Gary: 4892 books
by Gary Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist...
Nietzsche's Earth
Great Events, Great Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at Nietzsche’s thought, the nineteenth-century philosopher actually anticipated some of the most pressing questions of our own era. Putting Nietzsche into...
Politics and the Occult
The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
The gritty business of politics is not something we usually associate with the occult. But esoteric beliefs have influenced the destiny of nations since the time of ancient Egypt and China, when decisions of state were based on portents and astrology, to today, when presidents and prime ministers...
by Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
A fresh new look for the best-selling series from America’s number-one inspirational novelist, Karen Kingsbury. Fans will enjoy a personal note from Karen and Gary Smalley as well as discussion questions for book group use. Revisit the Baxter family in all their life-changing events, or share the...
When America Liked Ike
How Moderates Won the 1952 Presidential Election and Reshaped American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The 2016 election cycle put in sharp relief the rifts that divide, and threaten to destroy, the Republican Party. While some claim these divisions originated in Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” or in Newt Gingrich’s tenure as Minority Whip, Gary Donaldson argues that the conflict has its origins...
by Gary Sheffield
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for those encountering the period for the first time.
Synthesising the latest scholarship, acclaimed...
Kitchens
The Culture of Restaurant Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting...
The Obama Question
A Progressive Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 was hailed by many as a historic event and by some as the end of the Reagan era in American politics. But conservatives have condemned Obama from the beginning of his presidency, and many progressives charge that Obama has betrayed the causes...
by Gary Hardwick
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Inspector Tony Hill, head of the Special Crimes unit, is called in to investigate the mutilation murder of a crack cocaine dealer whose hands have been severed by a psychopath. The case quickly falls into place as one of a series of similar, drug-related killings, with the murderer, dubbed "the...
The Making of Modern America
The Nation from 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The third edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson’s highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day. While deftly cataloguing the sweeping changes and major events...
Holy Wars
3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land—a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world and throughout the millennia.
Holy...
The Inner Bird
Anatomy and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Birds are among the most successful vertebrates on Earth. An important part of our natural environment and deeply embedded in our culture, birds are studied by more professional ornithologists and enjoyed by more amateur enthusiasts than ever before. However, both amateurs and professionals typically...
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity
Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to...
Down and Dirty Justice
An Idealistic Professor Turned Prosecutor's Chilling Initiation Into Legal and Criminal Treachery
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
When Professor of Law Gary T. Lowenthal takes a sabbatical and descends from the ivory towers of academia, he finds himself in a very different system of criminal justice than the one her trains his students to expect. Working in the trenches at the county attorney's office, he becomes entangled in a...