David A : 1722 books
by David A. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Batting second—and perfect for Halloween—book #2 in an early chapter book mystery series where each book is set in a different American ballpark!
Mike and Kate are waiting for Kate's mom at a boring press conference in Yankee Stadium when the team official says something that makes Mike...
by David A. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins, his football team. His classmates don’t mind, but the kids on their rival team tease him for being a "butterfingers" who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan to turn Mo's little...
Coat-A-Kid
Charities Started by Kids!
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Kids can make a difference too! In this How Do They Help? collection featuring charities started by children, readers will explore the ways Coat-A-Kid contributes positively to the world. Discover this nonprofit's work and what problems they look to solve. Sidebars and backmatter ask questions for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
Dead Air
A Cullen and Cobb Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
A Calgary Herald Bestseller!
There’s no such thing as bad press …
Ex-cop turned private detective Mike Cobb is hired as the personal bodyguard of right-wing radio celebrity Buckley-Rand Larmer, who has been receiving a string of vicious, graphic threats. Once again, Cobb recruits crime...
Spreadin' Rhythm Around
Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "thoroughly researched and entertainingly written,"...
The Many Faces of Biblical Humor
A Compendium of the Most Delightful, Romantic, Humorous, Ironic, Sarcastic, or Pathetically Funny Stories and Statements in Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The Many Faces of Biblical Humor examines how the Bible writers intentionally used humor, irony, and sarcasm to argue their points concisely. This work begins with the dysfunctional families of Genesis, continues delightfully through every book of the Bible, and ends with a glorious fulfillment in...
Restoring Education: Central to American Greatness
Fifteen Principles That Liberated Mankind from the Politics of Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
This book documents the unique and specific American principles for government. The bedrock principles are presented in Chapter One.
John Adams, vice president under George Washington, and second president of the United States: . . . And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge...
County
Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The amazing tale of County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last...
Leading for Equity
The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement.
In chapters organized around six core themes, the...
Community Practice
Theories and Skills for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
For almost two decades, Community Practice has been a definitive text for social workers, community practitioners, and students eager to help individuals contribute to and use community resources or work to change oppressive community structures. In this third edition, a wealth of new charts and cases...
Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life, 3rd Edition
A Sociology of City Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Symbolic interaction is among the most central theoretical paradigms in sociology and the theory that most thoroughly attends to how individuals give meaning to their world—in this case, how city dwellers interpret and respond to their daily experiences as urbanites. This thoroughly updated edition...
The Vortex Theory
A Bridge between Ancient Yoga and Modern Physics
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
Thousands of years ago in ancient India, Yogis probed the atom with supernormal powers called siddhis. What they saw was subatomic particles as vortices of energy. That insight gave rise to maya the illusion of forms. Anticipating Einstein, Yogis realised everything is energy. There is no material...
by David A. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Now leading off the line-up—book #1 in a brand-new early chapter book mystery series where each book is set in a different American ballpark!
Thanks to Kate's mom, a sports reporter, cousins Mike Walsh and Kate Hopkins have tickets to the Red Sox game and All Access passes to Fenway Park....
Cullen and Cobb Mysteries 2-Book Bundle
Serpents Rising / Dead Air
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A private investigator and a journalist team up in Calgary to fight for justice. Read the first two books in the exciting western crime series Cullen and Cobb Mysteries.
Serpents Rising
Private investigator Mike Cobb and journalist Adam Cullen take on twin investigations that take them onto...