David Kennedy: 81 books

Book cover of Don't Shoot

Don't Shoot

One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America

by David M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods in America, one out of every two hundred young black men is shot to death every year, and few initiatives of government and law enforcement...
Book cover of Cupcakes Are Not a Diet Food
by Brenda Kennedy, Carla Evans, Martha Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016

While on a Caribbean Cruise and after numerous bottles of Moscato wine and several trips to the all-you-can-eat dessert bar, four sisters decided to write a book about their love affair with food and their experiences with diet disasters. With a combined 224 years of experience between the sisters,...
Book cover of Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

Freedom from Fear:The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

by David M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity....
Book cover of The American People in the Great Depression

The American People in the Great Depression

Freedom from Fear, Part One

by David M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003

On October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity. Kennedy vividly demonstrates that...
Book cover of Ideas for a New Century
by Paul Kennedy, Bernie Lucht, Lister Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues — most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy — some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...
Book cover of Over Here

Over Here

The First World War and American Society

by David M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004

The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later. Over Here is the single-most comprehensive discussion...
Book cover of Of Caves and Shell Mounds
by Gail E. Wagner, David H. Dye, Nicholas P
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996

Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this...
Book cover of An Integrative Approach to Treating Babies and Children
by Ann Diamond Weinstein, Michael Shea, Graham Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

Working with babies and children is most successful when therapists have a complete understanding and overview of all appropriate treatment options, and the effects of early influences on child health and development. This book shows therapists how to consider these factors in order to work more effectively...
Book cover of Cognition Switch #4
by Scott Aaronson, James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas Issue #4: March 2019 Featuring Ideas by: James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff, and Scott Aaronson
Book cover of The American People in World War II

The American People in World War II

Freedom from Fear, Part Two

by David M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003

Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out to the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for his Nazi Party. In Asia, Japan harbored imperial ambitions of its own....
Book cover of Kids are Not Always Angels
by Brenda Kennedy, Carla Evans, Martha Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

While on a Caribbean Cruise and after numerous bottles of Moscato wine and several trips to the all-you-can-eat dessert bar, four sisters decided to write a book about their love affair with food and their experiences with diet disasters. They also invited a brother to contribute some writing, and...
Book cover of Aging is Not for Sissies
by Brenda Kennedy, David Bruce, Rosa Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017

While on a Caribbean Cruise and after numerous bottles of Moscato wine and several trips to the all-you-can-eat dessert bar, four sisters decided to write a book about their love affair with food and their experiences with diet disasters. They also invited a brother to contribute some writing, and...
Book cover of Deterrence and Crime Prevention

Deterrence and Crime Prevention

Reconsidering the Prospect of Sanction

by David M. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of state authority,...
Book cover of American Catholics and Civic Engagement
by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, W Shepherdson Abell, Kirk Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...
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