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The Battle of Ole Miss
Civil Rights v. States' Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at Ole Miss. The violent riot that followed would be one of the most deadly clashes of the civil rights era, seriously wounding scores of U.S. Marshals and killing two civilians, and forcing the federal government...
The Ideas Industry
How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker...
The Color of America Has Changed
How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
From the moment that the attack on the "problem of the color line," as W.E.B. DuBois famously characterized the problem of the twentieth century, began to gather momentum nationally during World War II, California demonstrated that the problem was one of color lines. In The Color of America...
by John W. Moffat
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Among the current books that celebrate the discovery of the Higgs boson, Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe is a rare objective treatment of the subject. The book is an insider's behind-the-scenes look at the arcane, fascinating world of theoretical and experimental particle physics leading...
Diagnosing Giants
Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar...
Innovation Generation
How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Whether you are a student or an established scientist, researcher, or engineer, you can learn to be more innovative. In Innovation Generation, internationally renowned physician and scientist Roberta Ness provides all the tools you need to cast aside your habitual ways of navigating the every-day...
The Bible and the Believer:How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways? The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant--to...
A Theology in Outline
Can These Bones Live?
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live? began with an undergraduate course taught by Robert W. Jenson at Princeton University in the spring of 2008. Based on a series of twenty-three course lectures, it offers a concise and accessible overview of Christian theology while retaining the atmosphere...
The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman
Paths to Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
The spread of Salafism--often referred to as "Wahhabism"--in the West has intrigued and alarmed observers since the attacks of 9/11. Many see it as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that condones the subjugation of women and fuels Jihadist extremism. This view depicts Salafi women...
The Prophet of Cuernavaca
Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich is best known for books like Deschooling Society and Medical Nemesis that skewered the dominant institutions of the West in the 1970s. Although commissioned in 1961 by American bishops to run a missionary training center in Cuernavaca, Mexico,...
Walter Camp
Football and the Modern Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Americans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably the greatest amateur...
The Outrage Industry
Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while...
by Deborah L. Rhode
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors. The United States ranks 78th...
Climate Ethics
Essential Readings
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve...