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The Doubter's Companion
A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire wrote a sharply humorous "Philosophical Dictionary," while Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was derisive and opinionated. These early...
by Michael Maren
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
A stunning personal narrative of best intentions gone awry, Michael Maren, at one time an aid worker and journalist in Somalia, writes of the failure of international charities.
Michael Maren spent years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist, where he witnessed at a harrowing...
Pig Candy
Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home--A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed Black, White, Other, comes to...
Peace Meals
Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Travel books bring us to places. War books bring us to tragedy. This book brings us to one woman’s travels in war zones: the locals she met, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate.
Peace Meals is a true story about conflict and food. It illustrates the most important...
On the Origin of Tepees
The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own “survival of the fittest”? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth?
Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas,...
The Itch
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
From the author of the smashing debut bestseller Good Hair comes The Itch, the stirring story of a crisis-torn woman who discovers a depth of character and a sense of self she never knew she possessed.
Abra Lewis Dixon is the envy of the fashionable, professional women of her well-heeled social circle....
by Daniel Chirot
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1994
Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, our century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of mankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current references to “ethnic cleansing” remind us that tyranny persists in our own...
by Thomas Gilovich
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life.
When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"—and when are...
by Jesse Wright, Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In this powerful new self-help program, Wright and Basco show you how to blend the best methods of scientifically tested treatments to win the battle against depression. By following their step-by-step instructions, you will be able to develop a Personal Plan for Recovery that you can use to get well...
Understanding Schizophrenia
A Guide to the New Research on Causes and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Two leading schizophrenia researchers present an accessible and comprehensive guide to dealing with the disease. They provide key information on the integration of drugs and psychological treatments and discuss how family members can be a helpful part of the treatment process.
Day of Deceit
The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 1999
Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. It was the result of a carefully orchestrated design, initiated at the highest levels of our government. According to a key memorandum eight steps were taken to make sure we would enter...
Under Pressure
The Final Voyage of Submarine S-Five
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Hanging on display in the United States Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., is a battered and scratched steel plate, two feet in diameter, edged with more than one hundred little semicircles. For more than eighty years, people have wondered how it came to be there and at the story it could tell.
Under...
The Geography of Thought
How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture.
Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently,...
by Gerber
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1992
The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile,...