David Davis: 109 books

Book cover of Social Entrepreneurship:What Everyone Needs to Know
by David Bornstein, Susan Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more...
Book cover of The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
by David Brion Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999

David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture...
Book cover of Recovery from Disaster
by Ian Davis, David Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015

Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery—providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives—generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies....
Book cover of Murder at 1217
by David Ward Davis, Lisa E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013

Murder at 1217 – This first offering in Lisa and David’s new detective series is an excellent whodunnit. Of course, this book also introduces the many diverse characters who will continue their roles in each Strickland Files mystery. We believe you will soon feel a part of the extended family...
Book cover of Freeman's: Arrival

Freeman's: Arrival

The Best New Writing on Arrival

by Louise Erdrich, Kamila Shamsie, Colum McCann
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015

A new literary journal arrives on the scene with unpublished works from such superstars as Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, and others.   In this inaugural edition of Freeman’s, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together...
Book cover of The Human Tradition in the New South
by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005

In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives...
Book cover of Sound Unbound

Sound Unbound

Sampling Digital Music and Culture

by Cory Doctorow, Steve Reich, Saul Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008

The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work. If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Book cover of Antebellum American Culture

Antebellum American Culture

An Interpretive Anthology

by David Brion Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1997

First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil War. Distinguished historian David Brion Davis has chosen a diverse array of primary sources that show the actual concerns, hopes, fears, and understandings of ordinary antebellum...
Book cover of God's Love Compels Us

God's Love Compels Us

Taking the Gospel to the World

by David Platt, John Piper, J. Mack Stiles
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015

“Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:20 In this collection of biblical expositions, seven prominent Bible teachers lay the biblical foundation for missions based on the apostle...
Book cover of Alien Artifacts
by Joshua Palmatier, Gini Koch, Seanan McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars?  As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind.  Alien artifacts:  what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? ...
Book cover of Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder!
by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, Shari Randall
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012

The latest installment in the Chesapeake Crimes mystery series focuses on working stiffs--literally! Included in this collection are new tales by: Shari Randall, C. Ellett Logan, Karen Cantwell, E. B. Davis, Jill Breslau, David Autry, Harriette Sackler, Barb Goffman, Ellen Herbert, Smita Harish Jain, Leone Ciporin, Cathy Wiley, Donna Andrews, Art Taylor. Foreword by Elaine Viets.
Book cover of The Horizontal Lie
by David Ward Davis, Lisa E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013

There are many kinds of lies. The white lie which is supposedly harmless; it is usually told to protect, help, or to keep from hurting someone’s feelings. The lie of deception, it is a lie used frequently and is the easiest lie to tell without realization of its consequences. The vertical...
Book cover of The Receptor Planet
by David Ward Davis, Lisa E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013

Ron Barr was an ordinary guy, living a mundane and ordinary life – he was happy with that life and expected, nor wanted, any more from his existence. He had a loving wife, and two beautiful children, they were the very apple of his eye. That all changed one night in Bonita Springs, Florida....
Book cover of The Topanginu Warrior
by David Ward Davis, Lisa E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013

The Topanginu Warrior is not a politically correct version of what transpired on the plantations of the South during the 19th Century - This story, saga if you will, is told with all of the warts intact and the lost hope of the African American culture told as it truly was. To us there is no other...
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