David Palmer

Presents information and advice for parents on IQ testing, gifted children, gifted education, and giftedness combined with learning disabilities.

All You Need to Know to Make the Right Decisions for Your Child, with a Special Section on Bright Kids with Learning Problems

Parents' Guide to IQ Testing and Gifted Education

Meet Candidia Smith-Foster, Homo post hominem, the next step in Mankind's evolution. She's an eleven-year-old genius with a Black Belt, and last summer she saved all that remained of her struggling new branch of humanity. Since then she's been training under an ex-Mossad assassin. She's just learned who's been holding her Daddy and now she knows where they are... In David Palmer's long-awaited sequel to Emergence, Kid Genius Candidia Smith-Foster kicks ass from California to the Russian heartland, where evil Nazi wannabes plot the destruction of all that is good and decent. Tom Easton, Reviewer Emeritus, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Author of Sparrowhawk Nearly 30 years ago, David R. Palmer's startlingly Heinleinesque debut novel created an action-adventure protagonist who made Die Hard's John McClane look like a wimp amateur...At last she's back, still 11, still adorable, still sudden death with both hands, and this time she's in real trouble. With even higher stakes. Spider Robinson, co-author, with Robert A. Heinlein, of VARIABLE STAR Candy is one of the most memorable people I've ever known, on or off the printed page, and David R. Palmer one of the most engaging and skillful storytellers. Stanley Schmidt, Author of The Coming Convergence, Editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

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This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.

Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama

Peter Westoby

Athena Lathouras

40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development

This short book lays out for you God's end time plan for His Church. It is presented in the form of a study guide that will take you through a Divine end time revelation found within God's Word. You will see God's plan to release an end time anointing which will bring restoration to the Church. You will see how this anointing will cause the Church to grow and mature as they get equipped and empowered again. You will see God's plan to reveal himself again to a dying world through the Church, which will bring in a great harvest of souls. This last great harvest of souls will usher in the Lord's return. The Royal wine book will equip, challenge, and encourage you to step into God's end time plan for your life.

God's End-Time Plan Revealed

The Royal Wine

Stephen Marino

Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world theatre. The collection begins by exploring Miller in the context of 20th-century American drama. Chapters discuss Miller and Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, as well as thematic relationships between Miller’s ideas and the explosion of significant women and African American dramatists since the 1970s. Other essays focus more directly on interpretations of Miller’s individual works, not only plays but also essays and fiction, including a discussion of Death of a Salesman in China. The volume concludes by considering Miller and current cultural issues: his work for human rights, his depiction of American ideals of masculinity, and his anticipation of contemporary posthumanism.

Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas

Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century

This title provides a collection of essays on the libertarian position on free will and related issues that focus specifically on the views of philosopher Robert Kane. Written by a distinguished group of philosophers, the essays range from various areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind.

Contemporary Debates

Libertarian Free Will

In Organizing the Shipyards, David Palmer documents the history of union organizing at three of America's largest private shipyards from the Great Depression and the beginning of the New Deal to the end of World War II. These yards had tremendous strategic importance because of their location in the Northeast's three port regions: New York Shipbuilding in the port of Philadelphia, Bethlehem Fore River Shipyard in the port of Boston, and Federal Shipbuilding in the port of New York. The Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, which led each of the drives, pioneered industrial unionism and became one of the largest of the new CIO unions, with a quarter of a million members in an industry that employed more wartime workers than any other. Using oral history interviews with former union officials, organizing staff, and rank-and-file workers, Palmer presents both a narrative and a scholarly account. He covers the successes and the failures of union organizing in the yards themselves, in neighboring communities, and sometimes in outreach to political leaders as elevated as Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the process, Palmer offers a reassessment of the basis for the early gains of the CIO and also for its subsequent bureaucratization.

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