David S : 885 books
by Lisa Baldez, Maryann Barakso, Jo Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
This ambitious volume brings together original essays on the U.S. women's movement with analyses of women's movements in other countries around the world. A comparative perspective and a common theme—feminism in social movement action—unite these voices in a way that will excite students and inspire...
Inside the Box
Leading With Corporate Values to Drive Sustained Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
How to turn company values into competitive advantage
We are inclined, for whatever reason, to treat values like works of art. We view them as nice to hang on the wall, and beautiful to look at, but we don’t act as though they truly mean much to us in the real world. In fact, the opposite...
Techno-Orientalism
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism...
The Intellectual Devotional
Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharp
Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement....
Reading Southern History
Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of southern history and culture, furthering our understanding of the best historical work produced on the region.
Historian Glenn Feldman gathers together a group of essays that examine the efforts...
The Constitutional Rights of Children
In re Gault and Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Court’s juvenile justice decisions including Miller v. Alabama; explains how disregard for children’s constitutional rights led to the “Kids for Cash” scandal in Pennsylvania; new legal developments...
by David S. Dockery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
You grew up using the well known black and yellow striped Cliff's Notes to help you grasp everything from great literary works to algebra. Unfortunately, what ""Cliff"" forgot was the greatest literary work in history: the complete Holy Bible. Enjoy the ease of understanding the Bible like never before,...
Lost in Transnation
Alternative Narrative, National, and Historical Visions of the Korean-American Subject in Select 20th-Century Korean American Novels
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This volume examines the engagement with national histories, citizenship, and the larger transnational contexts in the narrative plot lines in selected twentieth-century Korean American novels. Critics have often expected, or even demanded, that the Korean American novel present the ideal and coherent...
by David S. Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be...
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
*Lost City, Found Pyramid delves into the fascinating world of sensational “pseudoarchaeology,” from perennial discoveries of lost pyramids or civilizations to contemporary ghost-hunting and reality TV. It examines how nonscientific pursuit of myths and legends warps both public perceptions of...
P.C.
A Layman's Guide to the Prostate Cancer Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Included in this book are chapters that address how to navigate the medical system as well as how to address the inevitable challenges of treatment. This step-by-step guide is a valuable resource to assist men through one of life's most diffi cult challenges in the prostate cancer journey. Congratulations...
by Baxter, David S.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Are you or someone you know experiencing feelings of darkness and despair? Do you feel alone in your suffering?In this volume, A Perfect Brightness of Hope, author Davis S. Baxter brings light to those of us who feel beyond help and hope, reminding us that we are not alone, however alone we may...
by David S. G. Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The West no longer regards communism in East Asia as a threat. On the contrary, because the communist party states of East Asia appear to be undergoing a process of reform directed primarily at economic modernization, it is now regarded as a potential market. The West’s attitude is reinforced by...
by David S. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Twenty-year-old Cara Shepherd is called to preach but she is too insecure to move forward. Even if she could conquer her fears, there is simply no path to follow. Not only does her father preach against women in ministry; her boyfriend views Cara’s call as competition to his own ministry. Cara certainly...