Del David: 42 books

The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation. In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together...

When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker...

A vast conspiracy prevents the truth about the vampire epidemic from coming to light. A small force is humanity’s only chance: an alcoholic, a doctor, a pawnbroker, an exterminator, and a criminal. Can they prevent the Master from covering the world in darkness? This collection includes issues #1–#9...

Many developing and emerging countries do not fully pass-through increases in international fuel prices to domestic retail prices, with adverse consequences for fuel tax revenues and tax volatility. The adoption of an automatic fuel pricing mechanism can help to address this problem, and the incorporation...

The purpose of the book is to share part of the life story of my very best friend, Riley-Dirk. Riley is our beloved mixed Miniature Australian Shepard. He was a stray that made his way from Fort Worth, Texas to our school and ultimately to our home. He traveled over 60 miles in his three-month journey...

this collection of 22 stories are as thought-provoking as the title suggests. But they are also humorous, poignant and wide-ranging, with a strong narrative pull. Well written and always entertaining, they are an excellent display of the short story writer's art.

Siete historias con los más variados personajes: una ballena que quiere ver si es cierto que el elefante es tan grande como dicen, un ogro que no será el mismo después de que un conejo irrumpa en su vida, unos osos que arman la gran fiesta antes de hibernar, un león que no rugía como todos esperaban....

Human degradation of the environment has been documented by scholars across a range of disciplines: the global temperature of the planet continues to rise, abandoned industrial sites stain once vibrant communities, and questions about the purity of our water and foods linger. In the shadow of these...

DAH Theatre: A Sourcebook is a collection of essays about the work of one of the most successful and innovative performance groups in contemporary history. With a direct line of descent from Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba, DAH Theatre, founded during the worst of times in the former Yugoslavia,...

Draws on a remarkable range of pop culture and historical source material – from Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright, the African Queen to the Lion King Addresses such topical events such as Kony2012, American responses to the Ebola crisis, and responses to Obama's Kenyan parentage Includes...

Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment.

This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who specialize in diverse methods ranging from ethnography, archival research, and oral histories, to quantitative data analysis and experiments used in the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological,...

La guerra de Siria ha generado más de cuatro millones de refugiados registrados por ACNUR y la mayoría son menores de edad. Europa responde al instinto de huida de la guerra ignorando los principios de solidaridad y humanidad que la fundaron tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, dando la espalda a la...

Sean las que sean las diversas estrategias somos muchos los que sentimos que una pedagogía de la interioridad influye tanto en la calidad de la mirada con la que nos dirigimos a los demás, sean los alumnos o los compañeros, como en la profundidad de lo que vivimos?