James Davis: 109 books
Medieval Market Morality
Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200–1500
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
This important study examines the market trade of medieval England by providing a wide-ranging critique of the moral and legal imperatives that underpinned retail trade. James Davis shows how market-goers were influenced not only by practical and economic considerations of price, quality, supply and...
Eric Walrond
A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Eric Walrond (1898–1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring Walrond to his proper place as a luminary of...
Unquiet Things
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Grounded in wonder and fueled by an impulse to praise, the poems in James Davis May's debut collection, Unquiet Things, grapple with skepticism, violence, and death to generate lasting insights into the human experience. With compassion and humor, this second and final volume in Claudia Emerson's...
Smart Bandage Technologies
Design and Application
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Smart Bandage Technology: Design and Application is a guide to the integration of sensors and electronic systems into bandages for the application of wound management. Davis provides a comprehensive guide to the design and development of functional material for wound management for engineers of all...
by James Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
A Nick Valentine short story.Disgraced Great War hero, Nick Valentine returns to France for the first time since the war on what should be a routine information gathering assignment in post-war Paris.But things are never that simple. Not for Nick Valentine.Nick Valentine is the...
Memos to Society 3
Words Are Very Expensive
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
These are my obligations. What do I owe? I owe my services to myself and the obedience to write Memos to Society 3. The author writes with a good and fair conscience. This book has given the author that consciousness to reflect consciously to backtrack the paths that he has taken. How can you discover something that was already there? A dialogue with whom? Myself.
Catastrophism
The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Amid a global zeitgeist of impending catastrophe, this book explores the culture of fear so prevalent in today's politics, economic climate, and religious extremism. The authors of this collection argue that the lens of catastrophe through which so many of today's issues are examined distorts understanding...
The Shield of Weeping Ghosts
Forgotten Realms: The Citadels
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The past will come back to haunt them...
A group of warriors from Rashemen escorts an exiled wizard to a ruined citadel in the City of Weeping Ghosts. Once there, the wizard discovers a barbarian tribe is trying to unlock the secrets of the citadel and the weapon that destroyed it two thousand...
Bloodwalk
Forgotten Realms
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This novel focuses on a sorcereress with the hellish magic of a blood magus at her command and a mounting ambition for territory and domination in her heart, and a ghostwalker’s attempts to defend a village from her seemingly inevitable success.
by James Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Empty Chair is a story of friendship shared by four men and their journey of faith. The death of his first girlfriend makes Jake angry toward God. His disbelief further wells in his heart with the merciless killings he has witnessed in several of his Marine missions. An incident in Nigeria changes...
by George Collins, James Davis;Oscar Swift, Huw Beynon
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This book is a question book that offers single best answers (SBA) to 300 questions related to topics in general medicine. In order to further enhance knowledge and understanding, detailed answers have been included. This book is designed as both a revision and learning aid, with questions being set...
Research Project Success
The Essential Guide for Science and Engineering Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The undergraduate research project is almost universally treated as the culmination of all previous lecture, lab and tutorial work. The project allows for the development of individuality and confers ownership of a challenge possessing an originality that goes far beyond the communal legacy presented...
Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played...
The Human Story
Our History, from the Stone Age to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Has there ever been a history of the world as readable as this?
In The Human Story, James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling how peoples of the world settled down and founded cities, conquered neighbors, and established religions, and continues over the course of history,...