Winner, 2025-2026 New York City Book Awards, given by the New York Society LibraryA unique insider perspective of daily life in New York City’s most notorious house of correctionWhile most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainees awaiting the settlement of their cases, a smaller population have already been convicted and are serving sentences deemed too short for the state prison system. These stints are called “city time....

Before you can help others develop their leadership skills and abilities, you must first help them to recognize strengths and identify areas in which they need to improve. The Campbell Leadership Descriptor was developed to achieve just that. Designed specifically for use in those situations where comprehensive analysis of leadership characteristics is useful - such as leadership seminars, classroom discussions, and one-on-one coaching. The workbook's self-scored assessment allows you to p...

Does God still have a plan for the Jewish people? Does this plan include the restoration of the modern state of Israel? David Campbell seeks to answer these two critical questions in Israel and the Land Promise in Biblical Prophecy. Readers will find an insightful and well-researched perspective as Campbell explores the Biblical theme of the loss and restoration of God's kingdom, which is in fact the storyline of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

The definitive analysis of how the presence of women politicians affects young people.From Kamala Harris to Nikki Haley, women in public life are widely expected to inspire young people, especially girls, to follow in their footsteps. See Jane Run provides the definitive analysis of women politicians as role models. With wide-ranging data and attention to gender, race, and party, David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht find that women in politics help co...

Sam Page has spent the last five years plotting, and now he is back in San Francisco with an intricate plot against some old and powerful friends. His plan is to get back the millions stolen from him and have as much fun as he can while doing it.Years ago Sam had a position at a successful start-up company, a great social life, and the world in his hands. Just before his company was to be acquired his friends on the board of directors set him up and had him fired. Now he's back and...

Does most popular end times teaching leave you confused? Have you ever wondered why seemingly continuous predictions of a coming apocalypse never pan out? Or why the people making the predictions, rather than apologizing, simply make new ones that never come to pass? In this book, David Campbell unravels the twisted interpretations of Scripture so prevalent in much current end times teaching. He shows that the key to replacing unhinged teaching is by using the Biblical text as the true hin...

Few people know that orthodox Christianity is very different from its beginnings. In truth, you and I, in past lives, slowly transformed it into a ritual-based 'Sunday Christianity.' We did this to placate our inner needs for things of the spirit, freeing us up for the rest of the week to 'sport in the flesh' with abandon! Yes, it's that simple. Alas, we were not ready for the aestheticism taught by the Master and it took us until the 6th century to successfully bury the original Christian...

Much like a "No Diving" sign found at a pool, David Campbell seeks to warn Christians about the dangers of diving into shallow interpretations of the Bible and points readers to the deep end. In this book, Campbell wades through mistakes believers make when reading the Bible, and gives them tools for how to fix them. No Diving will give Christians the lessons they need to go deeper in their relationship with God.

The acclaimed author and biologist shares "a superb personal account [of Antarctica] . . . a remarkable evocation of a land at the bottom of the world" ( Boston Globe).During the 1980s, biologist David Campbell spent three summers in Antarctica, researching its surprisingly plentiful wildlife. In The Crystal Desert, he combines travelogue, nature writing and science history to tell the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents.

Where did the moon first come from to fill our skies with its light, a satellite larger than any minor planet? How long ago (could it really be billions of years?) and how come it sticks so faithfully by the earth?No one knows fir sure. But - did you know? - by now there are some good guesses.And again, why should the moon mean so much to us, even now amid the contamination of street lights? represent our unconscious yearnings and night-time life? and in its ever recycling ...

Why are we scared of the dark? Usually it's because we don't know what's there. Perhaps a friend? Perhaps a foe? The Bible tells us that even though we "walk through the valley of the shadow of death," God is with us. In this topical look at Christian suffering, author David Campbell reminds us that God has purpose in every season - even the painful ones. Both provocative and comprehensive, Night Light will give you a foundation of strength to walk through the most challenging circumstance...

Story Harvest – a bountiful harvest of traditional oral folk tales from Scotland and the worldDavid Campbell began life in Edinburgh, spending his youth in Scotland's storied Northeast. Here he developed the athletic and academic skills which would one day lead him all over the world as an acclaimed storyteller.Throughout his long life, David has been called to word-smithing in many forms: as teacher, poet, BBC broadcaster, writer and acclaimed sto...