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The Revolt Against the Masses
How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. It shows that what we think of as liberalism-the top-and-bottom coalition we associate with President Obama-began not with Progressivism or the New Deal but rather in the wake of WWI, in disillusionment with American society. In the...
by Fred Reed
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
From Award-Winning Author Q. David Bowers. Collect, grade, and attribute your paper money. Organize your collection, with Friedberg and Whitman numbering systems. Make wise purchases in today's market. 900 Pages; more than 1,600 full-color images. Printing quantities for nearly all issues - a guide to...
by Fred Thursfield
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
London 1895. A well known author, a theoretical invention made real, and the importance of a sometimes overlooked clue challenge Holmes and Watson to prevent the perfect crime.
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Four Theories of the Press
The Authoritarian, Libertarian, Social Responsibility, and Soviet Communist Concepts of What the Press Should Be and Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1963
Presented here are four major theories behind the functioning of the world's presses: (1) the Authoritarian theory, which developed in the late Renaissance and was based on the idea that truth is the product of a few wise men; (2) the Libertarian theory, which arose from the works of men like Milton,...
by Fred Walther
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Our true story begins in Hungary with the Hungarian hussars, a group of mercenaries, and ends with the third generation, an American icon, Minnesota Fats, the hustler and entertainer known around the world. The lives of the three Wanderons have touched historys most memorable events from the past...
by Fred Stanniford
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the U.S. Virgin Islands, an unincorporated organized territory of the United States of America between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico.
The U.S. Virgin Islands was formerly known as the Danish...
by Fred Lewis Pattee
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
This pioneering history, published in 1915, championed the study of American literature. In its preface, Pattee boldly writes, "One can say of the period . . . that the great mass of its writings could have been produced nowhere else but in the United States." Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Walt Whitman, southern poets, and the main themes of American literature—all are deservedly mentioned here.
The politics of civil society (Second edition)
Big society and small government
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The politics of civil society is an original, thought provoking analysis which challenges one-dimensional neoliberal thinking about civil society, and seeks to rediscover its radical roots. The original edition shifted the scholarly debate onto the new ground, offering an accessible and compelling...
The Predator Culture
The Systemic Roots and Intent of Organised Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Drawing on case studies of organized violence-ranging from territorial wars and colonial conquests to non-state variants such as organized crime-this record offers a general theory to account for the use of force in both the state and civil sectors of society. Challenging the popular views that the...
Please Remember My Name…At My Funeral
And Bring Some Chocolate Chip Cookies with You
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
How would you like to be remembered at your funeral or memorial service? Perhaps you don't care although that's hard to believe. Would you care if the officiating person even mentions your name or anything about a few personal accomplishments or family relationships? As an emloyee of a funeral home...
Theology and Public Philosophy
Four Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This volume brings together eminent theologians, philosophers and political theorists to discuss the relevance of theology and theologically grounded moral reflection to contemporary America’s public life and argument. Avoiding the focus on hot-button issues, shrill polemics, and sloganeering that...
by John C. Eby, Fred Morton
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is facing tremendous social anxiety and violence. The object of the talks, and of the game, is to reach consensus for a constitution that will guide a post-apartheid...