C Davis: 154 books
A Nation Rising
Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America’s Hidden History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
Following on his New York Times bestsellers America’s Hidden History and Don’t Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country’s hidden...
The Pirates Laffite
The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
An “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review).
At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans’ history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of...
by Rhonda Parrish, Jane Yolen, Laura VanArendonk Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Hay-men, mommets, tattie bogles, kakashi, tao-tao—whether formed of straw or other materials, the tradition of scarecrows is pervasive in farming cultures around the world. The scarecrow serves as decoy, proxy, and effigy—human but not human. We create them in our image and ask them to protect...
Don't Know Much About Anything
Everything You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In his wildly entertaining, winningly irreverent, New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About® series, author Kenneth C. Davis has amused and edified us with fascinating facts about history, mythology, the Bible, the universe, geography, and the Civil War.
Now, the sky's the limit in...
Don't Know Much About Anything Else
Even More Things You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For years, Kenneth C. Davis has enlightened and enthralled us, opening our minds and tickling our fancies with his wonderfully irreverent, fun, and factual Don't Know Much About® books. He has carried readers on wild and edifying rides through history, mythology, geography, the Bible, the Civil War,...
Don't Know Much About the Universe
Everything You Need to Know About Outer Space but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials?
From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-Files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages. Yet most of us look up at the night sky...
by Patrick Williams, Ed.D., Deborah C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
In 2006, U.S. News and World Report listed coaching as one of the 10 top growing professions.
The first edition of Therapist as Life Coach, published in 2002, anticipated this trend, and since its publication it has become a standard for therapists who wish to transition or expand their practices...
by Amanda C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
Bay has nothing to show for her years of military service but the clothes on her back, a bad leg, and a sardonic imp in a bottle who's more harm than help. When she hears an open call for bodyguards for the twelve headstrong princesses, she thinks the job could reverse her fortunes. Unfortunately,...
Que Se Yo de la Biblia
Todo lo Que Necesitas Saber Acerca del Libro Sagrado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Con humor, ingenio y un extraordinario talento para convertir la historia más complicada en informativos testimonios ydivertidas anécdotas, Kenneth C. Davis nos explica el mundo del Antiguo y del Nuevo Testamento como nunca antes. Disponible por primera vez en español, Qué Sé Yo de la Biblia es una herramienta indispensable para comprender el libro sagrado.
Actresses as Working Women
Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and...
by C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Pirates, enchanted mirrors, mermaids, evil villains, and triumphant heroes, there is certainly a tale for everyone. What is so enticing about short stories? Perhaps it is the idea of a simple sketch going from a faint image to being completely painted by our imaginations. Not only this but with any...
Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal
Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1991
The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. This is the social history of the men and...
by Alison R. Lanier, Jef C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Now in its sixth edition, with new material and significantly revised chapters!
As William Gay, distinguished adviser to the last edition, so aptly notes, the United States is "a country that is never what you think it is." Since that edition was introduced nearly ten years ago, the...
Don't Know Much About the Civil War
Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
“Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
It has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America’s War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything...