Dan: 4385 books
Stay Solid!
A Radical Handbook for Youth
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
It ain't easy being a kid these days. For the first time in generations, today's teens have worse prospects ahead of them than their parents did, and the pressure to toe the line and be a success is heavier than ever . . . and so is the temptation to just give up. But there are things in the world...
by Dan E. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Saving Ben is the story of one family coping with autism told from the viewpoint of a father struggling to understand his sons strange behavior and rescue him from a downward spiral. Bens father Dan Burns puts the reader in the passengers seat as he struggles with medical service providers the school...
Cleaning Up
How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In Cleaning Up, the first book to examine this transformation in the healthcare industry, Dan Zuberi looks at the consequences...
by Lou Michel, Dan Herbeck
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
At 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995, in what was at that time largest terrorist attack ever perpetrated on American soil, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed by the explosion of a 7,000-pound truck bomb. One- hundred and sixty eight people, including nineteen children, were killed...
Life in the Electric Chair
A Man and His Wife Explore a Life on Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Dan West has been in an electric wheelchair since 2004. He received his B.S. in Business Administration in 1973 and M.P.A. in Public Administration in 1978, from California State University at Hayward. He traveled to Mexico and Colombia with Wycliff Bible Translators for a year and then took a position...
The Heroics of Falling Apart
One Couple's Breast Cancer Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
Sometimes we need to see other people do something that's scary first, and then we can take that first step into the unknown ourselves.
Conventional wisdom says one must "fight" breast cancer, but fighting is not for everyone. For some, falling apart proves to be the better response....
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis
The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
For 150 years the Riemann hypothesis has been the holy grail of mathematics. Now, at a moment when mathematicians are finally moving in on a proof, Dartmouth professor Dan Rockmore tells the riveting history of the hunt for a solution.In 1859 German professor Bernhard Riemann postulated a law capable...
Universe on a T-Shirt
The Quest for the Theory of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“An admirably concise and comprehensive overview of cosmology . . . intriguing insights” (Booklist).
No scientific quest is as compelling as the search for the elusive unified “Theory of Everything”—a theory so concise it could fit on a T-shirt. Lively and thought-provoking, Universe...
Almighty
Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**
ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure...
Reluctantly Kicking Kittens
A Tale Of The South African Bush War
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
RELUCTANTLY KICKING KITTENS By Dan Pienaar (A tale of the Southern African Bush War) “ A journey into the soul of an accidental warrior.” A. Hoon “It’s like Asterix meets Shakespearean Tragedy” B.v.L. This powerful point-of-view book recounts Adam Black’s life-changing experiences during...
Wild Blue
A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
The blue whale holds the title of largest creature that has ever lived, and it may also be the most mysterious. The biggest blue whales can outweigh every player in Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League combined. Their mouths can gulp more than thirteen thousand gallons of seawater....
He Chose Joy!
The Story of Matthew Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
God, this just doesnt make any sense! God, how can you let this happen? Have you ever silently thought something like that to yourselfor maybe even said it out loud? Dan and Sue Metcalf have. They know the deepest pain that life in a broken world can bring. Their beloved son, Matthew, was diagnosed...
Sabbath
The Ancient Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
What would you do for twenty-four hours if the only criteria were to pursue your deepest joy?
Dan Allender’s lyrical book about the Sabbath expels the myriad myths about this “day of rest,” starting with the one that paints the Sabbath as a day of forced quiet, spiritual exercises, and...
Spiritual Journaling
God's Whispers in Daily Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Spiritual Journaling is a definitive exploration of spiritual enlightenment that helps develop a renewed spiritual emphasis in one's life. Using techniques developed through decades of Spiritual Journaling, the author shares insightful methods of developing a journal that is written with spiritual...