David Ward: 84 books
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Labor Revolt In Alabama
The Great Strike of 1894
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping...
Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism
Stranger than Fact
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern...
T. S. Eliot Between Two Worlds
A Reading of T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The basis of this critical examination of Eliot’s work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse. This book focuses on Eliot’s peculiar eclectic approach to what he described...
Beyond the Mask
The Grassland Trilogy: Book Three
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
In this dramatic conclusion to the Grasslands Trilogy, Corki, Pippa, and all their friends are reunited for a final fight to determine the future of Grassland. After escaping the mountains of Grassland, where Corki and Pippa and their friends were slaves and soldiers, the fugitives finally found a...
by David Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in the book is on the organisms that dominate this harsh environment, although theoretical and experimental aspects...
by Gillian Ruch, Fritz-Reudiger Volz, Joan Orme
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Excellent social work education and training is vital for ensuring best practice, and it is important to understand the key approaches and methods in order to provide the best teaching and ensure effective learning.
This volume provides an overview of social work education, including the background...
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In the late 1870s, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the town of Elyton (near the future Birmingham) became the focus of a remarkable industrial and mining revolution. Together with the surrounding counties, the area was penetrated by railroads. Surprisingly large deposits of bituminous coal, limestone,...
Stuttering and Cluttering (Second Edition)
Frameworks for Understanding and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Stuttering and Cluttering provides a clear, accessible and wide-ranging overview of both the theoretical and clinical aspects of two disorders of fluency: stuttering and cluttering. This edition remains loyal to the idea that stuttering and cluttering can best be understood by first considering various...
by David Ward
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The book is about a sponsored cycle ride undertaken in May 1998, with the objective of cycling from Sheffield to Rome in the space of a fortnight. The story describes the obstacles and hazards involved in trying to complete such a challenging feat.
Alabama
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial.
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State*,* Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s...
by David C. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This full-length poetry collection from art historian David C. Ward combines wry meditations on 21st-century life, work, and family with observations of America—its landscapes, its history, its social and foreign policy. Ward’s poems are peopled by those who seem never quite able to inhabit their...
Alcatraz
The Gangster Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis, "Dock" Barker—these were just a few of the legendary "public enemies" for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid...
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.
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