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1000 tulosta hakusanalla David E. Garland
2025 Edition: The Fuzed Trilogy is Bourne Identity meets Avatar and Interstellar.USA TODAY bestseller and Eric Hoffer Award winner, this is a true story we hope never happens.Preventing his burning fighter from hitting a neighborhood, he ejects too late.A year later, he wakes up in a city hospital looking like an omni-racial Olympic athlete. His body wasn't repaired ... it was replaced. He's GMO, a genetic blend of humanity's best genes, but with a voice in his head that tells him an extinction-level event is imminent.This is a work of fiction, but the science behind it isn't. Backed by a team of experts that include renowned astrophysicists, astronauts, admirals and intelligence operatives, these potentially cataclysmic events are inevitable but also preventable ... if we act. See the TED talk: How do we prevent our inevitable extinction TED.com.
Shock the Topline: A Practical Guide for Growing Your Insurance Practice
David E. Estrada
Rainmaker Advisory LLC
2016
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Too often, books intended to help advance insurance professionals' careers are thinly disguised general sales theory, containing programs and advice drawn from the latest pop psychology. Such books are rarely written by industry insiders, and while they loudly tell you what you need to do, they never tell you how. It's time to change this unhelpful dynamic. Written by award-winning retail insurance sales producer and senior industry leader David E. Estrada, Shock the Topline offers a practical, no-nonsense guide for insurance professionals who want to achieve success and generate opportunities for career advancement. Estrada focuses on three core elements vital for success: gaining perspective within the industry, increasing topline revenues, and developing leadership skills. This book is not only for producers: Estrada's penetrating insight and experience will help sales leaders, agency owners, and brokerage leaders better understand the challenges faced by their production teams. A career in insurance can be both fulfilling and rewarding. Your efforts serve the needs of others and protect the social fabric-a noble goal if ever there were one. Let Estrada help you take your career to the next level and shock your topline.
Death Watch Beetle, A Historical Post WWII Spy Thriller
David E Huntley
Huntley Associates(dallas), Inc
2016
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In the Matter of Edwin Potter: Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Reform
David E. Geiger
David E.\ Geiger
2016
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What is the book about?It is an autobiography about Edwin Potter (not his real name), a man with schizophrenia. He had no treatment, and, as a result, he killed somebody. This is the true story of his trial, his struggle, and his comeback. David Geiger initiated his journey into criminal justice reform in May 1998 and wrote many copyrighted articles on the topic. In 2018, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who. In November 2022, he was a panel member for an FDA conference which initiated drug research into schizophrenia. In May 2024, he participated in a SOAR Forum with NJ Reentry Corporation and Rutgers University Newark Center for Applied Appreciative Inquiry "to offer your valuable public policy ideas to improve and transform the breadth of mental health and addiction treatment services for Justice-involved individuals." Winner of the London Book Reviews seal Honoring Excellence.Winner of the Toronto Book Review Literary Award. Web site: www.davidegeiger.com
Through artful illustrations, we learn the story of a very clever eagle and an even more playful dolphin who come together one special day. In a surprising moment out of time, they share a tiny pinecone with far-reaching results. Traveling through the circle of life, this loving tale helps young minds of any age explore the wonder of Great Spirit, Mother Earth, and Father Sky. And be inspired to appreciate the beauty of giant trees like the Redwoods in Northern California that inspired old lone pine in the story. Year after year seasons come and go. The precious ecosystem of plants and animals fostered by the great trees are supported by their loving existence. Just imagine if you will, the magical effects of one tiny pinecone to create the most perfect tree for a growing family of eagles to nest in A beloved mother/grandmother by the name of Liliana channeled this story through the author after she passed on to reside in the great beyond. Liliana had great respect and reverence for all living creatures great and small. It was important to her that children of all ages know and understand that all life is connected and intertwined in this grand circle of life.This story is her gift to the world; to instill hope and inspiration in all of us and especially for our children whose future depends on their participation in the stewardship of our natural world. We humans are not separate from any other living being and in fact, we depend on each other to survive. Loving care is a gift as depicted by the old lone pine who fosters a precious ecosystem of plants and animals growing and thriving through the years.
