David J David: 1790 books
Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture
Theological politics and devotional practice in fifteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has...
by David J. T. Sumpter
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines...
by David J. Schow
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Everyone wants to be good in bed ... but what if it's the bed that makes you good?It's said the dead live on in our memories, but what if only the dead remember you?What if the most infernal dealmaker in creation visited Hollywood, where everyone's a dealmaker, to get a little help from his friends?The...
by Kay Thompson, Hilary Knight, J. David Stem
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In 1957 on the set of Funny Face Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight first thought Eloise might go to Hollywood
Now forty-nine years later she'll finally have her silver screen debut
It's rawther extraordinary really
with apes and biplanes and thrills
and starring of course ELOISE
Here's...
Last Acts
Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
What would you do if you had only a few days to live? Or a few weeks or months? What if a loved one were in this situation -- how could you help that person decide how to spend the time that remained? Perhaps you lost a family member or dear friend to a terminal illness and were baffled by that person's...
The Machine Question
Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
An investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making.
One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal...
by David J. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Spring summer summer winter she is there,
The laken depths of girlish eyes:
Come, she cries, I banish care
I come and winter summer summer spring
Her raven hair blows on, come on,
And when I get there, she is gone
Although the fields still hear her sing
I try to love and when the gate
Is banged against...
by David J Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Inspired by David’s own Border Collie, Misty and her group of friends cannot help but get into scrapes wherever they go! In On the Dog Walk! they embark on a series of adventures chasing rabbits, running away from spiders and creepy crawlies, almost getting lost and even run into an angry farmer...
Visualizing Information with Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007
Smart Diagrams for Business Users
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Create and distribute data-connected Microsoft Office Visio diagrams and reports
Get full details on the powerful features of Microsoft Office Visio 2007 inside this comprehensive volume. Written by Visio expert David Parker, Visualizing Information with Microsoft Office Visio 2007 demonstrates...
The Look of the Book
Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2020
A colorful and captivating visual exploration of book cover design, with never-before-seen sketches, mock-ups, and case studies, plus insider interviews with novelists and publishing executives that bring to light the inspiration, methods, and creative genius behind the book covers that grace our...
by David J. Magee, James E. Zachazewski, William S. Quillen
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2007
Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, Volume 2: Scientific Foundations and Principles of Practice provides a thorough review of the basic science information concerning the tissues of the musculoskeletal system impacted by injury or disease, as well as the guiding principles upon which rehabilitation interventions...
by David J. Conway
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The Hunt is On!
You see them in cash registers and in bank tellers' trays. Rolls of coins - pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. But what you may not realize is that far more than the face value of the coins may be hidden in those rolls.
Real silver coins may be mixed in with the modern-day...
Enhancing Hubble's Vision
Service Missions That Expanded Our View of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book tells the story of the four missions to maintain Hubble's successful operation. Between 1997 and 2009 these repaired, serviced and upgraded the instruments on the telescope to maintain its state-of-the-art capabilities. It draws on first hand interviews with those closely involved in the...
Japan: A Documentary History: Vol 2: The Late Tokugawa Period to the Present
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...