Books with author David E. Nelson

Who’s Your Daddy? Bible-Based Stories for Modern Families: Season 1 is a collection of biblically-based stories that explores how characters in Scripture felt as they lived through their experiences.The art of storytelling and writing, which is integral to the development of the Christian church, must be encouraged. Jesus often used stories to illustrate or make a point and a well-crafted, Bible-based story has the capacity to capture the imagination, inspire, comfort, and encourage. Who’s Your Daddy? Bible-Based Stories for Modern Families: Season 1 provides an opportunity for all to meet the abiding need to ‘hear and tell’ and to have a story to live by.Season 1 begins with the nativity story before continuing to depict scenes from the lives of young biblical characters from both the Old and New Testaments that explores a variety of issues such as teen identity, self-acceptance, mentorship, healing, forgiveness, and commitment. It goes on to a section on fathers, which reflects on some of the issues they face, such as self-conflict, the grieving process, self-sacrifice, and surrender to God’s divine will, before culminating in the Easter story. In Who’s Your Daddy? Bible-Based Stories for Modern Families: Season 1, David R. Nelson has created a delightful read for both teens and families with stories that can also be utilized in church and school programs to supplement their existing teaching.

In recent years, new forensic methods have revolutionized crime scene investigations so that a single piece of evidence can often determine an individual's guilt or innocence. Tests involving fingerprinting, polygraphs, ballistics, toxicology, voice analysis, DNA typing, and other techniques can be combined or used independently to provide information about a crime. While some procedures produce results that are highly valid and reliable, others yield conclusions that may be uncertain or legally useless. ""DNA Evidence and Forensic Science"" explores the history of this fascinating topic and the opinions surrounding it, from the early use of fingerprinting to identify civil servants to the latest advances in DNA typing in criminal investigations. Documents such as the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 and contemporary case studies such as Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals provide multiple perspectives and decisions surrounding this important issue. This invaluable volume features a comprehensive and up-to-date overview essay, capsule biographies, a large annotated bibliography, a chronology of significant events, organization and agency listings, and a glossary to help readers explore the controversy surrounding the issue of DNA evidence and forensic science. Coverage includes: the type of forensic evidence that should be permitted during legal proceedings; whether or not law enforcement should collect DNA samples from suspects during criminal investigations; and, whether or not the federal government should create a national ballistics database and more.