The Number One Bestseller ______________ For over thirty years, David McDonald worked in Ireland's biggest prisons. This is his story. As a young officer, McDonald got a baptism of fire in Mountjoy. In 1989 it was a chaotic, pungent and overcrowded place, and the approach to keeping order was primitive. Returning to his hometown two years later, he entered Portlaoise Prison, which - due to the presence of IRA and other subversive prisoners - was then the most secure prison in Europe. McDonald was amazed to discover the power of these subversives within the prison. Portlaoise, and later the new Midlands Prison, were also where Ireland's emerging class of serious gangsters were housed. McDonald dealt with notorious household names like John Gilligan, Christy Kinahan, Brian Meehan, Dessie O'Hare and, more recently, killers like Graham Dwyer, in his average working day. McDonald shares vivid accounts of the constant war of attrition between prisoners and prison authorities over the smuggling of contraband like drugs and phones. His work in a specialist security unit trying to stop this trafficking sometimes brought him into conflict with his bosses. He also questioned aspects of an often brutal and under-resourced system. Ultimately, concerns about poor handling of key issues led to him becoming a whistle-blower. In Unlocked, McDonald brilliantly describes the boredom, the constant tension and flashpoints of extreme violence, and the moments of comedy, tragedy and surprising humanity that are part and parcel of working in prisons. Written with the help of award-winning journalist and author, Mick Clifford, it is a jaw-dropping and authentic account of life in the toughest of workplaces. _____________ 'An extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the hidden world of Irish prisoners . . . fascinating' Brendan O'Connor 'Cracking' Matt Cooper

Unlocked: An Irish Prison Officer’s Story

Biographies & Memoirs

McDonald, David

True Crime

Penguin

Cocktail creation has become more than just pouring rum into coke. It is an imaginative art form for which there is no limit. Learning to make cocktails at home is a rewarding experience, and each successful attempt is a discovery of a small, liquid jewel. Excellent cocktails with proper balance and depth should leave you wanting more.Allow our beautiful bikini bartenders to guide you through a beginner's course in basic mixology. Join the girls as they guide you in building a home bar, proper measuring techniques and the benefits of using fresh ingredients in your cocktails. Let them assist you in choosing which glassware to use and when to stir versus when to shake. Bottoms UP!

Bottoms UP! The Bikini Bartender

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Street, Michelle

Beverages & Wine

Donut Wagon Press

In 1904 a small, distant war brought Russia to the brink of internal collapse - and yet within ten years the country embroiled itself in an incomparably larger conflict close to home. How the war with Japan and its aftermath actually steered Russia toward such an unlikely, fateful decision is the subject of David McDonald's book, an analysis of Russian foreign policy on the eve of World War I. The revolutions that followed the Russo-Japanese War confirmed Russian statesmen in their belief that complications abroad threatened the domestic order. McDonald shows how this perceived connection prompted the institutional measures intended to minimize the risks of foreign entanglements, principally the reform of the Council of Ministers as a "United Government" that would share the emperor's role in forming foreign policy. These measures, as McDonald demonstrates, had a decisive effect on Russia's restrained response to trouble in the Balkans, and consequently, on the course of world history. McDonald's analysis integrates the history of Russian foreign policy at this critical juncture with accounts of the "crisis of autocracy" that marked the early 20th century. Depicting Nicholas II's struggle with his ministers over the direction of foreign policy, the book offers insight into the evaluation of the bureaucratic state and its relation to domestic society in late imperial Russia.

United Government and Foreign Policy in Russia, 1900-1914

History

Asia

Harvard University Press

We crave God's prosperity, abundance, and delight for ourselves; it is only right that we crave it for others as well. God wants to prosper us economically, in order to heal the world. Far from the gospel of prosperity, discover how justice and mission are fed by abundance and delight. Learn how to get on your feet financially. Use your financial freedom to serve and prosper others. Cultivate a heart of gold and free yourself from the hidden alchemy transforming your heart into a heart of greed.

Heart of Gold: The Joy of Generous Living

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Samizdat Creative

"Shadowing God" is about how to follow God inside us. It's about how to sort out which impulses are His and which are from Oprah, Deepak, Mark, Brian, or Rob. It's about figuring out what it means to be spiritual - not to have spirituality, as if it were something we could paste into our scrapbook or add to the collection of our consciousness - but to live in such a way that our very actions, thoughts, and verbs work like performance art, saying: I am human being, that matters, I house what's Holy, and I make sacrifices for the good of the world, because I belong to God.

Shadowing God: Living with Dignity and Humility in God's Image

In the Valley of Dry Bones, amid the carnal confetti of shattered dreams and unremembered aspirations of people long dead, God says I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live again. McDonald expounds on the promises that things can be better, that God does not abandon his people, and that the future contains more than despair.

Bleached: Hope for the Desolate

Our spirituality is not forged in the exceptional, but in the average. It's not founded on the extraordinary, but the ordinary. The infinite truths of God are most often expressed in the everyday. Based on the life of Christ between Baptism and Transfiguration (the traditional scope of Common Time), we gain insight into who we are as the people of God and what we're collectively supposed to do as the church. During this time we live the life of Christ until it finally becomes our own. Learn how to experience healing and reconciliation in your relationships with God, with others, with the world around you, and with yourself. Learn how to respond humbly to God, how to show compassion to those who are different, how to witness the movement of God in Creation, and how to live life at its most vibrant and beautiful.

Common Time: Living the Life of Christ Until It Becomes Our Own

Throughout the scriptures, diverse species of monsters appear--false gods, cryptozoological fiends, apocalyptic beasts, and idols--and as they appear, they strike terror in the hearts of God's people. These biblical monsters bear a strong resemblance to our contemporary monsters--fear, anxiety, depression, worry. What we need, more than techniques or tools or time-honored prayers, is a grounded understanding that "greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world." We need to know that God is with us, and that Jesus keeps the monsters away. That's what Monsters is about--eventual and persistent fearlessness, and immediate and lasting courage.

Monsters: The Imagination of Faith and Fear

This book explores the reason, the anticipation, and the hope of Advent--though it must be said, there is not one advent, but three: He came in a manger, incarnate; he will come again, glorified; but he also comes to us now, to live in us, to guide and lead us, and to help us change from the people we are into the people we were designed and destined to become. He came. He comes. He is coming again...Discover the real theme and meaning behind this liturgical season. Learn about the new beginning you've been given with God. Dream once again about the life you want and the ways you can cooperate with God to begin living that life now.

Advent: Preparation, Anticipation, & Hope in Christ's Coming

This book contains forty daily readings and devotionals to help you process the gravity of Christ's sacrifice and of your sin. It's about helping you receive and be transformed by the remarkable power of Christ's gift and grace. It's about teaching you to carry a spotless heart through the borders of a stained past. It's about helping you stand up and shrug off the guilt for which you have already been forgiven. It's about experiencing joy and light and laughter because there's no longer any point to living in the dark.

Lent: Giving Up Guilt for Forty Days

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