Davis: 5083 books
The Extinct Scene
Late Modernism and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn...
by Anthony Davis, Jeremy Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Anthony Davis was not only the most electric college football superstar of all time but he was also my teenage idol. His exploits at USC captured my imagination. This book reinforces everything I know about Anthony Davis - he is a man of passion with a story to tell that will inspire those who follow...
Unconquered
The Saga of Cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Three cousins, inseparably bonded through music. Each became a star; their story would become a legend. J.D. Davis’s enthralling new biography of famous cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley, born within a twelve-month span in small-town Louisiana during the Great Depression, draws...
Sonata Fragments
Romantic Narratives in Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In Sonata Fragments, Andrew Davis argues that the Romantic sonata is firmly rooted, both formally and expressively, in its Classical forebears, using Classical conventions in order to convey a broad constellation of Romantic aesthetic values. This claim runs contrary to conventional theories of the...
America's Hidden History
Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths...
Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne
The Life and Image of John Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Almost two decades after his death, John Wayne is still America’s favorite movie star. More than an actor, Wayne is a cultural icon whose stature seems to grow with the passage of time. In this illuminating biography, Ronald L. Davis focuses on Wayne’s human side, portraying a complex personality...
Stages of Emergency
Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally...
To Appomattox
Nine April Days, 1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A gripping account of the last nine days of the Civil War from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sherman’s March.
After four long years of fighting, the Army of Northern Virginia was irreparably broken in April 1865, despite the military brilliance of its commander, Gen. Robert E....
Battle at Bull Run
A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 21, 1861, one Northerner wrote: “The sky is perfectly clear, the moon is full and bright, and the air was still as if it were not within...
A History of Medieval Europe
From Constantine to Saint Louis
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
R.C. Davis provided the classic account of the European medieval world; equipping generations of undergraduate and ‘A’ level students with sufficient grasp of the period to debate diverse historical perspectives and reputations. His book has been important grounding for both modernists required...
Big, Wild, and Connected
Part 2: From the Central Appalachians to the Catskill Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and canoe/kayak. His extensive travels were motivated by wanting...
Be Realistic
Demand the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
For the 99%, in the language of the 99%, Davis offers experience-based guidance to the Occupy Wall Street movement, in a portable, fun to read, affordable and extraordinarily informative pamphlet.
Much will be written for and about the Occupy Wall Street movement but none with a voice as distinct...
Trickster Travels
A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers
Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author...
The Brain Defense
Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman’s husband, Herbert...