Best Selling Books by Stephen Davis

Designed for the Calculus III sequence, the eighth edition continues to evolve to fulfill the needs of a changing market by providing flexible solutions to teaching and learning needs of all kinds. The new edition retains the strengths of earlier editions such as Anton''s trademark clarity of exposition, sound mathematics, excellent exercises and examples, and appropriate level. Anton also incorporates new ideas that have withstood the objective scrutiny of many skilled and thoughtful instructors and their students.

General John Bell Hood tried everything he could: Surprise attack. Flanking march. Cavalry raid into the enemy''s rear lines. Simply enduring his opponent''s semi-siege of the city. But nothing he tried worked. Because by the time he assumed command of Confederate forces protecting Atlanta, his predecessor Joe Johnston''s chronic, characteristic strategy of gradual withdrawal had doomed the city to fall to William T. Sherman''s Union troops. Joe Johnston lost Atlanta and John Bell Hood has gotten a bum rap, Stephen Davis argues in his new book, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. The fall of the city was inevitable because Johnston pursued a strategy that was typical of his career: he fell back. Again and again. To the point where he allowed Sherman''s army to within five miles of the city. Against a weaker opponent, Johnston''s strategy might have succeeded. But Sherman commanded superior numbers, and he was a bold, imaginative strategist who pressed the enemy daily and used his artillery to pound their lines. Against this combination, Johnston didn''t have a chance. And by the time Hood took over the Confederate command, neither did he. Atlanta Will Fall provides a lively, fast-paced overview of the entire Atlanta campaign from Dalton to Jonesboro. Davis describes the battles and analyzes the strategies. He evaluates the three generals, examining their plans of action, their tactics, and their leadership ability. In doing so, he challenges the commonly held perceptions of the two Confederate leaders and provides a new perspective on one of the most decisive battles of the Civil War. An excellent supplemental text for courses on the Civil War and American nineteenth-century history, Atlanta Will Fall will engage students with its brisk, concise examination of the fight for Atlanta.

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A revised Student Solutions Manual to accompany Calculus: Single Variable, 12th Edition In the newly revised twelfth edition of Calculus: Single Variable, Student Solutions Manual, a group of veteran educators delivers a robust and comprehensive presentation of single variable calculus that combines accessibility and clarity with mathematical rigor. This manual offers coverage of conic sections, parametric and polar curves, infinite series, differential equation modeling, integral evaluation, definite integral applications, integration, differentiation, the derivative, and limits and continuity.

La historia de la icónica banda de los 80, Duran Duran, uno de los grupos de más éxito comercial, con más de 100 millones de discos vendidos. En Please, Please Tell Me Now, el reconocido biógrafo de rock Stephen Davis cuenta la historia de Duran Duran. Su apariencia de niños buenos les convirtió en estrellas, pero fue su brillante maestría musical lo que los llevó a una serie de éxitos número uno. A finales de la década habían vendido 60 millones de álbumes; a día de hoy, más de 100 millones. Davis remonta sus raíces al austero malestar británico de la década de los 70. Guapos, británicos y jóvenes, Duran Duran fueron quienes encabezaron el concierto Live Aid y la banda se movía en los círculos más glamurosos: Nick Rhodes (teclista) se hizo cercano a Andy Warhol y a la princesa Diana y John Taylor (bajista) salió con la chica mala por excelencia, Amanda De Cadanet. Con éxitos atemporales como «Hungry Like the Wolf», «Girls on film», «Save A Prayer» o el tema más vendido de James Bond, «A View To a Kill». Con entrevistas exclusivas con la banda y fotos nunca antes publicadas de sus archivos personales, este libro ofrece el relato definitivo de una de las bandas más importantes en la historia de la música.

Mick Fleetwood, a master musician of the 1960s, describes his experiences with the popular rock band into the 1990s.

10 matching games that reinforce basic skills

10 Matching Games That Reinforce Basic Math Skills. Quick to prepare and easy to learn, The games in Math Games Galore! make learning new math skills fun. Like the classic memory game, The objective is to find the most pairs of matching cards using visual recall. Every game plays by an identical set of rules and directions, So once students learn how to play one game, they have learned how to play all 10 games. Great for learning centers and family math night.

