archivelibrary. What followed was the explosive revelation that the remains of 796 babies were discovered in a septic tank on the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Anna became compelled to try and uncover any information she could about her baby brothers. She would go on to marry a wonderful man and have a daughter Anna Corrigan, but it was only after Bridget's death that Anna discovered she had two brothers her mother had never spoken about. Her second child was once again delivered into the care of the nuns and was taken from her, never to be seen or heard from again. Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who died at the home in a horrendous state of neglect less than two years later. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century's worth of lost souls. In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.
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The Book of Frogs brings readers face to face with six hundred astonishingly unique and irreplaceable species that display a diverse array of adaptations to habitats that are under threat of destruction throughout the world. Accessibly written by expert Tim Halliday and containing the most up-to-date information, The Book of Frogs will captivate both veteran researchers and amateur herpetologists.Īs frogs increasingly make headlines for their troubling worldwide decline, the importance of these fascinating creatures to their ecosystems remains underappreciated. Life-size color photos show the frogs at their actual size-including the colossal seven-pound Goliath Frog. Six hundred of nature’s most fascinating frog species are displayed, with each entry including a distribution map, sketches of the frogs, species identification, natural history, and conservation status. The Book of Frogs commemorates the diversity and magnificence of all of these creatures, and many more. The Wood Frogs of North America freeze every winter, reanimating in the spring from the glucose and urea that prevent cell collapse. Male Darwin’s Frogs carry their tadpoles in their vocal sacs for sixty days before coughing them out into the world. A single gram of the toxin produced by the skin of the Golden Poison Frog can kill 100,000 people. With over 7,000 known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and behaviors. This rich collection includes homilies on martyrs Meletius, Eustathius, Lucian, Phocas, Juventinus and Maximinus, Ignatius, Eleazar (and the seven boys), Bernike, Prosdoke and Domnina, Barlaam, Drosis, and Romanus. Mayer pinpoints several conceptual shifts that identified and shaped this cult: the imitation of Christ's own death the creedal declaration "I am a Christian" the sense of privilege bestowed upon martyrs the ritual purity of relics public veneration of the departed and places made holy by martyrs' blood. The cult's original point of focus was the Christian martyrs-those followers of the Jesus movement-who died in confession of their faith, either at the hands of other Jews or at the hands of the Roman administration. However, in this volume, author Wendy Mayer investigates the liturgical, topographical, and pastoral aspects that marked the martyr cult at Antioch and Constantinople in John's time. Until now, the majority of John's homilies on the saints and martyrs have been ignored. The cult of the saints is a phenomenon that expanded rapidly in the fourth century, and John Chrysostom's homilies are important witnesses to its growth. This also applies to you posting on behalf of your friend/family member/neighbor. Personal benefit includes, but is not limited to: financial gain from sales or referral links, traffic to your own website/blog/channel, karma farming, critiques or feedback of your work from the community, etc. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. 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When tragedy strikes, one of the seven friends is found dead. But when the teachers change up the casting, a good-natured rivalry turns ugly, and the plays spill dangerously over into life. But when a surprise casting turns a good-natu. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago.Īs a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. As a young actor studying at an elite conservatory, Oliver felt doomed to always be in his friends shadows. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Like Donna Tartts The Secret History, If We Were Villains draws readers into a close-knit, exclusive coterie and watches as rivalry and obsession cause. A vivid and immersive story of obsession perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt's The Secret HistoryOliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or. Seeing nothing but futility, she has decided to document the last six months of her existence and commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. She has no one to confide in and feels increasingly alien to the people around her. At twelve, she sees her family’s shortcomings and fears being sealed in the fish-bowl of modern adult life. Paloma Joss is the world weary daughter of an upper class yet provincial family. It just takes the right people to follow them. One of the few things she does allow herself is a garden with beautiful camellias, which can be passed off as part of her job. She loves and appreciates beauty and is particularly fond of Japanese culture. She has a taste for cultured things: art, music, film and philosophy. Her secret? Renée loves to read and think about subjects way above her station. Due to a traumatic event that occurred in her family when she was a child, she lives in mortal fear that someone will see through the chinks in her armor, that someone will see beyond the hedgehog spines that protect her soft and vulnerable core. It is a terrible weight on her conscience and a deep embarrassment. They would never guess the secret that she guards every waking minute. To the upper class people who live in her elegant Parisian apartment building, Renée Michel is a simple concierge. Perhaps our authenticity is actually what the world needs. We often hide our true selves from people around us. Stay tuned right here on Read Riordan for more exclusive cover reveals coming your way in the next few weeks. