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by Dick Free Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
This is a sexy and romantic short story filled with love scenes, action, and mystery.
by James Carse
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite.”
Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games...
by Reuben Abel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An intelligently truthful book that explores the uneven landscape of the human intellect.
An accessible introduction to philosophy, this book narrows the gap between the general reader and intellectual inquiry. Its points are illustrated with concrete examples that should call the reader to a higher level of critical thinking and self-perception.
Civilization and Its Enemies
The Next Stage of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe....They forget that in time of danger, in the...
Penelope Perfect
A Tale of Perfectionism Gone Wild
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
“I’d never been late for anything. I just knew this would be a bad day.” When Penelope oversleeps, her daily routine gets thrown for a loop. From wearing mismatched socks to receiving her first-ever “B,” will “Penelope Perfect” survive this imperfect day? This encouraging story told...
No Peace, No Honor
Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2001
In 1973, Henry Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize for the secret negotiations that led to the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. Nixon famously declared the 1973 agreement to be "peace with honor"; America was disengaging, yet South Vietnam still stood to fight its own...
Dude, That's Rude!
(Get Some Manners)
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Kids today need manners more than ever, and Dude, That’s Rude! makes it fun and easy to get some. Full-color cartoons and kid-friendly text teach the basics of polite behavior in all kinds of situations—at home, at school, in the bathroom, on the phone, at the mall, and more. Kids learn Power...
by Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Originally published in The Hafner Library of Classics in 1953, The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas provides important insights into the human side of one of the most influential medieval philosophers. St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1226–1274) is recognized for having synthesized Christian theology...
Liberty's Surest Guardian
American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Americans are a nation-building people, and in Liberty’s Surest Guardian, Jeremi Suri—Nobel Fellow and leading light in the next generation of policy makers—looks to America’s history to see both what it has to offer failed states around the world and what it should avoid. Far from being cold...
Shelter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother.
For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect....
What You Have Left
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
What You Have Left is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and, most of all, longing.
In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie tells her he just...
The End of Days
Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
The new millennium dawned quietly, defying modern-day prophets of apocalypse. Yet for countless believers around the globe - Christians, Jews and Muslims -- anticipation that the world is about to end burns more intensely than ever. God's kingdom is near, they believe, and the key to salvation is...
Much Ado About Loving
What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
“A treat for any book lover, happily mated or cheerfully single” (USA TODAY)—two popular journalists give hilarious relationship advice borrowed from the most famous characters in literature.
Finding love should be easier than ever before, given all the freedoms we enjoy. But as it turns...
A Return to Modesty
Discovering the Lost Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.
When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion...