Amy Davis: 22 books
Flickering Treasures
Rediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Baltimore has been home to hundreds of theaters since the first moving pictures flickered across muslin sheets. These monuments to popular culture, adorned with grandiose architectural flourishes, seemed an everlasting part of Baltimore’s landscape. By 1950, when the city’s population peaked,...
Hostage Situations
Management, Negotiations and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
An introductory text for students entering the field, or professionals seeking continued professional development in the issues of hostage situations. Includes cases studies and suggested checklists. This title is appropriate for criminal justice, criminal investigation, and homeland security programs....
Psychological Support in Disasters
Facilitating Psychological Support for Catastrophic Events
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
An introductory text for students entering the field, or professionals seeking continued professional development in the area of psychological stress and critical incidents. Includes cases studies and suggested checklists. This text is appropriate for criminal justice, criminal investigation, and...
Forensic Studies: CSI for the Nonscientist
From Crime Scene to Crime Lab
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Forensic Studies introduces the student to the fascinating field of crime scene investigations, or CSI. The text begins with crime scene search, investigation, and documentation. Then following a typical investigative path, chapters examine fingerprints and other evidence, including: trace, biological,...
by Tom Avery, Dan Byram, Amy Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This text introduces a broad, in-depth look at security planning and procedures. Students will learn to develop skills in interviewing and interrogation techniques, intelligence gathering, surveillances, perimeter and crime scene security, criminal evidence preservation and collection, and principles...
Good Girls & Wicked Witches
Women in Disney's Feature Animation
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
An in-depth view of the way popular female stereotypes were reflected in—and were shaped by—the portrayal of women in Disney’s animated features.
In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from...
The 12 Brides of Christmas Collection
12 Heartwarming Historical Romances for the Season of Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Christmas is the time for love—and weddings—and twelve historical women are on their way to the altar, whether they know it or not. In Nineteenth Century settings across the heartland of America, readers will experience heartfelt gifts, old-fashioned Christmas traditions, sweet romance, and inspiring...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
Athena Force: Books 1-6
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Athena Force--chosen for their talents. Trained to be the best. The women of Athena Academy shared an unbreakable bond...until one of them was murdered. Athena Force: Books 1-6: Six exciting books of action, adventure and romance!
Proof by Justine Davis:
Top-notch forensic scientist Alexandra...
Film Studies
A Global Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and insistently so in the digital age.
Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti and Amy Villarejo’s...
by Amy Rose Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The lion awakens. The mountain bleeds.After killing the owner of a brutal slave operation and escaping his camp with Connor’s help, Mairead is relieved to be reunited with her beloved and back on course toward her rightful place as Queen of Taura.But a strange lost tribe from the mountains...
Leading Through Relationships
How to Achieve Success While Helping Others to Excel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Leading Through Relationships explores the importance of building a productive and motivated team for your company and how to build long-lasting relationships with your customers. Using the HVAC company where he has worked for thirty-seven years as an example, Alan Davis explores every position in a...
Bomb
The Author Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains
Men in Disney's Feature Animation
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio’s animated features.
One of PopSugar’s Best Books for Women (2013)
From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and...
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