Jim Davidson

Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again

The Next Everest

Kevin Vaughan

A full-length account of a story covered in a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article documents the 1992 mountaineering venture during which co-author Jim Davidson and his best friend, Mike Price, ascended Mount Rainier before a tragic fall that instantly ended Mike's life and forced Jim to climb to safety with sparse equipment.

An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier

The Ledge

Chris Hamilton journeys to Brownsville, Texas from his native Virginia in 1995, after receiving a cryptic note saying that his mentor, Armando Geurra, had mysteriously died. Chris soon finds out that his death was no accident and becomes entangled in decades of animosity and vengeance. Even as a man who has lived an exciting life as a baseball player and successful builder, he has to draw on all of his resources and talents to navigate a maze of unanswered questions, bizarre events, and deception. As he grapples with with what may or may not be the truth, he forms unexpected bonds with new friends, finds himself drawn, into a poorly timed, ill fated romance, and is given the unique opportunity to learn about, and from, a shadowy figure from his past. Set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Southwest Texas and the intermingling of Hispanic and American cultures, this is a story of honor, character, and redemption across distance and time.

Tree of Redemption

Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again

About the Author: Jim Davidson is a Christian businessman and a native of Gould in Southeast Arkansas. His career as a public speaker, author and motivational consultant has spanned almost 50 years. Some of his many awards and achievements include: Arkansas Salesman of the Year, Chairman of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce's Diamond Club sales organization, Justice of the Peace in Pulaski County, Chairman of the Speakers Bureau of the Pulaski County United Way, Leadership Gavel recipient as voted by members of his Dale Carnegie Class, and honorary member of the DECA & GCE Clubs of Arkansas. He has been presented with the "Good Neighbor Award" by the Conway Chamber of Commerce and is the 2010 "Distinguished Service Award" winner for Conway Public Schools. In 1980 Jim began writing and producing a daily radio program titled, "How to Plan Your Life." It has been broadcast on over 300 stations coast to coast and heard by thousands of people each weekday. In 1995, he also began writing a weekly newspaper column for his hometown newspaper, the Log Cabin Democrat, in Conway, Arkansas. With over 365 papers in 35 states running the column since its inception, it is believed to be the most successful self-syndicated column in the history of American journalism. In 2005, he founded a nationwide literacy program titled, "A Bookcase for Every Child," to provide a quality bookcase, and a starter set of books to children being reared in low-income families. This project has spread to five other states and they have now given over 2,000 bookcases to those deserving children. His last work may be the most important. Jim has made a commitment to partner with Arkansas PBS to develop a curriculum to teach pre-school children the success habits of Character, Integrity, Respect and Manners. He believes that, in time, this will change the culture of violence in America.

Your Future Begins Today

Everyone is looking for ways to save money at the pump, and 75 Ways to Save Gas is an indispensable guide to doing just that. It's chock-full of simple, easy-to-follow tips to help you save fuel-and potentially hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars each year on your gas bill.

Clean, Green Tips to Cut Costs at the Pump

75 Ways to Save Gas

Když jsem se v roce 2015 vypravil se skupinkou horolezců na Mount Everest, netušil jsem, jaké katastrofě šplháme vstříc. Při výstupu na horu zasáhlo oblast velmi silné zemětřesení. Jen zázrakem jsem přežil. Nepál je ovšem neustále v ohrožení a je jen otázkou času, kdy se podobná tragédie zopakuje. Jmenuji se Jim Davidson a toto jsem zažil na vlastní kůži.

Můj Everest

How to Plan Your Life

True Brit

'I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.' In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time in Papua New Guinea and Fiji prompted his own post-war mini-empire of dominance. A manipulative and emotionally ferocious man, he rejects his son and creates a second family, shutting Jim out and eventually disinheriting him, but never really leaving him alone. Traversing territory across Australia, South Africa, India, and London, this beautifully written book tells of a time of crushing conformity, sharply reminding us that some experiences can never be written out of our personal histories. 'The book calls into question the popular myth that the family is a nurturing and loving place and reminds us, in timely fashion, that families can be destructive and dangerous environments. Davidson gives us a vivid and disturbing portrait of a family in which no one knows how to love properly.' - ALEX MILLER

The Domestic Face of Colonialism

A Fuhrer for a Father

A biography of a 20th-century Australian historian and an outstanding scholar in the humanities and social science fields, this thorough account highlights the accomplishments of W.K. Hancock. Compelling and informative, this chronicle features the scope of Hancock's work across three continents, including his mission to Uganda on behalf of the British government in 1954, his tracking of British mobilizations during World War II, and his founding of the Australian National University. Illuminating an extraordinary life and career, this examination celebrates the author of Australia.

A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock

In 1932, in Paris, she established Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre (Lyrebird Press), and as a music publisher set about reviving baroque and medieval music, in rare editions notable both for their scholarship and sumptuousness. Later (assisted by a second husband, 25 years younger) she began to make discs to illustrate these editions. From that original idea the recording venture grew and grew: in 1950 Louise made the first long-playing records in Europe, and by the time she died Oiseau-Lyre was a famous label, putting out some of the earliest recordings by such people as Dame Joan Sutherland, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and Dame Janet Baker.

Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962

Lyrebird Rising

Essays by Jim Davidson including excerpts from The Indomitus Report. This book covers topics on individual sovereignty, agorism, freedom, arms and armor technology, guns, launch vehicles, missiles, the space frontier, extra-solar planets, longevity research, culture, society, films, nanotechnology, privacy technology, and travel to Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.

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