David Pierce: 23 books
by David Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
`Is there one who understands me?'
So wrote James Joyce towards the end of his final work, Finnegans Wake. The question continues to be asked about the author who claimed that he had put so many enigmas into Ulysses that it would `keep the professors busy for centuries' arguing over what he...
The Long Apprenticeship
A Writer’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
After an established career as a literary critic, David Pierce turns his attention to the story of his own life. From a working-class upbringing to an education in Catholic boarding schools and seminaries in Sussex and Surrey, and then onto university at Lancaster, his story is both personal and evocative...
Don't Let Me Go
What My Daughter Taught Me about the Journey Every Parent Must Make
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
One day after reading a book about a wilderness adventurer, David Pierce’s fifteen-year-old daughter Chera announced that she wanted to climb a mountain. What David heard behind that wish was a bold declaration: “I’m growing up, Dad–what are you going to do about it?”
A few weeks...
The Overlord Effect
Emergent Leadership Style at the D-Day Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The Overlord Effect is a historically based leadership review that combines the accounts of Veterans of the Normandy Campaign of World War II and presents a conversation about their experiences with the leadership theories that have become part of today"s conversation on the subject in the military,...
Behavior Analysis and Learning
A Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition provides an advanced introduction to the principles of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, covering a full range of principles from basic respondent and operant conditioning through...
by David Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
If you are a Scrapbooking addict then you already know how fun Scrapbooking can be. But did you realize that Scrapbooking has also become one of the hottest home businesses today? A full 14% of scrappers today are involved in the business of Scrapbooking. Discover everything you need to know by grabbing a copy of this ebook today.
Dirty Boulevard
Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Lou Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Inspired by the outcasts, outlaws, and other outré inhabitants of rock legend Lou Reed’s songbook, Dirty Boulevard traffics in crime fiction that’s sometimes velvety and sometimes vicious, but always, absolutely, rock & roll. Inside, you’ll find stories from the fire escapes to the underground,...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
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...
Undead Worlds
A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
21 Authors. 21 Undead worlds. 1 Great Book.
Do you dare?
ALONE TOGETHER BY DAVID SIMPSON
What do you do when there is nowhere left to run?
GONE FISHIN' BY JUSTIN ROBINSON
When the dead rise, the living become the monsters.
THE FESTIVAL BY CHRISTOPHER MAHOOD
A city on lockdown...
Stars in the Darkness
Stores of Wisdom, Justice, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Stars in the Darkness is a collection of stories about why being just matters, and what the ramifications are for individuals, groups, towns, countries, or even worlds if justice is not expected, encouraged, or enforced.
The stories cover a wide range, from historical fiction to fantasy to...
The American Military Tradition
From Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the...
La bande à Bonnot
Les illégalistes
Language: French
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Ni dieu, ni maître... ni scrupule
Paris, La Belle Époque. La ville est scindée entre les beaux quartiers et les faubourgs populaires. Jules Bonnot et sa bande d’illégalistes sèment la terreur, multipliant les meurtres politiques et les braquages – dont le premier en automobile de l’histoire....
by David R. Pierce Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
First published in 1988 by RS Means, the new edition of Project Scheduling and Management for Construction has been substantially revised for students enrolled in construction management and civil engineering programs. While retaining its emphasis on developing practical, professional-level scheduling...
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