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John McCarthy

    John McCarthy champions student voice and agency, collaborating with schools globally on innovative educational practices. His work focuses on approaches such as differentiation, college and career readiness, authentic learning experiences, project-based learning, technology-enhanced instruction, STEAM, and systemic culture building. The vision presented in "So All Can Learn" offers practical tools to support these methods, drawing inspiration from his extensive experience teaching and coaching across diverse rural, urban, suburban, high-poverty, and affluent communities. His insights aim to provide educators in all settings with effective strategies.

    Full Moon Lunarantics
    Between Extremes
    Robot uprisings
    Some Other Rainbow
    More Stories from the Great Irish Writers
    Whiskey Rebels
    • 2021

      Whiskey Rebels

      • 280 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      A notable collection of first-person accounts of the brilliant, brave, and slightly crazy innovators responsible for changing the whiskey landscape.

      Whiskey Rebels
    • 2021

      Packed with inspiring photographs, entertaining stories, and expert advice, this book is much more than an essential guide to exploring The Lake District at night. Follow the laughter as the author and friends go on over 80 full moon howling exploits, climbing, canoeing, cycling and swimming on the Cumbrian lakes, rivers, mountains and sea.

      Full Moon Lunarantics
    • 2014

      Robot uprisings

      • 476 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      3.9(915)Add rating

      Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers, and including a rare story by “the father of artificial intelligence,” Dr. John McCarthy, Robot Uprisings meticulously describes the exhilarating and terrifying near-future in which humans can only survive by being cleverer than the rebellious machines they have created.

      Robot uprisings
    • 1999

      Between Extremes

      • 345 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.5(255)Add rating

      During their four year incarceration in a Lebanese cell the authors envisaged walking in the High Andes and across Patagonia. Five years after their release Keenan and McCarthy travelled to Chile to fulfil this dream. The story of their journey revisited the past experiences whilst allowing them to live by their own rules.

      Between Extremes
    • 1994

      This is a collection of stories which aim to portray the lighter side of Irish life. The stories include A Matter of Opinion by Eamon Kelly, Ivy Day in the Committee Room by James Joyce, Peasants by Frank O'Connor, The Miraculous Revenge by Bernard Shaw and A Persian Tale by Lynn Doyle.

      More Stories from the Great Irish Writers
    • 1994

      On 17 April 1986 John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut. For the next five years he was cut off from everything and everybody he knew and loved, from family, friends, and, perhaps above all, from Jill Morrell, the girl he was going to marry.For five years, John McCarthy had to endure the deprivation - both physical and psychological - of captivity; the filth and squalor of the cells in which he was kept; the agony of isolation and repeated self-examination; and the pain of ignorance, of not knowing if those he loved even realized he was alive.For Jill Morrell, the five years of John's captivity were a different kind of the initial shock and disbelief; the gradual acceptance that John had been taken and that her life had changed irrevocably, that all their plans had been shattered.But Jill refused to give up hope. For five years she and a group of friends worked ceaselessly on behalf of John and all British hostages in the Middle East, until the extraordinary day in August 1991 when John McCarthy stepped down from an aeroplane at RAF Lyneham. A day when they could begin again.This is their story, a remarkable account of courage, endurance, hope and love.

      Some Other Rainbow