David Webster: 25 books
Parachute Infantry
An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
David Kenyon Webster’s memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in E Company, 101st Airborne Division, crafting...
Dispirited: How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish and Unhappy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This book by David Webster is a counter-blast against the culturally accepted norm that spirituality is a vital and important factor in human life. Rejecting the idea of human wellbeing as predicated on the spiritual, the book seeks to identify the toxic impact of spiritual discourses on our lives. Spirituality...
From Kinshasa to Kandahar
Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration....
by David Webster
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2004
David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined. A range of views of desire, as found in Western...
by David Webster
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
An Original Essay on Witchcraft
News from Scotland
To the Reader
A True Discourse of the Damnable Life of Doctor Fian, and Sundry other Witches, lately taken in Scotland,
Another Account of...
Book Four of the Naxos Island Mages
The Way of Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2006
Stephunos' adventures continue as settling into the drastically different life the last six months have brought hasn't been easy. Dealing with the pressures of being an Earl, a teacher, and an Ambassador at twelve certainly has a way of complicating things. With the help of his friends, or maybe despite...
by David Hillson, Ruth Murray-Webster
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Despite many years of development, risk management remains problematic for the majority of organizations. One common challenge is the human dimension, in other words, the way people perceive risk and risk management. Risk management processes and techniques are operated by people, each of whom is...
by David Hillson, Ruth Murray-Webster
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
How much risk should we take? A Short Guide to Risk Appetite sets out to help all those who need to decide how much risk can be taken in a particular risky and important situation. David Hillson and Ruth Murray-Webster introduce the RARA Model to explain the complementary and central roles of Risk...
Blended Learning in Practice
A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A guide to both theory and practice of blended learning offering rigorous research, case studies, and methods for the assessment of educational effectiveness.
Blended learning combines traditional in-person learning with technology-enabled education. Its pedagogical aim is to merge the scale,...
by Ruth Murray-Webster, David Hillson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book builds on the authors' previous title Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude but this time looks exclusively at the challenges of understanding and managing those attitudes adopted by groups of people when faced with making decisions that they perceive as risky and important. The book...
Reaching a Generation for Christ
A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1997
Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...
by Peter C. Whybrow, Sarah F. Brosnan, Darby Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.
Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....
A Cognitive Neuropsychological Approach to Assessment and Intervention in Aphasia
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
This book provides both a theoretical and practical reference to cognitive neuropsychological approaches to speech and language therapists working with people with aphasia. Having evolved from the activity of a group of clinicians working with people with aphasia, it is a highly practical guide that...
A Cognitive Neuropsychological Approach to Assessment and Intervention in Aphasia
A clinician's guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This is a second edition of the highly popular volume used by clinicians and students in the assessment and intervention of aphasia. It provides both a theoretical and practical reference to cognitive neuropsychological approaches for speech-language pathologists and therapists working with people...
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