David Brent: 17 books
Eight Stories Up
An Adolescent Chooses Hope over Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
As a teenager, DeQuincy Lezine nearly ended his own life, believing it was the only way to escape the emotional pain that was overwhelming him. Instead, Lezine was able to find expert psychiatric care, and went on to found the first university campus-based chapter of the Suicide Prevention Action...
by Dr. David Gudgel, Brent Gudgel
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2007
Before You Get Engaged offers priceless advice and direction for daters who are considering popping (or answering) the big question. Author and counseling pastor David Gudgel teams with his son, Brent, and Brent's girlfriend, Danielle, using anecdotes, dialogue, and diary entries to discuss the twelve...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
by Coffin Hop Press, Steve Brewer, Sarah L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Get ready to unwrap your gifts early this year! Stuff your festive stockings with this collection of the weirdest, wildest holiday fiction this side of Charlie’s Dickens. Get your bells jingling and jangling with these tales of mistletoe madness, festive fury, and holiday havoc from some of the...
America and the World
Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
America's status as a world power remains at a historic turning point. The strategies employed to win the wars of the twentieth century are no longer working, and the US must contend with the changing nature of power in a globalized world.
In America and the World, two of the most respected...
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...
Treating Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Grounded in decades of research and the clinical care of thousands of depressed and suicidal teens, this highly accessible book will enhance the skills of any therapist who works with this challenging population. The authors describe the nuts and bolts of assessing clients and crafting individualized...
Letters Across the Divide
Two Friends Explore Racism, Friendship, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
A black minister and a white businessman candidly discuss the obstacles, stereotypes, and sins that inhibit interracial reconciliation. Provocative and honest.
by Brent L. Adams, Ph.D., Surya R. Kalidindi
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The accelerating rate at which new materials are appearing, and transforming the engineering world, only serves to emphasize the vast potential for novel material structure and related performance. Microstructure Sensitive Design for Performance Optimization (MSDPO) embodies a new methodology for...
by Peter Bates, Bob Bayles, Wilfred Beckford
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish...
Divided Lenses
Screen Memories of War in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events...
Southeastern Grasslands
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data
Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
by Brent C. Williams, Preeti N. Malani, David H. Wesorick
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
The first book designed specifically for hospitalists and other hospital-based staff who need concise, evidence-based guidance on the vital topic of caring for older hospitalized patients
Hospitalists' Guide to the Care of Older Patients is an up-to-date, practical reference in geriatric medicine...
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