This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality, and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to posthumanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relations with nonhuman animals and our obligations to them.International in both its coverage and appeal, the volume includes a diverse range of case studies and examples, covering a variety of animal species, but also geographical and cultural...

We take a journey with Big Man, the son of an Italian Mafia don whose only ambitions were to watch his son grow in the ranks of the family. What Big Man would soon find out is that the life of silk suits, Cadillacs, social clubs, and pinkie rings would not be enough. With a mixture of his new group of friends, the notorious west side Irish, women, drugs and fast money, his thirst for power would become unquenchable, his road to love unreachable, and his ability to survive undeniable.

A picture of life in the boxing ring“Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in the metaphor of the pure, fatalistic, and merciless community of bruising.”—from the ForewordWhen The Bruiser was first published in 1936, almost every reviewer praised Jim Tully’s gritty boxing novel for its authenticity—a hard-earned attribute. Twenty-eight years before the appearance of The Bruiser, Tully began a car...

Memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio“Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an American obsession, people who had to create their own dreams, invent their own stories, and find escape from hopeless lives in hard liquor or the cold comfort of a promised Hereafter.”—from the foreword by John SaylesJim Tully was an Ameri...

The definitive research-informed textbook for reflective professionals in further, adult and vocational education. Written by a collaborative author team drawn from professional bodies, further education colleges and higher education institutions, Reflective Teaching in Further and Adult Education provides a comprehensive single point of reference for supporting practitioners. Key issues such as assessment and feedback, curriculum, and behaviour management are exp...

Tully’s breakthrough novel about life on the roadJim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoiding railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. Tully crafted these memories into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass—espec...

A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life“Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories are, readers accept them as nonfiction. Tully makes the improbable seem true.”—from the foreword by Harvey PekarJim Tully was an American writer who enjoy...

Huckleberry Finn is a wonderful story filled with adventure and unforgettable characters that no one who has read it will ever forget.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.

"When came the famine in stock-cars on the Montana Central, and the Flying U herd had grazed for two days within five miles of Dry Lake, waiting for the promised train of empties, Chip Bennett, lately promoted foreman, felt that he had trouble a-plenty." The Happy Family return for more adventures at the Flying U.

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; i...

In Shanty Irish, Jim Tully weaves the bittersweet, autobiographical tale of his familys journey from Ireland to America, chronicling their struggles, defeats and little victories. This unjustly forgotten American novel is one of greatest books of the Irish diaspora. This book will tug at your heart strings and make you laugh out loud.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Heming...

In the selection of chapters 06 to 10 of Mark Twain's iconic novel, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' the author masterfully captures the essence of American life along the Mississippi River. Through the eyes of the young protagonist, Huck, Twain employs a vivid, colloquial style that deftly combines humor and pathos, reflecting the complexities of pre-Civil War society. The narrative delves into themes of race, identity, and moral growth, showcasing Huck's internal conflict as he grapples...