David Young: 90 books
by David Lawrence-Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This is the story of Benny the son of David Levi, the central figure of Of Guns and Mules and the five-year period he spent serving with the British army in World War II. Volunteering in the summer of 1940, Benny becomes a driver in a Jewish-Palestinian unit and sees active service in Egypt and North...
Managing Local Governments
Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme. With political considerations evident both locally and nationally, managing resources can be complex and subject to change.
This book introduces new concepts and new ways of doing business that can greatly enhance...
by Archer, Nathan; Young, Janine Ellen; Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Lost in the Delta Quadrant, Captain Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 have been seeking a way home for years. But their quest is interrupted by encounters with an astonishing variety of foes - and a few new friends. This collection contains four tales that exemplify all that''s best...
by K.M. Walton, David Arnold, Anthony Breznican
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A song to match everyone's heartbeat.
A soaring melody, a pulse-pounding beat, a touching lyric: Music takes a moment and makes it a memory. It's a universal language that can capture love, heartbreak, loss, soul searching, and wing spreading-all in the span of a few notes. In Behind the Song,...
Techno-Orientalism
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism...
Knowledge and the Future School
Curriculum and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Written at a time of uncertainty about the implications of the English government's curriculum policies, Knowledge and the Future School engages with the debate between the government and large sections of the educational community. It provides a forward-looking framework for head teachers, their...
Confronting Climate Crises through Education
Reading Our Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing world. Young advocates a paradigm shift that positions ecopedagogy as the central organizing principle...
by David M. Young, Michael Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Young and Strickland analyze the four largest discourses of Jesus in Mark in the context of Greco-Roman rhetoric in an attempt to hear them as a first-century audience would have heard them. Their analysis uncovers how the discourses are constructed; what issues each discourse seeks to treat; how...
The Silent Language of Psychotherapy
Social Reinforcement of Unconscious Processes
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Therapeutic changes occur in many places, and among animals as well as humans. A theory that attempts to explain therapeutic changes should be based on principles that apply not only to those changes occurring during the hour, but also to those observed in the educational process, in interpersonal...
The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Understanding Lisbeth Salander and Stieg Larssons Millennium Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Lisbeth Salander, heroine of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, is one of the most compelling, complex characters of our time. Is she an avenging angel? A dangerous outlaw? What makes Salander tick, and why is our response to her-and to Larsson’s Millennium trilogy-so...
Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.
Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
Gridlock
Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But at...
by David John Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
This book is concerned with providing a fundamental basis for understanding the alloy-gas oxidation and corrosion reactions observed in practice and in the laboratory. Starting with a review of the enabling thermodynamic and kinetic theory, it analyzes reacting systems of increasing complexity. It...
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...