David Ray: 72 books
by David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing city
When car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person—the city’s newly elected mayor—stood up and said “no.” Initially, it was the cry of a man in the...
Music Men: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The heartbreakers, lovemakers and dreamers always at the top of the music charts are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the forefathers of modern music Frank Sinatra, the Beatles and Bob Dylan to larger-than-life rock gods Elton...
by Paul Kennedy, Bernie Lucht, Lister Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radios Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...
by David J. Finch, Ray DePaul, S.R. Ringuette
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Designing YOU is written for a specific time in your life. High school is probably behind you. Suddenly, you need to make some weighty, often intimidating, decisions for yourself.
"What will I do when I graduate?"
"Am I on the right path?"
"How will I know if I'm...
Why People Matter
A Christian Engagement with Rival Views of Human Significance
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Amid current arguments related to human life and dignity, Christians must be clear about how their faith speaks to such concerns and what other outlooks have to say. This book brings together noted ethicists--Russell DiSilvestro, David P. Gushee, Amy Laura Hall, John F. Kilner, Gilbert C. Meilaender,...
Novel Approaches to Anthropology
Contributions to Literary Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies...
In the Shadow of the Towers
Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“Powerful and interesting” short fiction inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, by Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, and other award winners (Publishers Weekly).
How do we continue to dream, imagine, and create in the aftermath of unthinkable tragedy? This moving collection of nearly...
Psychos
Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.
From Hannibal...
by Lonely Planet, David Eimer, Adam Karlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Lonely Planet Myanmar (Burma) is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Be dazzled by Buddhist architecture in Yangon, explore Bagan's amazing plain of ancient temples, or hike to the floating gardens and markets of Inle...
Australian Soils and Landscapes
An Illustrated Compendium
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
This essential reference provides an introduction to the remarkable soils and landscapes of Australia. It reveals their great diversity and explains why an understanding of soil properties and landscape processes should guide our use of the land. Using striking photographs of characteristic landscapes,...
Mirages and Speculations
Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Is the glimmer on the horizon a lake, shimmering under the hot desert sun – or a flying saucer visiting from a distant planet? Are those swirling clouds dust devils or djinn? In Mirages and Speculations seventeen authors of science fiction and fantasy take you on journeys to high mountain deserts,...
How Beer Saved the World 2
How Beer Saved the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
What's better than beer? More beer! In ages past, the greatest anthology ever to be drunkenly conceived next to a campfire burst forth onto the genre fiction scene by storm. Now, just as the hangover has begun to settle and the coffee has begun to kick in, the time for the Hair of the Dog is upon...
by Lonely Planet, Iain Stewart, Brett Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Vietnam is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Kayak around towering limestone peaks into grottoes and lagoons in Halong Bay; wander...
Social Work with Troubled Families
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
A critical introduction to the Troubled Families Programme (TFP), this book explores the roots, significance and effectiveness of troubled family approaches in social work.
An important strand of government social policy, the TFP gives rise to a number of ethical and political questions about...