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Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for human rights -- is the only real foundation for peace....
Made from Scratch
Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of “women’s work,” Made from Scratch addresses the tug that many Americans feel between our professional and private lives.
In this stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of "women's work," acclaimed journalist Jean...
The American Way of War
Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, Eugene Jarecki, the creator of the award-winning documentary Why We Fight, launches a penetrating and revelatory inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted...
The Rehnquist Choice
The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy.
by Joyce Antler
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A unique, positive collection of essays profiles a number of forgotten female Jewish leaders who played key roles in various American social and political movements, from suffrage and birth control to civil rights and fair labor practices.
Arguing the World
The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2000
From cafeterias to cocktail parties to the pages of influential journals of opinion, few groups of friends have argued ideas so passionately and so publicly as the writers and critics known as the New York intellectuals. A brilliantly contentious circle of thinkers, they wielded enormous influence...
The Future and Its Enemies
The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tell us, is...
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn—or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no...
No Crueler Tyrannies
Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
In 1742, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, wrote, "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." Two hundred forty-three years later, in 1985, Dorothy Rabinowitz, a syndicated columnist and television commentator, encountered...
From Paralysis to Fatigue
A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical and cultural context.
This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized...
Shadows Bright as Glass
The Remarkable Story of One Man's Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
On a sunny fall afternoon in 1988, Jon Sarkin was playing golf when, without a whisper of warning, his life changed forever. As he bent down to pick up his golf ball, something strange and massive happened inside his head; part of his brain seemed to unhinge, to split apart and float away. For an...
The Great Starvation Experiment
The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out?
In The Great Starvation Experiment,...
Safe Blood
Purifying the Nations Blood Supply in the Age of A
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Thousands of hemophiliac children have contracted hepatitis and aids from transfusion with infected blood. Ninety-five percent of all Americans will need transfusions at some point in their lives; yet it has taken the terrifying emergence of AIDS to alert an unsuspecting public to the actual risks...
by Eugene Hickok, Gary L. Macdowell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A detailed analysis of a child-abuse case reveals all of the aspects of the judicial system, including the limits of justice, and makes an argument for judicial restraint.