Harry Lewis: 16 books
Excellence Without a Soul
Does Liberal Education Have a Future?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
America's great research universities are the envy of the world-and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of...
by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Harry Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“In the face of much handwringing over higher education in America today, this eclectic set of essays offers an engaging call to sustain core values like civic education, the liberal arts, intellectual community and not pandering to fake science, even as a hugely different population with very...
Teaching America
The Case for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...
Blown to Bits
Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.
Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world...
by Lewis Harry
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Hidden Treasures. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Harry A. Lewis, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs...
PIRATE NOVELS: 50+ Adventure Classics, Treasure Hunt Tales & Maritime Novels
Treasure Island, Captain Blood, Sea Hawk, The Dark Frigate, Blackbeard, Pieces of Eight, Captain Singleton, Facing the Flag, Swords of the Red Brotherhood, Gold-Bug, The Ghost Pirates and many more
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Sale with the iconic pirate-villains and outlaws, experience great sea adventures and dangerous treasure hunts! You will find it all in this passionately edited collection: Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini) Sea Hawk (Sabatini) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces...
by Harry A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognised fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor. As our title indicates, we shall endeavour to show "why some succeed while others fail. (Google)
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The troopships "Somali," "Tydeus," and "Nagoya" rubbed the Bakaritza and Smolny quays sullenly and listed heavily to port. The American doughboys grimly marched down the gangplanks and set their feet on the soil of Russia, September 5th, 1918. The dark waters of the Dvina River were beaten into fury...
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 1998
The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: what can we know and how can we know it? What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of...
by Harry A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred...
by Harry A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor. As our title indicates, we shall endeavor to show "why some succeed while others fail." Knowing that everybody desires success, and recognizing the...
by Michael S. Berliner, Andy Bernstein, Harry Binswanger
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in 1938 in Britain, and subsequently...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...
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