Husband School: Where Men Learn the Secrets of Making Wives Happy
David E. Gordon; Julie N. Gordon
Julie N. Gordon
2017
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The Gosling: Marias River Float Memorial Day Weekend 1993
David E. Thomas
Blue Horse Press
2017
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Poems of a journey down the wilds of Montana's Marias River.
In this magisterial new work, Bancroft Prize - winning historian David Kyvig chronicles the rise of a culture of impeachment since 1960 - one that extends far beyond the infamous scandals surrounding Presidents Richard Nixon (Watergate) and Bill Clinton (Monica Lewinsky) and has dramatically altered the face of American politics.A buzz word in today's public life, ""impeachment"" was anything but that before 1960. Since then it has been transformed from a historically little-known and little-used tool of last resort into a political weapon of choice. By examining the details and consequences of impeachment episodes involving three Supreme Court justices, a vice president, five federal judges, and four presidents, Kyvig explores this seismic shift in our constitutional culture and gauges its ongoing implications for American political life.Beginning with the John Birch Society's campaign against Chief Justice Earl Warren, impeachment efforts became far more frequent after 1960, with eight actually ending in resignation or removal. In describing these efforts, Kyvig recounts stories and subplots about key political actors and the controversies they inspired. He argues that judicial cases are as important as the better-known presidential ones and shows why those cases that did not proceed - against not only Warren, but also Abe Fortas, William O. Douglas, Spiro Agnew, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush - are as illuminating as those that did.Kyvig demonstrates that impeachment has been the bellwether of a changing - and increasingly toxic - political climate. Perhaps most important and ominous, the increasing threat of impeachment has encouraged presidents to hide potentially impeachable actions behind a thick veil of executive secrecy, while dramatically expanding executive power beyond the reach of either Congress or the courts.Combining political and legal history at their best, Kvyig also explores the cultural impact of journalist David Frost, editorial cartoonist Herblock, and filmmakers Alan Pakula, Robert Altman, and Oliver Stone. A gifted storyteller, he presents a cautionary tale that should be read by all who care about our national government and its ability to survive and thrive in perilous times.
In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process ofamending the US Constitution. The Afterword discusses the many amendments, such those requiring a balanced federal budget or limitingthe terms of members of Congress, that have been proposed since the book was originally published and why they failed of passage. Ata time when prominent scholars and other public figures have called for a constitutional convention to write a new constitution, arguingthat our current system of governance is unsustainable Kyvig reminds us of the high hurdles the founders created to amending the constitution and how they have served the country well, preventing the amendmentprocess from being used by one faction to serve the passions of the moment.
Published in the year 1973, Political Change is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics. The problem in the social sciences has been to improve the quality of the relationship between the creative and didactic sides and produce more interesting and verifiable hypotheses and propositions. The literature dealing with this problem has grown and become increasingly technical. This collection of essays are between creativity and didactics. Some are experiments in the mind, as it were plundering history for purpose. Others seek criteria for a politics of development. Still others are more analytical, seeking criteria for theory, as in the articles on political studies, and on political systems. In all, however, there is a common thread, the creation and use of intermediate categories and their applications to real-life historical or contemporary development situations.
Published in the year 1973, Political Change is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics. The problem in the social sciences has been to improve the quality of the relationship between the creative and didactic sides and produce more interesting and verifiable hypotheses and propositions. The literature dealing with this problem has grown and become increasingly technical. This collection of essays are between creativity and didactics. Some are experiments in the mind, as it were plundering history for purpose. Others seek criteria for a politics of development. Still others are more analytical, seeking criteria for theory, as in the articles on political studies, and on political systems. In all, however, there is a common thread, the creation and use of intermediate categories and their applications to real-life historical or contemporary development situations.
It is rare for a scholar to revisit the scene of earlier research with a view to evaluating how that research has stood up over time. Here David E Apter does that and more. In a lengthy new introductory chapter to this classic study of bureaucratic nationalism, he reviews the efficacy of the concepts in his original study of Uganda of almost a century ago, including some, such as consociationalism', which have entered into the mainstream of comparative politics.
It is rare for a scholar to revisit the scene of earlier research with a view to evaluating how that research has stood up over time. Here David E Apter does that and more. In a lengthy new introductory chapter to this classic study of bureaucratic nationalism, he reviews the efficacy of the concepts in his original study of Uganda of almost a century ago, including some, such as consociationalism', which have entered into the mainstream of comparative politics.
