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History Man
The Life of R. G. Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian, archaeologist, sailor, artist, and musician....
Currency Conflict and Trade Policy
A New Strategy for the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the twenty-first century,...
That's a Crock, Barack
President Obama’s Record Of Saying Things That Are Untrue, Duplicitous, Arrogant And Delusional Or Barack Obama’s Lies And Why Obama Should Not Be Re-Elected
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Do you have the feeling that President Barack Obama plays fast and loose with the truth and says a whole lot of things that really don’t make sense? In That’s a crock, Barack, Ambassador Fred J. Eckert -- author of the political satire novel Hank Harrison for President that Library Journal hailed...
Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union
Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his other acclaimed books about the American presidency, Fred Greenstein assesses the personal...
The Dominion of War
Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Americans often think of their nation’s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and...
Lobster Boy
The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The shocking exposé of a carny’s murder arranged by his wife—and the daughter who threatened the author to keep the truth from getting out.
In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the legendary carnival “freak” Lobster Boy, author Fred Rosen...
Blood Crimes
The Pennsylvania Skinhead Murders
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Two brothers turn from Jehovah’s Witnesses in Allentown, PA, to neo-Nazi murderers in this true crime investigation from the author of Lobster Boy.
Raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses and frustrated with their parents’ repressive rules, Bryan and David Freeman rebelled as teenagers. Encouraged...
Deacon of Death
Sam Smithers, the Serial Killer Next Door
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author of Lobster Boy.
By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, a respected neighbor to many, and a devoted husband and father....
The Bayou Strangler
Louisiana’s Most Gruesome Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique’s ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down.
In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. The victims—many of them...
When the Rivers Run Dry
Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all.
by Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe.
The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that’s not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a surprisingly hopeful message: We can...
Quantum Enigma
Physics Encounters Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed...
Choosing the StrongPath
Reversing the Downward Spiral of Aging
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Choose health. Choose strength. Choose the StrongPath.
Choosing the StrongPath is a book about the most insidious health crisis in the world, Sarcopenia, a muscle-wasting and frailty disease. It impacts all of us as we age, unless we proactively prevent it.
As a world-renowned investigator...
by Fred D. Cavinder
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
The stories in this book will provide entertainment for everyone and evoke wonder in the most jaded observer of the human condition. Some of the exploits that Fred D. Cavinder describes are half-hidden footnotes to national and international happenings. Others seem so typical of Indiana that they...