David K: 437 books
by David K. Miller, Mordechai Yashin
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
David K. Miller has teamed up with Torah scholar and Kabbalist expert Mordechai Yashin, who resides in Jerusalem, Israel, to bring you A New Tree of Life for Planetary Ascension, which is based on unique lectures and classes David and Mordechai gave over an eight-month period between 2012 and...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Seasons at Selah
The Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
In 1969, J. David Bamberger bought what he described as “the sorriest piece of land” in the Texas Hill Country for the specific purpose of restoring the degraded landscape. Today, Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve is one of the largest habitat restoration projects in the state—5,500 acres—and...
Guided by Divine Love
An Inspiring True Story of a Young Man's Journey Out of the Darkness of Oppression and Discovery of the Inner Light Th
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
As a Kurd in an increasingly hostile Iraq in the 1970s, David wanted to fulfill his mother's dream for him: To become a U.S. citizen-no small feat given that he was not allowed to leave Iraq. In his own words, David provides unique insights into Iraq under the rise of Saddam Hussein, and tells of the...
by David K. Randall
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep.
Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of...
A Country of Strangers
Blacks and Whites in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and celebrities and takes us among ordinary Americans...
The Working Poor
Invisible in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.
As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most...
Musical Maryland
A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
In Musical Maryland, the first comprehensive survey of the music emanating from the Old Line State, David K. Hildebrand and Elizabeth M. Schaaf explore the myriad ways in which music has enriched the lives of Marylanders. From the drinking songs of colonial Annapolis, the liturgical music of the Zion...
Freedom of Speech
Mightier Than the Sword
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America
With his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical...
by David K. Shipler
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
From the best-selling author of The Working Poor, an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives.
How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly...
Rights at Risk
The Limits of Liberty in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.
With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution...
Is behavioral economics doomed?
The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
It is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and emotional way in which real economic decisions are reached. All of us facing the global economic crisis wonder just how rational economic men and women can be. Behavioral economics —...
Hire Performance
Recruiting a Winning Sales Team New and Revised
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Busy managers and bottom-line entrepreneurs are faced with one of the toughest challenges in all of business: hiring a sales team that can really sell. In Hire Performance, authors Dr. David K. Barnett and Matthew Robinson provide novice and professional recruiters with a turnkey selection system...
by David K. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The Dark Pirate quickly captures its readers, wrapping them in the ago-old dramas of intense greed, cruelty, rape, murder, and bitter-sweet romance. David K. Evans crafts a tight plot with vivid glimpses of the turbulent 1700s; a time when the Caribbean island of Roatn was the rendezvous for Brethren...