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by Robert H. Bork
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.
In The Tempting of America, one of our most distinguished legal minds offers a brilliant argument for the wisdom and necessity of interpreting the...
Remembered Self
Emotion and Memory in Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A theory for psychologists on the role of memory in personality psychology.
In The Remembered Self, Jefferson A. Singer and Peter Salovey persuasively argue that memories are an important window into one's life story, revealing characteristic moods, motives, and thinking patterns. Through experimental...
A Grand and Bold Thing
An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
LATE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, what had been a fevered pace of discovery in astronomy for many years had slowed. The Hubble Space Telescope continued to produce an astonishing array of images, but the study of the universe was still fractured into domains: measuring the universe’s expansion rate,...
The Jive Talker
An Artist's Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
What do you do when it looks like the odds were stacked against you before you were even born, when you're having trouble feeding a family that just keeps growing, when you've got a little too much of an affection for Carlsberg Brown and when the life president of your country, Malawi, keeps shuffling...
by Geoffrey L. Greif, Rebecca L. Hegar
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
What happens when a child is kidnapped from home by his or her own parent? What are the emotional and psychological consequences of living in hiding for weeks, months, or even years for a child? How does the parent left behind cope with having no knowledge of the child’s whereabouts or well-being? And what could lead a parent to inflict such a painful existence on his or her own child?
The Goddess and the Bull
Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of human cultural evolution at this huge, spectacularly...
A Letter in the Scroll
Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, when Hitler proposed...
Closing the Gap
A Strategy for Bringing Parents and Teens Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Parents: Does your teen withdraw to his or her room at every opportunity? Does she talk with you about her friends? Does he participate in discussions at meals? Does your teen want you to see projects from school? When is the last time you actually went into your teen's room and looked at what's hanging...
And Words Can Hurt Forever
How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2002
As a society, we are only just beginning to understand the degree of damage that bullying inflicts on individual teenagers and on their relationships later in life. In this groundbreaking work, James Garbarino and Ellen deLara uncover the staggering extent of emotional cruelty and its ramifications...
No Ordinary Matter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Jenny McPhee's critically acclaimed debut, The Center of Things, was hailed by O, The Oprah Magazine as "a smart novel of love, lust, and life's miraculous randomness." The New York Times Book Review called it "an engaging novel about big ideas." In her delightful new novel, No Ordinary Matter, McPhee...
How to Read the Bible
A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, “awesome, thrilling” (The New York Times), “wonderfully interesting, extremely well presented” (The Washington Post), and “a tour de force...a stunning narrative” (Publishers Weekly). Now in its tenth year of...
by Robert Brentano
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Spanning the years 500 to 1000 A.D., this volume illustrates the conflict between brutality and civilization that seemed to characterize the period so often called—not improperly—the "Dark Ages." Islam and Byzantium, as much as Western Europe, figure in the twenty-two chapters of documents offered in this book, part of the ten-volume series, "Sources of Western Civilization."
Innovation Nation
How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Not long ago, Americans could rightfully feel confident in our preeminence in the world economy. The United States set the pace as the world's leading innovator: from the personal computer to the internet, from Wall Street to Hollywood, from the decoding of the genome to the emergence of Web 2.0,...
Ancient Zionism
The Biblical Origins of the National Idea
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In this unusual and provocative book, Victor Erlich uncovers the origins of the national idea in the Hebrew Bible. Through a series of sensitive and original readings of well-known biblical episodes, Erlich argues that ancient Zionism was not an ideological construct but rather a unique marriage of literary imagination and ethnic pride.