David Mcdonald: 24 books

Happiness is not something you achieve once and for all. Happiness is a muscle, a skill, a way of being that can and must be exercised. If you neglect your happiness, unhappiness will re-absorb you. You'll have fatty tissue in the underarms of your joy.We are happy because of what we do...

In Your Face = Trigger Warnings This book contains twenty-two original and reprinted speculative fiction stories dealing with provocative themes. These stories are confronting, but with a firm purpose. They will make you uncomfortable, because they are a bit too hard-hitting or close to the bone....

Author Dr. David McDonald explores the reason, the anticipation, and the hope of Advent. Discover the real meaning behind this liturgical season. Dream once again about the life you want and the ways you can cooperate with God to begin living that life now. With a helpful, practical study guide at...

This book is designed to help you feel empowered and inspired to pray. I want you to enjoy prayer, on your own terms, without any need to justify how or when or why you pray. Because, once you begin, it’s wonderful. It’s easy. Like being with an old friend. Like catching up. Like getting advice...

One thing is common in all of these interactions: we have no idea what sex is, or the power it wields, or the consequences of its misuse, or even the promise sex makes about our spirituality. Sex is everywhere, and because of that, the Church needs to do a better job of framing sexuality in the right...

As globalization and market liberalization march forward unabated the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pace. In this global process, the ownership, sale and supply of water is increasingly a flashpoint for debates and conflict over privatization, and nowhere is the...

Most people have heard that following Christ ought to be life changing. But even Christians know that life often feels too hard, even purposeless, and God seems too distant. It’s time we understood just how embedded we are with God, so that we can live free from guilt over past sins, free from spiritual failure resulting from ignoring God, and free from loneliness and spiritual isolation.

"Many cities have a rich past. No one knows if many have a future" Richard C. Longworth Caught in the Middle, 2007, p. 28 "In the last six decades, no stagnant or decaying city has been globally or signifi cantly saved - never" David H. McDonald "More and more, federal and...

In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second...

In SHARED BLOOD, his brilliant premiere novel, David Erasmus McDonald tells the modern day story of Adam Giroux, a young Charleston-born physician recently transplanted to Vancouver, BC, and Roi Kirkland, a mysterious sculptor lately arrived in the Pacific Northwest from Great Britain.  With...

The first biography to appear in more than a generation on the most influential Tejano leader of the nineteenth century, José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas fills one of the most glaring gaps in the current historical literature on Texas. The product...

A leading text in pediatric dentistry, McDonald and Avery’s Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent provides expert, complete coverage of oral care for infants, children, and teenagers. All the latest diagnostic and treatment recommendations are included! Comprehensive discussions are provided on...

Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...

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...