David C Taylor: 25 books
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
Ans Messer geliefert
...und zwölf andere Krimis für Bücherliebhaber von Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Laura Lippman, Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Blauner, David Bell, Thomas H. Cook, William Link
Language: German
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Nicht nur für Buchliebhaber: 13 spannende Bücher-Krimis von amerikanischen Top-Autoren! "Ans Messer geliefert" von Jeffery Deaver! Alonso María Carillo, genannt Cuchillo, das Messer, ist der Chef eines mexikanischen Drogenkartells. Und obwohl er sonst nicht gerade zimperlich ist, hat...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
Wings of Change
Stories about Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Tales of wise, ancient dragons hoarding treasure, terrorizing villages, and doing battle with noble heroes have long fascinated us. But dragons were not born old and wise, nor were heroes born brave and noble.
Wings of Change gathers tales of young dragons growing into their scales and claws,...
by John Piper, Justin Taylor, Ben Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
The Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19).
But, of course, sin...
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan In and Out of Time
A Children's Classic at 100
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Celebrating 100 years of Peter Pan, this fourth volume in the Centennial Studies series explores the cultural contents of Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of Peter Pan on children's literature and popular culture today, especially focusing on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies....
The Supernatural Revamped
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...
Action Research for Teacher Candidates
Using Classroom Data to Enhance Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...
Christian Higher Education
Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.
Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
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