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Coming to My Senses: One Woman's Cochlear Implant Journey
Claire H. Blatchford · Gallaudet University Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Deafened at the age of six, Claire Blatchford was educated orally with speech lessons, speechreading, and hearing aids. Though successful both professionally and domestically, at the age of 67 Blatchford decided to undergo a cochlear implantation. In this memoir, she describes in prose... |
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The Clintons' War on Women
Roger Stone · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Clinton is running for president as an "advocate of women and girls," but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up - until now. This stunning exposé reveals for the first time how Bill and Hillary Clinton systematically abused women... |
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Virginia Slave Births Index, 1853-1865, Vol. 1: A-C
Leslie Anderson Morales · Heritage Books
Format: Paperback
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In 1853, the Commonwealth of Virginia began an annual registration of births and deaths. The Birth Index of Slaves, 1853-1865 was later transcribed by the Works Project Administration (WPA) and recorded on microfilm. While the information-name of slave owner, infant's name, mother's... |
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The Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia
James F Smith · Harper & Brothers
Pages: 464
Format: Book
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This is the sixth of the land lottery held in Georgia. This land lottery divided up the land of the former Cherokee Indian country in 1832. This land area was divided into the present counties of Cass (renamed Bartow in 1861) , Cherokee, Cobb, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Murray, Paulding... |
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen · Random House
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest... |
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
Robert F Worth · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In 2011, a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later, their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker... |
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The Nature of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary Edition
Gordon W Allport · Basic Books
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
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With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination.... |
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Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum · Anchor Books
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback
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In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps... |
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Hillary's America
Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book
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Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America... |
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Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
Thomas C. Holt · Hill and Wang; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Ordinary people don’t experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost... |
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The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East
Christopher Phillips · Yale University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war Most accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign... |
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Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
RUPERT DARWALL · Encounter Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Climate change was political long before Al Gore first started talking about it. In the 1970s, the Swedish Social Democrats used global warming to get political support for building a string of nuclear power stations. It was the second phase of their war on coal, which began with the acid... |
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Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rightsIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues... |
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