J David: 1790 books
Italian American
The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black.
The first study of its...
Why Love Leads to Justice
Love across the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book tells the stories of notable historical figures who, by resisting patriarchal laws condemning adultery, gay and lesbian sex, and sex across the boundaries of religion and race, brought about lasting social and political change. Constitutional scholar David A. J. Richards investigates the...
Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama
“Suddenly,…All the Truth Was Coming Out”
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
David A. J. Richards’s Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: "Suddenly,…All The Truth Was Coming Out" builds on his and Carol Gilligan’s The Deepening Darkness to examine the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology...
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 Arena of Satire
Juvenal's Search for Rome
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal’s satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist’s art.
The enduring attraction...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...
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...
Maverick Teachers
How Innovative Educators are Saving Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Despite dwindling resources and high-stakes testing, public school teachers all over the country are managing to breathe life, passion, and excitement into their classrooms. In this new book by bestselling author A.J. Juliani and lifelong educator David E. Baugh, you’ll meet a diverse group of teachers—Mavericks—who...