David Lamb: 23 books
Vietnam, Now
A Reporter Returns
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the...
The Arabs
Journeys Beyond the Mirage
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
The Arabs is widely considered one of the essential books for understanding the Middle East and the peoples who live there. David Lamb, who spent years as a correspondent in Cairo, explores the Arabs’ religious, political, and cultural views, noting the differences and key similarities between the...
Perfect Combination
Seven Key Ingredients to Happily Living & Loving Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
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You Will Discover: Exciting ways to be friends and lovers too * How to argue and laugh when its over * Easy everyday romantic gestures to keep the sizzle in your relationship * Creative ways to help each other reach your...
by David Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
During the four years he spent in black Africa as the bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, David Lamb traveled through almost every country south of the Sahara, logging more than 300,000 miles. He talked to presidents and guerrilla leaders, university professors and witch doctors. He bounced from...
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
A Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Is the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence a genuine scientific research programme? David Lamb evaluates claims and counter-claims, and examines recent attempts to establish contact with other intelligent life forms. He considers the benefits and drawbacks of this communication, how we should...
Regreening the Bare Hills
Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
In Regreening the Bare Hills: Tropical Forest Restoration in the Asia-Pacific Region, David Lamb explores how reforestation might be carried out both to conserve biological diversity and to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor. While both issues have attracted considerable attention in recent...
Down the Slippery Slope
Arguing in Applied Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A `slippery slope' argument in medical ethics is one that opposes itself to a new proposal on the grounds that it is not per se intolerable but will lead to a situation that is. Lamb evaluates such arguments, demonstrating their centrality to the subject.
by David Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Landscapes are being degraded and simplified across the globe. This book explores how forest restoration might be carried out to increase landscape heterogeneity, improve ecological functioning and restore ecosystem services in such landscapes. It focuses on large, landscape-scale reforestation because...
by David Tucker, Christopher Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
In October and November of 2001, small numbers of soldiers from the Army Special Forces entered Afghanistan, linked up with elements of the Northern Alliance (an assortment of Afghanis opposed to the Taliban), and, in a remarkably short period of time, destroyed the Taliban regime. Trained to work...
God Behaving Badly
Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
God has a bad reputation. Many think of God as wrathful and angry, smiting people right and left for no apparent reason. The Old Testament in particular seems at times to portray God as capricious and malevolent, wiping out armies and nations, punishing enemies with extreme prejudice. But wait. The...
The Faith of Donald J. Trump
A Spiritual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Based on extensive inside sources, including exclusive interviews with the President and Vice President, The Faith of Donald J. Trump explores his rarely discussed, but deeply important, religious beliefs and relationships with leading Evangelicals.
The Chief Political Correspondent for the...
Harvard Classics Volume 27
English Essays: Sidney To Macaulay
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Contents: 1. The Defense Of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney 2. On Shakespeare and On Bacon, by Ben Jonson 3. Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley 4. The Vision Of Mirza and Westminster Abbey, by Joseph Addison 5. The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele 6. Hints Towards An Essay On Conversation, A Treatise...
by Ron Hutchinson, Christina Lamb, David Greig
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Three writers. Two plays. One vital tale of power, sex and infighting at the top of the Washington establishment, and its far-reaching repercussions.
This Tuesday by Ron Hutchinson and Christina Lamb
It’s 5a.m. A CIA director learns her daughter has been injured in a car crash, a White...
by Jeff Smith, David G. Lamb Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
***ALL BOOK PROCEEDS ARE DONATED IN SUPPORT OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY SURVIVORS AND/OR CANCER RESEARCH*** This is the personal story of a middle-aged man named Jeff Smith, reflecting back on what his life has been like since suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a car accident at the age of...
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