L Davis: 203 books
Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Harry L. Davis joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1963, and he has since become one of the most influential figures in business education in the United States and abroad. He helped develop the first core leadership program of any top-rated MBA institution in...
Texas Literary Outlaws
Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart from Texas’ conservative establishment. Calling themselves the Mad Dogs, these six writers—Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent—closely observed the effects of the Vietnam...
Talking Indian
Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In south-central Oklahoma and much of “Indian Country,” using an Indigenous language is colloquially referred to as “talking Indian.” Among older Chickasaw community members, the phrase is used more often than the name of the specific language, Chikashshanompa’ or Chickasaw. As author Jenny...
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...
by Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. DALLAS 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city-and a nation.
In the months and weeks...
Why Adjudicate?
Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the negotiation and enforcement of formal rules governing international trade. Why do countries choose to adjudicate their trade disputes in the WTO rather than settling their differences on their own? In Why Adjudicate?, Christina Davis investigates the...
by K.L. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
After leaving treatment, Nikki’s mother, Ms. Delores, moved to Woodbridge, Virginia with her sister Darlene. Ms. Delores will do whatever it takes to keep Smokie away from her daughter. Will Nikki be able to stay out of Smokie’s grasp? Nikki knows hanging around the neighborhood is taking a chance...
J. Frank Dobie
A Liberated Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado's Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest's folk history,...
by K.L. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Norman is back. After spending four years upstate at a mental institution and a year in an institution back in his hometown, Norman has paid his debt to society. Feeling he has been double-crossed by his sister—who is also the mother of his two sons—no medication can cure the betrayal Norman is...
Survival Schools
The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In the late 1960s, Indian families in Minneapolis and St. Paul were under siege. Clyde Bellecourt remembers, “We were losing our children during this time; juvenile courts were sweeping our children up, and they were fostering them out, and sometimes whole families were being broken up.” In 1972,...
Are We There Yet?
The Ultimate Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
How many of us have to die at the hands of our own people before we say enough is enough to black-on-black violence? How long will we continue on this path of self-destruction? How long will we continue to live our lives in a position of weakness and ignorance?
In Are We There Yet?, author...
Treating Post-Trauma Nightmares
A Cognitive Behavioral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
"This book will be a valuable resource for those conducting research focused on trauma- related sleep disturbances and nightmares, and for clinicians working with clients with these problems."
--Heidi S. Resnick, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina
"Extremely thoughtful...
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963,comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law.
On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius I.Q. studies a twelve-foot...
Missives from Maravida
A Family's Caribbean Sailboat Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
298 photos! Missives from MARAVIDA: A Family’s Caribbean Sailing Adventure documents the extraordinary journey I took with my husband and our two children. Our adventure is chronicled in the e-mail messages I sent to family and friends after we met up with MARAVIDA in Trinidad. It is supplemented...