David L : 1236 books
by David L. Craddock
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Eleven game designers. Eight grand ideas. Seven days to will them into reality.Every year, programmers from around the world compete in the seven-day roguelike challenge, a week-long game jam where participants endeavor to design and program a roguelike role-playing game. Their obstacles: day...
by David L. Craddock
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
In 1980, computers were instruments of science and mathematics, military secrets and academia. Stern administrators lorded over sterile university laboratories and stressed one point to the wide-eyed students privileged enough to set foot within them: Computers were not toys.Defying authority,...
Acceptance
A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges--and Find Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
An engrossing profile of an extraordinary guidance counselor who helps kids get into the right colleges through focusing on self- awareness
Gwyeth Smith, known as Smitty, is a nationally renowned guidance counselor who believes that getting into college should be a kid's first great moment...
by David L. Mearns
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This gripping memoir by the world’s foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime history, popular science, and Clive Cussler–style adventure.
David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world’s most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battleship HMS Hood...
Laboratory of Justice
The Supreme Court's 200-Year Struggle to Integrate Science and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
From the American Revolution to the genetic revolution, the U.S. Supreme Court's uneasy attempts to weave science into the Constitution
Suppose that scientists identify a gene that predicts that a person is likely to commit a serious crime. Laws are then passed making genetic tests mandatory,...
by Beverly Roberts Gaventa, David L. Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Pastors and students who want a one-volume commentary to complement the New Interpreter's Study Bible will be pleased to find in this resource the quality of scholarship that is a hallmark of other New Interpreter's Bible resources.
The portability, accessibility, and affordability of the...
by David L. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
New Testament scholar and professor David L. Turner offers a substantive yet highly accessible commentary on Matthew in this latest addition to the BECNT series. With extensive research and thoughtful chapter-by-chapter exegesis, Turner leads readers through all aspects of the Gospel of Matthew--sociological,...
Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals
The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Central Coast
Includes Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Benito, Monterey & Santa Cruz Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• Sutil Island, a 1,250 foot-long island, 1,900 feet off the southwest end of Santa Barbara Island was named after one of merchant-explorer Sebastian Vizcaino’s ships.
• Gaspar de Portola founded Presidio of San Carlos Borromeo de Monterey,...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Desert Counties
Includes Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• The name Rancho Cucamonga, derived from an Indian word, suffered a number of bizarre spellings by early Americans including, Coco Mongo Ranch, Cocomouga’s Ranch, Qui-qual-mun-go Ranch, Kikal Mungo ranch and Rancho Cocoa-Mungo.
• A place...
Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Gold Country
Including Yosemite National Park, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sierra & Nevada Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
• Above-ground graves resembling small, outdoor ovens furnished the name for the Mariposa County village of Hornitos. Hornitos is a Spanish word that means “little ovens.”
• In 1885, Alexander Kirkwood founded a hotel called Rattlesnake...
Durham’s Place Names of California’s North Coast
Includes Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino & Trinity Counties
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
• Wounded Knee Mountain in Del Norte County got its name from an incident suffered by an Unites States Geological Survey employee who was working in the neighborhood in 1915. The mountain sits just one and a half miles west of Broken Rib Mountain, another sore spot in California’s...
Durham’s Place-Names of Central California
Includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings & Kern Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
• Steven Barton founded the town of Isabella near the Kern River and named it for Queen Isabella of Spain in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition celebrating the quadricentennial of the discovery of America. Sixty years later, a dam was built on the river and the original...
Bataan Survivor
A POW’s Account of Japanese Captivity in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
A forgotten account, written in the immediate aftermath of World War II, which vividly portrays the valor, sacrifice, suffering, and liberation of the defenders of Bataan and Corregidor through the eyes of one survivor.
The personal memoir of Colonel David L. Hardee, first drafted at sea from...