David E : 1072 books
by David E. Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2005
The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture explores the transformation of Yiddish from a low-status vernacular to the medium of a complex modern culture. David Fishman examines the efforts of east European Jews to establish their linguistic distinctiveness as part of their struggle for national survival...
by David E. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Meaning is one of our most central and most ubiquitous concepts. Anything at all may, in suitable contexts, have meaning ascribed to it. In this wide-ranging book, David Cooper departs from the usual focus on linguistic meaning to discuss how works of art, ceremony, social action, bodily gesture,...
The Inheritance
The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Readers of The New York Times know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, secretaries of state, and foreign leaders talk with unusual candor. Now, with a historian’s sweep and an insider’s eye for telling detail, Sanger delivers an urgent...
Dinosaurs
A Concise Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Updated with the material that instructors want, Dinosaurs continues to make science exciting and understandable to non-science majors through its narrative of scientific concepts rather than endless facts. It now contains new material on pterosaurs, an expanded section on the evolution of the dinosaurs...
The Morganza, 1967
Life in a Legendary Reform School
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Fresh out of college, David Stuart put off graduate school to take a job close to his West Virginia home as a counselor at the Youth Development Center at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Known locally as the Morganza, the facility was founded in the nineteenth century as a farm for orphaned boys. By the...
Consuming Power
A Social History of American Energies
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.
How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development...
by David E. Garland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Paul's first letter to the Corinthians is one of the most important epistles in the New Testament. David Garland's thoughtful new commentary draws on extensive research and engages the best of contemporary scholarship while providing a readable study that will be accessible to thoughtful readers as...
The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success
It's All About YOU!
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Personal and professional success in today’s crowded, competitive economy is dependent on your discovery of the answer to the following questions:
“What is my best purpose to achieve conscious success?”
“How can I demonstrate high awareness for conscious success?”
“How can I positively...
Patent It Yourself
Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
AUDIENCE FOR BOOK: Inventors, developers, research scientist, and corporate managers ------------------ • This is the best-selling book on patents, having helped more inventors file their own applications than any other book!! • No other book for non lawyers goes into the intricacies of patent...
A Critical Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring
Debates, Dialogues and Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This is the definitive introduction to coaching and mentoring, written by an experienced and multidisciplinary team. Taking you all the way through from the emerging theory to informed practice, the book covers:
· Skills, purposes and outcomes of coaching and mentoring...
Shift Ed
A Call to Action for Transforming K–12 Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
A comprehensive guide to transforming American schools
Futurist David Houle and educational strategist Jeff Cobb issue a “call to action” to everyone who is concerned about education in America. He argues that reinventing our system is inevitable and we already have the information and...
When the Lights Went Out
A History of Blackouts in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American society.
Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout...
by Kathryn Pitkin Derose, David E. Kanouse, David P. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance...
by David E. Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
On the man-made island fortress known as Sea Base, enemies are threatening from without and within. China seems poised to invade the island of Taiwan, with its ships and submarines swarming the area. And when an escort of American and British planes is ambushed by Chinese fighters, Sea Base prepares...