America's Gun Wars

Author: Donald J. Campbell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This book examines the controversies surrounding gun control, which are less about whether it "works" and more about whether the nation should prioritize traditional values of rugged independence or newer values of communitarian interdependence. America's Gun Wars contends that an understanding of America's gun controversy cannot be found in statistics documenting the rise (or fall) of violent crime, or in examining trade-offs between societal needs and personal safety, or in following the political maneuvering of advocacy groups such as the National Rifle Association or Everytown for Gun Safety. At heart, the gun controversy is a values conflict involving how people see themselves and how they make sense of the world they live in. Understanding this controversy requires a deep analysis of the profoundly different cultures inhabited by pro- and anti-gun activists, lawmakers, and voters. Written by a social scientist who has spent his life exploring how values and self-perceptions impact behavior, this book explores the origins and evolution of cultures in American society; the beliefs, experiences, and principles that guide the behavior of members in both camps; and the triumphs and failures that the two sides have experienced from colonial times to the present day.

Working in the Dark

Author: Donald Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317552148
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Working in the Dark focuses on the authors’ understanding of an individual’s pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment. The book explores how to listen to a suicidal individual’s history, the nature of their primary relationships and their conscious and unconscious communications. Campbell and Hale address the searing emotional impact on relatives, friends and those involved with a person who tries to kill themself, by offering advice on the management of a suicide attempt and how to follow up in the aftermath. Establishing key concepts such as suicide fantasy and pre-suicidal states in adolescents, the book illustrates the pre-suicide state of mind through clinical vignettes, case studies, reflections from those in recovery and discussions with professionals. Working in the Dark will be of interest to social workers, probation officers, nurses, psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and doctors who work with those who have attempted suicide or are about to do so.

Nehemiah

Author: Donald K. Campbell
Publisher: Chariot Victor Publishing
ISBN: 9780882077819
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description

Donald Campbell

Author: David Tremayne
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144643849X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524

Book Description
Generations are familiar with the haunting black and white television footage of Donald Campbell somersaulting to his death in his famous Bluebird boat on Coniston Water in January, 1967. It has become an iconic image of the decade. His towering achievements, and the drama of his passing, are thus part of the national psyche. But what of the man himself? The son of the legendary Sir Malcolm Campbell who was famous for being the ultimate record-breaker of the inter-war years - he broke the land speed record nine times and the water speed record four times with his Bluebird cars and boats - Donald Campbell was born to speed. He was outgoing and flamboyant, yet carefully orchestrated the image he presented to the world. Some saw him as a playboy adventurer; others, such as the radio producer on the twenty-first anniversary of his death, as a reckless daredevil with a death wish. He was known to take solace in extra-marital dalliances, and was obsessed with spiritualism. And in his final years, battered by a 360-mph accident while attempting the land record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, and his prolonged and anti-climactic subsequent effort on the treacherous Lake Eyre in Australia, Campbell appeared a haggard and often frightened man. He had become trapped on his record-breaker's treadmill as he continually sought to prove himself to his illustrious father, in whose long shadow he felt forever trapped. DONALD CAMPBELL: THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK paints a fascinating portrait of an intense, complex, superstitious yet abnormally brave man who was driven not only by the desire to prove that he was worthy of the mantle of his father, but also by his fervent and unswerving desire to keep Britain at the forefront of international speed endeavour. This book generates a unique insight into how his desperate fear of failure finally lured him into taking one risk too many.

Edinburgh

Author: Donald Campbell
Publisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781902669731
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Part of the Cities of the Imagination series, this is an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide by a lifelong native to Scotland's vibrant capital and home to one of the world's greatest arts festivals.

No Time for Neutrality

Author: Donald K. Campbell
Publisher: Chariot Victor Publishing
ISBN: 9780882073378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description

Incentives

Author: Donald E. Campbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035244
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 699

Book Description
This book examines incentives at work to see how and how well coordination is achieved by motivating individual decision makers.

Experimental and Quasi-experimental Designs for Research

Author: Donald T. Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Experimental design
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description

Creativity

Author: Don Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578698892
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Don Campbell draws on over 30 years as a sculptor toshare how he pushes the creative boundaries of his artand all areas of his life. Citing great artists, innovatorsand change makers, he shows artists and non-artistshow to:? Stimulate the flow of creativity through a process of "deep listening."? Expand listening capacity to includeintuition.? Express creativity through sensing,not thinking.? Align oneself with one's life's purpose.? Overcome three obstacles that stop peoplefrom following their creative impulse.? Practice "presence" and "stillness," the twoessential portals to access your innercreative power.

An Uncommon Union

Author: John D. Hannah
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 0310303028
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 511

Book Description
Dallas Theological Seminary is often viewed as a bastion of conservative evangelicalism, marked by an unswerving devotion to theological positions of fundamentalism, biblical inerrancy, and dispensational premillennialism.An Uncommon Union, the first book-length history of Dallas Theological Seminary, written by a graduate and veteran faculty member of DTS, provides a necessary corrective to such a simplistic assessment. Using the tenures of the school’s five presidents as the backbone for his narrative, John D. Hannah reveals the tensions that DTS has experienced in its eighty-plus years of existence.Each successive president of DTS brought his own unique style and perceptions to the school, even as he dealt with the changing religious and cultural milieu that swirled around it. Hannah argues that, rather than being a monolithic institution, Dallas Theological Seminary is a unique blend of differing heritages and of opposing traditions, a place that defies easy categorization.A keenly insightful and thoughtful work, An Uncommon Union illuminates the path charted by the leaders of a prominent American seminary in a rapidly changing world. All readers interested in the history and future of evangelicalism, regardless of their theological persuasion, will benefit from this book.