David : 35381 books
Just A Phrase I'm Going Through
My Life in Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage … not the answers you’d expect to the question ‘what happens when you become a linguist?’
But now, reflecting on a long and hugely successful career at the forefront of the field of English Language and Linguistics, David Crystal answers...
Boston Noir 2
The Classics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller!
"The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and...
by David Foster Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest,...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
David Hume (1711 – 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, George...
by David Huttner
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
This work contains editorials, essays and lectures written between 2001 and 2018. There is no common thread. Subjects range from politics and current events to humor and advice to the lovelorn.
Apprenticed To Spirit
The Education of a Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
An absorbing memoir of one man’s path to understanding how we can learn to lead lives of greater blessing and to be sources of blessing and service for the world as a whole.
For as long as he can remember, David Spangler has been physically aware of a spiritual world existing alongside this...
Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band
Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Große Klassiker der englischen Literatur: 40+ Titel in einem Band" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Henry David Thoreau: Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat• Voll verlinkt, mit ePub-Inhaltsverzeichnis und verlinkten Fußnoten• In neuer, verbesserter Übersetzung• Mit dem englischen Originaltext im Anhang• Mit einem aktuellen Vorwort des Herausgebers (Juli/2013)»Wenn ungerechtes...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: German
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Henry David Thoreau: Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat Originaltitel: »The Resistance to Civil Government«. In der ersten Werkausgabe wurde daraus »Civil Disobedience« und später »On the Duty of Civil Disobedience«. Diese Übersetzung von David Adner steht unter einer Creative Commons...
An End to Evil
How to Win the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.
This...
David Halberstam on Sports
Summer of ’49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Four New York Times bestsellers by a “remarkable” Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist capture and celebrate America’s passion for sports (The Seattle Times).
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Halberstam, preeminent chronicler of the American experience, focuses his meticulous narrative...
Cop Under Fire
Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
America has become increasingly divided and polarized in recent years. With growing racial tension, animosity toward law enforcement professionals, government corruption, and disregard for the constitutional process, there seems to be no easy answer in sight. But Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke...
The Confidence Trap
A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy...