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Easter Island
Island of Enigmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues—called maois.
“When I was a small boy,” Dos Passos says, “some kind person took me to the British Museum....
Walter Pater
Lover of Strange Souls
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
A TWENTIETH-CENTURY intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation...
by Clifford Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would...
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers)...
Makers and Takers
How Conservatives Do All the Work While Liberals Whine and Complain
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
In Makers and Takers you will discover why:
* Seventy-one percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent versus less than half (46 percent) of liberals.
* Conservatives have a better work ethic and are much less likely to call in...
Southern Cross
The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In an astonishing history, a work of strikingly original research and interpretation, Heyrman shows how the evangelical Protestants of the late-18th century affronted the Southern Baptist majority of the day, not only by their opposition to slaveholding, war, and class privilege, but also by their...
by Bret Easton Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
**Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear.
White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with...
Special Providence
American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
From one of our leading experts on foreign policy, a full-scale reinterpretation of America’s dealings—from its earliest days—with the rest of the world.
It is Walter Russell Mead’s thesis that the United States, by any standard, has had a more successful foreign policy than any of...
Maximalist
America in the World from Truman to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a startling and provocative assessment of America’s global dominance. Maximalist puts the history of our foreign policy in an unexpected new light, while drawing fresh, compelling lessons for the present and future.
When...
by Pope John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
A great international bestseller, the book in which, on the eve of the millennium, Pope John Paul II brings to an accessible level the great theological concerns of our lives. He goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about the dignity of man;...
Three Years With Grant
As Recalled by War Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
During the Civil War, Sylvanus Cadwallader, a war correspondent employed first by the Chicago Times and later for the New York Herald, was attached to General Grant’s headquarters from 1862 to 1865. Three Years with Grant is his account of that period.
As a portrait of Grant, the personality...
Honorable Exit
How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge
In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included...
On Learning Golf
A Valuable Guide to Better Golf
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The War & Peace of golf. A quaint old classic from 1946, with an intro by the Duke of Windsor. It's good advice, and seriously, this game has hardly changed a whit in 50 years!
by Pauline Maier
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and Charels Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually overlooked in history books today. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them...