Most Popular Books by Michael Hurley

Time travel novel comparing the United States to the Roman Empire. A cross between the Da Vinci Code and Back to the Future.

Readers will learn more about soccer and especially goalkeeping as well as reading about some of the great names in this sport.

Are you interested in motor sports? Then this is the book for you! Discover some of the most fascinating and unusual facts about the sport. With facts about Formula 1, World Rally, NASCAR, and MotoGP this book reveals the fastest vehicles, unusual racers, the trouble a kangaroo can cause, great male and female drivers, and more! Themed boxes, captions and labels make the text in this book easy to read and absorb. The engaging design will draw readers in and keep them hooked.

Readers will learn more about soccer and especially defence as well as reading about some of the great names in this sport.

The core of this book is a five-night series of meetings for parishioners who are interested in meeting together for faith-sharing -- expressing and developing their faith by prayer, reflection on the scriptures, listening to and then sharing with each other on a teaching arising from the scripture reading. At the end of the meetings, an option is offered to the participants to create a support structure for themselves in the form of parish cell groups. The development of these parish cell groups has revolutionized parishes where they have been set up. They offer maximum involvement for the parishioners in the mission of the church, mutual support in prayer, scripture reflection and faith development, and minimal extra work for the pastor.

A handbook for participants in the Come and See series of meetings that are outlined and explained in Transforming Your Parish.

The World Cup series looks at one of the world''s most popular tournaments and its place in the history and future of soccer. Find out about the sport''s greatest stars, games, and intense moments, and learn some new facts about the 2010 World Cup.

New for the 2010 World Cup. , this series covers both the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but also sets it in historical context, looking at great players and stories from the history of football.

Board Sports shows readers some of the world''s most extreme board sports!

Designed to tie-in perfectly with the London Olympics in 2012, this series offer comprehensive information specific to the games in 2012, and a detailed look at new technologies that are making a huge impact in the world of sports today. It also examines the scale, history, and huge popularity of the event up to the present day.

This dissertation explores the synthesis and use of multifunctional anionic polymerization initiators for the purpose of opening the gateway to the synthesis of polymer architectures of greater complexity. First the multifunctional oxyanion initiator generated by reacting poly(4-hydroxystyrene) with sodium hydride was used to synthesize a previously unknown polymer containing an aryl halide functional group. The homopolymer solution self-assembly behavior of poly(4-hydroxystyrene) and the newly synthesized poly (4-(4-bromophenyloxy)styrene) were both investigated. This is followed by the synthesis and characterization of multifunctional alkyne core molecules and random copolymers of polystyrene-co-poly(4-hydroxystyrene) which served as templates for the synthesis of new random copolymers of polystyrene-co-poly(4-(2- propynyloxy)styrene). The newly formed multifunctional alkyne core molecules and alkyne functionalized random copolymers served as polymer backbones in a "grafting to" strategy. Previously prepared azide terminated polymers were grafted to the multifunctional alkyne core molecules and polymer backbones by copper (I) catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition reactions. Lastly, the synthesis of a new hydrocarbon soluble multifunctional initiator was undertaken. The resulting molecule was shown to be an efficient initiator of anionic polymerization in non-polar solvent in the absence of polar additives, necessary in all previous attempts to combat large scale aggregation of such multifunctional initiator. This new initiator will open the way to facile synthesis of well-defined star polymers, star-block copolymers, and more complex polymer architectures.