David J : 1790 books
by David J. Lovato
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Each of the 16 poems in Permanent Ink on Temporary Pages stands alone, but also serves as a piece of a larger narrative. From the death of poetry itself in “At Rest in the Sea” to the lifetime-spanning “The Back of the Room”, the stream-of-consciousness piece “Alone” to the song-turned-poem...
by David J Golden
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
To provide information regarding developing psychic skills, mediumship skills and to provide spiritual knowledge. This book includes my spiritual diary and automatic spirit writings. The book provides easy readable pages on the teaching of developing your psychic abilities and guide lines for working...
Reconsidering Roots
Race, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...
COMETS!
Visitors from Deep Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Join David J. Eicher in this fast-paced and entertaining journey through the history, present, and future of these important yet mysterious cosmic bodies. From ancient times, humans have been fascinated by 'broom stars' and 'blazing scimitars' lighting up the sky and moving against the fixed background...
Contested Boundaries
A New Pacific Northwest History
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries.
An engaging look at the themes, events, and people that shaped the Pacific Northwest –...
First Impressions
A Reader’s Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A guide to the history and culture of the American Southwest, as told through early encounters with fifteen iconic sites This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through...
Kentucky Marine
Major General Logan Feland and the Making of the Modern USMC
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Major General Logan Feland (1869--1936) played a major role in the development of the modern Marine Corps. Highly decorated for his heroic actions during the battle of Belleau Wood in World War I, Feland led the hunt for rebel leader Augusto César Sandino during...
Plotinus the Platonist
A Comparative Account of Plato and Plotinus' Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In this insightful new book David J. Yount argues, against received wisdom, that there are no essential differences between the metaphysics of Plato and Plotinus. Yount covers the core principles of Plotinian thought: The One or Good, Intellect, and All-Soul (the Three Hypostases), Beauty, God(s),...
The Conscious Mind : In Search of a Fundamental Theory
In Search of a Fundamental Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1996
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers and we have...
by David J. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
In A Bell Curve and Other Poems, poet David J. Murray divides 118 short poems into seven separate sections; each section holds a common theme but includes a different number of poems from the other sections. The poems of this collection offer photographs of moments in his mental life, while the collection...
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy
Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern Taiwan—Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo—in a way that is accessible and grounded in broader traditions of political theory.
David J. Lorenzo’s...
Ethical Porn for Dicks
A Mans Guide to Responsible Viewing Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Our media is filled with confusing, polarizing messages about the dangers of porn, while at the same time sexually explicit images are pronounced in advertising and entertainment. Using a natural question/answer format for people feeling fear and shame about porn use, this accessible, funny, and well-informed...
Science Studies
An Advanced Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Thrust into the public eye by the contentious "Science Wars"--played out most recently by physicist Alan Sokal's hoax--the nascent field of science studies takes on the political, historical, and cultural dimensions of technology and the sciences.
Science Studies is the first comprehensive...
The Field Researcher’s Handbook
A Guide to the Art and Science of Professional Fieldwork
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Field research—the collection of information outside a lab or workplace setting—requires skills and knowledge not typically taught in the classroom. Fieldwork demands exploratory inquisitiveness, empathy to encourage interviewees to trust the researcher, and sufficient aptitude to work professionally...