David Turner: 46 books

Book cover of The Old Boys

The Old Boys

The Decline and Rise of the Public School

by David Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country’s top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner’s vibrant...
Book cover of The Green Marble

The Green Marble

Earth System Science and Global Sustainability

by David Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Humans have difficulty thinking at the global scale. Yet as we come to understand our planet as a single, interconnected, complex system and encounter compelling evidence of human impact on Earth’s climate and biosphere, the need for a truly global effort is increasingly urgent. In this concise...
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Indigenous Homelessness

Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
Book cover of Conspiracy of Electromagnetic Waves
by David Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015

David is a college graduate student who along with his lab partners, Soranovich and Craig were working on a confidential experiment for the Military Industrial Complex. Their lives soon changed after Craig goes off on the deep end and discovers an aspect of their experiment that they were not investigating....
Book cover of Etsy: Build a Profitable Business by Mastering Etsy and Make Money Quickly and Easily
by David Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

Building a business that is profitable is the dream of every person who wants to start a business. Money and ethics are usually the motivation behind the struggle to make it in the business sector.In this book I have discussed:- How to make your shop in Etsy to stand out among the...
Book cover of Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher?: A Bird's Eye History of the World
by David Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011

Did the Cetti’s Warbler inspire the opening notes of the last movement of Beethoven’s Second Symphony? Is the emu nature’s most devoted dad? Find out the answers to these ornithological conundrums and others this engaging book that delves into literature, science, religion, fine...
Book cover of Fragile State
by David Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

What do you do when your girlfriend disappears and your best friend commits suicide? Glen McGregor's answer is to get mind-numbingly drunk. But as bad as things are, they can always get worse, and soon he is being hampered in his quest for drunken oblivion by the lies and duplicity of his unsavoury past....
Book cover of Matthew (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)
by David L. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

New Testament scholar and professor David L. Turner offers a substantive yet highly accessible commentary on Matthew in this latest addition to the BECNT series. With extensive research and thoughtful chapter-by-chapter exegesis, Turner leads readers through all aspects of the Gospel of Matthew--sociological,...
Book cover of Israel's Last Prophet

Israel's Last Prophet

Jesus and the Jewish Leaders in Matthew 23

by David L. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

Jesus’ words of indictment and judgment in the Gospel according to Matthew have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Judaism and the horrors of the twentieth-century Holocaust. The solemn parables and pronouncements of judgment in chapters 22‒23 come to a climax in Jesus’ ironic command that the...
Book cover of Unfettered III

Unfettered III

New Tales By Masters of Fantasy

by Shawn Speakman, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019

From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III. Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to...
Book cover of Spells: Ten Tales of Magic
by Rayne Hall, David D. Levine, Douglas Kolacki
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012

Ten short story of fantasy, edited by Rayne Hall. The authors of these ten tales have spun yarns based on the premise that magic is real, but it requires skill to harness its force, and abuse brings danger. Suspend your disbelief, and find out what happens when people use magic to gain power,...
Book cover of In the Wake of the Crisis

In the Wake of the Crisis

Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy

by Guillermo Ortiz, Otmar Issing, Parthasarathi Shome
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012

Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world. In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures...
Book cover of Individualism

Individualism

The Cultural Logic of Modernity

by Nancy Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011

Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries,...
Book cover of Matthew, Mark
by David L. Turner, Darrell L. Bock, Philip W. Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015

The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series (18 volumes) is the product of nearly 40 scholars, many of whom participated in the creation of the NLT. The contributors to this series, who are well-known and represent a wide spectrum of theological positions within the evangelical community, have built...
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