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  • Audiobook

    It's All Too Much

    Adventures of a Teenage Beatles Fan in the '60s and Beyond

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    British music industry veteran David Stark grew up in north-west London during the 1960s as a dedicated Beatles fan, who was lucky enough to meet his musical heroes on various memorable occasions. From gatecrashing the Yellow Submarine film premiere in 1968 and sitting right behind them, to meeting the group individually in some extraordinary circumstances, he recalls his many Beatles encounters ... Read more

    $11.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christ-Based Leadership

    Applying the Bible and Today's Best Leadership Models to Become an Effective Leader

    by David Stark ...
    Presents a portrait of Christian leadership within a biblical framework while comparing and contrasting it to today's hottest leadership models. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Growing People Through Small Groups

    This fresh look at small groups starts with people and principles rather than program and structure. Stark and Wieland examine why many small-group ministries fall short of their goals, and they offer strategies that start with God's leading and people's needs. Straightforward, informative, and practical, this new organic system works for smaller churches as well as larger ones. Useful for lay ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Sense of Dissonance

    Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

    by David Stark ...
    What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. Because of this, many organizations devote considerable resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used for evaluating worth. But as David Stark argues, firms would often be better off, especially in ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • This Place, These People

    Life and Shadow on the Great Plains

    by David Stark ...
    The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm places—the houses, barns, and outbuildings that made the rural landscape a place of habitation. Nancy Warner's photographs tell the stories of buildings that were once loved yet have now been abandoned. Her evocative images are juxtaposed with the voices of Nebraska farm people, lovingly ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Reaching Millennials

    Proven Methods for Engaging a Younger Generation

    by David Stark ...
    Proven Methods for Churches to Attract and Engage Young PeopleOne question faces every church leader looking to the future: How do we attract younger generations? Many things have been tried, but in this book, church consultant David Stark shares practical methods that have been proven to work in a variety of congregations.Stark helps leaders identify and use their church's strengths to engage ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Practicing Sociology

    Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft

    Edited by David Stark ...
    Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Despite the importance of these skills, they are seldom if ever addressed in the course of graduate training. Heavy emphasis is placed on conducting research, and other core activities such as teaching also receive attention, yet ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Performance Complex

    Competition and Competitions in Social Life

    Edited by David Stark ...
    Chapter 1 from this book is published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic What's valuable? Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless process of pricings; on the other, competitions are discrete and bounded in time and location, with entry rules, judges, scores, and prizes. This ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • The Tour Guide

    The Adventure Begins

    Miracles, near-drowning, thrill-seeking, danger, unfathomable beauty, intrigue, evil, temptation, the Divine, seduction, sabotage, breath-taking venues, heart-breaking betrayal, and even a nuclear threat—sounds like your typical fictional action film, except this story is true.Follow the incredible heart-stopping, full-spectrum survival autobiography of David Stark, an adventure tour guide, who ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico

    Scholarship on slavery in the Caribbean frequently emphasizes sugar and tobacco production, but this unique work illustrates the importance of the region’s hato economy—a combination of livestock ranching, foodstuff cultivation, and timber harvesting—on the living patterns among slave communities. David Stark makes use of extensive Catholic parish records to provide a comprehensive examination of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Preaching that Confronts Confederate Monuments

    Religion, Anti-Racism, and United States Politics

    Series series T&T Clark Library of Homiletics
    Confederate monuments preach-at times subtly, at other times overtly-about who we are, who God is, and how we should live together. David M. Stark looks at the way many Confederate monuments provided ongoing opportunities for commemorative speeches and ceremonies that would entrench racist and white supremacist ideologies in the American South.Stark examines key speeches and proclamations given ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Tension and Invention

    Networks for Collective Creativity

    How friction, diversity, and tension drive breakthrough ideas in business, technology, and cultureIn the popular imagination, innovation is associated with the lone genius. Innovation, however, is never the product of one individual, but rather occurs through the combined efforts of a network of people. But how do these networks operate? In Tension and Invention, Balazs Vedres and David Stark ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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