James Davidson: 33 books
by James Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex. Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style. This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for...
Courtesans & Fishcakes
The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The lifestyle of the classical Greeks often seems disappointingly modest when compared to those of other legendary civilizations. Where are the marble floors, the pillared halls, the gilden rooms? Even the Athenians, the richest and most poweful of the Greeks, were said by one contemporary to dress...
One Mykonos
Being Ancient, Being Islands, Being Giants, Being Gay
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The Giants were the cousins of the Olympians, who rebelled and were defeated. "When all the gods had slaked their thirst for particular vengeance there were still a few Giants left over, dead in all their various shapes and sizes. Hercules looked around a bit to see if anyone was looking, then...
Scots And The Sea
A Nation's Lifeblood
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
With over six thousand miles of rugged coastline, nowhere in Scotland is more than forty-five miles from tidal waters, and seven of the biggest towns and cities are seaports. No wonder then that the sea has shaped Scotland, and in turn the Scots have helped to shape maritime history, trade and communications.
Scots...
Admiral Lord St. Vincent – Saint or Tyrant?
The Life of Sir John Jervis, Nelson’s Patron
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
This biography of John Jervis, who became Admiral Lord Vincent, makes compelling reading. It throws an oblique light on Nelson’s personality. St Vincent, who was born twenty-three years before Nelson, and survived for eighteen years after Trafalgar, fundamentally influenced the younger man’s career...
by Mark W. Falzini, James Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann have intrigued true crime buffs for decades. New Jersey�s Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial tells the story of �the case that never dies� through vintage photographs. Rare...
by James Davidson Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1994
Addressing America's cultural conflict about such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and family values, the author presents a plan in which America can achieve a renewed democracy, despite these differences.
by James Davidson II
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Elliot Turner is a criminal investigator for the Air Force Office of Special investigations, trying to hold on to his sanity and his career as he struggles with his erratic telepathic and clairvoyant abilities, while attempting to catch a serial killer who has been preying on young men and women for...
Trapped in Poverty?
Labour-Market Decisions in Low-Income Households
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
How do people on low incomes make decisions about employment and benefit claims? Interview material and economic analysis combine with new theories of the relationship between moral and economic reasoning.
by James Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
A guide to economics, statistics and finance that explores the mathematical foundations underling econometric methods
An Introduction to Econometric Theory offers a text to help in the mastery of the mathematics that underlie econometric methods and includes a detailed study of matrix algebra...
"They Say"
Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Between 1880 and 1930, Southern mobs hanged, burned, and otherwise tortured to death at least 3,300 African Americans. And yet the rest of the nation largely ignored the horror of lynching or took it for granted, until a young schoolteacher from Tennessee raised her voice. Her name was Ida B. Wells....
Brazil Is the New America
How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Look to Brazil for safe, stable investments
As the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? In...
The Breaking Point
Profit from the Coming Money Cataclysm
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
"Picketty (the rich get richer), Gordon (the important innovations are already behind us), Tainter (it's too complicated) all have theories about why the 21st century is such a disappointment. James Dale Davidson connects the dots...but more dots
and more unexpected dots
than perhaps anyone."-From...
by James West Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History...