Comparative category: 2220 books
Borderless Economics
Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Acentury ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call - or Skype - home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their native countries,...
by Thomas Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A revised and enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's essential examination of differences of wealth and income between nations and within nations
Wealth, Poverty and Politics challenges the assumptions, the definitions, the evidence and the reasoning of most of what is said about differences of...
Chips and Change
How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage.
For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors,...
by Kevin Solimon
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
If you're struggling to be wealthy and are wondering how to achieve your goals, then keep reading. This book is your comprehensive guideline to becoming wealthy by identifying and weeding out your poor habits.
As you flip through the pages, you will find fifteen chapters, elucidating on the...
Protestant, Catholic, Jew
An Essay in American Religious Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
"The most honored discussion of American religion in mid-twentieth century times is Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew. . . . [It] spoke precisely to the mid-century condition and speaks in still applicable ways to the American condition and, at its best, the human condition." —Martin...
My Jesus Year
A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
One day a Georgia-born son of an Orthodox rabbi discovers that his enthusiasm for Judaism is flagging. He observes the Sabbath, he goes to synagogue, and he even flies to New York on weekends for a series of "speed dates" with nice, eligible Jewish girls. But, something is missing. Looking...
Tea with Hezbollah
Sitting at the Enemies Table Our Journey Through the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Is it really possible to love one’s enemies?
That’s the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel and glass high rises of Saudi Arabia, then...
by Jeremy Waldron
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.
Encountering God
A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Religion scholar Diana Eck is director of the Pluralism Project, which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, particularly the increasing presence of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim communities. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, Eck shows why dialogue with...
Wicca: A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner
A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature.
Heaven on Earth
The Varieties of the Millennial Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Millennialists through the ages have looked forward to the apocalyptic moment that will radically transform society into heaven on earth. They have delivered withering critiques of their own civilizations and promised both the impending annihilation of the forces of evil and the advent of a perfect...
Jerusalem
One City, Three Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered terrible tragedy. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly praised A History of God,...
Christian Martyrs under Islam
Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and...
by Joseph Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Joseph Campbell famously compared mythology to a kangaroo pouch for the human mind and spirit: "a womb with a view." In Myths to Live By, he examines all of the ways in which myth supports and guides us, giving our lives meaning. Love and war, science and religion, East and West, inner space and outer...