Best Selling Books by David Allen

A thousand hands shaped its banks and a thousand ships have traversed the waters of a canal that defined a region. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal has both provided an important route between the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and acted as a secondary and unofficial boundary between the North and South. Yet this historic waterway almost failed before the first shovel struck earth in 1804. Local historian David Berry tells the fascinating story of the C&D Canal, from the tenacious Gilpin family''s sixty-year struggle to open the shipway to the canal''s role in the Civil War as a vital path for Union troops and supplies to quickly cross the Delmarva and travel down the Chesapeake.

A vibrant collection of more than 300 unique stickers of common and rare North American birds, from beloved birding expert and nature artist David Sibley Celebrate the birds of North America with The Sibley Birding Sticker Book! Personalize your belongings with over 300 different sticker designs that range from commonly spotted backyard birds, such as the Barn Owl, Northern Cardinal, and Ruddy Duck, to more unusual specimens, such as the Tufted Puffin, Broad-Billed Hummingbird, and White-Tailed Hawk, all rendered in stunning detail by celebrated illustrator David Sibley. The Sibley Birding Sticker Book contains: Full-color glossy stickers of over 300 birds in various sizes (like a tiny 1-inch Roseate Spoonbill or a beautiful oversized 4-inch Blue Jay) The names of each bird for easy identification while birding A deluxe hardcover package that will protect the sticker sheets from wrinkling An ideal companion for your next birding adventure and the perfect gift for birders, scrapbookers, hikers, and anyone who enjoys the beauty of the natural world, The Sibley Birding Sticker Book allows you to bring a bit of birding flair to your journal, water bottle, laptop, and more.

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding and supporting teacher inquiry groups, Critical Friends Groups, “PLCs,” and other vehicles for the school-wide professional learning community. It takes the reader outside traditional sites of professional development for teachers and into the black box theatres and rehearsal studios of contemporary theatre companies. It investigates the methods and specific tools these theatre artists use to collectively create new works for performance. Drawing on these methods and tools, it provides a model for understanding and improving the practices of teacher learning groups, one that highlights the means, materials, and modes of engagement of a group’s activity. Applying the model to elementary and high school teacher learning groups, it demonstrates how teachers, coaches, and administrators can use it to foster meaningful professional learning and instructional improvement. The book provides not only new ways of thinking about teacher learning in schools, but also frameworks and specific tools to bring teacher learning as collective creation to life.

Tropical Despotisms reveals the alarm that spread among France''s Caribbean possessions during the period between the Seven Years'' War and the Revolution and the determination to cultivate a new patriotic community rooted in the Enlightenment principles of honor and civic virtue. Following France''s humiliating defeat at the hands of the British, a loose coalition of frustrated and enlightened reformers hoped to promote imperial regeneration in order to restore France''s wounded national pride, stabilize and strengthen the Antillean colonies, and bind the colonies more closely to the metropole. David Allen Harvey describes the historical relationship between capitalism and slavery in the making of the modern world economy and moves beyond simplistic arguments by discussing the contingent and evolving dynamic between the two. As a result, he reveals how capitalism and slavery developed in tandem in the eighteenth-century Caribbean but explains that reformers sought to enact a gradual transition to a free wage labor regime more in keeping with capitalism''s ideal of free and voluntary contractual relationships between formally equal parties. Tropical Despotisms provides a new perspective on the social and demographic structure in the French Antilles and the wider French Atlantic world. Harvey uncovers not only the deep and critical debates around the issues of slavery and race but also the efforts by enlightened reformers as they proposed rethinking the political and economic structures by which the empire had been ruled, rationalizing governing institutions, and liberalizing trade.

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The trusted experts at CliffsNotes delve into “one of the monuments of modern science fiction,” and more Frank Herbert novels and short story collections (Chicago Tribune). Here is a concise overview of the work of science fiction icon Frank Herbert, “one of the most thought-provoking writers of our time; by focusing on ‘alien’ culture, he makes us examine what the true definition of ‘human’ is” (The Pacific Sun). It includes a summary of his life and background, plus critical commentaries on the Nebula Award-winning, bestselling Dune, Dune Messiah, The Godmakers, Under Pressure, Destination: Void, The Eyes of Heisenberg, The Green Brain, The Santaroga Barrier, Whipping Star, Hellstrom’s Hive, and the short story collections The Book of Frank Herbert and The Worlds of Frank Herbert. Also included is a critical essay, The Unity and Continuity of Dune and Dune Messiah.

Assembled by two of the most distinguished botanical and ethnological scholars in Britain, this book chronicles the medicinal uses of more than 400 species used by the plain folk of Britain and Ireland. The history of these plants'' usages has been mined from rich firsthand accounts captured by surveys, from more than 1000 manuscript volumes of the Irish Folklore Commission, and from close to 300 other published and unpublished sources. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.

Theas Few Lines is a rich account of the experience of an upstate New Yorker who left home to fight for the Union during the American Civil War. Alonzo D. Bump lived in the thriving small cotton mill town of Victory Mills, the home of the Saratoga Victory Manufacturing Company where he was employed as a weaver. With the desire to "go down to see the world," Alonzo left behind Mary, his wife, and his three-year-old daughter, Mattie. Private Bump''s letters were largely written to Mary, though a small few were sent to his mother, sister, mother-in-law, and his two sisters-in-law. His letters reveal a deep love shared with Mary. For Alonzo, composing letters served as the primary instrument whereby he maintained his emotional ties with Mary and had a powerful therapeutic benefit for the married couple. Exchanging letters helped to mollify the geographic distance between Alonzo and Mary. He wrote about camp life, poor rations, disease, marching, combat, desertion, commanding officers, the enemy, military pay, sex, prostitution, pornography, and African Americans. The reader will come away with a deeper understanding of the common soldier''s experience during the Civil War.

getAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes. The metaphor of the stress-free mind as a still pond encapsulates the message of David Allen''s best-selling book. When a stone is thrown into a pond, the size of the ripples correspond to the size of the stone. Allen points out that the essence of stress-free living is getting the ripples of your mind to correspond with the size of the tasks on your to-do list. But you don''t reach Allen''s placid pond via a quiet, Zen-like path. Instead, you calm the waters of your mind by building and maintaining a rigid organizational system that''s so efficient that you never have to worry about any task once it''s been fed into the machine. The popularity of this book probably owes as much to the stress level of the book-buying public as it does to the level of innovation to be found in Allen''s method of organization. Often, the actual time-management techniques that Allen offers can get lost in fancy jargon and fall short of his general observations about stress, productivity and the mind. But getAbstract recommends this manual for a productive life to anyone looking for help in dealing with stress and an overheating to-do list you''re sure to end up with a fresh approach or two in your in-box. Book Publisher: Copyright David Allen, 2001. Used by arrangement with Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.www.penguin.com (1-800-253-6476)

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