Donald : 3901 books
by Donald Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
SAY NO! TO THE NEGATIVE PAST “Say no to the Negative Past” is a battle winning weapon designed against a resigned life of failure. The negative past stands in the way of progress to many. The obvious result is a resignation to failure and an unachieved life. “Say no-to the Negative Past serves...
Vindicating Andrew Jackson
The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
The presidential election of 1828 is one of the most compelling stories in American history: Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans and man of the people, bounced back from his controversial loss four years earlier to unseat John Quincy Adams in a campaign notorious for its mudslinging....
A Most Human Enterprise
Controversies in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A Most Human Enterprise looks at controversial social science research methods and their effects on subjects and researchers. In detailing case studies in which plagiarism was alleged, subjects were mislead or seriously abused, and research denigrated certain demographics, Donald O. Granberg and John...
Winter Colours
Changing Seasons in World Rugby
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Rugby is a sport that means different things to different people around the world. So when award-winning writer Donald McRae set off to take the pulse of the sport soon after the dawn of the professional era, he began to build a portrait of the game that highlighted the contrasts between nations,...
by Donald F. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
In the decades following independence, Mexico was transformed from a strong, stable colony into a republic suffering from economic decline and political strife. Marked by political instability—characterized by Antonio López de Santa Anna’s rise to the presidency on eleven distinct occasions—this...
by Donald Harry Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
It had been ages…well…years since Eddy Tall had visited his cottage on Lake Of Mists…Too long in fact…Not since Sarah died…oh some six or so years earlier. When Eddy awoke from a night’s sleep that morning he decided the time was perfect to drive up to the cottage once more. Maybe he would...
Lovedecisions
A Dad Talks With His Daughter About Lasting Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
To a little girl, a dad always seems to have the right answer to everything. He knows how to tie shoelaces, build tree houses, and catch fireflies. But as little girls grow up, the challenges begin to change. As these little girls grow into independent young women, questions about love, relationships,...
Words of a Feather
An Etymological Explanation of Astonishing Word Pairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In this quirky and humorous volume, Graeme Donald explores the fascinating links and curious connections between words. While at first these word pairs may appear to have very little in common, owing to years of linguistic shift, their origins can be traced back to the same root. In exploring these...
by Donald Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment by Donald Shaw.
by Donald A. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
The study of history in Canada has a history of its own, and its development as an academic discipline is a multifaceted one. The Professionalization of History in English Canada charts the transition of the study of history from a leisurely pastime to that of a full-blown academic career for university-trained...
Character in Action
The U.S. Coast Guard on Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
How does the U.S. Coast Guard create, instill, and maintain leadership throughout a 40,000 member force spread across the United States? A former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and a best-selling author combine their knowledge of the subject to offer a formula for success. Donald T. Phillips, who...
Frog in the Well
Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his impoverished upbringing to his tragic suicide in exile, Kazan's life and work reflected a turbulent period in Japan's history. He was a famous artist,...
The Winter Sun Shines In
A Life of Masaoka Shiki
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from outdated...
Gathering Noise from My Life
A Camouflaged Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities that mock reason and the despair that yields...