Kenneth Davis: 37 books
Don't Know Much About Anything Else
Even More Things You Need to Know but Never Learned About People, Places, Events, and More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For years, Kenneth C. Davis has enlightened and enthralled us, opening our minds and tickling our fancies with his wonderfully irreverent, fun, and factual Don't Know Much About® books. He has carried readers on wild and edifying rides through history, mythology, geography, the Bible, the Civil War,...
Don't Know Much About the Universe
Everything You Need to Know About Outer Space but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials?
From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-Files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages. Yet most of us look up at the night sky...
by Kenneth L. Shropshire, Timothy Davis, N. Jeremi Duru
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Successful sports agents are comfortable with high finance and intense competition for the right to represent talented players, and the most respected agents are those who can deal with the pressures of high-stakes negotiations in an honest fashion. But whereas rules and penalties govern the playing...
Que Se Yo de la Biblia
Todo lo Que Necesitas Saber Acerca del Libro Sagrado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Con humor, ingenio y un extraordinario talento para convertir la historia más complicada en informativos testimonios ydivertidas anécdotas, Kenneth C. Davis nos explica el mundo del Antiguo y del Nuevo Testamento como nunca antes. Disponible por primera vez en español, Qué Sé Yo de la Biblia es una herramienta indispensable para comprender el libro sagrado.
by Todd F. Davis, Professor Kenneth Womack
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
This invaluable guide by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of twentieth-century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theory by Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical...
by Kenneth C Davis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Desde las antiguas civilizaciones que hicieron mapas de los cielos a Star Trek, X-Files y Apolo 13, el espacio sideral ha intrigado a la gente por mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, la mayoría de nosotros miramos el cielo nocturno y sentimos que no sabemos nada en cuanto a los hechos principales del universo.
Kenneth...
Don't Know Much About the Bible
Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
With wit, wisdom, and an extraordinary talent for turning dry, difficult reading into colorful and realistic accounts, the creator of the bestselling Don't Know Much About®, series now brings the world of the Old and New testaments to life as no one else can in the bestseller Don't Know Much About®...
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...
Freedom Not Yet
Liberation and the Next World Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the vast majority of its citizens require liberation from their present socioeconomic circumstances. The marxist theorist Kenneth Surin contends that innovation and change at the level...
Don't Know Much About the Civil War
Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
“Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
It has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America’s War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything...
Bomb
The Author Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
In the Shadow of Liberty
The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners?
Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery...
by Kenneth S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1984
No state's creation was more dramatic, more at the center of national attention, more involved in fundamental moral conflict, than that of Kansas. In a sense, the state's history began with the arrival of the first Puritans of New England and the first slaves of Virginia. The States And The Nation...
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools
A Critical Demography Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical...