Duncan: 1764 books

What is a hook and how can you use it in your stories? Whether you've never heard of hooks or have been writing hooks for years, this book will take you through the whole gamut of ways to write hooks and use them effectively. You will learn how to evaluate and create hooks for all kinds of uses...

The Adventures of Hatim Tai Translated from the Persian By DUNCAN FORBES, A.M. Qissa-e-Hatem Tai (The adventures of Hatim Tai) is very popular in South Asia. Multiple movies (see below) about Hatem Tai are based on this story. Qissa-e Hatim Tai- pages from the Urdu book Araish-e Mehfil which describes...

Florida—like the rest of America—experienced tremendous economic growth during World War II. Money poured into the Sunshine State and generated widespread employment. In this setting we find our main character’s father on a quest to find the perfect job. As the family travels from town to town...

Terrill was the most ruthless of vampires, but over the long centuries of his existence he has evolved into a Golden Vampire, renouncing violence, able to walk among humans and in sunlight. What he didn't know--what no one knew--was that the evolution was directed by forces bigger than himself.  Terrill...

In this controversial book, psychologists Barry Duncan and Scott Miller, cofounders of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, challenge the traditional focus on diagnosis, "silver bullet" techniques, and magic pills, exposing them as empirically bankrupt practices that only diminish...

This is the first book in English for half a century to examine the complexities of Russian messianism, both as a whole and in its interaction with Communism. Peter Duncan considers its Orthodox roots and focuses on Russia's geopolitical experience and situation to explain the endurance of this phenomenon.

Longlisted for The Romantic Novelists' Association "Romantic Novel of the Year""A warm and romantic tale of love, sex and making the right choices."When Michael tells Natalie that he 'needs space', she's devastated. She thought he was the love of her life but now Michael's...

Snail Trails invites the reader on a pondering stroll through micro and short poetry; the collection offers nibbles of nature, introspection, and humour.

Christians face a tough task. In a world without consensus, all truth claims are regarded dubiously. The Gospel does not change, but what aspects should be highlighted in our rapidly changing culture? How do we speak into the culture, instead of just mirroring that culture? Malcolm Duncan constructs...

It is so easy to rush through life, rarely stopping in the moments when a yearning for more comes to the surface. Here, Malcolm Duncan uses his poem, God Gazer, to entreat us to stop and look into God and to let Him look into us. This is a call to return to our primary calling: to seek and discover...

In this book Duncan Campbell explores the course of the wars that ensued as successive emperors sought to extend the empire, from Claudius' conquest of Britannia, Domitian's campaigns on the Rhine and the Danube, through Trajan's Dacian Wars and Parthian War, to Marcus Aurelius' Marcomannic Wars,...

Diverse methodological and statistical approaches for investigating the role of gene-environment interactions in a range of complex diseases and traits. Findings from the Human Genome Project and from Genome-Wide Association (GWA) studies indicate that many diseases and traits manifest a more...

A verse by verse Christadelphian exposition of the book of the prophet Zephaniah, by Duncan Heaster. Part of the New European Bible Commentary series, based upon the New European Version of the Bible.

Lost Innocents is a follow-up to Beyond Blame: Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited (1993). In their new book, Peter Reder and Sylvia Duncan use the same process of case analysis and apply it to a more representative sample of cases. They describe the theoretical basis and method of the study and its findings,...