David M : 1401 books
Following the Leader
Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
With unique access to Chinese leaders at all levels of the party and government, best-selling author David M. Lampton tells the story of China’s political elites from their own perspectives. Based on over five hundred interviews, Following the Leader offers a rare glimpse into how the attitudes...
Occupational Hazards
Success and Failure in Military Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how fraught a military occupation can become. In Occupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures. Edelstein has identified twenty-six...
Rethinking Utopia
Place, Power, Affect
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in – or rather because of – the condition of ‘post-utopianism’ that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of...
Why Things Matter
The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
In this book, David M. Black asks questions such as 'why do we care?' and 'what gives our values power?' using ideas from psychoanalysis and its adjacent sciences such as neuroscience and evolutionary biology in order to do so.
Why Things Matter explores how the comparatively new scientific...
Sociology
Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, David M. Newman shows students how to see the "unfamiliar in the familiar"—to step back and see organization and predictability in their take-for-granted personal experiences.
With his approachable writing style and lively...
The CIA and Congress
The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
D.B. Hardeman Prize
From its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress—or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's...
Health Care as a Social Good
Religious Values and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
David M. Craig traveled across the United States to assess health care access, delivery and finance in this country. He interviewed religious hospital administrators and interfaith activists, learning how they balance the values of economic efficiency and community accountability. He met with conservatives,...
by David M. Carballo
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico, with a primary focus on the later Formative period and the transition to the Classic period. The major societal transformations of this interval occurred...
The Evolution of Desire
Strategies of Human Mating
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The groundbreaking, provocative book that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love
If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent...
by David M. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
A failing publishing house receives an unexpected gem but the mystery surrounds the messenger as well as the manuscript.
Vedic Voices
Intimate Narratives of a Living Andhra Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the...
Negative Splits
A Middle-Aged, Newbie Runner's Journey to the First Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Not all victories come with medals. "Negative Splits: A Middle-Aged, Newbie Runner's Journey to the First Marathon" chronicles the author's emergence from a 20-year period of self-imposed athletic exile to first-time combatant with the "26.2-Mile Monster." Employing an engaging "you-are-there" style,...
by David M. DiValerio
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The Life of the Madman of Ü tells the story of Künga Zangpo (1458-1532), a famous Tibetan Buddhist ascetic of the Kagyü sect. Having grown weary of the trials of human existence, Künga Zangpo renounced the world during his teenage years, committing himself to learning and practicing the holy Dharma...
by David M. Delo
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Margaret Bourke-White was the ACE photographer for both FORTUNE and LIFE MAGAZINES between 1929 and 1957. Before she reached 3o years of age, she was rich and famous. She rose to the top of her almost-all male profession: beautiful, focused, and determined. She always got the shot she was after. She...