Most Popular Books by David Wyatt

En Will Burrows té catorze anys i viu a Londres amb la seva família. Té una gran passió per l''arqueologia, i quan el seu pare desapareix sobtadament a sota d''un túnel, decideix investigar amb el seu amic Chester. Però ben aviat es trobaran en les profunditats del subsòl, on desenterraran un obscur i terrorífic secret, un secret que podria costar-los la vida...

A la recerca del seu pare, en Will Burrows s''endinsarà en túnels encara més profunds. I com si les coses no anessin prou malament, descobreix els horribles plans dels estigis que poden tenir conseqüències letals pel món exterior.Una aventura que s''endinsa en les profunditats més fosques de la terra.

Les sorcières de Pendle deviennent de plus en plus malfaisantes. Le plus inquiétant, c''est que les trois clans - les Deane, les Malkin et les Mouldheel - préparent une alliance. Ensemble, ils seraient capables d''invoquer le Diable en personne ! Tom et son maître vont se rendre là-bas pour éviter le pire. Mais avant, Tom Ward doit passer chez lui pour récupérer les malles que sa mère lui a laissées en héritage. Or, une fois sur place, il découvre que la ferme a été ravagée, la grange brûlée.

Alors que le froid se fait plus vif, l''Épouvanteur reçoit un message qui semble grandement le perturber. Il décide aussitôt de quitter Chipenden pour se rendre dans sa maison d''hiver, à Anglezarke. La vieille demeure est lugubre : dans les profondeurs obscures de ses caves sont enfermées des sorcières et des gobelins. Quant au mystérieux auteur de la lettre, qui rôde dans les parages, il se révèle être l''ennemi juré de John Gregory. Au cours de longs mois d''hiver, Tom découvre peu à peu le passé caché de son maître...

David Wyatt is professor of English at the University of Maryland. His most recent book is Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature. Book jacket.

An action-packed adventure story with an exciting film location setting. Fearless stunt double Finn is in Thailand working on the latest Rio Dinoni blockbuster. It''s a dream job, but are the whispers around set true? Is the film really cursed? When stunt, after stunt goes wrong; filming starts to get really dangerous. So far, Finn''s survived all sorts of smashes and crashes, even an elephant stampede, but it''s the secrets on set that might finally break him.

In this book, David Wyatt examines the mythology of California as it is reflected in the literature of the region. He argues that the encounter with landscape played an important role in literature of the West, and distinguishes this particular characteristic from the literatures of other American regions. Wyatt discusses in depth the writings of Dana, Leonard, Fremont, Muir, King, Austin, Norris, Steinbeck, and Chandler, Jeffers and Snyder and their literary reactions to the landscape. By examining the changing role of the landscape in literature of California, the book sheds new light on an important theme in the American creative popular consciousness.

Background: Improving patient outcomes is a priority for healthcare organizations and clinicians. Teams and how they function have been viewed as closely related to improved patient outcomes, particularly in the perioperative setting. While significant focus has been given to developing methods to improve teamwork less attention has been given to understanding the characteristics of the team and how these characteristics may contribute to improved patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the team characteristics of experience and familiarity and patient outcomes in the operating room (OR) using logistic regression modeling. The Systems Research Organizing Model (SROM) guided the study. Methods: Using retrospective data from the electronic health record as well as faculty and staff credentialing data, measures were calculated to quantify team experience and team familiarity. These measures were used in a logistic regression model to understand their relationship to the patient outcomes of OR supply cost, OR length of procedure, as well as if the procedure started on time. Results: Logistic Regression modeling did not show any significant relationships for the characteristics of experience or familiarity to the outcomes of OR supply cost, OR length of procedure, as well as if the procedure started on time. This was an expected result due to the fact that the data did not show to fit well for the model. The study objective to explore team proxies proved to be the most interesting work, particularly creating novel methods to quantify familiarity. Conclusions: The results of this study are not conclusive in supporting a relationship between team characteristics and patient outcomes. However, the methods developed to quantify familiarity and team experience characteristics provide groundwork for future research and study of teams. The team characteristics of experience and familiarity need further exploration related to the organizational structures of team composition - which will inform further development of these calculations improving statistical modeling options.