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    The Rise of Citizen Capitalism

    by Michael O'Leary, Warren Valdmanis ...
    “More than ever before, this is the book our economy needs.” – Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation“Unwilling to settle for easy answers or superficial changes, O’Leary and Valdmanis push us all to ask more of our economic system.” – Senator Michael F. BennetThis provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself.Corporations are broken, reflecting no ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Immortal Mind

    A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul

    by Michael Egnor, Denyse O'Leary ...
    A neuroscientist and surgeon makes an argument for the existence of a spiritual human soul in this eye-opening book.Many scientists and doctors believe that there is no such thing as the soul. That there is no part of us that persists beyond death. We are not spiritual in any respect. We are made up of cells and tissue, and completely controlled by a material organ in our heads: the brain. In this ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Kōrero nā tangata o Paekākāriki - Paekākāriki People

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    A book about the people of Paekākāriki, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Includes:The Story of MuaūpokoRopata Hurumutu: 1805 to 1875Te Rauparaha –TimelineKahe Te Rau-o-te-rangiThomas BevanThe Smiths of PaekākārikiCharles Decimus BarraudEmily TilleyHerman Hasse and his daughter, HildaOther railway peopleDorothea HamiltonArthur Bly: Long-time resident of PaekākārikiFranc... ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Streets of Paekākāriki

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    The Streets of Paekākāriki looks at the historical development of this small village on New Zealand's Kāpiti Coast.Michael O'Leary traces the origins from early Māori settlement through to the arrival of European settlers and the establishment of its modern streets.With historical maps, photographs, and personal accounts, the book provides a thoughtful perspective on how cultural and social forces ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Straight: A novel in the Irish-Māori tradition

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    Straight is set in early 1980's Auckland and begins with Paul Calvert's return to that city after several years in the mysterious place called 'Dreamland'. Fighting off several flash-backs he discovers that reality can often be stranger than dreams. Along the way he discovers things about his past that he had no conception of and his whole life is brought into existential question. Was his own ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alternative Small Press Publishing in New Zealand

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    "The history of small, private presses in this country is also (largely) the history of our literature." (Michael Gifkins' 1990 'Bookmarks', New Zealand Listener).This quote graphically states the case for the important place small press publishing has in the literary culture of Aotearoa New Zealand. Expanding this further, it is true to say that without the existence of such presses many of our ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apocrypha Scripta: A Surrealist Novel

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    During the writing of his autobiography, Die Bibel (published in 2016 by Steele/Roberts), Michael O'Leary began a parallel fictional autobiography which he conceived as an 'apocrypha' of additional aspects to his intellectual & emotional life, combining myriad intertwingings of previous works to form a synthesis, a kind of Rainbows End of the Mind, as its characters & events ride a rollercoaster ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems: 1981–2016

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    Excerpt from Introduction by Iain Sharp:"Irishness, Maoritanga, proudly held working-class values, rock 'n' roll, buses, trains, ferries, Baudelaire – you'll find them all in this book. Moods vary from poem to poem, as you would expect from a lifetime's work. Inevitably, there are moments of sadness and a deep anger at social inequities underlies some of the satire. Yet what strikes me most when I ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magic Alex's Revenge

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    A novel that explores the effect of modern technology on the individual. It looks at the generation of the 1930s Nazis whose mantra was 'All You Need is Hate' and contrasts it with the 1960s 'All You Need is Love' of The Beatles. Magic Alex fifty years later in the 2000s sits in his Cell Phone cell in a mental hospital and contemplates the modern generation where there's so much communication ... Read more

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  • Wednesday's Women: Women Writers in New Zealand 1945–1970

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    Based on Dr O'Leary's PhD thesis 'Social and Literary Constraints on Women Writers in New Zealand: 1945-1970' this books explores and exposes the sexist mores of the NZ literary establishment, both publishers and writers, from the end of World War 2 up to the feminists movements of the late 1960s and 1970s.Responses to Michael O'Leary's Wednesday's WomenMichael O'Leary's book makes a unique ... Read more

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  • The Irish Annals of New Zealand

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    The Irish Annals of New Zealand is essentially a Joycean tour-de-force through New Zealand's history from the Irish rather than the usual English point of view. However, as well as historical facts the novel incorporates many other linguistic and language conceits and concepts. The story begins with the main character falling from a train, having opened the wrong door because he is drunk. He lies ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of It: A Cricket Novel (And Other Stories)

    by Michael O'Leary ...
    First published in 1987 this novel has acquired something of a cult status among both cricket fans and those interested in experimental prose and bohemian lifestyles.It is set in Auckland in the 1980s and is a mixture of stream of conscious internal dialogue between the main character, PSM, and himself. Externally, it follows the fortunes of the NZ cricket team at Eden Park playing against the ... Read more

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