Kevin Phillips: 18 books
Wealth and Democracy
How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed...
After the Fall
The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips’s Bad Money revealed the roots of the financial malignance that led to 2008’s devastating market meltdown, explaining how the financial sector hijacked the...
William McKinley
The American Presidents Series: The 25th President, 1897-1901
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy
By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic...
American Dynasty
Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance—nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots—has let national politics create a dynasticized presidency that would...
American Theocracy
The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stC entury
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty
In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic...
Bad Money
The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips takes...
1775
A Good Year for Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution
In 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations...
The Emerging Republican Majority
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968—and why the Republicans would go on to dominate presidential politics for the next quarter century. Rightly or wrongly, the...
Programming Elastic MapReduce
Using AWS Services to Build an End-to-End Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Although you don’t need a large computing infrastructure to process massive amounts of data with Apache Hadoop, it can still be difficult to get started. This practical guide shows you how to quickly launch data analysis projects in the cloud by using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop...
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices
Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The church is reeling because of the relativistic mindset of our world. Up until a generation ago, most adults had similar moral intuitions whether they were believers or not, and the core of protestant orthodoxy was still intact. Yet, in the wake of postmodernity and secularism, all that has changed.
Convinced...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Becoming a Teacher through Action Research
Process, Context, and Self-Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Becoming a Teacher through Action Research, Third Edition skillfully interweaves the stories of pre-service teaching with the process of action research. This engaging text focuses specifically on the needs of pre-service teachers by providing assistance for all stages of the research experience,...
Logging and Log Management
The Authoritative Guide to Dealing with Syslog, Audit Logs, Events, Alerts and other IT ‘Noise’
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Effectively analyzing large volumes of diverse logs can pose many challenges. Logging and Log Management helps to simplify this complex process using practical guidance and real-world examples. Packed with information you need to know for system, network and security logging. Log management and log...
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