David Burns

The Columbine tragedy on April 20, 1999 began a new era in law enforcement as it became apparent that the police response to such mass shootings must be drastically altered. By the time the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, outdated police response strategies had been replaced with new, aggressive tactics used by the first officers on the scene. The frequency with which these events occur remind us time and again about the importance of training and preparing for these critical situations before they occur in our own backyards.Active Shooter Events and Response is one of the first attempts to not only discuss historic active shooter events, but also to actually dissect some of them—empowering law enforcement professionals by leveraging the essential knowledge and experience of those who have gone before us. The book also offers insight into the training methodologies and strategies used to prepare our nation’s first responders to address the active shooter threat. In addition, the authors discuss the clear and present threat of terrorist organizations using these mass shooter tactics on American soil—similar to the attacks in Beslan, Russia and Mumbai, India. Written by members of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University, this book is the culmination of more than a decade’s worth of training and research into active shooter events and represents state-of-the-art, evidence-based best practices.

In this cultural and intellectual history, David Burns contends that the influence of biblical criticism in America was more widespread than previously thought. Burns proves this point by uncovering the hidden history of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created and sustained by freethinkers, feminists, socialists and anarchists during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The result of this exploration is a new narrative revealing that Cyrenus Osborne Ward, Caroline Bartlett, George Herron, Bouck White, and other radical religionists had an impact on the history of religion in America rivaling that of recognized religious intellectuals such as Shailer Mathews, Charles Briggs, Francis Peabody, and Walter Rauschenbusch. The methods and approaches utilized by radical religionists were different from those employed by elite liberal divines, however, and part of a larger struggle over the relationship between religion and civilization. There were numerous reasons for this conflict, but, as Burns argues, the primary one was that radicals used Ernest Renan's The Life of Jesus to create an imaginative brand of biblical criticism that struck a balance between the demands of reason and the doctrines of religion. Thus, while radical religionists like Robert Ingersoll, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Eugene Debs were secular-minded thinkers who sought to purge Christianity of its supernatural dimensions, they believed the religious imagination that enabled modern day radicals to make common cause with an ancient peasant from Galilee was something wonderful. This provocative blend of reason and religion produced a vibrant countercultural movement that spanned communities, classes, and creeds and makes The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus a book that deserves a wide readership in an era when public intellectuals and politicians on both the left and right draw rigid lines between the secular and the sacred.

Das Buch Feeling Good wird sich für alle, die sich selbst helfen wollen, als ungemein nützliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung erweisen. David Burns beschreibt hochwirksame Methoden zur Veränderung depressiver Stimmungen und zur Verringerung von Angst, die auf der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie basieren. Die grundlegenden Ideen dieser Therapieform sind sowohl praxisbezogen als auch intuitiv überzeugend und konnten durch zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Studien bestätigt werden. ?Ich habe Feeling Good geschrieben, um meinen eigenen Patienten für die Zeit zwischen den Therapiesitzungen etwas zu lesen mit auf den Weg zu geben und so ihren Lernprozess und ihre Genesung zu beschleunigen. Ich hätte aber nicht einmal im Traum gedacht, dass diese Idee auch von anderen Lesern so positiv aufgenommen werden würde!? ? David BurnsLaut einer US-Studie ist Feeling Good das nützlichste Selbsthilfebuch zum Thema Despression.?Ein Buch, das man lesen und noch einmal lesen sollte!? ? Los Angeles Times