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The Great Penguin Rescue
40,000 Penguins, a Devastating Oil Spill, and the Inspiring Story of the World's Largest Animal Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
ON JUNE 23, 2000, the iron-ore carrier MV Treasure, en route from Brazil to China, foundered off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of oil into the ocean and contaminating the habitat of 75,000 penguins. Realizing thJuneat 41 percent of the world’s population of African penguins...
by John R. Searle
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.
In The Construction of Social Reality,...
Vietnam
The Necessary War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A quarter century after its end, the Vietnam War still divides Americans. Some, mostly on the left, claim that Indochina was of no strategic value to the United States and was not worth an American war. Others, mostly on the right, argue that timid civilian leaders and defeatists within the media...
by Ernest Becker
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
Darwin's Black Box
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2001
The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong?
In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate...
Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees
The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1999
Cooperation is the fabric that keeps society together. Civilization could not have been achieved -- and will not be sustained -- without it. But what is it? How and why does it work? Could the secret of enhancing human cooperation lie in an investigation of the animal kingdom?
In Cheating Monkeys...
by Robert Zubrin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream-the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit.
Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading...
Embracing the Wide Sky
A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Owner of "the most remarkable mind on the planet," (according to Entertainment Weekly) Daniel Tammet captivated readers and won worldwide critical acclaim with the 2007 New York Times bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating...
Fire & Roses
The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirling...
by Suzanne Slater
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Until now, lesbian families have had little help in identifying the stages of their couple relationships or recognizing the often stressful periods of relational transition. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Suzanne Slater describes the joys and stresses common to lesbian families and...
Marching Toward Hell
America and Islam After Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
When Michael Scheuer first questioned the goals of the Iraq War in his 2004 bestseller Imperial Hubris, policymakers and ordinary citizens alike stood up and took notice. Now, Scheuer offers a scathing and frightening look at how the Iraq War has been a huge setback to America's War on Terror, making...
The Doubter's Companion
A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire wrote a sharply humorous "Philosophical Dictionary," while Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was derisive and opinionated. These early...
by Michael Maren
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
A stunning personal narrative of best intentions gone awry, Michael Maren, at one time an aid worker and journalist in Somalia, writes of the failure of international charities.
Michael Maren spent years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist, where he witnessed at a harrowing...
Pig Candy
Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home--A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed Black, White, Other, comes to...