Books written by David Oates

  • Excavations at Tell Brak
    Excavations at Tell Brak

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  • The Heron Place
    The Heron Place

    Poetry. "Like A.R. Ammon's "Corson's Inlet," David Oates in THE HERON PLACE makes a walk in a wild place into an excursion into nature and mind, drawing a stunning sense of landscapes inner and outer, the wounds and failures and beauties ...

  • Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature
    Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature

    In Paradise Wild, David Oates addresses this and many other provocative questions as he explores the persistent myth of Eden from several different angles.As a lifelong mountaineer and reader of...

  • City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary
    City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary

    Portland's Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) was designed to hold the bursting metropolitan area in check while protecting Willamette Valley orchards and fields from sprawling suburbia. David Oates traveled the 260-mile...

  • Career Paths For The 21st Century: How to Beat Job Insecurity
    Career Paths For The 21st Century: How to Beat Job Insecurity

    account of the impact of change on traditional career paths. It recognizes that in the new circumstances a paradox has to be addressed. Most organizations now identify people as their key source of competitive advantage because people ...

  • The Small Business Bible: Chapter and Verse on Running a Successful Small Business

    The Small Business Bible: Chapter and Verse on Running a Successful Small Business

  • Outsourcing and the Virtual Organization: The Incredible Shrinking Company
    Outsourcing and the Virtual Organization: The Incredible Shrinking Company

    Durcan and Oates provide a wide-ranging expert overview of outsourcing, aimed at managers and decision-makers who want to understand fully all the issues involved. How do companies define core and non-core activities?

  • Earth Rising: Ecological Belief in an Age of Science
    Earth Rising: Ecological Belief in an Age of Science

    An exploration of the ways in which the science of ecology has provided a basis for a contemporary worldview that combines an intuitive sense of wholeness with the validation of...

  • The Rise of Civilization
    The Rise of Civilization

    Joan Oates - along with her late husband, David - first revived excavations at Tell Brak in northern Syria in the 1970s. Those excavations showed signs that civilizations existed in...

  • Studies in the Ancient History of Northern Iraq
    Studies in the Ancient History of Northern Iraq

    This is a facsimile reprint of the trail-blazing book by David Oates, originally published by the British Academy in 1968 and out-of-print for too long. It is primarily the report...