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Cork University Press ebooks now available on Amazon Kindle

 

Cork University Press now has the titles below available on Kindle from Amazon. The books are all under €10 and have preview pages for you to look at.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abuse: Domestic Violence, Workplace and School Bullying [Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/7t9av2a

Bird's Nest Soup [Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/7vxon2b

Lyn: A Story of Prostitution [Kindle Edition]  http://tinyurl.com/76bz5a9

Ivor Browne: Music and Madness [Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/75ad52o

A Woman to Blame: The Kerry Babies Case [Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/7r68s4z

Flown the Nest [Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/7npdwka

Sisters: The Personal Story of an Irish Feminist[Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/8649cde

Relationship, Relationship, Relationship [Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/7orgwtr

Compassionate Intentions of Illness [Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/76bowwz

Leadership With Consciousness [Kindle Edition] http://tinyurl.com/7el92qj

 

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Mike

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Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland since the 1990s

Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland since the 1990s Edited by Carol MacKeogh and Díóg O'Connell is now available from Cork University Press.

The book will be launched by Professor Farrel Corcoran and the actor Stephen Rea at the United Arts Club in Dublin on 16th February.

 

 

It is a  timely collection of essays which examines the role of Irish documentary in film and television as Ireland experienced dramatic shifts in its social and political make-up in recent decades. Bringing together a diverse range of perspectives, this book tells it from the standpoint of the documentary-maker, the academic and the policy-maker. It reveals the role of documentary in telling stories that challenge the hierarchies of church and state, at the same time reflecting and representing the change brought about as a result in shifts to the political and social landscape. 

Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland since the 1990s includes a transcript of an interview with the late Mary Raftery. This book looks back over the last two decades through the prism of documentary to get a snap shot of the dramatic shifts and upheavals in Irish society, socially, culturally and politically

This book gives a fascinating insight into the working life of documentary makers - it captures the passion that drives them, the commitment they make to their craft, and the issues they tackle in defining what constitutes documentary – indeed, what constitutes good documentary.  This book will be read avidly not just by those in the business of creating and producing documentary but by a wide public who have learnt so much about their own society and culture through cutting-edge documentaries.
Miriam O’Callaghan, RTÉ Broadcaster

February 2012 ISBN 978-185918-491-2, €39, £35, Hardback, 234 x 156mm, 194pp

Carol MacKeogh and Díóg O'Connell work in the Department of Humanities, Art Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland

Cork University Press on Apple iBooks update

The remaining Attic & Atrium titles are now available from Apple iBooks at €9.99. These ebooks will be available from Amazon and other ebook suppliers next month. Web surfers using an iPad or iPhone with iBooks installed will be taken straight into the iBooks store application, while everyone else is forwarded to a page about that book on Apple’s regular website.

Bird’s Nest Soup by Hanna Greally

Hanna Greally spent the best part of the 1940s and 1950s incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in the Irish Midlands. In Birds Nest Soup she recounts with vivid detail the terrible suffering she endured there. Though mentally well, and accepted as such by the authorities, she was condemned to life in an atmosphere calculated to bring about the steady degradation of the person. But Hanna lived to tell this remarkable and poignant tale of survival.

http://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/isbn9781908634313

 

Flown the Nest by Hanna Greally

Hanna Greally spent the best part of the 1940s and 1950s incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in the Irish Midlands. In her first book Birds Nest Soup she recounted with vivid detail the terrible suffering she endured there. Hanna’s story continues with an account of her life in Coolamber Manor Rehabilitation Centre in Co. Longford, the place from where she hoped to gain freedom ‘prodigously and for ever’ and to ‘soon be a citizen, vote, earn money, even do crosswords and perhaps become well off’. If Hanna became part of the civil dead in St. Loman’s we can now, for the first time, read alongside her restoration to citizenship and to personal autonomy.

http://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/isbn9781908634320

 

A Woman to Blame: the Kerry Babies Case By Nell McCafferty

Joanne Hayes, at 24 years of age, concealed the birth and death of her baby in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1984. Subsequently she confessed to the murder, by stabbing, of another baby. All of the scientific evidence showed that she could not have had this second baby. The police nevertheless, insisted on charging her and, after the charges were dropped, continued to insist that she had given birth to twins conceived of two different men

http://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/isbn9781908634375

 

The Compassionate Intentions of Illness by Tony Humphreys and Helen Ruddle

Illness, death and dying are part and parcel of human life. Despite amazing advances in medical science there is never going to be a time when we can prevent against ever having the experience of illness. This book seeks to add to the alleviation of the suffering of illness by finding greater understanding of the psychological meaning and purpose of that experience.

http://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/isbn9781908634368

Cork University Press on Apple iBooks

The first few titles from our trade imprints Attic Press & Atrium are now available as ebooks on the Apple ibooks platform. Web surfers using an iPad or iPhone with iBooks installed will be taken straight into the iBooks store application, while everyone else is forwarded to a page about that book on Apple’s regular website. The titles below are all priced at €9.99.

 

Abuse: Domestic Violence, Workplace and School Bullying  by Jim O’Shea -€9.99

The book examines abuse (not clerical or institutional abuse). It explores boundaries and how abuse is an invasion of boundaries. It explores physical, emotional, verbal, sexual and financial abuse. The book looks at the abusive personality type, and examines workplace and school bullying. Child abuse is explored, and the issue of staying in or leaving an abusive environment. The question of what happens if one leaves and if it is possible to change an abusive personality is examined. A client’s story is contained in the book and this gives a human aspect to the exploration.

 http://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/isbn9781908634306

 

 

Sisters by June Levine- €9.99

Sisters is a revealing, intensely readable book by one of Ireland’s finest feminist writers. It contains a major assessment of the women’s movement in Ireland, but first and foremost it tells the story of one woman’s search for personal fulfilment.

 

 

http://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/isbn9781908634351

 

 Ivor Browne: Music and Madness by Ivor Browne-€9.99

Ivor Browne is Professor Emeritus, University College, Dublin and retired as Chief Psychiatrist of the then Eastern Health Board in 1994. This book charts the growth of one man's journey in relation to psychiatry and human development. Ivor Browne has been a central and controversial figure in Irish life up until the mid-nineties when he retired

 

http://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/isbn9781908634337

 

 

Relationship, Relationship, Relationship: The Heart of a Mature Society by Tony Humphreys-€9.99

No matter where you are, what you are doing, whether you are alone or with others, you are always in relationships. Whatever the relationship, it is always a couple- relationship, whether this, for example, is a parent with a child, a lover with a lover, a manager with an employee, a student with a teacher, a neighbour with a neighbour. This book is concerned with the much neglected area of relationships as dyads involving two unique individuals, in all settings in which human beings live, work, pray and play

 

http://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/isbn9781908634344