Davis: 5083 books
by Davis Bitton,
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
“We live in an age of relativism. What is beautiful for one is not for another, what is good and moral for one is not for another, and what is true for one is not for another. Such an attitude, widespread in the world, condemns those who testify of truth... I shudder at the thought that my presentation...
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and...
Survival Schools
The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In the late 1960s, Indian families in Minneapolis and St. Paul were under siege. Clyde Bellecourt remembers, “We were losing our children during this time; juvenile courts were sweeping our children up, and they were fostering them out, and sometimes whole families were being broken up.” In 1972,...
Mestizos Come Home!
Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia—unable, or unwilling, to remember the influence of mestizos and indigenous populations. In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican...
Women Who Kill
Profiles of Female Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Why does a young woman lure teenagers into her car and participate in their horrific rape and torture? What makes a nurse lethally inject the healthy babies in her care? Women, statistically, are not a violent breed…but the female of the species can be just as deadly as the male. Carol Anne Davis...
by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A collection of 14 articles by mountain bike journalist Mike Davis, all originally published in influential MTB magazine Privateer between 2009 and 2013. Includes a history of titanium mountain bikes, a look at the unique devotion that Yeti owners have to their bikes, the experience of racing a twenty...
We're Engaged!
Photographing Vibrant and Joyful Portraits of the Happy Couple
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
Bob and Dawn Davis have mastered all genres of photography, from weddings to children to photographing celebrities at special get-away weekends. Bob’s knowledge of posing, lighting, composition and his ability to superbly photograph with the environment in which he is immersed is evident in The Art...
We're Engaged!
Photographing Vibrant and Joyful Portraits of the Happy Couple
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Today’s brides- and grooms-to-be have grown up inundated by world-class photography on the Internet, television, magazines, and social networking sites. Therefore, it’s no surprise that these savvy, image-conscious consumers have high expectations when commissioning their engagement portraits. They...
by Justine Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now, in her most powerful thriller to date, Justine Davis follows the trail of a killer who is making men pay for their crimes—with their lives....
The newspapers have dubbed him the Avenger. But to members of the battered women's shelter Rachel's House, he is an angel. What no one disputes,...
by John Macallen Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Alice Little is a super soldier from the future, she just doesn't know it yet. The GRIMM Corporation has sent its top assassin (Snow) to deal with the last R.E.D.D. agent. After a mishap lands them in the year 1997, Snow formulates a plan to end GRIMM's biggest threat, once and for all. Meanwhile,...
by Pam Davis, Steve Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2018
Come journey with us on a magical adventure and meet a special horse, Shadow of the Canyon. Shadow is a wild Mustang, who begins life as just another member of the herd, but by facing many challenges with determination and courage he develops inner strength, self-esteem and happiness through his encounters...
by Kim Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This is a biography of Mike Disfarmer, the internationally famous portrait photographer from Heber Springs, Arkansas. Disfarmer died in relative obscurity in 1959 at the age of 75 in a small town in Arkansas. His timeless photographs can now be found in photography museums, exhibitions and private collections...
by nancy viva davis halifax
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
See her? / Steadfast and firm her / branches graze the mantle of quiet clouds / as she elaborates her claim Haunted by indifference toward systemic violences and the disregard endured by those people labelled as "problems," nancy viva davis halifax’s poems articulate the constraints of discredited...
Conversations about Qualitative Communication Research
Behind the Scenes with Leading Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Christine Davis offers readers an insider’s view of the practices of ten leading qualitative communication scholars, showing how they make critical decisions in the process of conducting research. Through interviews and reflective assessment of their key articles, these researchers make visible...