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land, Greece itself to find the Doors of Death. With old and new friends joining forces, a marvelous ship, fearsome foes, and exotic settings, The Mark of Athena is another unforgettable adventure by master storyteller Rick Riordan. About The Heroes of Olympus, Book Three: The Mark of Athena: The Graphic Novel. The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. But they number only six–who will complete the Prophecy of Seven? The third book in the Heroes of Olympus series will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Half-Blood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third installment in the New York Times #1 best-selling Heroes of Olympus series from Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson & the Olympians, will soon be available as a graphic novel! The text was adapted by Robert Venditti, a New York Times best-selling author whose characters and concepts have been adapted to film, television, and video games, and New York Times best-selling graphic novelist Orpheus Collar captured all the action with his expressive illustrations. Get ready to set sail with the Argo II once more! The Heroes of Olympus Book 3: The Mark of Athena: The Graphic Novel goes on sale 9/26/23! Feast your eyes on the exclusive cover reveal and check out the first plot synopsis below: The theory of constructed emotion, in contrast, tells a story that doesn’t match your daily life-your brain invisibly constructs everything you experience, including emotions. Its story features familiar characters like thoughts and feelings that live in distinct brain areas. The classical view is intuitive-events in the world trigger emotional reactions inside of us. “The theory of constructed emotion and the classical view of emotion tell vastly different stories of how we experience the world.There is a gap between how we experience the mind and how the mind actually works.Buddha was limited but managed to get a ton of insight through introspection.They are all statistical summaries of populations of instances.We downregulate the variation within categories and upregulate the variation between categories.Models, concepts, words, and perceptions are all examples of our brain’s way to discretize the continuous world.Reality is messy and rarely fits into neat little boxes.“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”.Let natural selection of models and ideas take place. Responding to prediction errors like a scientist is crucial.Learning new words, journaling, meditation, healthy social interactions, and therapy can help us calibrate our models.Precise words allow us to more efficiently match our concepts to the incoming data.The best models are not always the most accurate ones but the most useful ones in an evolutionary sense.Better mental models lead to a better life. each year, it is critical to understand how patient care may be changing with the rapid reorganization of the country's cardiology professionals," they wrote. "Given that cardiovascular disease costs more than $200 billion and accounts for 660,000 deaths in the U.S.What they're saying: "Cardiologists order lucrative services that, if kept in-house, contribute to hospitals' financial performance," the authors, led by Northeastern University, wrote in the study. Why it matters: The study signals more evidence that hospital consolidation may lead to more risky - and costly - care. Heart patients were more likely to receive a high-intensity, hospital-based intervention when their doctor was employed by a hospital compared to patients whose care was managed by an independent cardiologist, a study published Monday in Health Affairsfound. Leaving his faithful dog to guard his clothes, the cowboy bathes, and returns so clean that his loyal pet is unable to recognize him. In Timberlake's award-winning story, a flea-ridden cowboy and his dog, who have been riding the range in New Mexico for a year, finally head to a nearby river for the cowboy's annual bath. Illinois-based children's book author and teacher Amy Timberlake is the mastermind behind The Dirty Cowboy, a "simple, slapstick tale that is sure to elicit some giggles," according to Booklist reviewer Todd Morning. The Dirty Cowboy, illustrated by Adam Rex, Farrar Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 2003.Ĭontributor of articles, reviews, and columns to periodicals, including New Moon, Book, Riverbank Review, Horn Book, Hues, and Hip Mama. Honors AwardsĪnderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies residency fellow, 2002 Parent's Choice Gold Medal, and Golden Kite Award, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, both 2003, and Marion Vannett Ridgeway Award first prize, International Reading Association Notable Book designation, Spur Award finalist, and Southeast Booksellers Association Book Award finalist, all 2004, all for The Dirty Cowboy. Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (Illinois chapter). |