David Oliver: 37 books
No Mopes Allowed
A Small Town Police Chief Rants and Babbles about Hugs and High Fives, Meth Busts, Internet Celebrity, and Other Adventures . . .
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If you like no-nonsense crime-busting, straight-shooting opinions, and offbeat humor, you’ll love this greatest-hits collection from surprise Internet sensation Chief David A. Oliver of the Brimfield Police Department . . .He’s been called “the coolest police chief in existence,” but...
Second Suns
Two Trailblazing Doctors and Their Quest to Cure Blindness, One Pair of Eyes at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
**Now in paperback: a #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s gripping chronicle of “two doctors . . . bringing light to those in darkness” (Time)
The publisher will donate a portion of its proceeds on the sale of this book to the Himalayan Cataract Project.**
Second Suns is the unforgettable...
by David Oliver, Sally Tureman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In an attempt to challenge the prevailing attitudes and images of nursing homes in America, the authors have written a touching book about the people and the relationships that are a part of nursing home care. Their extensive study of and experience with nursing home residents and caregivers reveal...
by Peter Harris, David Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Inspired by a postgraduate course the authors have jointly taught at the University of Cambridge since 2001, Peter Harris and David Oliver use their divergent backgrounds (academia and tax practice) to build a conceptual framework that not only makes the tax treatment of complex commercial transactions...
Rights, Risk and Restraint-Free Care of Older People
Person-Centred Approaches in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice. This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint.
The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions...
Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition
One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
This young readers edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present. Includes new photos and illustrations, as well as a special interview by...
Three Cups of Tea
One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard
Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following...
by David Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
How to Negotiate Effectively provides tips, tools and techniques for getting it right. It explores and advises on every aspect of the negotiation process, including: tactics and counter-measures, handling deadlock, making concessions, enhancing your authority and getting the best deal.
This...
by Ahmed Khalifa, Michael DiBaggio, Jack McDonald Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
From the streets of Cairo in the midst of the Arab Spring, to rebellions on distant planets, and from a daring rescue on a seastead-studded ocean to the gallows and grimy streets of 17th century London, here are ten short stories of liberty and revolution.
Imagine...a world where independent...
Airborne Espionage
International Special Duty Operations in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the transport of 'spies' across enemy lines by aircraft was not regarded as a priority. In fact, there was no formal organisation for these flights and no communications network between the air forces and their agents - apart from homing pigeons and...
by David Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Do we regard our place of work as a prison? Is our place of work where we fulfil God's purpose for our life? Should church leaders consider returning to work? Is full-time ministry a heresy? This book is for every working man, woman and church leader: to challenge what we believe, what we preach,the...
Milton's Socratic Rationalism
The Conversations of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The conversation of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, that most obvious of Milton's additions to the Biblical narrative, enacts the pair's inquiry into and discovery of the gift of their rational nature in a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous...
by Oliver Onions, David Stuart Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...