David M : 1401 books

Our first national park was created during a scandalous period of American history─Mark Twain’s “Gilded Age,” when money led to power and power led to reputation. The park was a result not from chance nor popular demand but from (1) a blend of the interests and energy of five energetic men...

Touch has left the US Army to become a San Francisco photojournalist. He resides in Sausalito with a parrot named Hypo and hot and cold-running women. At a Chinese wedding, Touch finds the bride's sister at the bottom of the Narrows Cliff, and that night he is savagely beaten. He ends up using a cane....

From the beginning, rhetoric has been a productive and practical art aimed at preparing citizens to participate in communal life. Possibilities for this participation are continually evolving in light of cultural and technological changes. The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy...

What is it like to lose your front porch to the ocean? To watch saltwater destroy your favorite fishing holes? To see playgrounds and churches subside and succumb to brackish and rising water? The residents of coastal Louisiana know. For them hurricanes are but exclamation points in an incessant loss...

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...

This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, edited by David M. Dorfman, will cover Flow Cytometry. Topics covered in this issue include: Flow cytometric evaluation of primary immunodeficiencies; Flow cytometry of B cell neoplasms; Flow cytometry of T cell neoplasms; Flow cytometry of acute myeloid...

PRAISE FOR******EVERYTHING MEANS NOTHING TO ME, THE SEARING NOVEL OF UNDERGROUND NASHVILLE SPELLBINDING . . . I could not put it down until Id read the entire novel in one sitting. Rachel Gladstone, DishMag.com HAUNTING, BEAUTIFUL, POWERFUL. Roy E. Perry, The Tennessean In the...

Horatio Delmer Touchstone, known as "Touch" lives just outside Paris and works in civilian clothes as a Counter Intelligence agent for the US Army in Paris in the mid 1960s. When he leaves for a two-week vacation across the Alps, and finds himself in increasing personal danger. His analytical...

Q: Just what is the Godskin?  A: Why, it's the most natural thing in the world. Max is one all-night panic attack away from a one-way trip to the deep south, a perennial worrier about what lies beyond, he spends his mornings giving people tattoos and his nights pondering why he even bothers....

Emperor Rak`koth, the Dark sorcerer, launches his armada and embarks on his ruthless invasion of Balleterria with fifty thousand warriors, including the brutal Black Legion, and the eerie, soulless Dread Riders, intent on fulfilling his despotic destiny to crush all opposition beneath his heel and...

Change can be deadly! With his life crumbling around him, Joe Ballen is close to going out in a blaze, fueled by cheap alcohol and self-hatred. But when something "out there" starts destroying spaceships and stations, the only JumpShip available to investigate is the Shokasta—locked away...

Since the enactment of No Child Left Behind and the more recent Every Child Succeeds Act, you would think student achievement would be on the rise. But SAT scores are dipping, college and career readiness are at all-time lows, and parents are wondering whats gone wrong. David M. Schmittou,...

Classical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today. These achievements are rightly revered. Less well known is the other side of this success story. Democratic Athens completely transformed warfare and became a superpower. The Athenian armed forces...

Expect Miracles is the personal and professional story of a leader in the worlds of business and culture. David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive...