Davis: 5083 books
God Cures
21 Days to Look Good, Live Great, and Love Well
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The numbers are staggering. More than a billion people live with chronic pain. Yet the perfect human body was created to repair and heal itself. Why are so many millions of people living well beneath healthy? Why does homeostasis seem so far from our experience?
Damon Davis believes there is...
Blush
Women & Wine
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Whether meeting up for happy hour after a long day of work, catching up with a friend, unwinding after another day of parenting, sipping a glass while stealing time for a long, quiet soak in the tub, or commiserating over lost love, lost parents, lost jobs, lost years or lost waistlines, our wine...
The End of Normal
Identity in a Biocultural Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Volume I Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War, 1861 to 1865 (1808-1889)
This ebook presents «The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Volume I», from Jefferson Davis....
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Volume II Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War, 1861 to 1865 (1808-1889)
This ebook presents «The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Volume II», from Jefferson Davis....
Music Along the Rapidan
Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In December 1863, Civil War soldiers took refuge from the dismal conditions of war and weather. They made their winter quarters in the Piedmont region of central Virginia: the Union’s Army of the Potomac in Culpeper County and the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia in neighboring Orange County....
Bending the Future to Their Will
Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1999
This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives...
by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary traditions...
City of Quartz
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2006
A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without...
Atlanta Will Fall
Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
General John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack. Flanking march. Cavalry raid into the enemy's rear lines. Simply enduring his opponent's semi-siege of the city. But nothing he tried worked. Because by the time he assumed command of Confederate forces protecting Atlanta, his predecessor...
Special Needs Advocacy Resource Book
What You Can Do Now to Advocate for Your Exceptional Child's Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Special Needs Advocacy Resource Book: What You Can Do Now to Advocate for Your Exceptional Child's Education is a unique handbook that teaches parents how to work with schools to achieve optimal learning situations and accommodations for their child's needs. From IEPs and 504 Plans, to IDEA and NCLB,...
Meditation and Communion with God
Contemplating Scripture in an Age of Distraction
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
As culture has become at once more secular and more religiously pluralistic, a renaissance of interest in the spiritual disciplines has been sparked in evangelical Protestant circles. Mounting levels of stress, burnout and spiritual dryness among those in ministry has only stoked this desire for spiritual...
Making Disciples Across Cultures
Missional Principles for a Diverse World
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Culture affects how we make disciples. We often unconsciously bring our own cultural assumptions into ministry and mission, not realizing that how we think and operate is not necessarily the best or only way to do things. In today's global environment, disciplemaking requires the cultural humility...
Passage of Darkness
The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process...