Davies: 1593 books

“Complex and gripping. . . . Newcomers to Arcadia will be captivated by the rich history, while those familiar with it will find that Sophia’s legend grants them a new perspective on the earlier tales.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[The Lizard Princess] encourages big-picture...

'The truth cannot be silenced. Thousands of copies already downloaded.' Dr Cerys Davies was born in Tenby, a small coastal town of Pembrokeshire, South Wales in 1956. Dr Davies qualified in 1982 at the renowned St Andrew’s University in Scotland. Having completed numerous academic research papers...

In 1965,Londoners Chris and Ken Davies went looking for fresh air and a different lifestyle. They bought two windswept acres on the tiny Feudal Island of Sark in the British Channel Islands, just off the French coast. Chris and Ken quickly mastered new rules of survival; they learned to milk goats,...

The definitive book on how the News of the World phone-hacking scandal reached the highest echelons of power in the government, security, and media in the UK, from the journalist who broke the story. At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught...

W.H. Davies (1871–1940) was popularly though reductively known as the 'tramp-poet' due to his remarkable journey from vagrancy, in Britain and the United States, to considerable literary success. 'Discovered' in part by Edward Thomas, who admired his poetry, Davies became a prolific memoirist and...

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Davies’s book plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with educational authority. Examining novels, fiction for children, conduct literature and educative and political...

Blending narrative with analysis, Peter Davies explores a time of obscene opulence, mass starvation, and ground-breaking ideals; where the streets of Paris ran red with blood, and when even the efficient guillotine was unable to despatch enough "counter-revolutionaries" for the needs of the Terror. Davies...

The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt...

Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history. This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion...

W H Davies, born in Newport in 1871, is famous for his poem Leisure, which opens -     What is this life if, full of care     We have no time to stand and stare.     No time to stand beneath the boughs     And stare as long as sheep...

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested....

poems and art of artist Dawn B DaviesThis e-book has many fine pieces of art from the artist Dawn B Davies, and some of the many poems which has come from her heart about her subjects of the many animals in the world that she loves.

The Drugs Don't Work - A Penguin Special by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England 'If we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine where treatable infections...

Trigger point therapy is one of the fastest-growing and most effective pain therapies in the world. Medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, and massage therapists are all beginning to use this technique to relieve patients’ formerly undiagnosable muscle and joint pain, both conditions...