David K: 437 books
Secretly Brilliant
Wisdom-From-Above: the Best and Richest Inheritance for You and Your Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
"I founded Four Seasons based on similar principles."
Isadore Sharp, Founder & Chairman, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts.
"If you are looking for a good start, this is a really good place to start."
Eugene Peterson, Translator of The Message.
The much overlooked...
Interpreting the New Testament Text
Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
With the explosive increase in availability of English Bible translations, the question can easily be asked, "Why bother with the hard work of biblical exegesis?" Computers can translate foreign languages and our English texts can take us very close to the original meanings, so why exegete? Answer:...
Learning Policy
When State Education Reform Works
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Education reformers and policymakers argue that improved students’ learning requires stronger academic standards, stiffer state tests, and accountability for students’ scores. Yet these efforts seem not to be succeeding in many states. The authors of this important book argue that effective state...
Governing Metropolitan Areas
Growth and Change in a Networked Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet...
The Obama Presidency in the Constitutional Order
A First Look
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In this book, a diverse group of presidential scholars step back from the partisan debate to consider the first two years of the Obama presidency through the lens of the U.S. constitution's theory,...
The New Rationalism
Albert Schweitzer's Philosophy of Reverence for Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) preached a message of reverence for life - all life - that touched the hearts of a generation. As a medical doctor in French Equatorial Africa who selflessly helped those in need, Schweitzer was recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of two world wars. But less...
by Charles M. Haar, John G. Wofford, David L. Kirp
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Metropolitanization and Public Services is third in a series on the governance of metropolitan regions which aims to explore the welfare and development of Metropolitan America. Originally published in 1972, this study discusses who decides which essential public services need to be provided within...
To Know and Love God
Method for Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
It is the job of all believers, not just theologians, to serve God by discerning what is true about the crucial issues of life. Our task is to learn more about God. Our privilege is to love God passionately with our minds. Clearly then, spiritual life must have theology as one of its ingredients,...
Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England
Tragedy, Religion and Violence on Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Focusing on Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Milton, Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England argues that the English tragedians reflected an unease within the culture to acts of religious violence. David Anderson explores a link between the unstable emotional response...
High Risk Pregnancy E-Book
Management Options - Expert Consult
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
High Risk Pregnancy examines the full range of challenges in general obstetrics, medical complications of pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis, fetal disease, and management of labor and delivery. Drs. David James, Philip J. Steer, Carl P. Weiner, Bernard Gonik, Caroline Crowther, and Stephen Robson present...
by David K. C. Cooper, M.D., Robert P. Lanza
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2000
The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today. But the current critical shortage of human donor organs has had one positive consequence: it has stimulated promising new research into the field...
Im Reich der Träume
Die rätselhafte Welt des Schlafes
Language: German
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Der New York Times-Bestseller über die erstaunlichen Erkenntnisse der Schlafforschung
Jede Nacht widmen wir ihm etliche Stunden: Dennoch gibt der Schlaf uns allen – Schläfern wie Wissenschaftlern gleichermaßen – verblüffend viele Rätsel auf. Obwohl wir nahezu ein Drittel unseres Lebens...
Developing Early Comprehension
Laying the Foundation for Reading Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How does early comprehension develop in young children, and how can we better prepare preschoolers to become successful readers? This important volume compiles today's best research on the often-overlooked topic of prereader comprehension: what we know about it now, and what we need to know to build...
Warrior to Dreadnought
Warship Design and Development 1860-1905
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In the 50 years that separated Warrior from Dreadnought there occurred a revolution in warship design quite unparalleled in naval history; a period that began with the fully-rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battlecruisers that were to fight in the...