Bøger af David J. Wallace

David Wallace's story is one of challenges and spiritual transformations that have allowed him to develop extraordinary skills and talents. Beginning with a head injury at age five that resulted in an out-of-body experience, David began experiencing strange phenomena including being able to guess correctly what his Christmas presents held. In "The Journey of Our Souls", David shares not only his personal and spiritual experiences, but also how his understanding of the afterlife and the Universe have been enriched by his Hawaiian culture. Today, he uses his hard-won wisdom and talents to help others do everything from getting proper diagnoses for their medical ailments to making peace with the spirits who formerly owned their property. Most of all, David focuses on how to cope with change. Fear always accompanies change, and it can cripple your life. To combat fear, you need to educate yourself on how to cope with change based on others' examples. David models how to embrace change so it will enrich your experiences.

In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts from private and public spheres of life with unprecedented subtlety, urgency and humour. He emphasises the relationship between Decameron and the precocious vitality of Florentine culture in Boccaccio's time. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text particularly on Chaucer and the novel.