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The Scorpion's Tail
The Relentless Rise of Islamic Militants in Pakistan-And How It Threatens America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
The war in Afghanistan has raged on longer than any war in U.S. history, and far from suppressing the insurgency being waged by radical Islamic militants, it has led to stronger alliances among al Qaeda, the Taliban, and a host of once-autonomous militant groups and has inspired a flood of new recruits....
A Life in Smoke
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
"I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the math: 153,000 cigarettes = two years of my life, up in smoke."
Julia Hansen first...
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson family, and altered the course of the War of 1812.
On December...
by Emile Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
These reviews, notices, and introductory sections by a major figure in intellectual history represent more than a decade of effort to define and clarify a new form of scientific investigation. Together, they offer a suggestive new picture of Emile Durkheim as "Scholarch" of the "French School" and...
by Arthur Herman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.
From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists,...
Outsmarting IQ
The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Since the turn of the century, the idea that intellectual capacity is fixed has been generally accepted. But increasingly, psychologists, educators, and others have come to challenge this premise. Outsmarting IQ reveals how earlier discoveries about IQ, together with recent research, show that intelligence...
Smart Schools
From Training Memories to Educating Minds
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Perkins reveals the common misguided strategies students use and offers teachers and parents advice on how they can help their children.
Although there has been a great deal of impassioned debate over the sad state of American education today, surprisingly little attention has been paid to...
Acts of Will
The Life and Work of Otto Rank
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Once Freud's most favoured student and associate, Otto Rank came to be reviled by the psychoanalytic establishment that formerly revered him. This biography exposes the hostile, at time libelious treatment of Rank in the standard histories of psychoanalysis and shows him to be a great analytic pioneer...
by Os Guinness
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1993
An internationally known writer and speaker on religion and public life brilliantly analyzes the causes of our current moral malaise. Os Guinness examines how perilously close we have come to losing the shared beliefs, traditions, and ideals that have helped shape America and sets forth a compelling view of a new role for religion and faith.
Rights Talk
The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation's devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the American traditions of hospitality and care for the community.
by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A Collection of essays from famous Scottish philosopher David Hume, one of the most prominent figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and a close friend of Adam Smith. Hume's contributions to economics are found mostly in his Political Discourses (1752), which were later incorporated into his Essays (1758).
by Gerald N. Grob, George Athan Billias
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois, Vicki L. Ruiz, Nathan I. Huggins, John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Kevin P. Philips. Edited by Gerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias.
Herd on the Street
Animal Stories from The Wall Street Journal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
For more than sixty years, The Wall Street Journal has prided itself not just on its serious journalism, but also on the whimsical and arcane stories that amuse and delight its readers. In that regard, animal stories have proven to be the most beloved of all. Now, veteran Journal reporter and Page...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A refreshing approach to the study of major Western philosophers. Introductory essays by noted scholars enliven each volume with insights into the human side of the great thinkers, and provide authoritative discussions of the historical background, evolution and importance of their ideas. Highly recommended as stimulating classroom text.