John W : 1005 books
by John W. F. Dulles
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians. This study focuses on the formation...
Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil"
Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945)
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Praised by his admirers as "one of those rare heroic figures out of Plutarch" and as "an intrepid Don Quixote," Brazilian lawyer Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of dictator Getlio Vargas. Through legal cases, activism in Catholic and lawyers' associations,...
by Welch, John W.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This Bookshelf Single is an excerpt from the book Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 18201844, Second Edition.John W. Welch discusses the miraculous three-month translation of the Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith. He seeks to answer some of the following questions through analysis...
Warren G. Harding
The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
President Nixon's former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandal
Warren G. Harding may be best known as America's worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corruption in the Veterans Bureau and the Justice Department, and the posthumous revelation of an...
Worse Than Watergate
The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
Former White House counsel and bestselling author John Dean reveals how the Bush White House has set America back decades--employing a worldview and tactics of deception that he claims will do more damage to the nation than Nixon at his worst.
Blind Ambition
The White House Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
A six-month New York Times bestseller: “Not only the best Watergate book, but a very good book indeed” (The Sunday Times).
As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the primary players in the Watergate scandal—and ultimately became the government’s key...
Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader
Volume II: The Years 1960-1977
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
From reviews of Volume I: "Brazilian Crusader is no doubt the best biography yet produced on Lacerda and the second volume . . . is certainly worth waiting for." —Luso-Brazilian Review Journalist and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century...
Resisting Brazil's Military Regime
An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Praised by his many admirers as a "courageous and fearless" defender of human rights, Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getlio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles chronicled Sobral's battles with the Vargas...
Broken Government
How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy
One of today's most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of government no longer operate as intended by the Constitution? Stepping back to assess three decades...
Reinventing Gravity
A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Einstein's gravity theory—his general theory of relativity—has served as the basis for a series of astonishing cosmological discoveries. But what if, nonetheless, Einstein got it wrong?
Since the 1930s, physicists have noticed an alarming discrepancy between the universe as we see it...
The Jesuits
A History from Ignatius to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
As Pope Francis continues to make his mark on the church, there is increased interest in his Jesuit background—what is the Society of Jesus, how is it different from other religious orders, and how has it shaped the world? In The Jesuits, acclaimed historian John W. O’Malley, SJ, provides essential...
Catholic History for Today's Church
How Our Past Illuminates Our Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
We can’t understand the issues swirling in today’s Catholic church without understanding the past. In Catholic History for Today’s Church acclaimed historian John W. O’Malley, SJ, illuminates some of today’s most contentious issues—from celibacy to the role of the pope—through their...
by John W. Sloat
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Moving Beyond The Christian Myth takes the next step beyond Sloats first book on spirituality, A Handbook For Heretics. He explores the roots of the Christian faith, tracing them back to their pagan origins in ancient religions. Then, one by one, he analyzes the essential beliefs of Christianity, showing...
Vatican I
The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources—its spiritual and intellectual appeal, missionary achievements, wealth, diplomatic effectiveness, and stable hierarchy. But in the first half of the nineteenth century, the foundations upon which the church had rested for centuries were...