Baron: 477 books

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The Science of Evil

On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

by Simon Baron-Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011

A groundbreaking and challenging examination of the social, cognitive, neurological, and biological roots of psychopathy, cruelty, and evil Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis: All of these syndromes have one thing in common--lack of empathy. In some cases, this absence...
Book cover of Passages From My Life; Together With Memoirs Of The Campaign of 1813 And 1814
by General Freiherr (Baron) Friedrich Karl Ferdinand von Müffling
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011

Baron von Müffling was an eye-witness to some of the most decisive events of the Napoleonic Wars, born into a noble family he went into the Prussian service, and saw action in the early campaigns of the Revolutionary wars in Holland and Belgium, during which he said he learned very little. He was...
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by Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

“It is extraordinarily alive … The book remains a clear and definite book of our epoch, not to be swept aside.” – D.H. Lawrence “One of the most extraordinary achievements in English literature.” – A.J.A. Symons “Frederick Rolfe alias Baron Corvo is certainly one of the...
Book cover of Fifty Synagogue Seminars
by Jeremy Hugh Baron
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010

During the last twelve years, Dr. Baron has led fifty pre-Sabbath-service seminars at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, New York and/or the New London Synagogue. These didactic essays explore the Bible, theology, liturgy, social responsibility, and the arts - from Who wrote the Bible? to...
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A Better Pencil

Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution

by Dennis Baron
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009

Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love...
Book cover of A Better Pencil : Readers, Writers, And The Digital Revolution
by Dennis Baron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving...
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The Orphan Scandal

Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

by Beth Baron
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014

On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating—and to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt—and contributed to the rise of Islamist...
Book cover of Mémoires Militaires Du Général Baron Boulart Sur Les Guerres De La Republique Et La Empire.
by Général Baron Jean-François Boulart
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

« L'Italie en 1800, le sacre, le siège Dantzig, le bataille de Friedland, le guerre d'Espagne, La campagne de Allemagne en 1809, La Russie, la chute de l'Empire constituent les principaux épisodes de ces utiles mémoires, dans l'ensemble assez exacts. » p 23 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Sur Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971
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Women at War

Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts

by Scott Baron, James E. Wise, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013

Today, women in all U.S. military services are involved in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. They serve as pilots and crewmen of assault helicopters, bombers, fighters, and transport planes, and are frequently engaged in firefights with enemy insurgents while guarding convoys, traveling in hostile territory,...
Book cover of Stranger at a Cafe
by Rochel Baron
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

The fifth and final story in the Rochel Baron Stranger series! She sees the dingy sign from across the street calling to her. When she enters the cafe she sees him immediately! He maybe more then she bargained for as she follows him down a small dark hallway and through the door behind it! This is by far Rochel's best story of the series! It's sexy and classy!
Book cover of Stranger in the Park
by Rochel Baron
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

Stranger in the Park is the fourth story in Rochel Baron's Stranger series! She restlessly wanders the park at night. She has heard rumors of after hour activities here and has come to experience it herself. So far she has been unable to find anybody to peek her interests until she sees him on a park...
Book cover of Stranger at the Theater
by Rochel Baron
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

The third story in Rochel Baron's Stranger series! She sits in a dark theater. Her eyes wander up to an empty viewing box. The box doesn't remain vacant for long as she slips from her seat and heads up the dark stairway followed my a mysterious stranger! Stranger at the Theater gets steamy to say the least!
Book cover of High Court of Admiralty
by Walter Phillimore 1st Baron Phillimore
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

High Court of Admiralty Walter Phillimore 1st Baron Phillimore, british lawyer and judge (1845-1929) This ebook presents «High Court of Admiralty », from Walter Phillimore 1st Baron Phillimore. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY -03- FOOTNOTES
Book cover of Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasons

Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasons

The Islamic Teachings at the Heart of Alchemy

by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

Reveals the secret spiritual exercises of the Bektashi Order of Sufis • Shows how this order, also known as Oriental Freemasonry, preserves the ancient spiritual doctrines forgotten by modern Freemasonry • Explains how to transform the soul into the alchemical Magnum Opus by combining...
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