One evening in his early teens as his family sat around the dining table, Mark O'Neill's father suddenly dropped his English accent and spoke for the first time in his original and long hidden Irish voice. It was the start of an Irish journey for Mark that has lasted a lifetime, taking him through Scotland, to Belfast as a reporter during the Troubles in the 1970s, and from 1978, to the Far East where he continued his search for the meaning of Irishness.

In Hong Kong, China and Japan, Mark discovered deep Irish footprints - missionaries, doctors, judges, lawyers, authors and jockeys. Two Irish nuns cured Hong Kong of tuberculosis, an Irish bandmaster wrote the music for Japan's national anthem and a nun taught English and Gaelic to the future Empress Michiko of Japan. Mark followed the footsteps of his grandfather, a Presbyterian missionary who lived in a small town in northeast China for 45 years. He was delighted to find still standing the church his grandfather had built, with a minister and her congregation happy to welcome him.

Since 1800, no country in Europe has lost as many of its citizens to emigration as Ireland. From the 19th century, the Irish started to come to Asia, and now the Chinese are going to Ireland - including Hazel Chu, elected Lord Mayor of Dublin in 2020, as well as one of Ireland's most famous celebrity chefs and any number of IT wizards. This is a remarkable account of the Irish diaspora, touchingly personal, full of humour, anecdotes and insights.

Straight from the drawing board of renowned artist and cartoonist, Mark O'Neill and the Mayberry mind of Gary Wedemeyer, comes a truly unique collectible!

Grab your crayons, hold on to your business and help us celebrate the greatest television show of all time! Let's all take a trip back to a simpler time with

THE MAYBERRY COLORING BOOK

All of our friends and neighbors are here; Barney, Otis, Floyd, Gomer, Goober, The Darlings and the rest of the gang - including the Sheriff without a gun, Andy Taylor plus many, many more!

It's better than a piece of Aunt Bee's fried chicken or one of Clara Edward's prize-winning pickles!

On his first morning in Taiwan in 1981, Mark O'Neill was awokened by military conscripts singing a patriotic song on the sports ground of their camp. It was a fitting introduction to martial law and the start of his 40-year journey through the island moored off the coast of Fujian province. Next came learning the Chinese language - traditional characters only, please - and the curious love affair between Taiwan and Japan, the former colonial power, remembered in statues, buildings, and sumo tournaments on television. In a history museum, he learned how Western Presbyterian missionaries invented a Roman script for the Taiwan language and created a church that challenged the Japanese and the Kuomintang that ruled the island for many decades after the end of World War II. He spent a year with a Taiwanese Buddhist charity foundation, the biggest NGO in the Chinese world, and explored the museum in Taipei which holds the most exquisite of the art treasures from Beijing's Imperial Palace. He watched the extraordinary transformation of Taiwan's economy, from making plastic shoes and tennis racquets to the world's most sophisticated electronics and semi-conductors - and also the transformation of the island from one party rule to noisy democracy. This is a very readable account of the island's 40-year miracle - touching, personal and full of humour, anecdotes and insights.

Straight from the drawing board of renowned artist and cartoonist, Mark O'Neill and the Mayberry mind of Gary Wedemeyer, comes a truly unique collectible!

Grab your crayons, hold on to your business and help us celebrate the greatest television show of all time! Let's all take a trip back to a simpler time with

THE MAYBERRY COLORING BOOK

All of our friends and neighbors are here; Barney, Otis, Floyd, Gomer, Goober, The Darlings and the rest of the gang - including the Sheriff without a gun, Andy Taylor plus many, many more!

It's better than a piece of Aunt Bee's fried chicken or one of Clara Edward's prize-winning pickles!

HOLLYWOOD
ON RADIO

Colorable Caricatures of Stars from the Vintage Days of Radio in a Coloring Book for Adults

Turn out the lights, turn on the radio and turn back time, radio fans, as we pay colorable tribute to some of those who delighted the ears of America with their entertainment.

Part of the fun of listen-ing to radio performers, in the old days, was using your imagination. So use that same imagination to color in these stars of the GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO

...get a good teacher; it saves a lot of time.

You only get one shot at life. Read this book. It will teach you well...and save you precious time.

This is an unusual and thought provoking self-help book. Wide ranging and packed with incisive, practical tips, it will help you to avoid common pitfalls in life. It also touches on the bigger questions of what it means to be a human being in the world today - how to find our place in it and how to get the most out of life. It will be a rewarding manual both for young people passing into adulthood and for adults of all ages who want to change their thinking... and improve their life.

Connecting Museums explores the boundaries of museums and how external relationships are affected by internal commitments, structures and traditions. Focusing on museums' relationship with heath, inclusion, and community, the book provides a detailed assessment of the alliances between museums and other stakeholders in recent years.

