Best Selling Books by David Allen

This unique book presents a nontechnical view of the history of mechanics, from the Big Bang to present day. The impact of mechanics on the evolution of a variety of subjects is vividly illustrated, including astronomy, geology, astrophysics, anthropology, archeology, ancient history, Renaissance art, music, meteorology, modern structural engineering, mathematics, medicine, warfare, and sports. While enormous in scope, the subject matter is covered (with ample photographic support) at a level designed to capture the interest of both the learned and the curious. The book concludes with a creative and thoughtful examination of the current state of mechanics and possibilities for the future of mechanics.

Learn The Secrets of Trust Contained In This Dramatic Tale... The death of the woman he loves leaves Scott Calloway in a dark storm of emotion. Surrounded by the paradise of the Marshall Islands, he experiences his own close encounter with death, and begins his journey towards learning what trust is all about. He soon finds himself back at home facing age-old problems with familiar faces. Along the way, he discovers: - the legacy of a dead relative - the three keys to trustworthiness that no one can be successful without - a renewed sense of humility - a stronger belief that a higher power is watching over him, despite all his struggles By following Scott, you will learn about the three keys to trust and see them in action throughout the story. At the story''s end, worksheets are available to help you make decisions and tackle the big question: Who should YOU trust? About the Authors Brian Shaul Brian Shaul is a personal development coach and speaker with over 10,000 hours of experience coaching people one-on-one. He has found that trust is the foundation of all relationships, and that the greatest improvements in the lives of his clients often come from successful knowledge of the three legs of trust. He gives seminars on relationships and trust for church groups and businesses. David Allen David Allen is an author with a degree in business, who focuses on personal development and growth. He has partnered with Brian Shaul to co-author Scott''s story, as well as upcoming releases in the Emotionally Bulletproof series.

This book was written for people who are willing to accept the fact that the Yellowstone Volcano will indeed erupt in the very near future. Do any of you readers remember Mount St. Helens? It will be one thousand times more powerful. It is not known for sure if and when this will happen, but all research indicates soon, and they have it narrowed down to the twenty-first century. Sci-fi adventure, time travel, and romance will make you wonder about your future. Enjoy the read.

Using a topical approach to cover development from early childhood through adolescence, this book provides future teachers with authentic, research-based strategies and guidelines for their classrooms. The authors apply child development concepts to topics of high interest and relevance to teachers, including classroom discipline, constructivism, social-emotional development and well-being, and many others. A strong emphasis on individual and group diversity among children is reflected throughout. Field observation assignments help students to apply the science to children''s experiences in the classroom. Case studies and real-world vignettes from authentic classroom situations further bridge the distance between research and the classroom. By linking theory, research, and practice -- and emphasizing application -- the book helps to equip future teachers with the tools to create an environment that promotes optimal development in children. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

This 86 page book is written to eliminate your need to spend hours trying to locate and catch bass on Lake LBJ outside of Austin, Texas. It covers the best month-by-month patterns for catching bass, the baits to use during each month for the most success, sections of the contoured lake map showing my personal "hot spots" for catching bass, important lake information, plant identification and patterns to fish each, bass identification, and state regulations for catching and keeping bass.

Each book in the Difficult Times series addresses a specific life situation and offers encouragement and advice for coping. The concise, easy-to-read format will appeal to family, friends, grief professionals, counselors, and pastors as they eek resources to share with individuals in these situations.

Assembled by two of the most distinguished botanical and ethnological scholars in Britain, this book chronicles the medicinal uses of more than 400 species used by the plain folk of Britain and Ireland. The history of these plants'' usages has been mined from rich firsthand accounts captured by surveys, from more than 1000 manuscript volumes of the Irish Folklore Commission, and from close to 300 other published and unpublished sources. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.

A thousand hands shaped its banks and a thousand ships have traversed the waters of a canal that defined a region. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal has both provided an important route between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and acted as a secondary and unofficial boundary between the North and South. Yet this historic waterway almost failed before the first shovel struck earth in 1804. Local historian David Berry tells the fascinating story of the C&D Canal, from the tenacious Gilpin family''s sixty-year struggle to open the shipway to the canal''s role in the Civil War as a vital path for Union troops and supplies to quickly cross the Delmarva and travel down the Chesapeake.

