The First Irish Cities An Eighteenth-century Transformation (Hardback) by DavidDickson Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2021 by Yale University Press - ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22946-2, ISBN: 0-300-22946-1
"The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries."
"This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR?d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despit ..."
"This book deals with the vital matter of defining authentic personal faith and the essence of the Christian life."
Dublin The Making of a Capital City by DavidDickson Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 2014 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-74444-8, ISBN: 0-674-74444-6
"Dublin has experienced great―and often astonishing―change in its 1,400 year history. It has been the largest urban center on a deeply contested island since towns first appeared west of the Irish Sea. There have been other contested cities in the European and Mediterranean world, but almost no European capital city, David Dickson maintains, has seen sharper discontinuities and reversals in its history―and these have left their mark on D ..."
Slingshot The Fast Track To Financial Freedom in Auto Repair by DavidDickson Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2009 by Innovation Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9841835-0-0, ISBN: 0-9841835-0-7
"DISCOVER THE FAST TRACK TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM IN AUTO REPAIR Slingshot (definition): An auto racing technique that involves moving suddenly from the rear of the pack to the front of the pack and into the winner's circle. In Slingshot, author David Dickson describes the phenomenon that catapulted him from being a broke auto repair shop owner with $150,000 of debt to having a chain of twenty-one shops four years later. You'll read about Da ..."
"This must-have manual provides detailed solutions to all of the 200+ exercises in Dickson, Hardy and Waters' Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks, Second Edition. This groundbreaking text on the modern mathematics of life insurance is required reading for the Society of Actuaries' Exam MLC and also provides a solid preparation for the life contingencies material of the UK actuarial profession's exam CT5. Beyond the profession ..."
The New Politics of Science(Reprint) by Dr. DavidDickson Paperback, 411 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14763-5, ISBN: 0-226-14763-0
"How science "gets done" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has become an important source of both economic and military power. The increasing dependence of scientific research on funding from business and the military has made questions about the access to and control of scientific knowledge a central issue in today's politics of science. In "The New Pol ..."
Dublin The Making of a Capital City by DavidDickson 752 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-74504-9, ISBN: 0-674-74504-3
"... Emer Purcell,'Michan: Saint, cultand church',inJohn Bradley,A. J.Fletcher and
Anngret Simms (eds), Dublininthe medieval world: Studies in honour of Howard
B. Clarke,(Dublin, 2009),pp. 132–7.For an alternative reading of the evidence
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Insurance Risk and Ruin(1st Edition) (International Series on Actuarial Science) by DavidDickson Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2005 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-84640-0, ISBN: 0-521-84640-4
"Based on the author's experience of teaching final-year actuarial students in Britain and Australia, and suitable for a first course in insurance risk theory, this book focuses on the two major areas of risk theory - aggregate claims distributions and ruin theory. For aggregate claims distributions, detailed descriptions are given of recursive techniques that can be used in the individual and collective risk models. For the collective m ..."
Old World Colony(1st Edition) Cork and South Munster 1630-1830 (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora) by DavidDickson Hardcover, 744 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-21180-6, ISBN: 0-299-21180-0
" This is a groundbreaking study of Cork's rise from insignificance to international importance as a city and port, and of South Munster's development from agricultural hinterland to one of early modern Ireland's wealthiest regions and a symbol of a new commercial order. Reconstructing the framework of a pre-modern regional society in a way never before attempted for Ireland, Old World Colony integrates social, economic, and politi ..."
"It is now widely recognized that communication is at the very heart of effective management. There is therefore an ever-expanding demand for valid and generalizable information on how best to relate to people in organizational contexts. Communication Skills for Effective Management meets this demand. It demonstrates how, for managers to be successful, they need to employ a range of key communication skills, styles and strategies. The co ..."
Truth's Victory Over Error A Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith by Dr. DavidDickson Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Banner Of Truth ISBN-13: 978-0-85151-949-4, ISBN: 0-85151-949-0
"This book is not merely of historical interest; it is also of considerable value now because many of the errors refuted within its pages have surfaced again in the 21st century church under new guises. Christians today can learn a great deal from the faithful witness of former generations who experienced 'truth's victory over error.' Truth's Victory Over Error contains David Dickson's lectures on the Westminster Confession of Faith, del ..."
"Hugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. He survived Ireland’s Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never slipped the shadow of trouble. Three of his children died from disease and his wife fell drunk into the River Foyle and drowned. Dorian declined into alcohol-numbed poverty and died in ..."
Psalms (Geneva Series of Commentaries) by DavidDickson, Charles Haddon Spurgeon Hardcover, 24 Pages, Published 1969 by Banner Of Truth ISBN-13: 978-0-85151-418-5, ISBN: 0-85151-418-9
"The particular value of this work is that it is simply written and is a compact size. While Dickson aims primarily at giving an accurate exegesis his main emphasis is instructive and devotional."
Insurance Risk and Ruin(Reprint) (International Series on Actuarial Science) by DavidDickson Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2010 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-17675-0, ISBN: 0-521-17675-1
"Based on the author's experience of teaching final-year actuarial students in Britain and Australia, and suitable for a first course in insurance risk theory, this book focuses on the two major areas of risk theory - aggregate claims distributions and ruin theory. For aggregate claims distributions, detailed descriptions are given of recursive techniques that can be used in the individual and collective risk models. For the collective m ..."
"This book collects the proceedings of a conference held jointly in Belfast and Dublin to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Rebellion of 1798. It covers all aspects of the 1798 Rebellion, its manifestations in Ireland and its international context. There will be essays on the United Irishmen abroad in Australia and the United States following the failure of the Rebellion. This volume features the work of leading historians of the ..."
Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations (Napthali Press Special Editions) by DavidDickson Hardcover, Published 2020 by Reformation Heritage Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60178-798-9, ISBN: 1-60178-798-7