David Horn: 14 books
by David Horn
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Mary and Lisa, two little girls on the beach, find the most magical thing: a tiny red shoe. Lisa, the younger, believes the faeries left it. Mary knows better, though - there are no faeries. Only the demons are real. Read a tale based on a true occurrence, less enchanted that it might seem.
by David Horn
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
A fast-paced pulp sci-fi novelette. An occasionally bloody roller-coaster ride through a very fictional version of the United States. Are there extraterrestrial beings infiltrating society? Or is the protagonist just plain nuts?
The truth is out there, and John Jackson, Private Detective, has his work cut out for him. He just hopes his work won't cut him apart and eat him.
by David Horn
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A bored sysadmin at a government facility picks up a stray cat. Little does he know what fate has in store for him as he reaches down to pet the mewing ball of fur.
The Criminal Body
Lombroso and the Anatomy of Deviance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This fascinating book traces the evolution of the "criminal body" by focusing on the work of Cesare Lombroso, an Italian physician and anthropologist, who is widely held to be the father of modern criminology. Building on Lombroso's concept of the "born criminal" and the idea that...
by Paul E. Ceruzzi, Howard Rheingold, Lee Felsenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.
Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars...
From Guam and Beyond
Stories of the Men of VW-1
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
The stories in this book were supplied by squadron mates who served with the U.S. Navy's Airborne Early Warning Squadron One or VW-1, a squadron that supported the Seventh Fleet and also engaged in typhoon tracking. The squadron's existence spanned a nearly 20 year period that began with the Korean...
Taking Parenting Public
The Case for a New Social Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment—both personal and public—into the work of raising children and argues that we are all 'stockholders' in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia...
Cultivating Food Justice
Race, Class, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.
Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement...
Realm of Racket
Learn to Program, One Game at a Time!
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Racket is a descendant of Lisp, a programming language renowned for its elegance, power, and challenging learning curve. But while Racket retains the functional goodness of Lisp, it was designed with beginning programmers in mind. Realm of Racket is your introduction to the Racket language.
In...
X-Parameters
Characterization, Modeling, and Design of Nonlinear RF and Microwave Components
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This is the definitive guide to X-parameters, written by the original inventors and developers of this powerful new paradigm for nonlinear RF and microwave components and systems. Learn how to use X-parameters to overcome intricate problems in nonlinear RF and microwave engineering. The general theory...
Teaching Peace
Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...
Soulmates
Friendship, Fellowship & the Making of Christian Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
For all the vast talk about the nature of the church over the years, our understanding of the actual relationship we euphemistically call “Christian community” is rather thin and incomprehensible. Peel away the institutional hard shell around what we understand to be the church and what fleshy...
by Ryan Jordan, George Cole, Carol Crooker
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
LIGHTWEIGHT BACKPACKING AND CAMPING offers insight into gear selection and techniques that can be used to reduce pack weight and decrease the margin of risk that occurs by taking less weight in the backcountry. This book is an ideal primer for the lightweight backpacking student who desires to build a solid foundation of knowledge about equipment and skills.
Practical Evaluation Guide
Tools for Museums and Other Informal Educational Settings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Administrators of museums and other informal-learning centers often need to demonstrate, in some tangible way, the effectiveness of their institutions as teaching tools. Practical Evaluation Guide discusses specific methods for analyzing audience learning and behavior in museums, zoos, botanic gardens,...