Stanley: 2315 books
by Stanley Harrold
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019
Abraham Lincoln has often been called the “Great Emancipator.” But he was not among those Americans who, decades before the Civil War, favored immediate emancipation of all slaves inside the United States. Those who did were the abolitionists—the...
In His Father's Shadow
The Transformations of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
From a pampered son who showed little promise, to his rise to the presidency, George W. Bush has transformed himself through acts of will and faith. Stanley Renshon examines the psychological transformation of Bush and identifies those pivotal changes that allowed him to achieve success in his personal...
The Death and Life of American Labor
Toward a New Worker's Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor
Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues...
Kofi Annan
A Man of Peace in a World of War
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
In this thoughtful, balanced biography, former Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent Stanley Meisler traces Kofi Annan’s unconventional rise from optimistic student to striving personnel and budget specialist in the United Nations bureaucracy to full-time manager of the world’s...
Devils Walking
Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building...
by Stanley Lane-Poole
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in 1893. Author: Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 Language: English Keywords:Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan, 1618-1707 India -- Kings and rulers Biography Mogul Empire India -- History 1526-1765 Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...
Spreading the Wealth
How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
When Barack Obama told “Joe the Plumber” that he wanted to “spread the wealth around,” he wasn’t just using a figure of speech.
Since the 2008 campaign, Stanley Kurtz has established himself as one of Barack Obama’s most effective and well-informed critics. He was the first to expose...
There's No Such Thing As Free Speech
And It's a Good Thing, Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right...
by Stanley Fields, Mark Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
How tiny variations in our personal DNA can determine how we look, how we behave, how we get sick, and how we get well.
News stories report almost daily on the remarkable progress scientists are making in unraveling the genetic basis of disease and behavior. Meanwhile, new technologies are...
Galileo's Dream
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the...
by Stanley Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
A message to the Church is words we need to hear today in the time we live. The Church has lost its influence in society and needs to be revived to continue the work that Christ set before us. Let this be the wake up call you have been waiting on. Warning! This is intended for the true believer.
Murderous Minds on Trial
Terrible Tales from a Forensic Psychiatrist's Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Each murder trial brings its own tangle of evidence, legal parameters, medical factors, social circumstances, and personalities. The tangle gets trickier when we must keep in mind that: "A person shall not be criminally responsible for an act or omission if they suffer from a mental disorder...
Resident Aliens
Life in the Christian Colony (Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Only when the Church enacts its scandalous Jesus-centered tradition, will it truly be the Body of Christ and transform the world. Twenty-five years after its first publishing, Resident Aliens remains a prophetic vision of how the Church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity...
by Stanley M. Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book, Let No Man Take Your Crown shows the importance of obeying the King's call, as typified by king Ahasuerus, when calling for Queen Vashti to present herself to him. Vashti lost her crown and clout when she refused to come to her husband, king Ahasuerus. All Believers in Christ, male...