David Lewis: 188 books
Bangladesh
Politics, Economy and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country begun to emerge as a fragile, but functioning, parliamentary democracy. The story of Bangladesh, told through the pages of this concise and readable book,...
Cultures of Doing Good
Anthropologists and NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.
Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental...
by David Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Impulse explores what people do despite knowing better, along with snap decisions that occasionally enrich their lives. This eye-opening account looks at two kinds of thinking--one slow and reflective, the other fast but prone to error--and shows how our mental tracks switch from the first to the second, leading to impulsive behavior.
by David Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Based on interviews with people throughout Siberia, Central Asia and European Russia about their spiritual experiences, this book brings together insights into the 'religious' worldview of those who claim to be Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, pagan or even 'atheist'. Throughout the ex-Soviet Union peoples...
Triumph of the Will?
How Two Men Hypnotised Hitler and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
This book sets out to solve one of modern history's most baffling mysteries. Before the start of World War One, Adolf Hitler was living rough on the streets of Vienna. During four years of fighting he never rose above the rank of lance corporal. His superior's did not believe he had the personality...
Matter and Form
From Natural Science to Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political...
Nanoscience
Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The field of nanoscience continues to grow at an impressive rate and, with such a vast landscape of material, careful distillation of the most important discoveries will help researchers find the key information they require. Nanoscience Volume 4 provides a critical and comprehensive assessment of...
by DAVID LEWIS
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
ELIZABETH DEVON becomes Florence Nightingale's maid, a life little better than slavery, as a starving DANIEL COLLINE flees Ireland's potato famine. They meet and fall in love at London's 1851 Great Exhibition, where she sees a camera and vows to become a photographer -- it will set her free. ...
by DAVID LEWIS
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
In 1942, 25,000 young women applied to join theWomen's AirForce Service Pilots (WASPs), but few were accepted. They fought male hostility, poor equipment and official disdain to become pilots. They piloted fighters and heavy bombers, but were specifically forbidden to fly overseas....
by DAVID LEWIS
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
It is 1587 and BRANAN, he has no other name, barely escapes from Dromsay, a remote and primitive island off the Scottish mainland. He is being hunted by the evil MacCrannon brothers, known as the Wolves of Barroch, who terrorise the islanders. In London Branan meets Queen...
Science for Sale
How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s...
The United States Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of the Continental United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The United States Exploration Anthology features texts from (or about) Daniel Boone, David Thompson, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Colonel John C Fremont. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 5 books included in this huge volume....
W.E.B. Du Bois
A Biography 1868-1963
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality,...