Davis: 5083 books
Yours for Eternity
A Love Story on Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Damien Echols and his wife Lorri Davis reveal their intimate and affecting letters, written while Echols was wrongfully imprisoned on death row.
An explosive bestseller, Life After Death turned a national spotlight on Damien Echols, who was just eighteen when...
by Rebecca Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Margret Howth Rebecca Harding Davis, pioneer of literary realism in American literature (1831-1910) This ebook presents «Margret Howth», from Rebecca Harding Davis. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- MOTTO -03- MARGRET HOWTH
by Stephen J. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Monasticism is a social and religious phenomenon which originated in antiquity and which still remains relevant in the twenty-first century. But what, exactly, is it, and how is it distinguished from other kinds of religious and non-religious practice? In this Very Short Introduction Stephen J. Davis...
by Lydia Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher,...
by Patti Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The title The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us encapsulates what this book by Patti Davis is about. No matter what a woman achieves in her life, no matter how old she gets or whether or not she herself becomes a mother, she is always and forever a daughter. The Women Whose Stories Are Included . . .Patti...
The Stuff
Unlock Your Power to Overcome Challenges, Soar, and Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Everyone has difficult moments in life. But everyone also has the ability to overcome hardships—and to not only survive but thrive. Discover how to realize your own potential with “one of the most inspiring and motivating books of our time” (Wes Moore, New York Times bestselling author).
In...
Enabling Acts
The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA—the “eyes on the prize” moment for disability rights
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become...
Jews and Booze
Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature from the Jewish Book Council
From kosher wine to their ties to the liquor trade in Europe, Jews have a longstanding historical relationship with alcohol. But once prohibition hit America, American Jews were forced to choose between abandoning...
by Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. DALLAS 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city-and a nation.
In the months and weeks...
Lone Star America
How Texas Can Save Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Throughout America and around the world, the United States has been known as a beacon of hope and opportunity, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sadly, from the crumbling urban ghetto of Detroit to the cash-strapped shores of California to the rust belt of the Midwest, America is not...
by David Brion Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture...
J. Frank Dobie
A Liberated Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado's Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest's folk history,...
by Jane Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Twenty years of change, One person who cares
Third Edition, 384 pages when in paperback
'… reminds me of being inside a kaleidoscope; colourful, surreal, real, poignant and offering an ever-changing, intense view of what it means to be human.' Amazon Reviewer.
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The Beautiful Cure
The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
**“Visceral.”—Wall Street Journal * “Illuminating.”—Publishers Weekly * “Heroic.”—Science
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis describes how the scientific quest to understand how the immune...