Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
On The Other Side Of Life
Exploring The Phenomenon Of The Near-death Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
With testimonials from people who have lived through Near-Death Experiences as well as research and opinions from a multidisciplinary panel of prestigious scholars, On the Other Side of Life offers a balanced look at these most mysterious experiences and the science and theology behind them.
The Great Divide
The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Most Americans are unaware of this historical reality. History tends to cast the early years of America in a glow of camaraderie, but there were many conflicts between the Founding Fathers-and none more important than the clash between Washington...
by Penny Warner
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The Most Complete Book of Games and Learning Activities for Babies & Preschoolers!
Child development expert Penny Warner offers over 300 illustrated ideas for games and activities designed to stimulate your child's learning and development. For each game and activity, The Play & Learn...
Unsinkable
The Full Story of the RMS Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now, a century later, no other ship in history has attracted...
The Metrosexual Guide To Style
A Handbook For The Modern Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
The old-fashioned, repressed, un-moisturized man has been banished to the hinterlands and a new breed is taking center stage. He is a man of style, sophistication, and security, just as strong and confident as his predecessor, but far more diverse in his interests, his tastes, and, most importantly,...
Universal
A Guide to the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the international bestselling authors of Why Does E=MC2? and The Quantum Universe, with 55 black-&-white and 45 full-color pages featuring photographs, diagrams, maps, tables, and graphs
We...
Wolf Nation
The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now,...
Raising Elijah
Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer...
China
Empire of Living Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The origins of Chinese ideographs were not known until 1899, when a scholar went to an apothecary for some medicine made of dragon bone.” To his surprise, the bone, which had not yet been ground into powder, contained a number of carved inscriptions. Thus began the exploration of the 3000-year-old...
U.S. Special Warfare
The Elite Combat Skills Of America's Modern Armed Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
For many centuries, the job of everyday soldiers, the "grunts," was the same-"see the hill, take the hill." But the combat role of today's U.S. soldier has undergone a radical change. The recent revolution in the art of soldiering in America emphasizes a smaller, but more highly...
Fortress America
The Forts That Defended America, 1600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
From the earliest colonial settlements to Cold War bunkers, the North American continent has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures. Fortress America surveys the broad sweep of fortifications throughout North America-from seacoast forts of the late eighteenth century to wooden inland...
The Great Good Place
Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 1999
The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revival
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
"Third places," or "great good places," are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns...
Not the Life It Seems
The True Lives of My Chemical Romance
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
My Chemical Romance is the most significant band in alternative rock in the last decade. Inspirational, original, and stunningly creative, they forged an extraordinary connection with their fans. Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance is their definitive biography.
Author...
A Pocketful of History
Four Hundred Years of America--One State Quarter at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
The U.S. Mint's Fifty State Quarters Program-its most ambitious program to date-has been a huge popular success. When the final state quarters are released in 2008, many thousands of individuals will have collected one commemorative quarter for each state in the Union. But what can we learn about...