David J : 1790 books
by David J. Abbott M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
The most powerful force in the universe is God’s love. The most important fact in the universe is that God loves and accepts you the way that you are, but He loves you too much to let you stay that way. God loves you from the top of your head to the tip of your toes, and it doesn’t...
by David J Bruns
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
What would you do if Christianity and Judaism were to become illegal? What if your government mandated that large church buildings become government buildings and museums, while small churches were bulldozed? What if all known men and women of God were designated enemies of the state and either imprisoned...
Latino History and Culture
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Latinos are the fastest growing population in America today. This two-volume encyclopedia traces the history of Latinos in the United States from colonial times to the present, focusing on their impact on the nation in its historical development and current culture. "Latino History and Culture"...
Long Night of the Tankers
Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig examine the story behind Operation Neuland, the German plan to...
Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel
Early Views of Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel: Early Views of Inheritance explores early theories about the mechanisms of inheritance. Beginning with Charles Darwin's now rejected Gemmule hypothesis, the book documents the reception of Gregor Mendel's work on peas and follows the work of early 20th...
The Discovery of the Asylum
Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts. Rothman shows that the complexity of their history can be unraveled and usefully interpreted. By identifying the salient influences that converged in the tumultuous 1820s and 1830s that led to a particular...
Computers, Visualization, and History
How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This visionary and thoroughly accessible book examines how digital environments and virtual reality have altered the ways historians think and communicate ideas and how the new language of visualization transforms our understanding of the past. Drawing on familiar graphic models--maps, flow charts,...
Men with a Mission
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles, 1837-1841
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
In 1838, suffering from persecution, hardship, and uncertainty, members of the Quorum of the Twelve must have been astonished at the revelation that said: “And next spring, let them depart to go over the great waters, and there promulgate my gospel.” Their adventures in the British Isles...
by David J. Breeze
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This authoritative short volume introduces readers to the Roman army, its structure, tactics, duties and development. One of the most successful fighting forces that the world has seen, the Roman army was inherited by the emperor Augustus who re-organized it and established its legions in military...
Protest Movements and Parties of the Left
Affirming Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing hierarchies? Is the political left witnessing a revival in contemporary politics?
This book highlights some of the key...
Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz
Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled to regulate and control crime and offending during the Blitz. Focusing predominantly on Liverpool, it...
Gemini 4
An Astronaut Steps into the Void
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space. It was a bold step by NASA to accomplish the first American spacewalk and to extend the U.S. flight duration record to four days. This would be double the experience gained from the six Mercury...
Gemini Flies!
Unmanned Flights and the First Manned Mission
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade. With just a handful of years to pull it off, NASA authorized the Project Gemini space program, which gathered vital knowledge needed to achieve the nation’s goal. This book...
by David J. Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Containing: Saxons of Old Sarum! The plague pits of Salisbury! The pub with the withered hand!The book bound in human skin! Fisherton House Lunatic Asylum, where private inmates and criminal lunatics were allowed to mix! Railways of death: how the rail brought death and destruction to Salisbury!...