David C: 839 books
by Edward L. Dreyer, David C. Wright, Peter Lorge
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist...
by Prof. David C. McClelland
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Harvard University Professor David C. McClelland is chiefly known for his work on achievement motivation, but his research interests extended to personality and consciousness. He pioneered workplace motivational thinking, developing achievement-based motivational theory and models, and promoted improvements...
Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media
Diasporic Identifications
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between second-generation Korean Americans and Korean popular culture. Specifically looking at Korean films, celebrities, and popular media, David C. Oh combines intrapersonal processes...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
The Burden of White Supremacy
Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration....
Kaigun
Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously...
Big Ecology
The Emergence of Ecosystem Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
In Big Ecology, David C. Coleman documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As Coleman explains, the concept of the ecosystem—a local biological community and its interactions with its environment—has given...
by David C Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Few people know that orthodox Christianity is very different from its beginnings. In truth, you and I, in past lives, slowly transformed it into a ritual-based 'Sunday Christianity.' We did this to placate our inner needs for things of the spirit, freeing us up for the rest of the week to 'sport in...
by David C. Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition. As in the first volume, he both provides a broad general view of literary trends and closely...
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2004
From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in...
The Emergency State
America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
**Editor’s Choice, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Ambitious and valuable” --WASHINGTON POST**
America is trapped in a state of war that has consumed our national life since before Pearl Harbor. Over seven decades and several bloody wars, Democratic and Republican politicians alike...
Why Americans Split Their Tickets
Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Why do some voters split their ballots, selecting a Republican for one office and a Democrat for another? Why do voters often choose one party to control the White House while the other controls the Congress? Barry Burden and David Kimball address these fundamental puzzles of American elections by...
Drug Politics
Dirty Money and Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Drug Politics is an enlightening new book by a man who knows this disturbing and dangerous subject. A former United States ambassador to Peru, David C. Jordan has testified before the U.S. Senate and House Foreign Relations committees and has consulted with various government security organizations....
Viva Cristo Rey!
The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Between 1926 and 1929, thousands of Mexicans fought and died in an attempt to overthrow the government of their country. They were the Cristeros, so called because of their battle cry, Viva Cristo Rey!—Long Live Christ the King! The Cristero rebellion and the church-state conflict remain one of the...