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Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle Allen · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover |
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Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians "Danielle Allen lays bare the Declaration's history and significance, returning it to its true and rightful owners -- you and me."... |
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One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic Lands
Raymond William Baker · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover |
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By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented... |
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The Today Show: Transforming Morning Television
Cathleen M. Londino · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover |
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In the early 1950s, when television networks did not broadcast regular programming before 11 a.m., radio and newspapers were the most popular and reliable ways for Americans to get their morning news. Then, Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, vice president of programming at NBC, pitched a bold new concept... |
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Then Comes Marriage: United States V. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
Roberta A Kaplan · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 350
Format: Print book |
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Roberta Kaplan's gripping story of her defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) before the Supreme Court.Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . Edie Windsor and Thea... |
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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Wayne A Wiegand · Oxford University Press
Pages: 331
Format: Print book |
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Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library... |
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German All-in-One For Dummies, with CD (For Dummies (Language & Literature))
Consumer Dummies · For Dummies; 1 edition
Pages: 720
Format: Audiobook |
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Learn to speak German? Easy.German All-in-One For Dummies conveniently combines titles from the German Dummies library into one handy guide that covers all of the bases of the German language. For those looking to master fluency in this popular language, this book and CD combo are an efficient... |
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
Raghu Karnad · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family.The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War,... |
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ASVAB: Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
LLC LearningExpress · Learningexpress, Llc; 5th Edition edition
Format: Paperback |
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The military offers a good salary, career training, tuition assistance, and travel opportunities. To take advantage of these benefits, applicants must first pass the ASVAB. This easy-to-use guide helps readers learn how the test is used for recruitment and placement, the exact questions... |
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Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
Ethan Zuckerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition |
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A rousing call to action for those who would be citizens of the world—online and off. We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online... |
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Famous Works of ArtAnd How They Got That Way
John Nici · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues.... |
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Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell
Peter Caddick-Adams · Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Book |
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Selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013The most horrific battles of World War II ring in the popular memory: Stalingrad, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, to name a few. Monte Cassino should stand among them. Waged deep in the Italian mountains beneath a medieval monastery, it was an astonishingly... |
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Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth
Suzanne Kelly · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 195
Format: Print book |
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We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways - no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States.Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable... |
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