Hanson: 528 books
by Lee Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Brutally murdered in an Orlando townhouse, Topaz Bonnefille was a cipher, a zero, a beautiful woman in her late thirties with no past and suddenly, no future. There are no leads and the case is languishing. A compassionate, elderly neighbor, a woman of means who was her only friend, hires Private...
The Savior Generals
How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Stirring portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson.
"Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book"--The Washington Examiner
Prominent military historian...
Hardwiring Happiness
The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day.
Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because...
Between War and Peace
Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these challenging new essays, he examines the world’s ongoing war on terrorism, from America to...
The Father of Us All
War and History, Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes,...
Resilient
How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world.
True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every...
The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast
Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a global movement with more than half a million Ghanaian members, runs an extensive network of English-language schools and medical facilities in Ghana today. Founded in South Asia in 1889, the Ahmadiyya arrived in Ghana when a small coastal community invited an Ahmadiyya...
Generational Curses in the Pentateuch
An American and Maasai Intercultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Although the demographics of World Christianity demonstrate a population shift to the Global South, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, the preponderance of biblical scholarship continues to be dominated by Western scholars in pursuit of their contextual questions that are influenced by an Enlightenment-oriented...
by Elizabeth C. Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
This readable and cogent book provides a much-needed overview of the information revolution in a global context. First tracing the historical evolution of communications since the development of the printing press, Elizabeth C. Hanson then explores the profound ways that new information and communication...
The Western Way of War
Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, maneuver, or combat between individual...
The Great Fire of London
In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Acclaim for The Great Fire of London
"Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written. . . . The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotations with great skill."
—Times Literary Supplement
"The brilliance...
The Community College and the Good Society
How the Liberal Arts Were Undermined and What We Can Do to Bring Them Back
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College...
Hunting Camp 52
Tales from a North Woods Deer Camp
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Meet the Jolly Boys—five men from northern Wisconsin who built a deer hunting shack in 1955 and established a tradition that has now lasted over six decades. Hunting Camp 52, affectionately known as Blue Heaven, is a place where every trail, rock, and ravine has its own nickname; every kill is recorded...
Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith
The Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in Fear and Trembling
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling is one of the most widely read works of Continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion. While several commentaries and critical editions exist, Jeffrey Hanson offers a distinctive approach to this crucial text. Hanson gives equal weight and attention to...