David J David: 1790 books
Japan: A Documentary History
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual...
by David J. Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
David Silverman argues against the notion that Indians prized flintlock muskets more for their pyrotechnics than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another, as arms races erupted across North America.
Bearing the Cross
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King’s evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama,...
Site Reading
Fiction, Art, Social Form
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites—supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums—that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional...
The People's Victory
Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California
In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...
Hollywood Gothic
The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2004
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day...
The Water Ball
A Story of Faith and Enduring Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
A keen observer of those about him, in The Water Ball David captures some of the flavor of the times and places in which he has lived, observed, and experienced life s realities: the good and evil that each person inevitably must face as they travel life s road
The Longest Night
A Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2002
Like no other conflict in our history, the Civil War casts a long shadow onto modern America," writes David Eicher. In his compelling new account of that war, Eicher gives us an authoritative modern single-volume battle history that spans the war from the opening engagement at Fort Sumter to Lee's...
Dixie Betrayed
How the South Really Lost the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
David Eicher reveals the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. He shows how President Jefferson Davis fought not only with the Confederate House and Senate and with State Governers but also with his own vice-president and secretary of state.
Testing Tornado
Cold War Naval Fighter Pilot to BAe Chief Test Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
During the early Cold War days when 17-year-old David Eagles applied to the Fleet Air Arm hoping to be a fighter pilot for his National Service, he little imagined the lifetime career that was to follow. After Flying Training with the US Navy and loan Service with the Australian Fleet Air Arm, he...
Japan: A Documentary History: v. 1: The Dawn of History to the Late Eighteenth Century
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this two volume book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural...
William M. Kunstler
The Most Hated Lawyer in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Alternately vilified as a publicity-seeking egoist and lauded as a rambunctious, fearless advocate, William Kunstler consistently embodied both of these qualities.
Kunstler's unrelenting, radical critique of American racism and the legal system took shape as a result of his efforts to enlist the federal...
by David J. Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure, but Chalmers argues that a version...
Protest at Selma
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the Cross
Vivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow’s account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma,...