David Hall: 84 books
by Rayne Hall, David D. Levine, Douglas Kolacki
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Ten short story of fantasy, edited by Rayne Hall.
The authors of these ten tales have spun yarns based on the premise that magic is real, but it requires skill to harness its force, and abuse brings danger. Suspend your disbelief, and find out what happens when people use magic to gain power,...
by David W. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that Calvinism had a greater influence on America's founders than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence that human rulers tend to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription...
A Reforming People
Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority, these settlers based...
The Sky Is Not The Limit
The Life of Australia's Top Gun
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The action-packed true story of Australia's very own top gun pilot, Matt Hall. "I would sit there at the controls and think: I'm going to go left, and I can. I want to go right, and I will. I don't have to follow the road. I don't have to follow rules. I don't have to ask anyone - I can go left when...
Worlds Of Wonder, Days Of Judgment
Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious...
Ways of Writing
The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt...
The Great Depression
An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Great Depression was the worst economic catastrophe in modern history. Not only did it cause massive worldwide unemployment, but it also led to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, World War II in Europe, and the tragic deaths of tens of millions of people. This book describes the sequence of...
The Next Twenty-five Years
Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
A penetrating exploration of affirmative action's continued place in 21st-century higher education, The Next Twenty-five Years assembles the viewpoints of some of the most influential scholars, educators, university leaders, and public officials. Its comparative essays range the political spectrum...
by David C. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Chicago restaurateur Elso Bari specializes in locating those who don’t want to be found, but in the shadowy worlds of private security and organized crime, it can be hard to distinguish the hunters from the hunted
Elso Bari runs a restaurant in Chicago, and a sideline in private investigation....
by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the...
by David Constantine, Sarah Hall, Jon McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Featuring:
David Constantine, Aminatta Forna, Sarah Hall, Jon McGregor and Helen Oyeyemi.
The BBC National Short story Award is one of the world's largest awards for a single short story. All five shortlisted stories, including the winner, are published here side by side. The Award is...
Why People Matter
A Christian Engagement with Rival Views of Human Significance
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Amid current arguments related to human life and dignity, Christians must be clear about how their faith speaks to such concerns and what other outlooks have to say. This book brings together noted ethicists--Russell DiSilvestro, David P. Gushee, Amy Laura Hall, John F. Kilner, Gilbert C. Meilaender,...
A Whisper of Blood
Stories of Vampirism
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews).
Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology”...
by David Patrick Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Ex-Navy Seal Ted Strickland is Chief Biomedical Engineer in a Florida hospital chain. Deadly things, started happening. Patient records altered, bogus Medicare claims filed, and equipment sabotaged. The healthcare infrastructure was about to implode. Ted enlisted his buddy Jake Tapper, and they pulled...