David W : 792 books
Archaeology and Geoinformatics
Case Studies from the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization...
The Battle for Lone Pine
Four Days of Hell at the Heart of Gallipolli
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Most Australian have heard of Lone Pine. Too few know why.
Over four days in August 1915, Australians and Turks were thrown into some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on a small plateau in Gallipoli known as Lone Pine. Thousands of lives were lost. Seven of Australia's nine Gallipoli VCs...
by Kevin J. Anderson, Quincy J. Allen, David W. Landrum
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Four years of Penny Dread Tales have revealed some fantastic talent. In this edition we’ve collected the cream of the crop. Herein lies the very Best of Penny Dread Tales: fourteen stories of boiler-splitting steampunk with a blend of sci-fi, paranormal, western, and horror. These stories will take...
Slavery and Public History
The Tough Stuff of American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online).
In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books,...
by Rabbi David W. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Hear the Voices of Ancient Wisdom in the Modern Language of ScienceAncient traditions, whose only claim to authenticity is that they are old, run the risk of becoming old-fashioned. But if an ancient tradition can claim to be not only ancient but also timeless and contemporary, it has a far greater chance...
Debating the End of History
The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long...
by David W. Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
An overview of the Bible. This book features excerpts from the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, under 205 headings. More than 200 explanatory footnotes explain the unfolding story of the Bible and the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Bible is a large book, and to the uninitiated it is difficult to understand....
Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy
The Religious Dimension of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy: The Religious Dimension of Experience examines the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel and its relationship to key figures in classical American Philosophy, in particular Josiah Royce, William Ernest Hocking, and Henry Bugbee. Few scholars have taken sufficient note...
by David W. T. Brattston
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
What are we to make of the Biblical book of Hebrews 6:4-6 and 10:26-27? They teach that "it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world...
October Song
A Memoir of Music and the Journey of Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
In the vinyl era, David W. Berner played rock ‘n’ roll in a neighborhood garage band. Decades later at the age of 57 he enters a national songwriting contest and quite unexpectedly is named a finalist. But there's more. He's called on to perform the song live at a storied venue for Americana music....
by David W. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Who's got your back? Most men will simply answer, "no one." Not many men have close friends in the sense that women do. We're more likely to form alliances than we are friendships. It doesn't have to be this way. Who's Got Your Back? will motivate men to build satisfying relationships which...
by David W. Galenson
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators...
Cold War in a Cold Land
Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Most communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism,...
Bridging the Chesapeake
A ‘Fool Idea’ That Unified Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
When the first span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened July 30, 1952, it was a watershed moment in Marylands history.
The construction of the bridge took political courage, creative engineering, people working together, and a determination to overcome pettiness. In this detailed history, journalism...