Jim Powell: 18 books
Wilson's War
How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War I I
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in history
President Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.”...
The Poetry of Sappho
An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
"The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the 'fluidity, ease, grace, and melodic variety' of Sappho's measures....
by Jim Powell
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Deconstruction is so labyrinthine (and rumored to be fatal) that it’s become the monster that murdered philosophy. When Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, uses buzz-words such as “phallogocentrism” and “transcendental signified,” humanities students and aspiring philosophers...
Greatest Emancipations
How the West Abolished Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted...
by Jim Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In 1966, Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University that cast the entire history of Western Philosophy into doubt. The following year, Derrida published three brilliant but mystifying books that convinced the pollsters that he was the most important philosopher of the late 20th Century....
Bully Boy
The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
What Hath TR Wrought?
“I don’t think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man’s hands.” —Theodore Roosevelt
The notion that Theodore Roosevelt was one of America’s greatest presidents is literally carved in stone—right up there on Mount Rushmore. But...
by Jim Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
The spiritual rewards and intellectual challenges of Eastern Philosophy are revealed in this visually stunning book, illustrated by Joe Lee and with 19th Century engravings.
Eastern Philosophy is not an intellectual pursuit, but one that involves one’s entire being. Much of it is so deeply...
by Jim Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek...
FDR's Folly
How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects...
by Jim Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you.
Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction...
The Breaking of Eggs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
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The Breaking of Eggs is the story of the curmudgeonly Feliks Zhokovski, Polish by birth, Communist at heart, who at age 61 finds that just about everything he has based his life on is crumbling. Separated from him family as...
by Jim Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily Mail
When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through...
by Jim Powell
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
How much do we know about the people we love? And would you want to know the truth?
'An engrossing read' Sunday Times
There’s a bar at the crossroads on the way out of town. Or the way in, depending on whether you’re coming or going. Marcie and her husband have run it for years....
Dirt Matters
The Foundation for a Healthy, Vibrant, and Effective Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Every church has a unique culture that serves as the soil where its ministry occurs. A church’s culture is the somewhat nebulous and complex blend of norms, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and practices that define the congregation. The culture establishes the environment that often predetermines...
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