D Chambers: 14 books

This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital.

This book provides a thorough yet concise introduction to quantitative radiobiology and radiation physics, particularly the practical and medical application. Beginning with a discussion of the basic science of radiobiology, the book explains the fast processes that initiate damage in irradiated tissue...

As an immigrant and a newcomer to the United States, he started as an inspector in a plant run by the Ford Motor Company in the Chicago area manufacturing jet engines during the Korean war. He eventually became a citizen and continued in industry until he retired in 1985 as Vice President of a company based in Bridgeport Connecticut. It could only happen in America.

First published in 1999, this book examines the 'how' and 'why' of strategic planning, illustrates the vital role it plays in our day-to-day lives and explores its potential for helping to ensure the future viability of humanity and of the cultures and societies in which we live. The authors describe...

13 Tales Of Summer: Every Summer Fades Away But Not The Stories. The Love-Haight Casefiles By Jean Rabe and Donald J. Bingle Adventures in Urban Fantasy By Russ Crossley The Immortals' War By Leah Cutter Summer Crash (Zerralon 1.1) By J.A. Marlow Heaven's Gun By Harambee K. Grey-Sun Hero Corps...

THE LAST GOODBYE - SONNY NOIR’S STORY by D. C. Chambers The Last Goodbye shows a complex relationship between twenty-five-year-old Sonny Noir, a gay man feeling beaten by the system, and forty-two-year-old Jacqueline Svenson Skylar, a newly transplanted wealthy New York socialite who recently moved...

The Chouans [Honoré de Balzac] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce] One of Ours [Willa Cather] Ailsa Paige [Robert William Chambers] The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers] The Duel [Joseph Conrad] The Tale [Joseph Conrad] The Deerslayer [James Fenimore Cooper] The Last of the Mohicans...

It's an endless cycle of frustrations and failure. You try diet after diet, but you just can't drop the weight, or keep it off. No wonder you're stressed! Well, now De-Stress, Weigh Less by Dr. Paul Rosch and Dr. Carolyn Chambers Clark, two of America's leading experts on the connection between stress...

The Chouans [Honoré de Balzac] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce] One of Ours [Willa Cather] Ailsa Paige [Robert William Chambers] The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers] The Duel [Joseph Conrad] The Tale [Joseph Conrad] The Deerslayer [James Fenimore Cooper] The Last of the Mohicans...

The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...

Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.   The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...

Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...

The African Americas insists on the transcendent interconnectedness of histories, stories, and cultural and disciplinary expression, and the centrality of the Middle Passage in connecting Harlem and Brooklyn to Havana, Kingston, and Rio de Janeiro. The collection's framework urges the reader to consider...

How can civilians in newly democratized countries ensure their control over the military? While establishing civilian control of the military is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy, it requires prudent strategic action on the part of the decision-makers to remove the military from positions of power and make it follow their orders.