J David: 1790 books
by David J. Schow
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
David J. Schow's short stories have been regularly selected for over twenty-five volumes of "Year's Best" anthologies across three decades and have won the World Fantasy Award, the ultra-rare Dimension Award from Twilight Zone magazine, plus a 2002 International Horror Guild Award for his collection...
by Virginia Jackson, Daniel Rosenberg, Travis D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-...
A Cosmos in Stone
Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2002
J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of...
In-House
A Lawyer's Guide to Getting a Corporate Legal Position
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
In-House: A Lawyer's Guide to Getting a Corporate Legal Position is the "must-have" career book on finding, securing, and thriving in the fiercely competitive in-house legal market. Author David J. Parnell takes the in-house-bound attorney by the hand, leading him or her through the maze...
This Land Is Their Land
The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.
In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin...
by David J. Bates
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
When author David J. Bates left the active duty military at age twenty-two in 1998, he had no idea what he was going to do with the rest of his life. A fortuitous meeting on the interstate led him to Dallas, Texas, where he was tasked to establish a Leadership Cadet Corps at the middle-school level...
Technology Tools for Today's High-Margin Practice
How Client-Centered Financial Advisors Can Cut Paperwork, Overhead, and Wasted Hours
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Revolutionize your financial advisory practice with the latest cutting-edge tools
Tired of spending more time with filing cabinets than with clients? Is overhead eating up your margins? In a new revised edition of the "bible" of practice management and technology for financial professionals,...
Countering Heedless Jihad
Toward a Field Manual for Intellectual Sabotage
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Using concepts that are not already a part of the militant discourse as a way to undermine extremism, Countering Heedless Jihad explores a stratagem aimed at defusing jihadist ideology. It explains how to counteract idealist theology using concepts from it, borrowing ideas from some revered Islamic...
by Michael A Collins, Matthew Addicoat, Anthony J H M Meijer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The focus of this excellent textbook is the topic of molecular reaction dynamics. The chapters are all written by internationally recognised researchers and, from the outset, the contributors are writing with the young scientist in mind. The easy to use, stand-alone, chapters make it of value to students,...
by David J. Puglia
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Powwow practitioners of York County, the headless ghost of a murdered girl that roams the back roads of Schuylkill County and the Hummelstown Hermit who still lingers in Indian Echo Caverns--these tales are all part of the lore of South Central Pennsylvania. Such legends offer a fuller history of the...
by David J. Silbey
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The year is 1900, and Western empires—both old and new—are locked in regional entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific...
The Great Paleolithic War
How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological strata seemed exactly analogous between America...
by David J Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Juan Carlos enjoys the Sunday afternoon before Easter by going with a friend to a nearby lake. In the early hours of the next morning he is found dead in his car. His family receive evidence proving that his death wasn't an accident. Why did the police say it was an accident when there was no sign...
Richelieu and Mazarin
A Study in Statesmanship
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Drawing upon recent research and past studies, David J. Sturdy presents a concise, up-to-date analysis of the private and public careers of two of the most influential ministers in seventeenth-century France.
Richelieu and Mazarin:
- adopts a broadly chronological approach, interspersed with...