A Sheep''s Tale, book 3 of The Seventieth Week Chronicles, is a work of fiction that intersects with the paths of the protagonists, John and Techie, of the first two books: The Making of a Martyr and The Journey of a Martyr''s Companion. It is a two-part tale of a young woman with a checkered past trying to turn her life around when she is caught up in a world gone insane. Fleeing a major metropolis, she finds her way into the rural Midwest where she attempts to live a quiet life. Renting a small bungalow, she befriends her new neighbors Techie and his new companion who work at newly constructed prison. She soon finds herself confronted with a decision whether to become involved or not in a clandestine operation. Her decision finds herself, along with some new friends, as fugitives of the state. Living off the grid, she and her friends are alive when the Lord returns in judgment. Part two of the book finds her standing on a sea of golden glass awaiting the judgment of the sheep versus the goats. Being found among the sheep, they are introduced to a new world created for them and the nation of Israel. What follows is the author''s imagination based on multitudes of scriptures contained in an appendix named "A Sheep''s Tale--Index of Scriptural References." Eternity with God is beyond our imagination, but the Word has plenty to say about a new world and the lives of those who will reside upon it for a thousand years.

Featuring contributions from some of today’s leading educators, this resource provides a range of practical, replicable processes for collaboratively examining student work, including writing samples, visual work, portfolios, and exhibitions. This uniquely practical text presents vivid descriptions of teachers engaged in collaborative processes in actual school settings, from early elementary through high school. Reporting on the work of several of the most important school change networks and institutes, and incorporating the perspectives of education researchers, teacher educators, administrators, and teachers, this volume builds a powerful argument for refocusing professional development on the collaborative and reflective examination of authentic student work, rather than relying on representations of student learning such as test scores and grades.

Tropical Despotisms reveals the alarm that spread among France''s Caribbean possessions during the period between the Seven Years'' War and the Revolution and the determination to cultivate a new patriotic community rooted in the Enlightenment principles of honor and civic virtue. Following France''s humiliating defeat at the hands of the British, a loose coalition of frustrated and enlightened reformers hoped to promote imperial regeneration in order to restore France''s wounded national pride, stabilize and strengthen the Antillean colonies, and bind the colonies more closely to the metropole. David Allen Harvey describes the historical relationship between capitalism and slavery in the making of the modern world economy and moves beyond simplistic arguments by discussing the contingent and evolving dynamic between the two. As a result, he reveals how capitalism and slavery developed in tandem in the eighteenth-century Caribbean but explains that reformers sought to enact a gradual transition to a free wage labor regime more in keeping with capitalism''s ideal of free and voluntary contractual relationships between formally equal parties. Tropical Despotisms provides a new perspective on the social and demographic structure in the French Antilles and the wider French Atlantic world. Harvey uncovers not only the deep and critical debates around the issues of slavery and race but also the efforts by enlightened reformers as they proposed rethinking the political and economic structures by which the empire had been ruled, rationalizing governing institutions, and liberalizing trade.

Criminals and Victims analyzes economic decisions made by offenders and victims before, during, and after a crime or victimization.

According to Baldwin, the utility of the economic techniques of statecraft have been underestimated by most analysts since 1945, and the study of economic instruments of foreign policy has been neglected. He develops an analytical frame-work based on social power and uses it to challenge the conventional view that economic tools of foreign policy do not work. He analyzes the role of economic statecraft in bargaining, national power, foreign trade, and foreign aid, as well as its morality, legality, and role in the history of international thought. He concludes that though sanctions and rewards can have conspicuous shortcomings, they are often better than the military alternative.

XML in Data Management is for IT managers and technical staff involved in the creation, administration, or maintenance of a data management infrastructure that includes XML. For most IT staff, XML is either just a buzzword that is ignored or a silver bullet to be used in every nook and cranny of their organization. The truth is in between the two. This book provides the guidance necessary for data managers to make measured decisions about XML within their organizations. Readers will understand the uses of XML, its component architecture, its strategic implications, and how these apply to data management. - Takes a data-centric view of XML - Explains how, when, and why to apply XML to data management systems - Covers XML component architecture, data engineering, frameworks, metadata, legacy systems, and more - Discusses the various strengths and weaknesses of XML technologies in the context of organizational data management and integration

This book explores the myriad aspects of biological theories of sexual preference. The issues involved have a vibrant history, are wide-ranging, and remain the objects of much controversy.

“I have had the good fortune to watch both David and Tina facilitate learning groups and have learned from the power of their modeling. . . . I am delighted that they have gathered their wisdom here in this volume to share with others eager to embark on the journey and experience the joys of facilitating learning with colleagues.” —From the Foreword by Ron Ritchhart, senior research associate, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education One of the most important shifts in schools in the last two decades has been the growing emphasis on collaboration among teachers and other educators. Whether you are a teacher facilitating a group for the first time or an experienced facilitator seeking to further develop your skills, this book is for you. Organized to be used as both an exploration of the role of facilitating and as a handbook of strategies, this resource covers a range of contexts that include faculty meetings, department meetings, professional learning communities, grade-level teams, and inquiry groups. This book is a perfect companion to the authors’ bestseller, The Facilitator’s Book of Questions, which focuses on the skills needed to facilitate protocols or structured conversations. Facilitating for Learning extends the scope of that work by also examining the facilitator’s responsibilities for supporting a group’s learning during all parts of a meeting, between meetings, and within the larger school context and culture. It is an essential resource for teachers, administrators, coaches, and teacher educators. Book Features: Contrasts facilitating for learning with other professional development roles, including staff development, coaching, and supervision.Outlines the basic responsibilities and tasks of facilitating teacher learning groups, including “moves” the facilitator might employ.Considers challenges related to school culture and leadership, group interactions, and time constraints.Provides resources to help facilitators develop their skills, including tools and references to other works on facilitation.

This book will teach people how to migrate systems from Windows to Linux. It provides migration process planning, automated migration scripts, anti-virus / anti-spam solutions, and specific migration and deployment details for all relevant technologies. IT professionals who wish to maximize the value of their Windows to Linux migration services will find this book valuable. The book will help them fine-tune their migration services to make them more efficient, thorough, feature-enhanced, and cost-effective by utilizing migration scripts and best practices gleaned from the author''s many years of real-world migrations in large and small companies.* The book and fully functioning scripts on the CD-ROM work for migrations from Windows NT or Windows 2000 to any Linux distribution. * David Allen has done over 25,000 user migrations from Windows to Linux. * Microsoft will stop supporting Windows NT in December 2004 forcing over 2 million enterprise customers to migrate from Windows NT to a new sever operating system. Both IBM and Dell are offering enterprise servers running Linux which will allow customers to realize a 50% reduction in TCO. In 2003 Linux servers represented the largest growth segment in the Server market, and all the major research groups indicate this trend will continue through t least 2007.

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested." -- Francis Bacon Bacon''s memorable insight is specially significant when applied to the wide range of works by some of the world''s most renowned writers, poets, philosophers, and intellectuals-men and women whose determination to espouse and defend the cause of humanism and freethought, interpreted broadly, has given us a well-endowed repository of the wisdom of the ages. In A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought, author David Allen Williams has mined this vast body of literature. The result is this priceless treasury of poetry and prose draped in art and rare steel engravings from more than a century ago. Amid its beauty, readers will find a unified call to reason, tolerance, and freedom of expression in opposition to the forces of ignorance, supernaturalism, superstition, and dogmatism. The words of over eighty of the world''s most often read and frequently quoted authors are included: among them Aristotle, Matthew Arnold, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Cicero, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin, Diogenes, John Donne, Will Durant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Epicurus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edith Hamilton, Eric Hoffer, Homer, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Jefferson, Lucretius, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Santayana, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, H.G. Wells, and many others. A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought is a remarkable collection of compelling ideas and impressive art that deserves a place on every bookshelf.

Cover title: Cliffs notes on Orwell''s animal farm.

A definitive work on Israel, the Jewish people, Judeo-Christian relations, and Israel''s prophetic future. Lewis examines the return of the Jews to Israel a nd sites miracles of prophecy as the absolute proof that the Bible is of divine origin. Answering many provocative questions, this book also serves as an invaluable directory of Christian organizations that relate to Israel.

Ideal for those new to development, the fourth edition of Professional Real Estate Development has been thoroughly updated to explain the latest on how to develop land and multifamily, office, industrial, and retail projects. Focusing on small-scale development, the authors provide practical information on feasibility analysis, design and construction, financing, marketing, and management. Tips and advice from more than 200 industry leaders help you learn the ropes and avoid mistakes. Photos, diagrams, spreadsheets, and case studies provide examples of actual projects and how the process works. Information is specific and detailed, with costs, rents, and financing information included by product type.

"The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 reconstructs how eighteenth-century British readers invented further adventures for beloved characters, including Gulliver, Falstaff, Pamela, and Tristram Shandy. Far from being close-ended and self-contained, the novels and plays in which these characters first appeared were treated by many as merely a starting point, a collective reference perpetually inviting augmentation through an astonishing wealth of unauthorized sequels. Characters became an inexhaustible form of common property, despite their patent authorship. Readers endowed them with value, knowing all the while that others were doing the same and so were collectively forging a new mode of virtual community." "In its innovative methodology and its unprecedented attention to the productive interplay between the audience, the book as a material artifact, and the text as an immaterial entity, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 offers a new approach to eighteenth-century studies, the history of the book, and the very idea of character itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Essays by prominent political theorists representing the two dominant schools of international relations, neoliberalism and neorealism.

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