David B : 584 books
A New New Deal
How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are...
by David B. Beckwith
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
DAVID B. BECKWITH was born in Cumbria, U.K. His family emigrated to Perth, Western Australia in 1969. He studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of W.A. He is now a retired I.T. Professional, also a polyglot, a polymath, cook, painter, and an avid traveller (having circumnavigated the...
Sensationalism
Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th-Century Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla have gathered a colourful collection of essays exploring sensationalism in nineteenth-century newspaper reporting. The contributors analyse the role of sensationalism and tell the story of both the rise of the penny press in the 1830s and the careers of specific...
Samuel Marsden
Preacher, Pastor, Magistrate & Missionary
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Samuel Marsden. Preacher, Pastor, Magistrate & Missionary is an account of the life of Rev Samuel Marsden (1765-1838), second Chaplain to New South Wales, illuminated by his sermons. Author: David B. Pettett.
Influenced by his Methodist roots and by members of the Evangelical Party in...
Do Good Design
How Design Can Change Our World
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
How Design CAN CHANGE the World Today, everyone is a designer. And the future of civilization is our common design project. How does design help choose our leaders?Why do we really have an environmental crisis?How can accessible design broaden your audience?Why does the U.S. economy now...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Strategy Rules
Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business—Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs...
by David B.
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Is every man killed in combat reborn in the sky in the form of a star? Is seeing a bus in your dreams really a sign of impending death? In 1917, Jan Van Meer, an operative with the Allies' intelligence services and a renowned expert on folklore, travels across Europe in search of an engineer named...
Hasib & The Queen of Serpents
A Thousand and One Nights Tale
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Heir to the wise Daniel, Hâsib is a young woodcutter promised to a great future. When his greedy companions abandon him in the middle of the forest, he meets the Queen of Serpents. She then tells her story, a fabulous adventure filled with gods and demons, princes and prophets. From Kabul to Cairo,...
Sod Busting
How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Prairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom tells the story of Great Plains settlement in a way it has seldom been told before.
Stretching beyond the sweeping...
Texas Furniture, Volume Two
The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture...
Texas Furniture, Volume One
The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas Furniture...
MuzikMafia
From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
In October 2001, an unlikely gathering of musicians calling itself the MuzikMafia took place at the Pub of Love in Nashville, Tennessee. "We had all been beat up pretty good by the 'industry' and we told ourselves, if nothing else, we might as well be playing muzik," explains Big Kenny of Big and...
The Last 100 Days
FDR at War and at Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
The first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without equal in American history....