Davis: 5083 books
10 Things Jesus Never Said
And Why You Should Stop Believing Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Too often Christians carry a lot of guilt and baggage when it comes to their relationship with God. The problem is that so many of us believe unbiblical, damaging things about how critical God is and how fed up he must be with us. But many of the things we think Jesus would say to us--things like...
by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A Charmed Life Richard Harding Davis, journalist and writer of fiction and drama (1864-1916)
This ebook presents «A Charmed Life», from Richard Harding Davis. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- A CHARMED LIFE
Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
Confederate Governor and United States Senator
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 1931, when the Nashville Banner conducted a survey to determine the "Greatest Tennesseans" to date, the state's Confederate "War Governor," Isham G. Harris (1818--1897), ranked tenth on the list, behind such famous Tennesseans as Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson,...
Master and God
A Novel of Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
From New York Times bestselling novelist Lindsey Davis comes an epic novel of first-century Rome and the Emperor Domitian, known to all of the Roman world as Master and God
Set in the reign of the Emperor Domitian in first-century Rome, Master and God is Lindsey Davis's meticulously researched...
At the Precipice
Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebellion?
At the Precipice seeks to answer...
How to Relax
Enhancing Your Mental and Physical Health Through the Art of Inner Self-Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2001
How to Relax is a concise yet comprehensive presentation of the fundmental priniciples and basic techniques of effective relaxation training. It is for anyone who wishes to learn to more effectively manage stress or stress related physical, emotional, or behavioral problems. The format is short enough...
Lincoln's Men
How President Lincoln Became Father To an Army an
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1999
I sit down to write you (a Soldier's Friend!)...My kind Friend of Friends you have the power to help me a grate deal...I have great Confidence in our Good President hoe has dun a grate deal for us poor Soldiers...
So wrote Private Joe Hass to Abraham Lincoln, February 20, 1864. Like an extraordinary...
Wyoming Range War
The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of...
The Rogue Republic
How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The little-known story of the West Florida Revolt: “One rollicking good book.” —Jay Winik
When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida—what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe’s...
The Orphan Brigade
The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
On September 18, 1861, ominous sounds of battle thundering in the distance, the Kentucky legislature voted to align itself with the Union. It was a decision which tore at the heart of the state, splitting apart families and severing friendships. For the newly formed First Kentucky Brigade, it marked...
A Nation Rising
Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America’s Hidden History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
Following on his New York Times bestsellers America’s Hidden History and Don’t Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country’s hidden...
The Monster at Our Door
The Global Threat of Avian Flu
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and “its argument is irrefutable” (The Independent).
Hailed by The Nation as a “master of disaster prose,” author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian...
by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile."
Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only...
Ghost Dances
Proving Up on the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Growing up in South Dakota, Josh Garrett-Davis knew he would leave. But as a young adult, he kept going back--in dreams and reality and by way of books. With this beautifully written narrative about a seemingly empty but actually rich and complex place, he has reclaimed his childhood, his unusual...