Davidson Davidson: 1453 books
Testcraft
A Teacher`s Guide to Writing and Using Language Test Specifications
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The creation of language tests is-and should be-a craft that is accessible and doable not only by a few language test experts, but also by many others who are involved in second/foreign language education, say the authors of this clear and timely book. Fred Davidson and Brian Lynch offer language educators...
Adventures in Unhistory
Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
* Where did Sinbad Sail?
* Who Fired the Phoenix*?*
* The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
* The Great Rough Beast
* Postscript on Prester John
* The Secret of Hyperborea
* What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet?
And many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real,...
No Further Action
The Darkest Year of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
On January 2, 2013, just a day before Jim Davidson was due to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house, he found himself behind far more serious locked doors when he was arrested by the Yewtree detectives over alleged sex offenses. 12 months later, the public voted to crown Jim Davidson as the winner...
Manga Art for Beginners
How to Create Your Own Manga Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Designed for how people learn—makes drawing manga easy
The ideal manga drawing book for beginners—eyes, hands, feet, body shapes, and more
Includes ideas for how to draw your own graphic novel
Have you spent years admiring manga drawing and wondering how to draw cool stuff, but you haven’t...
Discombobulation
When Clans Collide Under the Influence of Urban Renewal, Baby Boomers, Knuckleheads, and Stupidville
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Wayne Rudolph Davidson delves deeper into his family history in this second book of his When Clans Collide trilogy.
Exploring his own personal branch that stems from the genealogical trunk of the distinguished Davidson family tree, he writes from the perspective of an African-American male...
When Clans Collide
The Germination of Adam’S Family Tree Through Surname, Life Experience, and Dna
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
When Clans Collide: The Germination of Adams Family Tree through Surname, Life Experience, and DNA tells the story of author Wayne Rudolph Davidsons surname and its ancestral connection to individuals and events that have shaped the world in which we live. When Davidson set out to discover the ancestral...
by Robert A. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the...
by Lionel Davidson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Ganador en tres ocasiones del premio más prestigioso del género, el Gold Dagger, Lionel Davidson está considerado una de las leyendas más grandes del thriller. Esta novela, la última y más aclamada del desaparecido autor británico —que Salamandra publica por primera vez en castellano—,...
Tibetan Renaissance
Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars? Ronald M. Davidson explores how the translation and spread of esoteric Buddhist texts dramatically shaped Tibetan society and led to its rise...
Lifting the Fog of Peace
How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Lifting the Fog of Peace puts the U.S. military’s frustrating experiences in Iraq into context and reveals how the military was able to turn the tide during the so-called surge in 2007–8.“Lifting the Fog of Peace is a captivating study of an agile and adaptive military evolving through the chaos...
The Last of the Light
About Twilight
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Neither day nor night, twilight has long exerted a fascination for Western artists, thinkers, and writers, while haunting the Romantics and intriguing philosophers and scientists. In The Last of the Light, Peter Davidson takes readers through our culture’s long engagement with the concept of twilight—from...
Nation-States
Consciousness and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In his latest collection of essays, Neil Davidson brings his formidable analytical powers to bear on the concept of the capitalist nation-state. Through probing inquiry, Davidson draws out how nationalist ideology and consciousness is used to bind the subordinate classes to the nation,” while...
by Neil Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new...
by Lawrence Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
In 2011, Lawrence Davidson founded his website, tothepointanalyses.com, as a home for his brief essays on contemporary issues touching on US domestic and foreign policy. Over the last few years, Davidson's analytic reflections on contemporary politics have garnered over six million views. Now, for...