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Barefoot and dirty, his only pair of pants smudged from rolling abandoned tires for play, the twelve-year-old boy, whose father was a coal miner and his mother a "cutter" in a shirt factory, had only one dream - to be somebody. Born in post-WWII forties, raised in the fifties in a scruffy Appalachian small town with extremely limited career opportunities, David escaped in the sixties via the U.S. Army only to find himself at the age of 18 on Hill 875 in Vietnam - one of the deadliest engagements of that infamous war. Now strapped with post traumatic stress disorder, he refused to lose his vision of becoming a person of merit - but with conditions: he had to like what was under his skin, never abandon his roots, always treasure and support his family. To do so, he lived by a motto: adapt, improvise and overcome. Scrambling over the wall of an eighth grade education, and through years of struggle, he became a highly successful homegrown entrepreneur. God came along on the journey. Pushing his sons and grandsons to not just shoot for the moon but aim past it, Reverend P. David Hicks of Jacksboro, Tennessee is the boy who became the man who simply wanted to be somebody. Did he succeed?

The late David Hicks is one of the great designers of the twentieth century. He is primarily known for

This book is a timely and practical response to the most important challenge of our times - climate change. It provides a thoughtful and readable introduction to why this matters for everyone. It explains the relationship between climate change and the sources of energy we use, as well as important choices that we need to make for the future - for our families, schools and communities. It explores what we need to know and what people are feeling about this issue. It offers readily accessible examples of what we can do to both limit and adapt to the changes we face. Intended for the general reader, concerned citizen and those with a responsibility for young people, this book provides a clear understanding of what a more sustainable low-carbon future could look like and why this will be of benefit to both present and future generations.

The personal account of David Hicks, and his five and a half years spent in the notorious prison, Guantanamo Bay. In 1999 a young man from suburban Adelaide set out on an overseas trip that would change his life forever. Initially, he was after adventure and the experience of travelling the Silk Road. But events would set him on a different path. He would be deemed a terrorist, one of George W. Bush's 'worst of the worst'. He would be incarcerated in the world's most notorious prison, Guantanamo Bay. And in that place where, according to an interrogator in Abu Ghraib, 'even dogs won't live', he was to languish for five and a half years, suffering horror, torture and abuse, while Australians were told who he was - by politicians, the media and foreign governments. Everyone had an opinion on him. But only he knows the truth. And now, for the first time, David Hicks tells his story.

A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.

In Lessons for the Future, Davis Hicks provides an insight into, and an argument for, futures education. He discusses the latest innovative teaching and research in the field and looks at young people's attitudes to the future.

Flynn Hawkins is a graduate assistant at a prestigious university, on his way to greatness and wisdom. But in the aftermath of 9/11, Flynn leaves his wife and children, resigns his teaching position and heads west, only to get lost in his guilt and in the mountains of Colorado. When he ends up stuck overnight in a snow drift during a blizzard on the Continental Divide, he realizes he needs to remake himself into the kind of man his children need him to be.With wit and insight, David Hicks turns a compassionate but unblinking eye on what it means to be human—to be lost while putting yourself back together again, to be cowardly while being brave, to fail and fail again on the way to something that might be success.