Davidson Davidson: 1453 books

Alternatively titled - "Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java,Singapore, Australia and China", published in London in 1846, was written by the author G.F. Davidson of Hull, England during a ship passage from Hong Kong to England. The book is a personal narrative of the...

When the economy's in free fall, the strongest competitors are the ones rooted in innovation. Today, managers are screaming for innovators who can break through to the next level of business and technology. In sixty succinct, humorous tips, Jeff Davidson helps you learn the practices that will...

One-third of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not of English stock. Eight were first-generation immigrants. It was in recognition of the mixed European background of so many Americans that John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson proposed that the seal of the United...

This vintage book contains a collection of stories based upon Wagner's operas told by Gladys Davidson. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly famous for his operas. These masterfully retold stories are highly recommended...

Short biography of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and her son, actor William Hopper. In the path to success, each had a different obstacle to overcome: hers was balancing the demands of motherhood and a career; his, the influence of an over-domineering mother. The author chronicles the ups and downs of their often-strained relationship.

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Davidson Butler, are the extraordinary lives of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Franklin - inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, diplomat, author, and Founding Father - and Jefferson - author of the Declaration of Independence, father of the University...

An irresistible and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends "A celebration of the secret lives of children, both their wonders and their...

Following in the successful nature-writing style of Robert MacFarlane and Gillian Clarke, Distance and Memory is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the...

Set social goals, and learn to effeciently accomplish them

In this unique and charming cookbook, Marty Davidson takes more than 100 delicious Southern recipes that were prepared by her grandmother over a fireplace in the 1800s and adapts them for today's modern appliances.  Accompanying the recipes are charming and funny tales of Grandma Grace's family and...

‘I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.'In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time...

A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex. Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style. This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for...

Bestselling author John Davidson presents "Frogs - For Kids – Amazing Animal Books For Young Readers". Beautiful Pictures and easy reading format will help children fall in love with frogs. This is one of over 30 books in the Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers Series. The series...

A searing novel about two friends on opposite sides of the law, from the author of Rust and Bone, "a writer of immense power" (Peter Straub) On the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, life beyond the tourist trade isn't easy. Locals like Duncan Diggs and Owen Stuckey have few chances...