With contributions from practitioners and established and early-career academics, this volume explore the ideas and practices through which museums are seeking to move beyond what might be called one-off contributions to society, to reach places where the museum is dynamic and facilitates self-generation and renewal, where it can become not just a provider of a cultural service, but an active participant in the rehabilitation of social trust and democratic participation. The contributors to this volume provide conceptual critiques and clarification of a number of key ideas which form the basis of the ethics of museum legitimacy, as well as a number of reports from the front line about the experience of trying to renew museums as more valuable and more relevant institutions.

Providing internal and external perspectives, Connecting Museums presents a mix of applied and theoretical understandings of the changing roles of museums today. As such, the book should be of interest to academics, researchers and students working in the broad fields of museum and heritage studies, material culture, and arts and museum management.

Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the past 40 years. In so doing, the book demonstrates that excellence can be found in museums no matter their subject matter, scale, or source of funding.

Written by leading professionals in the field of museology, who have acted as judges for the European Museum of the Year Award, the portraits describe museums that had, or should have had, an influence on other museums around the world. The portraits aim to capture the moment when this potential was identified, and the introduction will locate the institutions in the wider history of museums in Europe over the period, as well as drawing out common themes of change and innovation that unite the portraits.

Providing many very diverse portraits, Revisiting Museums of Influence captures the immense capacity of the museum to respond to changing societal needs. As a result, the book will be essential reading for students of museology and museum professionals around the world in shaping the museums they wish to create. Scholars and students of art history, archaeology, ethnography, anthropology, cultural and visual studies, architecture, memory studies and history will also find much to interest them.

Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the past 40 years. In so doing, the book demonstrates that excellence can be found in museums no matter their subject matter, scale, or source of funding.

Written by leading professionals in the field of museology, who have acted as judges for the European Museum of the Year Award, the portraits describe museums that had, or should have had, an influence on other museums around the world. The portraits aim to capture the moment when this potential was identified, and the introduction will locate the institutions in the wider history of museums in Europe over the period, as well as drawing out common themes of change and innovation that unite the portraits.

Providing many very diverse portraits, Revisiting Museums of Influence captures the immense capacity of the museum to respond to changing societal needs. As a result, the book will be essential reading for students of museology and museum professionals around the world in shaping the museums they wish to create. Scholars and students of art history, archaeology, ethnography, anthropology, cultural and visual studies, architecture, memory studies and history will also find much to interest them.

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Your definitive Web Services security resource

Minimize security risks in your system by successfully rolling out secure Web Services with help from this exceptional guide. Web Services Security covers everything network security professionals need to know, including details on Web Services architecture, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, XML Signature, XML Encryption, SAML, XACML, XKMS, and more. You'll also get implementation techniques as well as case studies featuring global service-provision initiatives such as the Liberty Alliance Project. Practical, comprehensive, and up-to-date, this is a must-have reference for every administrator interested in conquering real-life security challenges through the effective use of Web Services.

• Learn the high-level principles of security and how they apply to Web Services
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It is a little known fact that during World War I Russia received the majority of Chinese wartime laborers working overseas. Despite assurances that they would not be involved in the war, thousands of Chinese workers dug trenches and carried ammunition for troops on the Eastern Front under brutal conditions. Then, in 1917, life for the Chinese worsened with the Bolshevik Revolution's arrival. Some of the workers signed up to fight for the Red Army and many were left stranded in Russia, unemployed and destitute. Their plight has been described as the most tragic episode in 400 years of Chinese emigration. The men had crossed the border into Russia with dreams of earning enough money to build a house or business for their family at home. None could have imagined the hell that awaited them.

Connecting Museums explores the boundaries of museums and how external relationships are affected by internal commitments, structures and traditions. Focusing on museums' relationship with heath, inclusion, and community, the book provides a detailed assessment of the alliances between museums and other stakeholders in recent years.

With contributions from practitioners and established and early-career academics, this volume explore the ideas and practices through which museums are seeking to move beyond what might be called one-off contributions to society, to reach places where the museum is dynamic and facilitates self-generation and renewal, where it can become not just a provider of a cultural service, but an active participant in the rehabilitation of social trust and democratic participation. The contributors to this volume provide conceptual critiques and clarification of a number of key ideas which form the basis of the ethics of museum legitimacy, as well as a number of reports from the front line about the experience of trying to renew museums as more valuable and more relevant institutions.

Providing internal and external perspectives, Connecting Museums presents a mix of applied and theoretical understandings of the changing roles of museums today. As such, the book should be of interest to academics, researchers and students working in the broad fields of museum and heritage studies, material culture, and arts and museum management.