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Forgotten Heroes
Inspiring American Portraits From Our Leading Hist
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1999
The pages of the past are full of characters who remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of men and women, whether famous or humble. Where would America be without George Washington, or Daniel Boone, or Sojourner Truth, or Babe Ruth? Where would we be without so many characters who are...
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
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 texts.
Values Matter Most
How Republicans, or Democrats, or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Published in tandem with his upcoming PBS special of the same name, the eminent political commentator argues that the parties' stands on social issues such as crime, welfare, and morality will decide future elections. 25,000 first printing.
The Invisible People
How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
The Invisible People is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States's response to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known -- the global AIDS crisis. A true story of politics, bureaucracy, disease, internecine warfare, and negligence, it illustrates that while...
Embattled Courage
The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.
Denying the Holocaust
The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Sixty years ago, such notions were the province...
by Stanley Kutler
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
Richard Nixon said he wanted his administration to be "the best chronicled in history." But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated taping system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon's White House and its recordings quickly became the most infamous in American...
Overblown
How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Why have there been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11? It is ridiculously easy for a single person with a bomb-filled backpack, or a single explosives-laden automobile, to launch an attack. So why hasn't it happened? The answer is surely not the Department of Homeland Security,...
Your 15th Club
The Inner Secret to Great Golf
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
All golfers have fourteen clubs in their bag, but the real winners have a little something extra -- that mental attitude that puts their game above the others. Dr. Bob Rotella, author of the bestselling book Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, brings together his skills and years of experience as a golf...
Above the Law
Police and the Excessive Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today.
by Joseph G. Rayback
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Joseph Rayback’s history of the American labor movement.
A compact and comprehensive chronicle of where labor has been and where it is today.
The Threat Closer to Home
Hugo Chavez and the War Against America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
A chilling account of Hugo Chávez's shadow war on the United States
The American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela and...
Boomer Nation
The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How I
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, form the single largest demographic spike in American history. Never before or since have birth rates shot up and remained so high so long, with some obvious results: when the Boomers were kids, American culture revolved around families and schools; when...
Run the Other Way
Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Bill Hillsman is simply, in the words of Slate.com, "the world's greatest political adman." With his groundbreaking consulting work on Paul Wellstone's senatorial, Jesse Ventura's gubernatorial, and Ralph Nader's presidential campaigns, he was the first to publicly challenge the conventional strategies...