Confederate newspapers were beset by troubles: paper shortages, high ink prices, printers striking for higher pay, faulty telegraphic news service, and subscription prices insufficient to support their operations. But they also had the potential to be politically powerful, and their reporting of information—accurate or biased—shaped perceptions of the Civil War and its trajectory. The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer Covers the Civil War investigates how Atlanta’s most important newspaper reported the Civil War in its news articles, editorial columns, and related items in its issues from April 1861 to April 1865. The authors show how The Intelligencer narrated the war’s important events based on the news it received, at what points the paper (and the Confederate press, generally) got the facts right or wrong based on the authors’ original research on the literature, and how the paper’s editorial columns reflected on those events from an unabashedly pro-Confederate point of view. While their book focuses on The Intelligencer, Stephen Davis and Bill Hendrick also contribute to the scholarship on Confederate newspapers, emphasizing the papers’ role as voices of Confederate patriotism, Southern nationalism, and contributors to wartime public morale. Their well-documented, detailed study adds to our understanding of the relationship between public opinion and misleading propaganda

“Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise” (The Civil War Monitor). Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union’s western armies, eyed Atlanta covetously—the South’s last great untouched prize. “Get into the interior of the enemy’s country as far as you can, inflicting all the damage you can against their War resources,” his superior, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, ordered. But blocking the way was the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by one of the Confederacy’s most defensive-minded generals, Joseph E. Johnston. All Johnston had to do, as Sherman moved through hostile territory, was slow the Federal advance long enough to find the perfect opportunity to strike. And so began the last great campaign in the West: Sherman’s long and bloody task. The acknowledged expert on all things related to the battle of Atlanta, historian Stephen Davis has lived in the area his entire life, and in A Long and Bloody Task, he tells the tale of the Atlanta campaign as only a native can. He brings his Southern sensibility to the Emerging Civil War Series, known for its engaging storytelling and accessible approach to history. “An operational level narrative and tour of the first two and a half months of the Atlanta Campaign . . . A fine overview of military events in North Georgia.” —Civil War Books and Authors

A gripping, real-life drama that reveals the true story of a plane full of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a war zone and were delivered into the hands of a murderous dictator. On August 1, 1990, Flight 149 was scheduled for its routine London-to-Kuala Lumpur run. But when the plane, carrying 385 passengers and crew, landed at a Kuwait airport to refuel that day, it was surrounded by Iraqi tanks and about to be bombed by fighter jets. The passengers and crew were kept as hostages and suffered brutal treatment including violent attacks, sexual assaults, and mock executions. When the survivors were eventually released, they were never told why their plane landed in the middle of an invasion, or who a mysterious team of late arrivals on the flight might have been. Their story was overshadowed by the ensuing Gulf War. Until now. In Flight 149, Stephen Davis draws on unique witness accounts from the hostages, and uncovers the lies and coverups orchestrated by the British secret service and CIA. This story reveals an astonishing misuse of intelligence that changed the course of history and forever altered the relationship between the West and the Middle East.

10 matching games that reinforce basic skills

10 Matching Games That Reinforce Basic Math Skills. Quick to prepare and easy to learn, The games in Math Games Galore! make learning new math skills fun. Like the classic memory game, The objective is to find the most pairs of matching cards using visual recall. Every game plays by an identical set of rules and directions, So once students learn how to play one game, they have learned how to play all 10 games. Great for learning centers and family math night.

