David P : 614 books
Aging Successfully
How to Enjoy, Not Just Endure, the Second Half of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Aging Successfully offers suggestions for greater satisfaction and happiness for people over age fifty. It raises spiritual and emotional issues such as how to deal with depression and gives specific action steps. This book is packed full of practical help; it is a road map for aging, especially during...
StoryCorner Collection Volume 1
Stories for German learners at levels A2-B1
Language: German
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Learning German is more fun when you can do it reading a short story. You forget about the difficulties of learning and just dive into the story. That's what StoryCorner is all about: exposing beginning to intermediate learners to new words and grammar in an entertaining context. This easy reader...
Der Turm und Brücke
Die neue Kunst des Ingenieurbaus
Language: German
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Long recognised as a classic in the USA, "The Tower and the Bridge" is now at last available in German translation. In his preface to the German edition, Jörg Schlaich writes. "This book is essential reading and a pleasure for the "structural engineering artist", in whose structures the connection...
El cuadro de mando integral
The balanced scorecard
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 24, 2014
El Cuadro de Mando Integral (CMI) revolucionó el sistema de gestión orientado a canalizar energías, habilidades y conocimientos específicos de los colaboradores de una organización hacia la consecución de objetivos estratégicos a medio y largo plazo.
Kaplan y Norton demuestran la forma...
by H. W. Brands, Christina Duffy Burnett, David P. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation...
Million-Dollar Hire
Build Your Bottom Line, One Employee at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Tools for translating recruiting and hiring decisions into financial returns
Even in a down economy, U.S. business and government make millions of hiring decisions every year. Every decision carries risk. Every hire is an investment. Ideally, every one pays a return. In today's demanding environment,...
Pain Free Living for Drug Free People
A Guide to Pain Management in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
An authoritative guide to pain control and pain medications for people in recovery
People in recovery who suffer from pain, whether it's acute, chronic, or the result of an ongoing condition such as cancer--face a special challenge. How can they use effective pain medications without triggering...
Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood
A Practical Theology for College and Young Adult Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The shift from adolescence to adulthood, a recently identified stage of life called "emerging adulthood," covers an increasing span of years in today's culture (roughly ages 18-30) due to later marriages and extended education. During this prolonged stage of exploration and self-definition,...
Psycholinguistics
Language, Mind and World
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
How do we learn to produce and comprehend speech? How does language relate to thought?
This second edition of the successful text Psycholinguistics- Language, Mind and World considers the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain as well as various aspects of society and culture....
by Les Christie, David P. Nystrom
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Following the first volume of this series, A Youth Worker’s Commentary on John, Vol 2 digs deeper into the miracles and teachings of Jesus as told by John. Covering the remainder of John’s gospel, chapters nine to twenty-one, you’ll find this resource to be an invaluable aid for your message...
The Constitution in the Supreme Court
The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Currie's masterful synthesis of legal analysis and narrative history, gives us a sophisticated and much-needed evaluation of the Supreme Court's first hundred years.
"A thorough, systematic, and careful assessment. . . . As a reference work for constitutional teachers, it is a gold mine."—Charles A. Lofgren, Constitutional Commentary
Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems
Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders. Knowledge of the extent of these problems and changes...
American Exceptionalism Reconsidered
U.S. Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Is the US really exceptional in terms of its willingness to take universal human rights seriously? According to the rhetoric of American political leaders, the United States has a unique and lasting commitment to human rights principles and to a liberal world order centered on rule of law and human...
The 2012 Presidential Election
Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Though many analyses of the 2012 presidential election have emerged, none can match this collection's depth, diversity, or ability to critically and soundly argue where American politics will go from this point forward. This volume includes some of the most recognized scholars in the field and innovative...