Davidson: 1453 books
A Doctor in The Great War
Unseen Photographs of Life in the Trenches
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Featuring 250 previously unknown photographs, this is the extraordinary true story of a young doctor whose photos left behind an astonishing firsthand account of life at the front of World War I.
As a twenty-five-year-old medical officer and one of the first doctors to win the Military Cross,...
Scars Don't Hurt
A Story of Triumph Over Sexual Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Based on the author’s compelling true story of being freed from years of sexual abuse by her brother and forgiving him, Scars Don’t Hurt chronicles Davidson’s battle and ultimate victory over tragic circumstances. Born into a Mennonite family and defiled from the ages of 4 to 13, Davidson writes:...
Now You See It
How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21s t Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
A digital innovator shows how we can thrive in the new technological age.
When Cathy Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for their music...
The Ledge
An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver...
Desert Places
A Woman's Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer’s memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India.
India’s Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, “as natural a travel...
by Avram Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Avram Davidson (1923-1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement...
by Lela Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Lela Davidson doesn’t like to brag, but her children are clean and fed, her husband likes to cook, and she is rarely referred to as Troll Toes at the yoga studio. In other words, she’s got it all. Who Peed on My Yoga Mat? peels back the curtain on family life to show that happiness is really a...
Victory at Risk
Restoring America's Military Power: A New War Plan for the Pentagon
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Our combat readiness to fight a conventional war is in freefall. This is the alarm sounded with clarity, authority, and conviction in Victory at Risk, a veteran Army officer and policymaker’s deeply disturbing critique of today’s U. S. military establishment. Major General Michael W. Davidson,...
Reading Style
A Life in Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elicits...
The Avram Davidson Treasury
A Tribute Collection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to pulp magazines. They are wonderful.
Now his estate and his friends have brought together a definitive collection of his finest...
Foreign Policy, Inc.
Privatizing America's National Interest
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Most Americans assume that U.S. foreign policy is determined by democratically elected leaders who define and protect the common good of the citizens and the nation they represent. Increasingly, this conventional wisdom falls short of explaining the real climate in Washington. Well organized private-interest...
by Craig Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
“Enough incident, shock, and suspense for a dozen books. . . . Filled with stories you haven’t heard before.”—Bret Easton Ellis
In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures a savage world populated by fighting dogs, prizefighters, sex addicts, and gamblers. In his title story, Davidson...
Still Broken
Understanding the U.S. Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
The debate over health care policy in the U. S. did not end when President Obama signed the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on March 23, 2010. Since then, half the states have sued and federal judges have issued conflicting rulings about the law's constitutionality. In...
How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition)
(Abridged Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Praise for How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?:
"I was frankly pole-axed by this magnificent book. Davidson resets the entire debate on the character of revolutions: bourgeois, democratic and socialist. He's sending me, at least, back to the library."-Mike Davis, author...