Thomas Merton proclaimed, over sixty years ago, that we were living in a post-Christian world. Since then, in an increasingly secular society where the influence of the institutional church is under doubt, Thomas Merton's reflections are more salient than ever. David Oberon's discussion and analysis brings this mystic, monk and spiritual leader's view of the opportunities presented to Christians by cultural changes to the forefront, focussing on how the individual's witness can take precedence. Oberon situates the reader in the current cultural context, and handles Merton's work with care and clarity. He illuminates Thomas Merton's unique view of his own society, which credibly speaks to our present, aiding Christians in navigating a post-Christian, post-truth world.
In Burlington Volume II, authors Mary Ann DiSpiritoand David Robinson continue the detailed look atthis intriguing Vermont city. Discovered by Samuel deChamplain in 1609, the next few centuries saw Burlington evolve from a wilderness to a small settlement, and eventually, flourish into Vermont's largest city. Situated on the shores of Lake Champlain, Burlington's waterfront area became the early center of commerce in the late eighteenth century with the rise of the lumber industry and the use of ships for transport. By 1865, when Burlington was incorporated as a city, the industries thatprofoundly shaped Burlington's personality were already well established--these included lumber, textiles, shipping, and the railroad, as well as higher education.
American Supreme Court jurisprudence in the area of religious freedom has been, for the most part, predicated upon a form of liberal theory commonly known as 'procedural liberalism.' Faith on Trial explains how the Court's reliance on this theoretical basis hampers its ability to adequately address the reality of religion as a pluralistic social institution. David E. Guinn provides a detailed critique of procedural liberalism by thinkers such as Charles Taylor and Iris Marion Young—tapping into the idea of 'deep diversity' suggested by Taylor—through the development of a new theoretical model that reconceptualizes Supreme Court jurisprudence. This challenging work demonstrates a practical way to resolve the problems inherent in much existing religious freedom jurisprudence and calls for a reformation of Supreme Court thinking on the First Amendment.
Through the lens of American Lutheranism, this book offers a unique examination into the intersection of religion, war, foreign policy, church politics, and nationalism during the contentious 1960s and 1970s. It contributes a two-pronged investigation of American history during the Vietnam War era. First, it outlines how this diverse group of Christians understood foreign policy and the churches' relationship to it. Lutherans offer a broad spectrum of religious, political, and diplomatic points of view because they never have represented a homogenous or unified group in U.S. history. Second, this investigation provides the perspective of one cross section of Americans who often remain hidden from historic memory: the silent majority as so labeled during the Richard M. Nixon administration. Most Lutherans held 'moderate' religious and political ideologies, but Lutherans also had representatives from the far left and far right. Lutherans also signify the Cold War context of this decade with a relatively uniform hostility toward the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Yet, simultaneously they vigorously debated whether or not Communists had infiltrated U.S. institutions and contentiously disagreed about the Vietnam War. Further reflecting America at that time, by the mid-1970s they had reached a tentative reconciliation with one another because the infighting had so tired them. In doing so, they healed some of the wounds created by a decade of conflict but failed to learn lessons from the experience because they refused to dialogue further about it.
Through the lens of American Lutheranism, this book offers a unique examination into the intersection of religion, war, foreign policy, church politics, and nationalism during the contentious 1960s and 1970s. It contributes a two-pronged investigation of American history during the Vietnam War era. First, it outlines how this diverse group of Christians understood foreign policy and the churches' relationship to it. Lutherans offer a broad spectrum of religious, political, and diplomatic points of view because they never have represented a homogenous or unified group in U.S. history. Second, this investigation provides the perspective of one cross section of Americans who often remain hidden from historic memory: the silent majority as so labeled during the Richard M. Nixon administration. Most Lutherans held 'moderate' religious and political ideologies, but Lutherans also had representatives from the far left and far right. Lutherans also signify the Cold War context of this decade with a relatively uniform hostility toward the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Yet, simultaneously they vigorously debated whether or not Communists had infiltrated U.S. institutions and contentiously disagreed about the Vietnam War. Further reflecting America at that time, by the mid-1970s they had reached a tentative reconciliation with one another because the infighting had so tired them. In doing so, they healed some of the wounds created by a decade of conflict but failed to learn lessons from the experience because they refused to dialogue further about it.