Charles Murray: 35 books
by Charles Murray
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Respected author, scholar, and columnist Charles Murray has long challenged accepted notions of public and social policy issues. In this volume, originally published in 1988, Murray presents a persuasive and practical argument that reconsiders commonly held beliefs of what constitutes success in social...
Human Accomplishment
The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence.
"At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did...
Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.
Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material....
In Our Hands
A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Imagine that the United States were to scrap all its income transfer programs—including Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare—and give every American age twenty-one and older $10,000 a year for life.This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan...
Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Coming Apart - an acclaimed bestseller that explains why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class.
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way...
By the People
Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.
American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of...
What It Means to Be a Libertarian
A Personal Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right--strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. In What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he proposes a government reduced to the barest essentials: an executive...
Sgt. A.F. "Kelly" Murray U.S.M.C.
A Hoosier Hibernian in the Great Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Sgt. A.F. Kelly Murray, a Hoosier Hibernian in the Great Pacific War is the story of an 18-year old from the Irish east side of Indianapolis who spent three years in the Marine Corps at a very critical time for the world. Kelly Murray, an Indianapolis firefighter, died in 1978 at the age of 53 years...
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead
Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
For those starting out in their careers—and those who wish to advance more quickly—this is a delightfully fussy guide to the hidden rules of the road in the workplace and in life.
As bestselling author and social historian Charles Murray explains, at senior levels of an organization there...
American Exceptionalism
An Experiment in History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The phrase “American exceptionalism” is used in many ways and for many purposes, but its original meaning involved a statement of fact: for the first century after the Constitution went into effect, European observers and Americans alike saw the United States as exceptional, with political and...
Losing Ground
American Social Policy, 1950-1980, 10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform. Losing Ground argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities. Charles Murray startled readers by recommending...
by Charles Murray
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Meningitis is a term used to describe an inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain or the spinal cord. Meningitis, especially bacterial meningitis, is a potentially life-threatening condition that can rapidly progress to permanent brain damage, neurologic problems, and even death. Doctors...
by Charles Murray
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
DiGeorge syndrome (22q11.2 deletion syndrome), a disorder caused by a defect in chromosome 22, results in the poor development of several body systems.
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by Charles Murray
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
There are several myths surrounding stretch marks. They can happen to men and women, young and old. Stretch marks can happen anywhere on the body. There are many reasons stretch marks can develop, from physical changes to dietary changes to environmental factors. And for as...