Initial remote sensing survey at Tlachtga, Co. Meath in 2011–12 highlighted the presence of multiple, partially overlapping phases of enclosure at the site. Three subsequent seasons of excavation provided critical interpretive evidence, with over 15,000 fragments of animal bone, human remains, charred plant material, evidence of metalworking, and a hoard of Anglo-Saxon silver coins dating to the late 10th century AD. The main activity at the site spans four broad periods and two main phases of monumental construction: a late Bronze Age to early Iron Age ‘Hillfort Phase’ (1100–400 BC) and a late Iron Age to early medieval (AD 400–600) ringfort phase associated with a smaller foundation enclosure – the ‘Southern Enclosure’. This ringfort phase was remodeled later in the early medieval period (9th–10th century AD) and augmented by a phase of mound construction in the mid-10th century AD. This is contemporary with the deposition of the coin hoard east of the main complex in an apparent craft-working area. The final phase of the central mound indicates the construction of a timber stockade, most likely in the 12th century, again with significant craft activity. This volume represents the excavation of at least four loci within the broader monumental landscape of Tlachtga, charting its progression from Bronze Age hillfort to pre-Anglo Norman power display mound. The excavations at the Hill of Ward and this publication were made possible through funding by the National Monuments Service via the Royal Irish Academy archaeological research excavation grants, and by Meath County Council, with additional support by the Office of Public Works and the Heritage Council.

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This Student Solutions Manual offers the full solutions for select exercises from Calculus, 12th Edition. In the Twelfth Edition of Calculus, an expert team of mathematicians deliver a rigorous and intuitive exploration of calculus, introducing polynomials, rational functions, exponentials, logarithms, and trigonometric functions early in the text. Using the Rule of Four, the authors present mathematical concepts from verbal, algebraic, visual, and numerical points of view.

Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren’t told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance industry does a good job, but as this book shows, it too often fails us. Financial institutions regularly place their business interests first, charging for advice that does nothing to improve performance, employing short-term buying strategies that are corrosive to building long-term value, and sometimes even concealing both their practices and their investment strategies from investors. In their previous prizewinning book, The New Capitalists, the authors demonstrated how ordinary people are working together to demand accountability from even the most powerful corporations. Here they explain how a tyranny of errant expertise, naive regulation, and a misreading of economics combine to impose a huge stealth tax on our savings and our economies. More important, the trio lay out an agenda for curtailing the misalignments that allow the financial industry to profit at our expense. With our financial future at stake, this is a book that analysts, economists, policy makers, and anyone with a retirement nest egg can’t afford to ignore.

Designed for the freshman/sophomore Calculus I-II-III sequence, the eighth edition continues to evolve to fulfill the needs of a changing market by providing flexible solutions to teaching and learning needs of all kinds. The new edition retains the strengths of earlier editions such as Anton''s trademark clarity of exposition, sound mathematics, excellent exercises and examples, and appropriate level. Anton also incorporates new ideas that have withstood the objective scrutiny of many skilled and thoughtful instructors and their students.

The preeminent rock biographer and author of the Led Zeppelin history "Hammer of the Gods" has uncovered documents, conducted dozens of original interviews, and scoured Morrison''s unpublished journals and recordings to write the definitive biography of a misunderstood legend.

L''époque était satanique. Les facéties de Led Zeppelin n''étaient guère plus que les petits jeux sadiques de jeunes artistes anglais lâchés à travers les Etats-Unis avec leur esprit pervers et leurs ressources financières illimitées. Si les membres du groupe établirent un critère de dépravation, de mystique, de luxure et d''excès impossible à surpasser par tous les ensembles de rock qui allaient tenter de les imiter, dans la froide lumière du jour ils se montraient tous on ne peut plus aimables, presque des gentlemen. Et il n''y avait aucun artifice. Ni entrée en scène, ni entracte, ni première partie obligatoire, ni chaussures à semelles compensées, ni mise en scène, ni danseuses, ni vaisseau spatial, ni sequins, ni baratin. Seulement quatre garçons et deux heures et demie de leur musique... Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham... Les quatre musiciens de Led Zeppelin ont enflammé et révolutionné le monde de la musique dans les années 1970. Entre histoire et rumeurs, scandales et chronique patiemment reconstruite, cet ouvrage retrace les grandes heures du Zeppelin, de l''adolescence de ses protagonistes et de la formation du groupe jusqu''à sa dissolution puis, en 1995, son inscription au Rock and Roll Hall of Fame qui permit de réunir de nouveau Jimmy Page et Robert Plant pour une tournée mondiale.

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