Intercollegiate Studies Institute Ord: 88 books
Choosing the Right College 2012–2013
The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Choosing the Right College is the most in-depth, independently researched college guide on the market, and the only source for students and parents who want the unvarnished truth about America’s top colleges and universities.
Updated and expanded, Choosing the Right College 2012-13 features...
The War for Righteousness
Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
*“They died to save their country and they only saved the world.” *
This line, the final one in G. K. Chesterton’s poem “The English Graves,” serves for Richard M. Gamble as an interpretive key to a peculiarly important moment in American history: the time of the First World War,...
Founding Federalist
The Life of Oliver Ellsworth
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In Founding Federalist, Michael C. Toth provides an in-depth look at the life and work of Oliver Ellsworth, a largely forgotten but eminently important Founding Father.
The American Founding was the work of visionaries and revolutionaries. But amid the celebrated luminaries, the historic transformations,...
by Russell Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The American Cause explains in simple yet eloquent language the bedrock principles upon which America's experiment in constitutional self-government is built. Russell Kirk intended "this little book" to be an assertion of the moral and social principles upholding our nation. Kirk's primer...
Seize Freedom!
American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Right now, parents suffer sleepless nights worrying that they will lose their jobs, their homes, and their hopes for their children. Citizens struggle to make sense of an increasingly perverse society disdainful of—and destructive to—the traditional culture of faith, truth, virtue, and beauty....
Just Right
A Life in Pursuit of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Lee Edwards has been an active player in the modern conservative movement longer than anyone else. As the Daily Caller noted in a recent profile, Edwards “has lived conservative history like none other.” And he brings that history to life in Just Right.
This memoir is full of colorful stories...
Papal Economics
The Catholic Church on Democratic Capitalism, from Rerum Nevarum to Caritas in Veritate
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“For a long time to come, this book may well be the definitive work on the economic teaching of the modern popes." —MICHAEL NOVAK
The Catholic Church has long been one of the most important—but least understood—authorities on capitalism and democracy.
The confusion and controversy...
Econoclasts
The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Movement and Restored American Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The history we can’t afford to forget
At last, the definitive history of supply-side economics—an incredibly timely work that reveals the foundations of America’s prosperity when those very foundations are under attack.
In the riveting, groundbreaking book Econoclasts, historian...
Back on the Road to Serfdom
The Resurgence of Statism
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
**Leviathan is back **
The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has radically expanded its power—through bailouts, “stimulus” packages, a trillion-dollar health-care plan, “jobs bills,” massive expansions of the money supply, and much more. But such interventionism...
It Didn't Have to Be This Way
Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary—and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Excellent . . . I highly recommend this book.” —RON PAUL
Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the economic meltdown that began in 2007—or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities?
Mainstream...
by Darío Fernández-Morera
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—“al-Andalus”—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony.
There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth.
In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern...
Roots of Freedom
A Primer on Modern Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Roots of Freedom is a primer on the thinkers and ideas that, over many centuries, have laid the foundations of free societies. Concepts such as the rule of law, independent judiciary, limited government, free markets, and individual autonomy are traced in the writings of (among others) Luther, Machiavelli,...
Redeeming Economics
Rediscovering the Missing Element
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Groundbreaking.” —Washington Examiner
Economics is primed for—and in desperate need of—a revolution, respected economic forecaster John D. Mueller shows in this eye-opening book. To make the leap forward will require looking backward, for as Redeeming Economics reveals, the most...
A Humane Economy
The Social Framework of the Free Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“A Humane Economy is like a seminar on integral freedom conducted by a professor of uncommon brilliance.” —Wall Street Journal
“If any person in our contemporary world is entitled to a hearing it is Wilhelm Röpke.” —New York Times
A Humane Economy offers one of the most...