Eric David: 159 books
Give Peace a Chance
Preventing Mass Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In Give Peace a Chance, the distinguished Dr. Hamburg teams up with his filmmaker son to tell the story of selected significant peace achievements over the past 25 years. Including lessons from personal experience, pithy quotes from interviews with international dignitaries, and the insights of a...
Creating Inclusion and Well-being for Marginalized Students
Whole-School Approaches to Supporting Children’s Grief, Loss, and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
It is increasingly challenging for teachers to educate without a deeper understanding of the experience of their students. This is particularly the case in marginalised groups of young people who are subject to loss, grief, trauma and shame. Through a snapshot of the diverse student populous, this...
by William Morris, Theric Jepson, D.J. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
What if the territory of Deseret had never joined the Union and instead became its own nation? What if Leo Tolstoy or Nikola Tesla had converted to the LDS Church? What if Brigham Young had gone all the way to California instead of stopping in Utah? The genre of alternate history invites us to imagine...
Divided Lenses
Screen Memories of War in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events...
Christian Higher Education
Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.
Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
Urban Spaces
Planning and Struggles for Land and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The control and utilization of urban spaces remains a highly contested issue. Much of the debate centers on issues of economic development versus the maintenance and support of already existing communities. As a number of urban areas are in the throes of gentrification and economic development projects,...
Drawing a Line in the Sea
The Gaza Flotilla Incident and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The deadly May 31, 2010 Gaza flotilla incident has been misunderstood. This book explores the incident in more detail than mainstream media coverage has allowed—explaining the background, key players, and the incident itself—enriched by the authors having had unique access to senior Israeli officials...
Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces
An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing...
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
Torche de la liberté
Honor Harrington Universe - Wages of Sin, T2
Language: French
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Le Royaume de Torche est né. D’une planète colonie nommée Congo où trimaient les esclaves génétiques de la puissante firme Manpower, une alliance hétéroclite de combattants de la liberté, d’agents secrets et d’officiers spatiaux de plusieurs nations stellaires a permis de faire surgir...
La Couronne des esclaves
Honor Harrington Universe - Wages of Sin, T1
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Le Royaume de Manticore et Havre ont signé une trêve mais la paix n’est pas encore là et le gouvernement Haute-Crête traîne les pieds. Par son arrogance il indispose même ses alliés, dont la République d’Erewhon. Or c’est à Erewhon que se tiennent les funérailles du leader assassiné...
Rethinking California
Politics and Policy in the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book explores the state of California — viewing the state as a holistic political culture that reflects the influence of multiple cultures, ethnic groups, and communities of interest. It starts with a broad historical foundation, and travels through cultural analyses and institutional discussions....