Bruce: 4211 books
by Bruce Kraig, Patty Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American culture? Man Bites Dog explores the transformation of hot dogs from unassuming street fare to paradigms of regional expression, social mobility, and democracy....
by Bruce Neuburger
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger—young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley—took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous...
The Search for Al Qaeda
Its Leadership, Ideology, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history. Yet most people in the West know very little about it, or their view is clouded by misperceptions and half truths. This widely acclaimed book fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of al Qaeda-the origins, leadership, ideology, and...
14 Days
Making the Conservative Movement in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
A first-hand look into the back rooms of the conservative movement in Canada, 14 Days provides insights into how the recent history of the Canadian right has influenced the Conservative government over the past two decades. Bruce Carson, having worked in close proximity to many Conservative leaders,...
Anonymous Soldiers
The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Winner of the Washington Institute Book Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year
St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kirkus Reviews
In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial...
Crisis in the Southwest
The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that virtually assured annexation at some point. Mexico's reluctance to give up Texas put it on a collision course...
Dominion from Sea to Sea
Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s two largest oceans—the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America’s relationship...
by Bruce Bickel, Stan Jantz, Christopher Greer
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Bestselling Authors Tackle Difficult Issues for Believers and Doubters
When it comes to the big questions about God--Is he real? Why are Christians so unlike Jesus? Does he really care about me?--Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz don't pretend to have all the answers. But they do know how to wrestle...
by Bruce Fink
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
"[A] useful and detailed work for the professionals who want to familiarize themselves with Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories." --APA Division 39 Newsletter
What does it mean to practice psychoanalysis as Jacques Lacan did? How did Lacan translate his original theoretical insights...
by Bruce Everett Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In chat rooms, magazine articles and martial arts clubs there are people who love and people who hate pressure points.Both camps have their reasons why they believe as they do and arguments ensue.Bruce Everett Miller is experienced in Chinese and Western medical practices and is the...
The Self Illusion
How the Social Brain Creates Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? The idea of a "self" has existed ever since humans began to live in groups and become sociable. Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East, feel fulfilled and purposeful....
Constitutional Peril
The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Renowned attorney and political critic Bruce Fein reveals the dangers our Constitution and our nation have faced courtesy of the Bush Administration and a Congress asleep at the switch. In blistering detail, he deconstructs the policies of Bush in the War on Terror--from the flouting of the Foreign...
Stories from Afield
Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West’s most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the...
by Bruce Fink
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. Written...