Books by David Wells

50 YEARS OF CARING FOR SEAFARERS IN PORT HOUSTON celebrates the five-decade history of the Houston International Seafarers' Center: how it was founded, how it has served seafarers and led the field of seafarers; welfare over the years, and the generous and enterprising people who made it all possible. This history shows the value of partnerships; especially partnerships between the business world, the Port Authority, and local religious communities. Without these partnerships the Houston project would have stalled or failed at several key junctures. The value of the Houston Port Authority's willingness to partner with others throughout the history of seafarers' welfare in Houston cannot be overstated. At its heart, the story of seafarers' service in Houston is about relationships; about connecting people. Because hundreds of staff and thousands of volunteers were willing to invest their time in the lives of others, over the last 50 years more than two million seafarers have been welcomed in the Seafarers' Center and millions more have been cared for by chaplains and ship visitors throughout the Port. "I was a stranger and you welcomed me."

Qabalah offers teachings on the creation, origin and fate of the soul, the nature of divinity and the role of human beings on Earth, and includes meditative, devotional and mystical practices, such as astrology, tarot and magic. The book is full of practical exercises and simple rituals to help you experience the power of Qabalah for yourself.

You don't have to be a mathematician to appreciate these intriguing problems and puzzles, which focus on insight and imagination rather than technique. Includes hints and solutions.

Baseball's most beloved bad-ass offers a smart, wildly entertaining, jaw-droppingly honest look at the game he knows, loves, and lived. On May 17th 1998, David ?Boomer? Wells became the 14th man in Major League Baseball History to ever throw a perfect game. He stands as the only man to accomplish the feat half-drunk and severely hung-over after partying all night with the cast of Saturday Night Live. Blowing away the industry standard of sanitized memoirs and stifling retrospectives, his memoir throws baseball a hilariously nasty curve. There are no weepy/sleepy tales of substance abuse here, no pompous lectures on ?playing hard? or ?overcoming adversity,? and under no circumstances will readers find even one Vaseline-smeared, gauze-softened tale of some long-lost, fairy-tale boys of summer. Written with unfiltered authenticity, and truckloads of locker-room humor, Perfect I'm Not sets loose the single most outspoken and entertaining player in the game at the time, allowing him to take both casual baseball fans and hardcore fanatics where they've never been allowed before: deep inside the real world of life as a major leaguer.

The appeal of games and puzzles is timeless and universal. In this unique book, David Wells explores the fascinating connections between games and mathematics, proving that mathematics is not just about tedious calculation but imagination, insight and intuition. The first part of the book introduces games, puzzles and mathematical recreations, including knight tours on a chessboard. The second part explains how thinking about playing games can mirror the thinking of a mathematician, using scientific investigation, tactics and strategy, and sharp observation. Finally the author considers game-like features found in a wide range of human behaviours, illuminating the role of mathematics and helping to explain why it exists at all. This thought-provoking book is perfect for anyone with a thirst for mathematics and its hidden beauty; a good high school grounding in mathematics is all the background that is required, and the puzzles and games will suit pupils from 14 years.

Most of us are familiar with our Sun sign but many people are unaware of the insights that our Moon sign can give us into our emotional self and our relationships with family, friends... and even would-be partners! This book combines your personal Sun and Moon signs, offering you a personality profile, with 144 different combinations.

An introduction to the work of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, this book begins with an account of her life in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg and Stalinist Russia, and focuses on her poetry. It traces the way in which her work reflects the tumultuous times in which she lived, and her emergence as the spokeswoman of her generation.

Examines real life experiences to uncover the extraordinary truth behind psychic events. This title helps to discover the practical side of what really makes things 'go bump in the night', including: Frankie Howerd's haunted house; How children can develop their abilities safely; and, The parents who found the answer to their son's sudden death.

Lets you explore what it's like to go back in time to revisit your past lives. This book tells the stories of many of the author's clients who have done just that, with astounding results.

Explains how to: use powerful techniques to unlock your past life memory; find out which of your past lives is the main key to understanding who you are in this life; release the negative thinking that is residue from bad experiences; and, find out who in your current life has been with you in your past lives.

Why was the number of Hardy's taxi significant? Why does Graham's number need its own notation? How many grains of sand would fill the universe? What is the connection between the Golden Ratio and sunflowers? Why is 999 more than a distress call? All these questions and a host more are answered in this fascinating book, which has now been newly revised, with nearly 200 extra entries and some 250 additions to the original entries. From minus one and its square root, via cyclic, weird, amicable, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers, aliquot sequences, the Cattle problem, Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm, music, magic and maps, pancakes, polyhedra and palindromes, to numbers so large that they boggle the imagination, all you ever wanted to know about numbers is here. There is even a comprehensive index for those annoying occasions when you remember the name but can't recall the number.