Jessica Davis: 24 books
by Jessica Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
In this intense, yet inspiring book, Author Jessica Davis expresses how intimacy with God should be paralleled to intimacy with your God-given mate. Building from Biblical foundation, Davis speaks of her experiences, along with the languages of premier poets and inserts from premier authors. As quiet...
by Jessica Davis-Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
For Sarah Friedman - smart, sophisticated, urban woman - the chance to journey to the Southwest to buy American Indian art for her family's successful New York store comes at a time of personal transition. Determined to put aside romantic disappointments, she seeks new perspectives in the serenity...
Women in Modern Terrorism
From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Recent events, including the rise of the Islamic State and its overt recruitment of Western women, have once again brought the issue of women participating in terrorist organizations to the forefront. Yet much remains to be understood about why women join terrorist organizations and why groups choose...
by Jessica Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
GETTING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF SINGLENESS is a book offering encouragement for dealing with a variety of personal concerns one might have while yet single. This spiritual book contains advice, instructions, personal experiences, insight, and hope for singles who desire marriage. All are based on sound...
Ordinary Gifted Children
The Power and Promise of Individual Attention
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the remarkable story of the Hoffmann School for Individual Attention, where the principal believed in a diverse, challenging, and challenged group of students—with extraordinary results. With a definition of gifted that included all children, Ann Hoffmann embraced students that other schools...
by Jessica Hoffmann Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This inspiring book leads the way to a new kind of advocacy—one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subjects, teach our children. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, a leading voice in the field of...
by Jessica J. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
For Love’s Sake weaves the real-life stories of two young women—Jessica J. Davis and Mary the mother of Jesus—into a supernatural adventure. Both women took big leaps of faith to journey deeper into the heart of God. Jessica leaves middle-class America the day after high school graduation...
by Jessica Milner Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Japanese conventions about comedy and laughter are largely unanalyzed. For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, incomprehensible, paradoxical, and even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original research by both Japanese and non-Japanese...
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
A Multidisciplinary Guide to Improving Services and Support for Survivors of Rape and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV) is the most common type of sexual violence and a common component of domestic violence, yet most cases go unreported and service responses are often inadequate. This book brings together advice for all those professionals working with individuals who have experienced...
by Jessica Milner Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more literary comic forms remain clouded, even in the light of contemporary efforts to rehabilitate this type of comedy. Is farce really nothing more than slapstick-the "putting...
Hess
The Last Oil Baron
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
A glimpse of the savvy that built a global corporation from scratch
Hess: The Last Oil Baron profiles a titan of the oil industry, mapping the journey of the quintessential American dream. The story of Leon Hess follows an immigrant kosher butcher's son as he builds an oil dynasty that may...
Social Networking and Impression Management
Self-Presentation in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, provides original research on key issues in the field of identity management and social networking sites. The contributors to this volume draw on current research in the field and offer...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
The Supernatural Revamped
From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend...
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