David W : 792 books
The Kindness of God
Christian Witness in Our Troubled World
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
David Smith surveys the modern missionary movement, examines critical issues concerning the gospel and culture, reflects on mission in the context of violence and suffering, and explores the translation of the gospel for todays globalized world.In his letter to the Romans, Paul makes striking use of...
Forty Days
Finding Refuge in the Ark from the Storms of Disability
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
When a family includes a special-needs child or adult, one thing is often in short supply hope. The burden of daily and demanding routines can settle like a damp, depressing fog over a family, causing parents and children to forget that hope is even possible. These weary families are desperate for...
Write. Publish. Repeat.
The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Write. Publish. Repeat.
The No-Luck-Required Guide to Publishing
In 2013, Johnny B. Truant and Sean Platt published 1.5 million words and made their full-time livings as indie authors. In Write. Publish. Repeat., they tell you exactly how they did it: how they created over 15 independent franchises...
The Unending Mystery
A Journey Through Labyrinths ansd Mazes
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
According to legend, anyone who wandered into the labyrinth in Ancient Crete never came out again. Some labyrinths may have offered patterns for an erotic spring dance. Those on the floors of Medieval cathedrals represent mathematical perfection–and walking their paths was a symbolic approach to...
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery...
Old Masters and Young Geniuses
The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives?
By...
by David W. Maurer
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
" When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky. Here they used cold...
The Southwest in American Literature and Art
The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Is there a way to appreciate the desert without destroying it, a way to enjoy it without consuming it and to love it without killing it? Moreover, how can literature about the southwestern landscape affect ways in which it is either exploited or preserved? When and how did the desert change dramatically...
No Sympathy for the Devil
Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. The chart-topping, spiritually inflected music created a...
Race and Reunion
The Civil War in American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.
Surviving Wounded Knee
The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
On December 29, 1890, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed more than two hundred Lakota Ghost Dancers- including men, women, and children-at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. After the work of death ceased at Wounded Knee, the work of memory commenced. For the US Army and some whites, Wounded Knee was...
Fiction Unboxed
How Two Authors Wrote and Published a Book in 30 Days, From Scratch, In Front of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Part hero’s journey, part crash course in storytelling by the modern mavericks of indie publishing, and the bestselling authors of Write. Publish. Repeat., Fiction Unboxed offers something that’s never been offered before: a naked look into two writer’s process, as they wrote and published a...
Kyrgyzstan beyond "Democracy Island" and "Failing State"
Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country opened up massively to Western influence through development aid for civil society and for economic...
by David W. Lesch
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father's death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be a new kind of Middle East leader capable of guiding his country toward genuine democracy. David...