David Buck: 7 books

Book cover of Chaplaincy in Hospice and Palliative Care
by Margery Collin, Jacki Thomas, Martin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017

Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secular...
Book cover of I Was Right On Time
by David Conrads, Ken Burns, Buck O'neil
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

From Babe Ruth to Bo Jackson, from Cool Papa Bell to Lou Brock, Buck O'Neil has seen it all. As a first baseman and then manager of the legendary Kansas City Monarchs, O'Neil witnessed the heyday of the Negro leagues and their ultimate demise. In I Was Right on Time, he charmingly recalls his...
Book cover of Texans on the Brink

Texans on the Brink

Threatened and Endangered Animals

by Neil B. Ford, David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Book cover of JavaScript Robotics

JavaScript Robotics

Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone

by Backstop Media, Rick Waldron, Andrew Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015

JavaScript Robotics is on the rise. Rick Waldron, the lead author of this book and creator of the Johnny-Five platform, is at the forefront of this movement. Johnny-Five is an open source JavaScript Arduino programming framework for robotics. This book brings together fifteen innovative programmers,...
Book cover of Trace the Stars

Trace the Stars

LTUE Benefit Anthologies, #1

by Nancy Fulda, Sandra Tayler, Kevin J. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019

Exciting Space Opera and Hard Science Fiction Tales from Award-Winning and Up-and-Coming Writers A consultant discovers how to communicate effectively with ancient, alien beings who have an entirely different perspective on the universe. A human becomes a hero for his actions after he dies....
Book cover of A Musicology for Landscape
by David Nicholas Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017

Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture’s inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect of landscape architecture, while also...
Book cover of Responding to Chaos

Responding to Chaos

Tradition, Technology, Society and Order in Japanese Design

by David N Buck
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a new century. The country's economic boom in the 1980s produced a surge of interest in land and building, and consequently in design in all its forms. From...
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