Davies: 1593 books
Crossing the Borders
New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques.
During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The...
by Barry Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Tracking originated with man’s need for food; he needed to understand what he was following and what the rewards would be if he was successful. Little has changed over time about the terms of tracking. We still track game for sport and food, but we have also found other uses for tracking. Border...
by Gareth Huw Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
I hope this short book throws some more light on one of the great communicators.
I have interviewed Sir David Attenborough many times, mainly for articles published in the UK broadcasting listings magazine Radio Times. These essays and shorter pieces - on subjects ranging from the world’s...
by Jamie A. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Synthetic biology is one of the 21st century's fastest growing fields of research, as important for technology as for basic science. Building on traditional genetic engineering, which was restricted to changing one or two genes, synthetic biology uses multi-gene modules and pathways to make very significant...
by Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Selected and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein.
We...
Liturgical Time Bombs In Vatican II
Destruction of the Faith Through Changes in Catholic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Michael Davies shows how Fr. Annibale Bugnini--before his dismissal by Pope Paul VI under suspicion of being a Freemason--was able to "reform" the Catholic Mass into the constantly evolving liturgy. Quoting Bishops and Cardinals as well as liberal "experts" and Protestant observers,...
by Hunter Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Ivy, Dulcie, Barbara, Ann, Dorothy and Jean all had different reasons for applying to work at Carr’s biscuits, but once they had put on their overalls and walked through the factory gates they discovered a community full of life, laughter and friendship.
To those who didn’t know, the biscuit...
Last King of Wales
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn c. 1013-1063
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The first popular account of the only king to rule all of Wales as a single country Gruffudd ap Llywelyn was a mighty king, yet 1,000 years after his birth he is all but forgotten. In 1055 he led a great army into England, burning Hereford and forcing King Edward the Confessor to seek peace. Gruffudd...
Sports in American Life
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes of U.S. history. Updated include...
Going For Gold
Welsh Olympic Dreams for 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
What does it take to be the greatest? Whether it's part of a team like cyclist Geraint Thomas, who won gold in the team pursuit event in Beijing 2008, or notching up a record-beating 11 gold medals in the swimming pool for paralympic swimmer David Roberts to equal the record set by Dame Tanni Grey...
The City of London and Social Democracy
The Political Economy of Finance in Britain, 1959 - 1979
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The City of London and Social Democracy examines the relationship between the financial sector and the state in post-war Britain. The key argument made in Aled Davies's study is that changes to the financial sector during the 1960s and 1970s undermined the state's capacity to sustain and develop a...
The Financial Crisis
Who is to Blame?
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007.
A huge number of suspects have been identified, from greedy investment bankers, through feckless borrowers, dilatory regulators and myopic central bankers to violent...
Global Financial Regulation
The Essential Guide (Now with a Revised Introduction)
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
As international financial markets have become more complex, so has the regulatory system which oversees them. The Basel Committee is just one of a plethora of international bodies and groupings which now set standards for financial activity around the world, in the interests of protecting savers...
Best Practice in Corporate Governance
Building Reputation and Sustainable Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
An earlier book, A Strategic Approach to Corporate Governance (Gower, 1999), examined corporate governance from a philosophical and 'big picture' standpoint. This book digs deeper and explores the operational issues around corporate governance, giving examples of good practice. It is a 'how to' book,...