Anchors Aweigh: Floating White House - Doomsday Ship: Navy Stories Humorous and Mostly True, Davis Joseph M.
Автор: Waters, W. Davis Brown, Joseph Название: Gabriel rains and the confederate torpedo bureau ISBN: 1611213509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611213508 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "Ironclads are said to master the world, but torpedoes master the ironclads." Gabriel J. Rains was a Confederate Brigadier General who was more than a military officer--he was a scientist. His Civil War appointment gave him an opportunity to develop explosives. He invented three mines: the "subterra shell" (land mine), the keg torpedo, and the submarine mortar battery (both naval mines). After the Battle of Seven Pines in 1862, he served the Confederacy in two ways, Superintendent of Conscription and Commander of the Torpedo Bureau. He and his men mined the roads around Jackson and the harbors of Mobile, Savannah, and Charleston. His naval mines sank many ships and were more effective than heavy guns. In 1864, at the request of President Jefferson Davis, he mined the principal roads leading into Richmond as well as the lines around Fort Harrison. When it came time to evacuate the city, Rains and his family joined the president and cabinet as they traveled by train to Greensboro. After the war, he earned a patent, prepared a notebook for West Point, and wrote an article on mine warfare. Rains had a significant military career as he introduced a new form of weaponry. To some, he is regarded as the "father of modern mine warfare." Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau by W. Davis Waters and Joseph I. Brown tells his remarkable story.
Автор: Nystrom, Patric Demervall, Per Davis, Joseph A Название: Siri the viking: mimirs well ISBN: 190823329X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781908233295 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7380.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Siri the Viking is the perfect book for kids who want to learn more about Vikings. The comic combines adventure and history in a humorous story with colorful characters and fascinating settings.
Автор: Nystrom, Patric Demervall, Per Davis, Joseph A Название: Siri the viking: the emperors treasure ISBN: 1908233281 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781908233288 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7380.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Siri the Viking is the perfect book for kids who want to learn more about Vikings. The comic combines adventure and history in a humorous story with colorful characters and fascinating settings.
Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine’s many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine’s overreliance on narrowly mechanistic and technical methods of explanation and intervention, or “fixing’ patients. The need for a better balance, for more humane “healing” rationales and practices that attend to the social and environmental aspects of health and illness and the experiencing person, is more urgent than ever. Yet, in public health and bioethics, the fields best positioned to offer countervailing values and orientations, the dominant approaches largely extend and reinforce the reductionism and individualism of biomedicine. The collected essays in To Fix or To Heal do more than document the persistence of reductionist approaches and the attendant extension of medicalization to more and more aspects of our lives. The contributors also shed valuable light on why reductionism has persisted and why more holistic models, incorporating social and environmental factors, have gained so little traction. The contributors examine the moral appeal of reductionism, the larger rationalist dream of technological mastery, the growing valuation of health, and the enshrining of individual responsibility as the seemingly non-coercive means of intervention and control. This paradigm-challenging volume advances new lines of criticism of our dominant medical regime, even while proposing ways of bringing medical practice, bioethics, and public health more closely into line with their original goals. Precisely because of the centrality of the biomedical approach to our society, the contributors argue, challenging the reductionist model and its ever-widening effects is perhaps the best way to press for a much-needed renewal of our ethical and political discourse.
Автор: Davis Joseph Название: Fruits and the ABCs ISBN: 1098321286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098321284 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 24590.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Fruits and the ABCs is a book to show the various fruits and the English alphabet. The text is accompanied by colorful artwork of each fruit of the alphabet. This memorable book is perfect for kids learning their letters and teachers looking for a nurturing way to teach them Even adults may learn a few new fruits along the way in this alphabet book. There's a fruit for each letter, find out Y
Автор: William L. Davis Название: Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon ISBN: 1469655667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469655666 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter-Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America.
Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books-he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
Автор: Davis, Joseph (the City College Of New York) Название: Substance and value of italian si ISBN: 9027215847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027215840 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 123910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Davis, Simon Smith, Joseph Название: Historical dictionary of the cold war ISBN: 1442281855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442281851 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 133760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Cold War contains a chronology, an introduction, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, crucial countries and peripheral conflicts, the increasingly lethal weapons systems, and the various political and military strategies.
