C Davis: 154 books
by Nikolaos M. Panagiotakes, translated by John C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Exploring all the available sources, this study, which until now was only available in Greek, presents us with an account of El Greco's life up to the time he left Crete for Italy in 1567 at the age of twenty-six, already an accomplished professional painter. Nikolaos Panagiotakes provides a thorough...
by Robert C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Historically, police agencies have measured their performance against a restricted set of crime-focused indicators, but modern police officers must be prepared to take on a wide variety of roles. Performance measures should be multidimensional to capture this complexity. This report describes some key...
by H.W.C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
10 Common Core Essentials: Nonfiction
Selections from New and Classic Books for the English Language Arts Standards for Middle and High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The excerpts featured in this free sampler come from some of our most popular nonfiction books for middle and high school classrooms—making them ideal choices to meet the new Common Core Standards for the English Language Arts. From the primary documents of The American Reader to The Boy Who Harnessed...
by Jessica Saunders, Steven W. Popper, Andrew R. Morral
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Israel has changed dramatically in the past two decades. The Israel Police is transforming itself to meet the needs of modern Israel. The Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the Israel Police asked RAND to conduct a study to address issues of public perceptions and trust in the...
Uncle Tom's Cabins
The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of...
Securing Rights for Victims
A Process Evaluation of the National Crime Victim Law Institute's Victims' Rights Clinics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
This book discusses how some clinics have won significant gains at the appellate and federal court levels concerning victim standing, the rights to be consulted and heard, and the right to privacy. Some have won significant victories in gaining standing for victims and expanding the definition of...
Damsel, Arise to the New You
This Is Your Journey of Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Take the Journey of Resurrection into the lives of 12 (6 Biblical and 6 Modern day) women who have overcome a major obstacle only to arise triumphantly and find Gods purpose for their lives. All 12 of these phenomenal women are true examples of Damsel Arise because they are women who fulfilled their...
Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation
Innovation, Politics and Promissory Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health. It explains why pharmaceutical regulation has been misdirected by commercial interests and misconceived ideologies.
Food and Nutrition Economics
Fundamentals for Health Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Quality of Communication Award presented by The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association As the importance of food and nutrition becomes more widely recognized by practitioners and researchers in the health sciences, one persisting gap in the knowledge base remains: what are...
Creating Postcolonial Literature
African Writers and British Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature.
International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World: Moral Responsibility and Power Politics
Moral Responsibility and Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
International intervention on humanitarian grounds has been a contentious issue for decades. First, it pits the principle of state sovereignty against claims of universal human rights. Second, the motivations of intervening states may be open to question when avowals of moral action are arguably the...
by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Nancy C Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children. Old women are often seen as poor, powerless, and pitiful in...
Still Nights
Velvet Nights and Black Lace Stories, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Sammy's lost.
She's looking for a way out of the dark pit she's swimming in. A former police officer, she spends her days sitting on the couch and nights sleeping with her old coworker turned friend with benefits. She shot a kid. It wasn't intentional. He threatened her and she panicked. But...