Bøger af David Robertson

This master politician and self-made man served for half a century, as congressman and later as key New Deal senator from his native South Carolina; as Supreme Court justice; as "assistant president" during the Second World War; as Truman's secretary of state in the early years of the Cold War; and, finally, as governor of South Carolina. He came tantalisingly close to the American presidency and was a key participant in the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. In later years he was a seminal figure in the so-called Southern Strategy that brought Richard Nixon to the White House. For his shrewdness and mastery of the art of politics Byrnes earned the sobriquet "sly and able." He was surely both--and one of the key shapers of American politics in this century.

A gripping historical novel in the bestselling tradition of The Alienist and Time and Again, Booth brings vividly to life a figure who continues to haunt the American imagination--John Wilkes Booth. The story begins as an elderly John Surratt, the only conspirator to escape a hanging sentence for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, is asked by film director D.W. Griffith to recount the harrowing events of his youth during the screenings of Griffith's film Birth of a Nation. The request prompts Surratt to reread his detailed diaries, begun in 1864 when he was first befriended by John Wilkes Booth and was unwittingly enmeshed in Booth's plot to assassinate the President.Told through a series of flashbacks, the novel both chronicles the young, naive Surratt's tragic coming of age as he belatedly realizes the nature of the plot Booth has sucked him into, and illuminates the motivations, larger-than-life appetites, and appeal of the charismatic and world-famous stage actor. As Surratt delves further into the diaries and transcripts, it is clear the young Surratt has become trapped in Booth's web of seduction and betrayal. Further insight into the assassination plot is revealed in a surprising twist when the genuine diary that Booth left behind, explaining his actions and implicating others around him, falls into Surratt's hands (a Booth diary, with several missing pages, does exist and is on public display at the Ford Theater in Washington).Compulsively readable, and filled with brilliant period detail--as well as a dozen reproductions of actual photographs of the conspirators and their execution, Booth is a powerful evocation of a dangerous, chaotic, and tragic time in our history, a story that continues to resonate to this day.

The story of David Robertson, tracing his life from its council estate origins to his emergence as one of the finest attacking full-backs of his generation. A hero to the followers of Aberdeen and Rangers and an esteemed figure in the political hotbed of Kashmir, this is the explosive story of the career of one of football's great characters.

BESTSELLING AUTHOR: Chef Robertson's first book was a big success for a first-time author, going into three printings so far and selling 15,000 copies in North America. This book has a different take on his cuisine -- more family- oriented comfort food -- and makes a great complement to the first volume which focused more on what he teaches at his popular Vancouver cooking school.ACCESSIBLE AND TESTED RECIPES: Like the recipes in the first book, these are tried and tested, refined and perfected. While easy, they are filled with creativity and wonderful flavor combinations. This is really delicious food!SOCIAL: To David, cooking is a social activity and the book focuses on the enjoyment of cooking for, and with, family and friends.VARIETY: Like his cooking classes the recipes in the book are highly varied in style and substance. The styles range from Thai, French, Italian, Mexican, Spanish, Swedish, Moroccan, Japanese, Greek and more. It includes wide variety of seafoods, meats and poultry, and and wonderfully flavourful plant-based dishes. Cooks will love that Gather has many of the desserts that The Dirty Apron deli is famous for, and in addition includes instructions on how to make the recipes vegan or gluten-free.GREAT PEOPLE: Not only is he a tremendously talented chef, David Robertson and his wife Sara, are great people. Known as two of the kindest people in the business, they devote a lot of their time volunteering with underprivileged kids to teach them the joy of cooking, of working with others and being of service to their community.

Answers questions from real teenagers 52 short chapters covering wide variety of topics e.g. prayer, racism, Harry Potter, mental illness

Conventional wisdom today says that to survive, companies must move beyond incremental, sustaining innovation and invest in some form of radical innovation. "e;Disrupt yourself or be disrupted!"e; is the relentless message company leaders hear. The Power of Little Ideas argues there's a "e;third way"e; that is neither sustaining nor disruptive. This low-risk, high-reward strategy is an approach to innovation that all company leaders should understand so that they recognize it when their competitors practice it, and apply it when it will give them a competitive advantage.This distinctive approach has three key elements:It consists of creating a family of complementary innovations around a product or service, all of which work together to make that product more appealing and competitive.The complementary innovations work together as a system to carry out a single strategy or purpose.Crucially, unlike disruptive or radical innovation, innovating around a key product does not change the central product in any fundamental way.In this powerful, practical book, Wharton professor David Robertson illustrates how many well-known companies, including CarMax, GoPro, LEGO, Gatorade, Disney, USAA, Novo Nordisk, and many others, used this approach to stave off competitive threats and achieve great success. He outlines the organizational practices that unintentionally torpedo this approach to innovation in many companies and shows how organizations can overcome those challenges.Aimed at leaders seeking strategies for sustained innovation, and at the quickly growing numbers of managers involved with creating new products, The Power of Little Ideas provides a logical, organic, and enduring third way to innovate.

Although the authors believe that the level of conventional and nuclear forces in Europe should and will be reduced, they do not consider that the military instrument will have lost all of its value in European political affairs. They still see a need to be prepared for tension and conflict.

During the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods (50 BC-300 AD), important developments may be traced in the philosophy of language and its relationship to mind. This book examines theories of language in the work of theologians and philosophers linked to Ancient Alexandria.

Essential Mathematics 7 has been written specifically for the Victorian CSF Mathematics course.

Essential Mathematics 9 has been written specifically for the Victorian CSF Mathematics course.

A comprehensive text written for the CSF II which thoroughly prepares students for all VCE mathematics courses.

When Richard Dawkins published The God Delusion, David Robertson wanted an intelligent Christian response - and so he wrote it. This honest book draws on Robertson's experience as a debater, letter writer, pastor and author to clarify the questions and the answers for thinkers and seekers, and to respond to Dawkins in a gentle spirit.

Covers one of the most important issues in the world today, providing clear definitions combined with up-to-date information on the arena of human rights.

The Digital option of this all-new comprehensive teaching and learning program gives you access to all of the online student resources for the series available on Cambridge GO.

David Robertson charts W.C. Handy's rise from a rural Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteeth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century.

"I admit that you have destroyed my atheism, but what do you believe?" David Robertson's answer was "I believe in and because of Jesus." In-depth response to the late Christopher Hitchens.

Essential Mathematics for VELS 10 has been written specifically for the Victorian Essential Learning Standard Mathematics course, that is all the dimensions within the mathematics discipline have been addressed.

The Judge as Political Theorist examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of constitutional review. David Robertson argues that the constitutional judge's role is nothing like that of the legislator or chief executive, or even the ordinary judge. Rather, constitutional judges spell out to society the implications--on the ground--of the moral and practical commitments embodied in the nation's constitution. Constitutional review, in other words, is a form of applied political theory. Robertson takes an in-depth look at constitutional decision making in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Canada, and South Africa, with comparisons throughout to the United States, where constitutional review originated. He also tackles perhaps the most vexing problem in constitutional law today--how and when to limit the rights of citizens in order to govern. As traditional institutions of moral authority have lost power, constitutional judges have stepped into the breach, radically altering traditional understandings of what courts can and should do. Robertson demonstrates how constitutions are more than mere founding documents laying down the law of the land, but increasingly have become statements of the values and principles a society seeks to embody. Constitutional judges, in turn, see it as their mission to transform those values into political practice and push for state and society to live up to their ideals.

The Cambridge Mathematics and Statistics series has been written by a team of specialist New Zealand teachers supported by numeracy and curriculum advisors to meet the needs of the Mathematics and Statistics learning area of The New Zealand Curriculum at years 9 to 11.