Most Popular Books by David SILVERMAN

First published in 1980, this reissue is a study of the sociology of language, which aims to bridge the gap between textbook and monograph by alternating chapters of explication and analysis. A chapter outlining a particular theory and suggesting general criticisms is followed by a chapter offering an original application of that theory. The aim of the authors is to treat text and talk as the site of specific practices which sustain or subvert particular relations between appearance and reality.

"A eficiência continua a ser importante, mas a capacidade de adaptar-se à complexidade e à mudança tornou-se um imperativo". Em um momento de crises sem precedentes as ações devem ser rapidamente difundidas para todas as pessoas envolvidas de forma clara e precisa, descentralizada, porém coesa. Com base na experiência do General Stanley McChrystal, combatendo a Al Qaeda e liderando tropas de vários países, "Time de Times" adapta as táticas de guerra ao mundo dos negócios, demonstrando como a vivência combatendo grupos terroristas é perfeitamente adaptada aos negócios e a todas as áreas onde a gestão de pessoas é vital. Um livro imprescindível para gestores, diretores e empreendedores em geral.

Hogyan egyesítsük a kis csapatokra jellemző rugalmasságot és összetartást a nagy szervezetek lehetőségeivel és erőforrásaival? Stanley McChrystal tábornok óriási, nemzetközi szövetségesekből álló, hierarchikus felépítésű, fegyelmezett hadi gépezetet vezetett, ám az al-Káidával szemben mit sem számított létszámbeli, felszerelésben és kiképzettségben megmutatkozó fölényük. A hadsereg hagyományos működése nem felelt meg napjaink hadviselésének, ezért McChrystal a háború kellős közepén átláthatóan kommunikáló, decentralizált hálózattá alakította csapatait. A háborúban tapasztalt kihívások tanulságai az üzleti vállalkozások, nonprofit és egyéb szervezetek számára is példaértékűek. A könyv által ismertetett stratégia minden területen működőképes, akár egy kórházról, akár a NASA-ról van szó, és a vezetők akkor cselekednek a legbölcsebben, ha kísérletezési szabadsággal és szervezeti szintű rálátással ruházzák fel csapataikat.

Championing the in-your-face, no-holds-barred attitude first personified by his predecessor, Madalyn Murray O''Hair, David Silverman demonstrates once again why he is known worldwide as the current leader in hard-line "New" American Atheism. In this book, I, Atheist: America''s Loudest Heathen Fires Back, he engagingly charts his growth from local atheist activist to president of American Atheists, and unapologetically defends the words and actions that have made him and his organization both loved and hated. Whether speaking loudly against the entrenchment of religion in America, creating and directing the historic Reason Rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC, or placing prominent billboards in Times Square calling religion a myth and a scam, he is a man to whom many of the country''s 50 million atheists listen. And as this forceful, unyielding book makes abundantly clear, many of the country''s theists should (and do) listen to him too.

David Silverman''s poems take the reader through a journey of jingles. From limericks to sonnets to haiku, the poems are rhymed and unrhymed. Some are serious, some are funny and some will make you close your eyes and think. If you enjoy words and wordplay, then Ageless Gems is the book for you.

The al-Aqsa Mosque -Historic IncidentsA Miracle indeed! Prophet Mohammed first talked about al-Aqsa Mosque as ''Miraj ''incident in his Night Journey episode; a vision of his journey revealed there in 622CE [Quran CH 17; Sura Isra]. The incident introduced revelation about the "Farthest Mosque (Al-Masjid-ul-Aqsa) to the believers, the mosque was built 55 years after the death of Muhammad. It is utterly impossible that Muhammad visited the mosque on his Night Journey. When the Arabs conquered Jerusalem in 637CE, they found the Temple Mount abandoned and filled with refuse. `Umar Ibne Khattab ordered it cleaned and he performed a prayer there. The two Islamic shrines were built afterwards; (1) The Dome of the Rock built by Caliph `Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan around 72/691 CE, and (2) The al-Aqsa mosque proper, built at the end of the 7th Century.So, a quick re-cap: The Temple of Solomon had been completely destroyed in 70 AD/CE; Prophet Mohammed''s Miraj (Night Journey) occurred in 622 AD (twelfth year of Muhammad''s mission); Mohammed died in 633CE. Jerusalem conquered by Arabs in 637CE, in 691 AD Caliph Abd'' Malik began building two Islamic shrines (Dome of Rock and al-Aqsa mosque). Solomon''s Temple didn''t existed at the dawn of Islam, and it does not provide anymore any better solution to mosque problem.Additionally, at around 622 CE, Jerusalem was not in the hand of the Muslims reign, rather it was in Christian hand. There was no Mosque of any type in that place (not even a church). The Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque (both are on the site of Solomon''s Temple which had been destroyed A.D. 70 by the Romans). Mohammed died approximately 600 years afterwards, building of the above two shrines were resumed roughly 53 years after the death of Muhammad. That''s a recorded history Muslims in general feel proud of. Every Muslim male or female, young or old feel proud to defend al-Aqsa!