Davis: 5083 books
Mo'ne Davis: Remember My Name
My Story from First Pitch to Game Changer
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Be inspired to reach for your dreams!
At the age of thirteen, Mo'ne Davis became the first female pitcher to win a game in the Little League World Series and the first Little Leaguer to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. A month later she earned a place in the National Baseball...
by Dee Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Snow is falling, but this is no ordinary white Christmas. There is no festive cheer, no carolers, no mistletoe. Instead Jenny Fitzgerald is running for her life. She’s frightened and alone. Every step taking her farther from safety. And on a cold, silent night,...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a work written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the...
Look Away!
A History of the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America...
Don't Know Much About Mythology
Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About® series -- a magical journey into the timeless world of mythology
It has been fifteen years since Kenneth C. Davis first dazzled audiences with his instant classic Don't Know Much About® History, vividly bringing...
The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle
Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Like no other event in our history, the Civil War divided the nation, redrew our notions of freedom and citizenship, and provided the backdrop for some of the most enduring works in the American literary canon. This Modern Library eBook bundle collects five titles that illuminate that transformative...
Government of Our Own
The Making of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this new work, another example of Davis's fine storytelling skill and an indispensable guide to...
by Theodore R Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Denver was a small town at the foot of the mountains when Theodore Davis took a stagecoach across the plains on the Smoky Hill Route from Atchison, Kansas. Herds of Buffalo and unfriendly Indians made the journey both exhilarating and dangerous, with a cavalry escort on parts of the trail. "...
Becoming an Orchestral Musician
A Guide for Aspiring Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Becoming an Orchestral Musician takes you on a journey into the musical profession. It is the first comprehensive guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician. Such crucial topics as how to obtain the right tuition,...
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the...
by Joshua Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Joshua Davis was a native of Boston born in 1760, as his short memoir attests he was an experienced sailor and seasoned campaigner. In 1779 he boarded the 20 gun privateer, the Jason, on a mission to capture as many British ships as possible, he and his crewmates were successful in their search for...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. On May 10, 1865 Jefferson Davis was caught by Federal troops. It was not until he was in jail that he decided the war must really be over. In this second volume of his memoirs, Davis discusses the specifics of that...
Grief Sucks ... But Love Bears All Things
How Grief Tore Me Apart and Put Me Back Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Gayle Taylor Davis had it all — a husband she adored, two successful daughters, and a career she enjoyed. Then one phone call took it all away, when a policeman called to tell her that her husband of 32 years had suddenly died of a heart attack. Plunged into the strange new world of grief, Davis began...
Queer Beauty
Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several...