Ben: 3397 books

In Can America Survive? authors Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth examine this anti-American rage, providing plentiful and outrageous examples from campuses to foundations to Democratic candidate debates to liberal "fund-raisers" that openly tout hate as their message. The authors then attempt to...

"Hollywood is a small town. We don’t like strangers here." So said a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel of Hollywood, The Last Tycoon. And it’s true. Breaking into Hollywood and riding to success there are no easy tasks. But Ben Stein and Al Burton have created a road map for succeeding...

This groundbreaking history of Victorian politics, feminism and parliamentary reform challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights and demonstrates how political activity has been shaped by changes in the history of masculinity. From...

In this new and entirely revised edition of his study of Green's theory of positive freedom, Ben Wempe argues that the far-reaching and beneficial influence of Green's political doctrine, on public policy as well as in the field of political theory, was founded on a misinterpretation of his philosophical...

The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Battle of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close...

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 11 and all three Literature and Culture options (Components 21–23): Thematic Study: Myth and Religion by Ben Greenley Literature...

The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his faith, Mexico's...

Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath. During the first winter of the war, Confederate soldiers derided the men of an Alabama Confederate unit for their...

Would a mysterious letter pinned to your front door alter your life? What if it set in motion a chain of events leading to the discovery of a hidden underground city to search for a secret artefact that has lain hidden for almost six hundred years? An artefact that holds the truth to the origins of earth’s civilisations that the Catholic Church wish to destroy. Would you be curious?

Combining close readings of literature and theory, Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction opens up new ways to consider the sex-time-space nexus. In an exciting and compelling contribution to contemporary literary studies, this book takes the concept of ‘exceptionality’ as its point of departure...

Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best,and his...

Fernando Benítez nos ha dejado un amplio reportaje sobre Lázaro Cárdenas y la Revolución mexicana dividido en tres volúmenes. Este primer tomo estudia la etapa del porfirismo, que va de la dictadura de Porfirio Díaz hasta la Convención de Aguascalientes.

Hay pocos países que conserven tal memoria de la sabiduría antigua, de la magia primigenia, como la que conservan los distintos grupos indígenas de México: la riqueza y vitalidad de creencias anteriores tanto al cristianismo como a la razón occidental es asombrosa. Asombrosa también fue la empresa...

Con sus dones de narrador fiel a los hechos, Benítez nos muestra en este libro cómo los huicholes, al repetir en su peregrinación mística al desierto de San Luis Potosí la cacería sagrada emprendida por los dioses en el tiempo originario, aspiran a hacerse contemporáneos de esos dioses. La...