David Williams
Author
Language
English
Description
"A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and nonviolent community can survive when civilization falls apart. When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are now dark. Planes have plummeted to the ground. The systems of modern life have crumbled. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies,...
2) Zen doodling
Author
Series
Publisher
Alpha, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Offers an introduction to Zen doodles, with instructions for drawing such basic shapes as knots, braids, and spirals, using the color wheel, and creating more intricate designs.
4) Tick tock
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Four friends race the clock to clean the house before Mom gets home.
Author
Series
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people-foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America's most destructive conflict.
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the celebrated A People's History of the Civil War, a new account of the Confederacy's collapse from within.
The American Confederacy, historian David Williams reveals, was in fact fighting two civil wars-an external one that we hear so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness.
From the Confederacy's very beginnings, Williams shows, white southerners were as likely...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Seen through the diary of Jacob, an Amish farmer trying to protect his family and his way of life, the book examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos when an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath of a catastrophic solar storm and the subsequent collapse of modern civilization.