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by John Ralston Saul
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling “corporatist” structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats as it promotes the segmentation of society into competing interest groups and ethnic blocks.
by Emile Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Revised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes that puts Durkheim’s work into context for the twenty-first century...
Running as a Woman
Gender and Power in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Women have become a strong force in electoral politics, as candidates, office holders, and vocal constituents. In Running as a Woman, Linda Witt, Karen Paget, and Glenna Matthews explore the significant issues for women in public life: their marital status, the threat of sexual innuendo, what’s...
by Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Now fully updated and totally revised, this highly regarded classic remains the most comprehensive study available of America’s military history.
Called “the preeminent survey of American military history” by Russell F. Weigley, America’s foremost military historian, For the Common...
Woman of Valor
Clara Barton and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995
When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of...
Between War and Peace
How America Ends Its Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
An emperor bows abjectly before his conquerors on the deck of a battleship. As smoke yet rises from a bloody battlefield, a dejected general proffers his sword to his victorious opponent. Frock-coated ministers exchange red leather–bound treaty books in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. These are...
David and Solomon
In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible...
Big Girls Don't Cry
The Election that Changed Everything for American Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Journalist and Salon writer Rebecca Traister investigates the 2008 presidential election and its impact on American politics, women and cultural feminism. Examining the role of women in the campaign, from Clinton and Palin to Tina Fey and young voters, Traister confronts the tough questions of what...
In the Line of Fire
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama...
Truth to Tell
Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 1999
On a November afternoon in 1996, Lanny Davis got a phone call that would change his life. It was from a top aide at the White House, asking him if he was interested in joining the president's senior staff. Within a few short weeks he had signed on as special counsel to the president. Fourteen months...
Reagan's Path to Victory
The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
In the last years of Ronald Reagan's life, his voluminous writings on politics, policy, and people finally emerged and offered a Rosetta stone by which to understand him. From 1975 to 1979, in particular, he delivered more than 1,000 radio addresses, of which he wrote at least 680 himself. When drafts...
Presidential Leadership
Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2004
What makes a president great? Two of America's most prominent institutions, The Wall Street Journal and the Federalist Society, with the help of a wide array of eminent scholars, journalists, and political leaders, tackle this question in Presidential Leadership, the definitive ranking of our nation's...
A Fierce Discontent
The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in A
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking;...
Forgotten Heroes
Inspiring American Portraits From Our Leading Hist
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1999
The pages of the past are full of characters who remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of men and women, whether famous or humble. Where would America be without George Washington, or Daniel Boone, or Sojourner Truth, or Babe Ruth? Where would we be without so many characters who are...