David M : 1401 books
The Murderer Next Door
Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals,...
The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney
The Politics and Jurisprudence of a Northern Democrat from the Age of Jackson to the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Ohio’s Rufus P. Ranney embodied many of the most intriguing social and political tensions of his time. He was an anticorporate campaigner who became John D. Rockefeller’s favorite lawyer. A student and law partner of abolitionist Benjamin F. Wade, Ranney acquired an antislavery reputation and...
Secret Life
Firsthand, Documented Accounts of Ufo Abductions
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1993
In Secret Life, Professor David M. Jacobs of Temple University takes us into the private world of those abducted by aliens, letting them describe in their own words what it is like to be abducted. Based on interviews with sixty individuals and more than 300 independently corroborated accounts, Secret...
Robotica
Speech Rights and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
In every era of communications technology - whether print, radio, television, or Internet - some form of government censorship follows to regulate the medium and its messages. Today we are seeing the phenomenon of 'machine speech' enhanced by the development of sophisticated artificial intelligence....
by David M. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Dead Reckoning And Other Stories. SF with attitude! Looking for SF that's intelligent, action-packed, and humorous? This collection of ten short stories features a cast of characters all in need of some serious therapy.
Hector discovers life after death ain't easy when your shorts itch and...
Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Key topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material.
This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates, and in-depth analysis. The contributing authors,...
by David M. Addison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In this humorous travelogue round Cuba, the hapless author suffers from both urban myths and his Missus (aka the Drinks Police). The first he debunks as they occur; the crises his Missus causes, or would have caused but for his timely intervention, are a more serious matter. Acutely aware that Cuba...
Over the Horizon
Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate with its rivals to garner short-term gains while letting them become more powerful....
by David M. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
When the Revolutionary War broke out and New York City had fallen in 1776, the forces of the king of Great Britain developed a network of forts along the length of Long Island to defend the New York area and create a front to Patriot forces across the Sound in Connecticut. Fort Franklin on Lloyd's...
Beyond the American Pale
The Irish in the West, 1845–1910
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much of a presence in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, David...
by David M. Guion
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
A History of the Trombone, the first title in the new series American Wind Band, is a comprehensive account of the development of the trombone from its initial form as a 14th-century Medieval trumpet to its alterations in the 15th century; from its marginalized use in a particular Renaissance ensemble...
by David M. Delo
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The life of Albert Bierstadt is the story of a talented, "larger-than-life artist" who appeared out of nowhere, rose to the top of the art world in New York City, then crashed and burned because he lost his way to earthly glamour. At age twenty-one, he traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany, and...
by David M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
The story of Oscar Wilde’s landmark 1882 American tour explains how this quotable literary eminence became famous for being famous.
On January 3, 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old “genius”—at least by his own reckoning—arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made...
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...