Michael D Davis: 12 books
Thurgood Marshall
From His Early Years to Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
The date was May 17, 1954. One Supreme Court justice called it “a day that will live in glory.” Another hailed it as “a great day for America and the Court.” It was the day the nine justices handed Thurgood Marshall, chief legal counsel for the plaintiffs, a unanimous victory in Brown v. Board...
Thurgood Marshall
His Triumph in Brown, His Years on the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The first African-American to serve on the United States Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was the only justice who experienced segregation in the back of the bus. From his early life in Baltimore at the turn of the century to his retirement in June 1991 after twenty-four years of service on the...
by Lynn E. Davis, Debra Knopman, Michael D. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Finding ways to safely store and ultimately dispose of nuclear waste remains a matter of considerable debate. This volume describes the steps needed to design a new, single-purpose organization to manage and dispose of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials and examines three models...
by Michael Strand, Maxwell Reagan, Claudia Ionescu
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Spontaneous Combustion is the classic "play-in-a-day" theater exercise in literary event form. We gather writers together, provide three story prompts, and give them 24 hours to compose a unique piece of pulp fiction. Our favorites are invited back to prose-slam their short stories for a...
Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?
A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible’s storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible’s jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture...
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist
Enduring Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Talent Unleashed
3 Leadership Conversations to Ignite the Unlimited Potential in People
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
"The vast majority of the workforce in any organization possesses far more talent, intelligence, capability, and creativity than their present jobs require or even allow.” - Dr. Stephen R. Covey That’s what Talent Unleashed is about—unleashing that unlimited store...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
Baptist Foundations
Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Ours is an anti-polity age, perhaps more than any other time in the history of the church. Yet polity remains as important now as it was in the New Testament.
What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right...
Fields of Vision
Essays on the Travels of William Bartram
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south.
William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories...
by Judith D Gunderson-Christensen-Davis, Michael L Gunderson, Shelly J Gunderson-Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
If it's raining outside, or snowing, or thundering, or a hundred degrees, it would not deter father from a drive to any given location....in his car, van, motorcycle or motor bike. If traffic was lined up for a mile, he would still go get in it. If an area was flooded or a volcano had just erupted,...