David L : 1236 books
Mary Norton of New Jersey
Congressional Trailblazer
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Mary Norton of New Jersey: Congressional Trailblazer tells the compelling story of Mary Norton, who served in the United States House of Representatives for 13 terms from 1925 to 1951, featuring her significant role as a congressional pioneer for women and American workers. The daughter of Irish immigrants,...
Church Wake-Up Call
A Ministries Management Approach That is Purpose-Oriented and Inter-Generational in Outreach
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Is your church viable in the changing marketplace of today--and tomorrow?
Today's church market is comprised of four cultural paradigms--Youth, Baby Busters (Generation X), Baby Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Each has unique characteristics in terms of attitudes, spiritual orientation, values, emotional...
An Uncertain Ally
Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression in the press, and wages war against the Kurds. While Turkey has historically been important geopolitically, it has become an outlier in Europe...
Cap Anson
The Grand Old Man of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Cap Anson’s plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame sums up his career with admirable simplicity: “The greatest hitter and greatest National League player-manager of the 19th century.” Anson helped make baseball the national pastime. He hit over .300 in all but three of his major league seasons,...
General George Hannibal Busch
And the Search for the Little Big Oil Well
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
And now for something completely different--Monty python
The world the truth! An original history book of political satire fantasy, about the glorious president and military occupation of Iraq.
The roots and background of this book come from my university degree in Classic History, combined...
New Jews
Race and American Jewish Identity in 21st-century Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"New Jews'?" is the first comprehensive study of American Jewish identity in Hollywood movies of the new millennium. Despite the argument that we live in a "post-racial" society with supposedly "new" Jewish characters emerging on the big screen, this book details how...
Ipswich Witch
Mary Lackland and the Suffolk Witch Hunts
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Against the backdrop of the largest witch hunt in English history, this book is both an investigation of a miscarriage of justice over 350 years old and a recreation of East Anglia as it once was. Ipswich, faced by the extreme challenges of war, religious dissent, poverty, sickness, and the threat...
Living Faithfully
Human Sexuality and The United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
There is deep disagreement about what The United Methodist Church should teach about homosexuality, same gender marriage, and the ordination of LGBTQ persons. In 2019, a special session of General Conference will be held to consider these issues and how they will be addressed by The United Methodist...
by David L. Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
First published in 1979, this book traces comedy of manners from the 1660s to the then present — a scope beyond the traditional focus on the Restoration and early twentieth century. It uncovers an underestimated subversive potential and socially critical force in this particularly English dramatic...
Critical Materials
Present Danger to U.S. Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
A high percentage of many raw and semi-finished materials critical to U.S. manufacturing are imported. China is the controlling producer of 11 of these materials and has instituted export restrictions that have led to two-tier pricing, creating pressure to move manufacturing to China. This report suggests...
Mental Disorder in Canada
An Epidemiological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Canada has long been recognized as a leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, the study of the factors affecting mental health in populations. However, there has never been a book dedicated to the study of mental disorder at a population level in Canada. This collection of essays by leading...
Out of the Nightmare
Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Out of the Nightmare.
An all-out assault on the barriers that stand between you and recovery from depression and suicidal pain.
decomposes recovery from depression into recovery from envy, shame, self-pity, grandiosity, fear, stigma, social abuse, and the double binds and vicious circles...
Transitions at the Top
What Organizations Must Do to Make Sure New Leaders Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Clear, actionable guidance toward managing a major leadership change
Transitions at the Top is an insightful, informative guide to navigating a change in leadership. A smooth transition is critical to both the health of the organization and the success of the new leader, but good planning and...
by Desheng Dash Wu, David L. Olson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
This book is a comprehensive guide to several aspects of risk, including information systems, disaster management, supply chain and disaster management perspectives. A major portion of this book is devoted to presenting a number of operations research models that have been (or could be) applied to...