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The Texas Miracle
The Tale of the River Card, Round Ii
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
In The Texas Miracle, author John Marshall offers a detailed examination of the largest political fraud in Texas since the Sharpstown scandal in the early 1970s. An extension of his earlier book, Playing Possum, he expands on the information surrounding a massive land deal.
Marshall offers...
Contemporary Jewish Writing
Austria After Waldheim
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years. Beginning with the Waldheim affair and the rhetorical response by the three most prominent members of the survivor generation...
The Catholicisms of Coutances
Varieties of Religion in Early Modern France, 1350-1789
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The Catholicisms of Coutances is a richly detailed account of France from the Hundred Years' War to the French revolution. Coining the word "catholicisms" to denote the complex varieties of religious beliefs and practices within the Church, J. Michael Hayden presents a detailed analysis of the diocese...
by Vladimir I. Chizhik, Yuri S. Chernyshev, Alexey V. Donets
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The book is devoted to the description of the fundamentals in the area of magnetic resonance. The book covers two domains: radiospectroscopy and quantum radioelectronics. Radiospectroscopy comprises nuclear magnetic resonance , electron paramagnetic resonance, nuclear quadrupolar resonance, and some...
The Unholy Trinity
Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
It's now or never for conservative values.
This highly anticipated debut from Matt Walsh of The Blaze demands that conservative voters make a last stand and fight for the moral center of America. The Trump presidency and Republican Congress provides an urgent opportunity to stop the Left's...
Religion in Public
Locke's Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom: secularization is widely understood as entailing the privatization of religion, and the separation of religion from power. This book turns that conventional...
Relativism and Religion
Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Moral relativism is deeply troubling for those who believe that, without a set of moral absolutes, democratic societies will devolve into tyranny or totalitarianism. Engaging directly with this claim, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the roots of contemporary anti-relativist fears to the antimodern...
The Right Side of History
How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller.
Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?
In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California–Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers...
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Images of Thomas Jefferson's hand-drafted copy of The Declaration of Independence have been added.
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence summarizes America's founding political philosophy. At once a cherished symbol of liberty and an expression of Jefferson's monumental talents as a writer, the document captures in unforgettable phrases the...
Raised Right
How I Untangled My Faith from Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Meet the new breed of Christians shaping our culture.
Alisa Harris grew up in a family that actively fought injustice and moral decay in America. She spent much of her childhood picketing abortion clinics and being home-schooled in the ways of conservative-Republican Christianity. As a teen...
Memories of Long Pond
Northwood, New Hampshire
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
At the end of the Revolutionary War, James Steven James settled the land around Long Pond, a 101.9-acre, spring-fed lake tucked away in Northwood, New Hampshire. Once a working farm, the land was later divided and became Long Pond Estates. In Memories of Long Pond, author Irene E. DuPont shares the...
First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama
From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. This expanded and updated fourth edition includes Laura Bush's tenure, Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, and an in-depth...
Watergate: The Hidden History
Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established-most recently by PBS in 2003-what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon’s motive. Why was President Nixon willing to risk his reelection with so many...
The Making of a Catholic President
Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
The 1960 presidential election, won ultimately by John F. Kennedy, was one of the closest and most contentious in American history. The country had never elected a Roman Catholic president, and the last time a Catholic had been nominated--New York Governor Al Smith in 1928--he was routed in the general...