Davis: 5083 books

In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture’s impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood—the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising...

In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers...

Honored as one of "Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014"—The New Yorker “The Poem She Didn’t Write is a breakup book, full of the kinds of invective and taunts honed by a person who has spent, as all of us have now spent, infinite hours online. Its complex tones arise from the poet’s wanting...

Shortly before his father's death, Lennard Davis received a cryptic call from his uncle Abie, who said he had a secret he wanted to tell him one day. When finally revealed, the secret--that Abie himself was Davis's father, via donor insemination--seemed too preposterous to be true. Born before the...

Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War, 1861 to 1865 (1808-1889) This ebook presents «Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis», from Jefferson Davis. A dynamic table of contents enables...

From New York Times bestselling author Deidre Knight, writing as Cooper Davis, comes a thrilling new romance series, set in an alternative Victorian world, where gentlemen may openly court and marry fellow noblemen.... Alistair Finley has spent years concealing the truth of his illegitimacy....

Wendy Davis has had her share of tough fights. Raised by a single mother with a ninth-grade education, Davis began working after school at age fourteen to contribute to the family finances. By the time she was nineteen, she was living in a trailer park with a baby daughter and holding down two jobs....

Donald Davis was a young United Methodist minister when the telephone rang one morning. "It's your daddy," the caller said, "Mama just couldn't get him awake this morning. He is gone." "A million questions about him began to line themselves up in my mind." Davis...

Night Angler won the 2018 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Night Angler is the second book by Geffrey Davis, whose previous book, Revising the Storm (BOA, 2014), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Prize and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Davis has also won the...

**An award-winning zoologist travels in Charles Darwin's footsteps, and in search of the meaning of life.**In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, zoologist Lloyd Spencer Davis comes face to face with an enraged leopard seal. Towering ice cliffs, a ferocious creature of the deep, and the...

Steve Davis, one of the greatest bodybuilders ever, known for his flawless proportions, magical symmetry and total muscularity, achieved amazing muscular condition in 1980. The bodybuilding world marveled at Steve’s physique and wanted to know how he did it. Steve tells you how in this book. He...

Harry L. Davis joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1963, and he has since become one of the most influential figures in business education in the United States and abroad. He helped develop the first core leadership program of any top-rated MBA institution in...

When Rose Dean-Davis died on 31 January 2009, an important part of modern folk history might have gone with her. But it is preserved in this remarkable book, its words forming the basis of the numerous national press obituaries that marked her passing and of her funeral oration. To London's East Enders...

Frequently hailed as one of the greatest defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator Raymond Aron (1905--1983) left behind a staggering amount of published work on a remarkably wide range of topics both scholarly and popular. In...