David W : 792 books
Syria
The Fall of the House of Assad; New Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
In this timely book, David Lesch-one of the only Westerners well acquainted with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad-sheds new light on the ophthalmologist-turned-tyrant and how his regime has failed his country. For this updated edition, Lesch has added an epilogue that discusses the formation of the...
by David W. Orr, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
"For the most part . . . we are still educating the young as if there were no planetary emergency." Yet, continues David Orr, the...
Down to the Wire
Confronting Climate Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent...
by David W. Orr
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally...
A New Day in the Delta
Inventing School Desegregation As You Go
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him...
Wars of the Irish Kings
A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied wars have in recent years gone unremembered. In Wars of the Irish Kings, David Willis McCullough...
by David W. Kling
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
No one can doubt that the Bible has exerted a tremendous influence on Western civilization since the dawn of Christianity. But few of us have considered the precise nature of that influence in particular historical contexts. In this book David Kling traces the fascinating story of how specific biblical...
by David W. Cotter OSB
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The central thesis underlying this study of Genesis is that the God who is revealed as a character in Genesis is always a savior. In Genesis, David Cotter, OSB, helps readers discern a structure in the book whereby the least and the weakest are the object of God's saving help.
Genesis begins...
A Simplified Approach to It Architecture with Bpmn
A Coherent Methodology for Modeling Every Level of the Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
A Simplified Approach to IT Architecture with BPMN: A Coherent Methodology for Modeling Every Level of the Enterprise distills the insights a seasoned IT professional gathered over the course of thirty-five years spent studying, designing, deploying, critiquing, and refining IT architectures. This...
Dark Crossings
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
For fans of The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror, Sean Platt and David Wright are back with a baker’s dozen third collection of Dark Crossings short stories blending sci-fi, horror, and thrills.
Giving Up The Ghost — In a world where ghosts must be ushered by a special agency to their next...
by Anika Arrington, Alyson Grauer, Aaron and Belinda Sikes
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Amid a cacophony of cranking sprockets and cogs, in chuffs of steam and soot, comes the expansion of classic literature into alternative Steampunk masterpieces. Follow nine skilled authors as they lead old friends and new acquaintances through Jamaica, Singapore, Cape Town, Denmark, Paris, London,...
by WPaD, Mandy White, Marla Todd
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Who can come up with a dozen or more different ways to end the world?
We can!
This collection of apocalyptic short stories explores the myriad ways in which life as we know it could end.
From the traditional nuclear apocalypse to cosmic events, zombies, mysterious alien substances, evil corporations...
Creepies 2: Things That go Bump in the Closet
Creepies, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
From the masters of horror at Writers, Poets and Deviants:
Prepare for terror…
- An exterminator meets his match in a family's attic…
- A cuddly toy with a disturbing origin is all the rage…
- A boy's survival of a deadly accident turns out to be more curse than miracle…
- A man...
Blood and Guts
Rules, Tactics, and Scenarios for Wargaming World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
United States Marine Corps veteran David Hall presents a new and exciting way to experience the Second World War in Blood and Guts: Rules, Tactics, and Scenarios for Wargaming World War Two. Hall developed his tactical game system through decades of personal wargaming, and he now shares his unique...