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The Right Moment
Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just two years earlier, when Barry Goldwater lost to Lyndon Johnson by a landslide, the conservative movement was pronounced dead. In California, Governor...
Other Greeks
The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
Everyone has been taught that the Greek city-state is the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture. Now Victor Hanson, the author of several studies...
Atomic America
How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men: John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg. The Army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. Though it has been overshadowed by the accident...
by Daniel E. Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The story of Culpeper County, Virginia, is a unique one in Civil War history. Nestled in one of the South’s most strategically important locations, it was occupied by the Northern army, recaptured by the Confederacy, and finally ceded to the North. Told largely through diaries, papers, and correspondence...
Acting Out
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
From the bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch comes a novel about a modern woman living in -- and acting out -- her role as an upper-class African-American suburban wife.
Ina West is caught between the life she thought she was supposed to lead and the dreams she gave up long ago. Raised...
The Presidential Difference
Leadership Style from Roosevelt to Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
As Americans choose and install a new president for a new century they could do no better than to read this work by one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. Drawing on a quarter-century's immersion in the presidential record and scores of interviews, Fred I. Greenstein provides a fascinating...
Men Astutely Trained
A History of the Jesuits in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A perceptive & provocative analysis of the transformation that swept through American Catholicism in the decades leading up to Vatican II.
The Jesuits have been the carriers of a culture borne along by a fruitful & often frustrating tension between their dual commitment to ancient virtues &...
The Science of God
The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
For the readers of The Language of God, another instant classic from "a sophisticated and original scholar" (Kirkus Reviews) that disputes the idea that science is contrary to religion.
In The Science of God, distinguished physicist and Biblical scholar Gerald L. Schroeder demonstrates the...
by Karen Deits Carlson, Anastasia Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Tired of wringing your hands, shaking your head, or even giving up over the suffering in the world today? Without a doubt, our world is at war. Because millions of women and children have been tagged as disposable, forgotten, or hidden, they live under the radar. Just about anything can be done to them...and...
by Free From Bondage Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
We all know that Christ told us: “Many will follow Me with their mouth, but few will follow Me with their heart”. In many of our ministry books, e-mails, and MP3's, I stress the importance of that by pointing out loud and clear that we need to “Pour our hearts out to God”, that we need to...
The Greatest Game
The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of '78
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
In this spellbinding book, Richard Bradley tells the story of what was surely the greatest major league game of our lifetime and perhaps in the history of professional baseball. That game, played at Fenway Park on the afternoon of October 4, 1978, was the culmination of one of the most tense, emotionally...
Childhood Unbound
Saving Our Kids' Best Selves--Confident Parenting in a World of Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Dr. Ron Taffel, one of the country's most sought-after child-rearing experts, draws on decades of counseling experience and extensive conversations with parents nationwide to offer an original and inspiring analysis of the distinctive challenges parents face in raising children today. He also introduces...
Why Is It Always About You?
The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
In this groundbreaking book -- the first popular book on narcissism in more than a decade -- clinical social worker and psychotherapist Sandy Hotchkiss shows you how to cope with controlling, egotistical people who are incapable of the fundamental give-and-take that sustains healthy relationships....
Enough Already!
Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Does your life feel out of balance? Peter Walsh can help you tackle everything in your busy life.
Most of us are so overwhelmed by work, bills, and school and family commitments that we rush from person to person and place to place without ever feeling satisfied—sometimes giving one area...