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The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Yuval Levin · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset:... |
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Who We Be: A Hidden Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Jeff Chang · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first... |
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The Case Against the Supreme Court
Erwin Chemerinsky · Viking; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A preeminent constitutional scholar offers a hard-hitting analysis of the Supreme Court over the last two hundred years Most Americans share the perception that the Supreme Court is objective, but Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the countrys leading constitutional lawyers, shows that this is nonsense... |
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Right for a Reason: Life, Liberty, and a Crapload of Common Sense
Miriam Weaver · Sentinel HC
Format: Hardcover
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“It’s time for a real, snarktastic, humor-filled look at what makes conservatism right. We conservatives have truth and rationality and logic on our side. We just need to remind ourselves why we are right, and we need that reminder delivered in a way that’s not a lecture,... |
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Israel: Is It Good for the Jews?
Richard Cohen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A very personal journey through Jewish history (and Cohen's own), and a passionate defense of Israel's legitimacy.Richard Cohen's book is part reportage, part memoir - an intimate journey through the history of Europe's Jews, culminating in the establishment of Israel. A veteran,... |
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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Anne Nelson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz. This is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust.Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite... |
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iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age
Bill Gertz · Threshold Editions
Pages: 364
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author and veteran Washington Times columnist explains how the United States can beat China, Russia, Iran, and ISIS in the coming information-technology wars.America is at war, but most of its citizens don't know it. Covert information warfare is being waged by world... |
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Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
American Map Corporation · American Library Association; Loose Leaf edition
Format: Book
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Since 1967, Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules has served the profession with highly developed content standards for cataloging the resources that come into your library--from clay tablets to books to CD-ROMs. It has been the one-stop gold standard. In the digital world of 2002, with the process... |
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La vida robot.
Joshua Davis · Farrar
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University... |
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane
ANONYMOUS. · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive.... |
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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014.
Pages: 281
Format: Print book
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,... |
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Kicking the Kremlin: Russia's New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin
Marc Bennetts · Pgw
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
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As 2011 came to a close, in what was a watershed moment, 100,000 took to Moscow's freezing streets to protest the election victory of United Russia - Vladimir Putin's party - amid widespread allegations of corruption and vote-rigging. A few months later, Pussy Riot hit headlines... |
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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
Ann Mcelhinney · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Gosnell is the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer.In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree.ABC News correspondent Terry Moran described... |
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Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain
Carl A Brasseaux · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these... |
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