David J David: 1790 books
C.C. Slaughter
Rancher, Banker, Baptist
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Born during the infant years of the Texas Republic, C. C. Slaughter (1837–1919) participated in the development of the southwestern cattle industry from its pioneer stages to the modern era. Trail driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and cattleman, he was one of America’s most famous...
Claude Rains
An Actor's Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Late in Claude Rains's distinguished career, a reverent film journalist wrote that Rains "was as much a cinematic institution as the medium itself." Given his childhood speech impediments and his origins in a destitute London neighborhood, the ascent of Claude Rains (1889--1967) to the stage...
by David J. Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Reflections is a collection of photographs and writings by the author from his journeys in the northeast and northwest over several decades of his life. The author's visual and informational elements address artistic aspects, poetic inspirations and occasionally the characteristics of reflective light...
The 3 Promises
Find Joy Every Day. Do What You Love. Make A Difference.
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In his blockbuster book The Law of the Garbage Truck David J. Pollay showed how to deflect the negativity that derails our goals and leaves us stressed and miserable. Now, in this inspiring follow-up, Pollay explains how making three simple promises to yourself—“to find joy every day, do what...
From One Winning Career to the Next
Transitioning Public Sector Leadership and Security Expertise to the Business Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In From One Winning Career to the Next, author J. David Quilter expertly guides the security professional through the corporate landscape. Having transitioned into the private sector from a long career in public service with the DEA, Quilter offers valuable perspective on the differences in culture...
Left Bank of the Hudson
Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers,...
by David J. Code
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
French composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918) created music that was revolutionary, with a distinctly modern sound that highlighted the intersection of art and life. Here, in this unique biography, David J. Code explores the important moments in the development of Debussy’s literary interests that...
by David J. Lovato
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
A collection of four short stories. Read the transmissions of an astronaut en route to an alien planet in "The Journal." Join an FBI agent as he attempts to track a killer using spontaneous human combustion to murder his victims in "The Fire Inside." Discover things about human...
Halloween
The History of America's Darkest Holiday
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Wonderfully well-written, outrageous, and provocative." — Booklist.
"Entertaining … and scholarly … Like a bag of Halloween candy, the book is a lot of fun." — Boston Globe.
"Fans of cultural history will devour each chapter … like a toothsome treat." — Christian...
Liberty and Sexuality
The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Pulitzer Prize–winning author David J. Garrow’s stirring and essential history of the politics of abortion and America’s battle for the right to choose
In 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and more than forty years later the issue...
Waging War
The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
An “ambitious...deep history and a thoughtful inquiry into how the constitutional system of checks and balances has functioned when it comes to waging war and making peace” (The Washington Post)—here is the full, compelling account of this never-ending debate.
The Constitution states...
by David J. Libby
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular...
Kentucky and the Great War
World War I on the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From five thousand children marching in a parade, singing, "Johnnie get your hoe.... Mary dig your row," to communities banding together to observe Meatless Tuesdays and Wheatless Wednesdays, Kentuckians were loyal supporters of their country during the First World War. Kentucky had one...
Red Brethren
The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
New England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren, David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that...