Author: Beatrice Gormley
Publisher: Aladdin
Keywords: president, 44th, obama, barack
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-12-02
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1416971181
ISBN-13: 9781416971184

President Barack Obama’s early involvement with politics was inspired by his mother’s interest in the controversial social issues of her times -- a passion that she passed on to her son. As the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review, the first African American presidential nominee of a major political party, and eventually the first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama has consistently shattered barriers -- barriers that some people thought could never be overcome.However, life has not always been easy for President Obama. Born to a Kenyan

Author: Beatrice Gormley
Publisher: Aladdin
Keywords: lady, first, america, bush, laura
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 0689853661
ISBN-13: 9780689853661

Author: Beatrice Gormley
Publisher: Aladdin
Keywords: arts, cofa, friend, onassis, kennedy, jacqueline
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0689852959
ISBN-13: 9780689852954

One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today’s youngster is swept right into history.

Author: Beatrice Gormley
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Keywords: narnia, man, lewis
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802853013
ISBN-13: 9780802853011

Step through the other side of the wardrobe and meet the creator of the Chronicles of Narnia — the man whose rich imagination and deep faith made this fantasy series a favorite for generations. This reformatted photo biography, with more than 50 photographs, tells the story of C. S. Lewis’s life and work, from his boyhood in Belfast, Ireland, where he and his brother created their first imaginary world in an attic hideaway, to Lewis’s adult years as a renowned scholar and beloved author.

Author: Beatrice Gormley
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Keywords: president, third, forty, bush, george
Published: 2000-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0689844107
ISBN-13: 9780689844102

Author: M. J. Gormley
Publisher: Holy Fire Publishing
Keywords: testament
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2010-07-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1603833293
ISBN-13: 9781603833295

Testament takes you on a journey through one mans life from childhood through his first fifty years. It is a remarkable testimony of Gods faithfulness, grace, mercy and miracles. From an Air Force upbringing, substance addiction, to shattered dreams of rock-n-roll stardom, as well as broken relationships, God was still there. When life had become a train-wreck, the Lord intervened with deliverance from addiction, and miraculously opened the door to a career as an airline pilot. He was led to start a music ministry, as well as being healed of cancer...four times. Testament will bless and encour

Authors:William T. Gormley Jr., and Steven J. Balla,
Publisher: CQ Pre
Keywords: performance, accountability, democracy, bureaucracy
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2007-09-04
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0872893472
ISBN-13: 9780872893474

It is nearly impossible to look at the implementation of any policy from testing at an elementary school to testing of a pharmaceutical drug and avoid seeing the impact and influence of public bureaucracies. Given the importance of their work, and the accountability they owe to the American public, the performance of public bureaucracies must be assessed in a systematic manner. Working through four key perspectives bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory Gormley and Balla give students the analytic power needed to comprehensively evaluate pe