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Float and Sting!

One Round with Muhammad Ali

By: Davis Miller

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Float and Sting!

One Round with Muhammad Ali

By: Davis Miller

Davis Miller is a puny, little mouse at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. At least that's what the other students call the 4' 7" senior. After years of being depressed, the sickly teen decides to take on an impossible dream. He decides to become a boxer. Then one day in 1975, Miller gets a chance to spar with Muhammad Ali, a bout that will change his life.

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1434215784

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9781434215789

Political Elections

By: Davis Worth Miller,Katherine McLean Brevard

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Political Elections

By: Davis Worth Miller,Katherine McLean Brevard

At head of title: Cartoon nation presents.

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Capstone Classroom

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1429617802

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The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells,Davis Miller

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The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells,Davis Miller

Graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic science fiction tale in which, as life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the Earth.

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1434207579

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The Story of Guns

How They Changed the World

By: Katherine McLean Brevard,Davis Worth Miller

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The Story of Guns

How They Changed the World

By: Katherine McLean Brevard,Davis Worth Miller

When the Chinese invented gunpowder in 850, their explosive invention became the basis for almost every weapon used in war. It radically changed warfare all over the world, affecting the way battles were fought throughout the Middle Ages. When guns were invented five centuries later, the world was again transformed. Explosive weaponry was available to the individual, creating a new class of soldier and giving birth to the modern army.

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0756543134

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9780756543136

The Story of Oil

How It Changed the World

By: Katherine McLean Brevard,Davis Worth Miller

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The Story of Oil

How It Changed the World

By: Katherine McLean Brevard,Davis Worth Miller

An introduction to the modern oil industry, including how it developed and how it has transformed the world for the better, as well as for the worse.

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0756543142

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9780756543143

The Guggenheims

An American Epic

By: John H. Davis

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The Guggenheims

An American Epic

By: John H. Davis

This definitive portrait of one of America's wealthiest, most influential dynasties traces their dynamic and often tragic lives. 'The Guggenheims': Meyer Guggenheim, the penniless immigrant whose genius for business and penchant for taking risks made the family fortune; Solomon Guggenheim, the pioneer art patron who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build the revolutionary piece of modern architecture, The Guggenheim Museum, opening the doors of contemporary art to America; Peggy Guggenheim, self-styled 'first liberated woman' who built a Venetian palace for her art but lost both her daughter and her lover to suicide; Daniel & Harry Guggenheim, whose financial interest in rocket science supported the Apollo moon landing and the growth of America's modern space program; Roger W Straus Jr, grandson of Daniel Guggenheim, who became America's foremost literary publisher, bringing numerous Nobel Prize Winning authors to the world's bookshelves. Updated with the latest from the heirs to the Guggenheim dynasty and illustrated throughout with rare family photos, John Davis has chronicled the saga of one of America's first families of philanthropy.

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498

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SP Books

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1561713511

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9781561713516

The Bible, Rocks and Time

Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth

By: Davis A. Young,Ralph F. Stearley

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The Bible, Rocks and Time

Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth

By: Davis A. Young,Ralph F. Stearley

Davis A. Young and Ralph Stearley seek to convince readers of the vast antiquity of the Earth. They point out the flaws of young-Earth creationism and counter the impression by many scientists that all Christians are young-Earth creationists.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830828761

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9780830828760

Get the Guests

Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience

By: Walter Albert Davis

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Get the Guests

Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience

By: Walter Albert Davis

Through a detailed reading of five great modern American plays--The Iceman Cometh, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?--Walter A. Davis calls for a more penetrating look at drama and its psychological impact on the audience. Establishing connections between literary criticism and psychoanalysis, he challenges ruling assumptions of both disciplines. Unconventional and original, his theory demonstrates how the theater, as a potential threat to social order, expresses the secrets and discontents of its audience.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299141543

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9780299141547

Border Wars

Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration

By: Julie Hirschfeld Davis,Michael D. Shear

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Border Wars

Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration

By: Julie Hirschfeld Davis,Michael D. Shear

Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide a detailed, “fact-based account of what precipitated some of this administration’s more brazen assaults on immigration” (The Washington Post) filled with never-before-told stories of this key issue of Donald Trump’s presidency. No issue matters more to Donald Trump and his administration than restricting immigration. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear have covered the Trump administration from its earliest days. In Border Wars, they take us inside the White House to document how Stephen Miller and other anti-immigration officials blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated families, threatened deportation, and sought to erode the longstanding bipartisan consensus that immigration and immigrants make positive contributions to America. Their revelation of Trump’s desire for a border moat filled with alligators made national news. As the authors reveal, Trump has used immigration to stoke fears (“the caravan”), attack Democrats and the courts, and distract from negative news and political difficulties. As he seeks reelection in 2020, Trump has elevated immigration in the imaginations of many Americans into a national crisis. Border Wars identifies the players behind Trump’s anti-immigration policies, showing how they planned, stumbled and fought their way toward changes that have further polarized the nation. “[Davis and Shear’s] exquisitely reported Border Wars reveals the shattering horror of the moment, [and] the mercurial unreliability and instability of the president” (The New York Times Book Review).

