Bücher von Michael O'Brien

This instructional guide has one aim: to teach inexperienced astrophotographers how to take high quality images. Often, basic information about astrophotography is lacking, or is dealt with too briefly in books on the subject. This book is a distillation of the author¿s own experiences, bringing together everything you will need to make the fastest possible progress in deep-sky imaging. The book will teach you how to set up and use your astrophotography equipment in a systematic, easy-to-follow manner, helping you get started while avoiding common mistakes. With a step-by-step walk-through course and a unique observational guide to each object, the book contains a plethora of valuable, beginner-friendly information. Particularly useful is the chapter on troubleshooting, which will help newcomers avoid further frustration when things just don¿t seem to go right! The book also contains a number of easy to advanced DIY projects for imagers working on a budget.

Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of Eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. The prize-winning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.

Ein neuer Totalitarismus, der die Komfortzone für Christen immer weiter schwindenlässt, durchdringt unsere Gesellschaft und bereitet einem säkularen Messias den Weg. Michael O'Brien, der Verfasser des Bestseller-Romans "Father Elijah", ist ein "whistleblower", der die Christen auffordert, die biblischen Warnungen vor dem Antichrist ebenso ernst zu nehmen wie die Botschaft der Hoffnung."Christen sind die wahren Realisten. Sie können der Wirklichkeit dieses finsteren Zeitalters ins Gesicht sehen und darin den nahenden Sieg Christi erkennen." Michael O'Briens erschütterndes Sachbuch bereitet uns auf die Apokalypse vor und ermutigt uns, die Gnaden anzunehmen, die der Himmel in unserer Zeit ausgießt.Übersetzt aus dem Englischen von Gabriele Kuby.

Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases. The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reformers which ranges across theory, policy and practice and explains the unjust Texas 'law of parties.'

The Idea of the American South moves the debate over Southern identity from speculative essays about the "central themeof Southern history and, by implication, past the restricted perception that race relations are a sufficient key to understanding the history of Southern identity.

Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and study of 150 previously published works. Includes an epilogue that reviews the 1998 season in which Paterno won his landmark 300th career victory.

Current and future managers are regularly confronted with decisions that create risk in the legal environment of business. This book provides a framework for qualifying legal risk and then determining if the legal risk is worth taking. This framework begins by looking at the relationship between the firm, its suppliers, customers, owners, agents, and others in society as a whole to understand specific risks in personal injury, agreements, products, borrowing money, employees, independent contractors, and business entity selection. When the manager is aware of the magnitude of the risk and the likelihood of the risk, the manager is in a strong position to determine if the risk is worth taking. This book uses numerous applications from Game Theory to determine how risks of the firm compare to risks of another firm, an employee, a vendor and a customer.Students of business law will appreciate the black letter legal discussions of civil procedure, torts, contracts, the sale of goods, secured transactions, agency, and business associations with tax implications. Aspiring accounting students will find familiarity with many topics that appear on the AICPA exam. Managers will gravitate toward specific guidance with regard to setting up agreements with customers and vendors, creating effective human relations policies, and mitigating firm risks with regard to internal and external stakeholders. Dozens of managers provided input and experience that found its way into the selection of examples in the book ensuring real-world application for many practical business law problems.

Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860: An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order