David : 35381 books
Therese's Dream: Maine to Darfur
A Doctor's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Therese’s Dream - Maine to Darfur: A Doctor’s Story chronicles Dr. David Austin’s time with Doctors Without Borders and illustrates the common humanity of peoples around the world. Dr. Austin began his medical practice in the 1980s and in the early 2000s began making missionary...
Intifada
Palestine and Israel - The Long Day of Rage
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Armed with stones, Kalashnikovs, and the scarcely believable martyrdom of the suicide bomber, a generation of Palestinians has confronted one of the most lethal armies in the Middle East in a battle that has stunned and horrified the world. For almost two decades the Intifada has been the byword for...
The Impossible Takes Longer
Memoirs of Vera Weizmann (wife of Israel's first President) as told to David Tutaev
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Vera Chatzman was born on November 27, 1881, in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. She was a medical student soon to become a pediatrician when, in 1906, she married Chaim Weizmann, a chemist already involved in the Zionist movement. For the next 46 years of their marriage, Vera was his companion,...
Confessions of a Very Private Pilot
A Jet Pilot's Humorous Life Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
From University Aviation Press: Confessions of a Very Private Pilot delivers real-life advice from an owner-pilot on how to evaluate, purchase, train, and operate turbine and light jet aircraft. Each chapter is a story told in a lighthearted manner, complete with real life situations and humorous...
by David Adam
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Following the success of The Man Who Couldn’t Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how this revolution in neuroscience will help us access the untapped potential locked within us all.
What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if...
Last Tango in Buenos Aires
Sketches from the Argentine
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Meet pilgrims and Indians, poets and nuns, teachers, priests, veterans of the war in the South Atlantic, gold diggers, coal miners and ranchers, those bereaved by the Dirty War and apologists for it, and those nostalgic for the time when theirs was one of the world’s richest countries or Evita held...
Good News For a Change
How Everyday People are Helping the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
The litany of environmental bad news -- rapid extinction of species, pollution, depleted food sources -- can be overwhelming, but there's hope too. In this thoughtful look at whatís happening behind the grim headlines, authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel show that thousands of individuals, groups,...
More Good News
Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2001
More inspiring stories in this revised and updated edition of the bestselling Good News for a Change.
David Suzuki and Holly Dressel update their bestseller Good News for a Change, published in 2003 with over 35,000 copies sold, with the latest inspiring stories about individuals, groups, and...
by David Lewis-Williams, David Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
An exploration of how brain structure and cultural content interacted in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago to produce unique life patterns and belief systems.
What do the headless figures found in the famous paintings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey have in common with the monumental tombs at Newgrange...
Simply Green:
Easy, Money-Saving Tips for Eco-Friendly Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
It's Not About Politics.
It's About Caring--And What Every Family Can Do!
Written by a passionately concerned couple--David Seligman is an active duty U.S. serviceman and Melissa is a devoted stay-at-home mom--this is the first book about going green that won't scare you with statistics, overwhelm...
Alligator Candy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is “a raw story about courage, survival, and most certainly about love” (Tampa Bay Times).
David Kushner grew up in the suburbs of Florida in the early 1970s,...
It All Begins in the Waiting Room
How to drive your doctor crazy while escaping retaliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
For more than twenty years, Dr. David Rapoport has been writing about the lighter side of medicine in Family Practice and Medical Post magazines. They both devoted their last page to medical humour, with an illustrated story. This book brings together seventy of the popular stories Dr. Rapoport wrote...
The House of Black and White
My Life with and Search for Louise Johnson Morris
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The House of Black and White: My Life with and Search for Louise Johnson Morris is the memoir of a white boy who was so strongly influenced by a black woman – the family maid – that he begins searching for her three decades after she went missing. ----This compelling book begins in 1959 in suburban...
Things That Matter
Stories of Life & Death
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
'David Galler also shows rare courage in weaving his own, personal stories into his teaching about the technologies of care. This book will equally deepen the awareness of clinicians and enlighten the lay reader. It is a gift to both.' Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
In this highly articulate, down-to-earth,...