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Simon & Schuster

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1982117400

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9781982117405

Derby County Greatest Games

By: Gareth Davis

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Derby County Greatest Games

By: Gareth Davis

From the thousands of matches ever played by Derby County, stretching from the foundation of the Football League across more than 120 years to the Premier League era, here are 50 of the club's most glorious, epochal and thrilling games of all! Expertly presented in evocative historical context, and described incident-by-incident in atmospheric detail, Derby County Greatest Games offers a terrace ticket back in time, taking in the curse-breaking FA Cup victory of 1946 and the glory days of the Rams' championship seasons. An irresistible cast list of club legends &– Steve Bloomer and Dave Mackay, Igor Stimac, Steve Howard and Brian Clough &– springs to life in a thrilling selection of promotion parties, 1970s European giant-killing nights and clashes with the old enemy from along the A52. In all, a journey through the highlights of Rams history which is guaranteed to make any fan's heart swell with pride.

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350

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eBook Partnership

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1909626120

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9781909626126

John Ford

Hollywood's Old Master

By: Ronald L. Davis

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John Ford

Hollywood's Old Master

By: Ronald L. Davis

John Ford remains the most honored director in Hollywood history, having won six Academy Awards and four New York Film Critics Awards. Drawing upon extensive written and oral history, Ronald L. David explores Ford’s career from his silent classic, The Iron Horse, through the transition to sound, and then into the pioneer years of location filming, the golden years of Hollywood, and the movement toward television. During his career, Ford made such classics as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Searchers-136 pictures in all, 54 of them Westerns. The complexity of his personality comes alive here through the eyes of his colleagues, friends, relatives, film critics, and the actors he worked with, including John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, and Katharine Hepburn.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806186941

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9780806186948

Texas Land Grants, 1750-1900

A Documentary History

By: John Martin Davis, Jr.

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Texas Land Grants, 1750-1900

A Documentary History

By: John Martin Davis, Jr.

The Texas land grants were one of the largest public land distributions in American history. Induced by titles and estates, Spanish adventurers ventured into the frontier, followed by traders and artisans. West Texas was described as "Great Space of Land Unknown" and Spanish sovereigns wanted to fill that void. Gaining independence from Spain, Mexico launched a land grant program with contractors who recruited emigrants. After the Texas Revolution in 1835, a system of Castilian edicts and English common law came into use. Lacking hard currency, land became the coin of the realm and the Republic gave generous grants to loyal first families and veterans. Through multiple homestead programs, more than 200 million acres had been deeded by the end of the 19th century. The author has relied on close examination of special acts, charters and litigation, including many previously overlooked documents.

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McFarland

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1476665494

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9781476665498

Southern Jack Tales

By: Donald Davis

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Southern Jack Tales

By: Donald Davis

A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale," "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor," and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows.

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august house

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0874835003

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9780874835007

The Papers of Jefferson Davis

1856--1860

By: Jefferson Davis

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The Papers of Jefferson Davis

1856--1860

By: Jefferson Davis

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LSU Press

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0807158763

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9780807158760

Culture and Cognition

The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry

By: Ronald Schleifer,Robert Con Davis,Nancy Mergler

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Culture and Cognition

The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry

By: Ronald Schleifer,Robert Con Davis,Nancy Mergler

This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas—the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the different perspectives on cognition afforded by Anglo-American cognitive science, Greimassian semiotics, and Lacanian psychoanalysis help us to redefine our very notion of culture. Part I historically situates the concepts of meaning and truth in twentieth-century semiotic theory and cognitive science. Part II contrasts the modes of Freudian case history to the general instance of Einstein's relativity theory and then sets forth a rhetoric of narrative based on the discourse of the aged. Part III examines in the context of literary studies an interdisciplinary concept of cultural cognition. Culture and Cognition will be essential reading for literary theorists, historians and philosophers of science; semioticians; and scholars and students of cultural studies, the sociology of literature, and science and literature.

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Cornell University Press

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1501738526

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9781501738524

Good Girls & Wicked Witches

Women in Disney's Feature Animation

By: Amy M. Davis

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Good Girls & Wicked Witches

Women in Disney's Feature Animation

By: Amy M. Davis

An in-depth view of the way popular female stereotypes were reflected in—and were shaped by—the portrayal of women in Disney’s animated features. In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their first release and subsequently. Analyzing the construction of (mainly human) female characters in the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio between 1937 and 2001, she attempts to establish the extent to which these characterizations were shaped by wider popular stereotypes. Davis argues that it is within the most constructed of all moving images of the female form—the heroine of the animated film—that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are to be found. “A fascinating compilation of essays in which [Davis] examined the way Disney has treated female characters throughout its history.” —PopMatters

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Indiana University Press

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0861969014

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9780861969012

Political Communication

A New Introduction for Crisis Times

By: Aeron Davis

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Political Communication

A New Introduction for Crisis Times

By: Aeron Davis

We are living in a period of great uncertainty. Votes for Brexit and Trump, along with widespread political volatility, are not only causing turmoil; they are signs that many long-predicted tipping points in media and politics have been reached. Such changes have worrying implications for democracies everywhere. In this text, Aeron Davis bridges old and new to map the shifts and analyse what they mean for our aging democracies. Why are volatile, polarized electorates no longer prepared to support established political parties? Why are large parts of the legacy media either dying or dismissed as 'fake news'? How is social media rapidly rewriting the rules? And why do some democratic leaders look more like dictators, and pollsters and economists more like fortune tellers? These questions and more are addressed in the book. Political Communication: A New Introduction for Crisis Times both introduces and challenges the established literature. It will appeal to advanced students, scholars and anyone else trying to understand the precarious state of today's media and political landscape.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509529020

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9781509529025

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