Books in category General

Age of Propaganda

Author: Elliot Aronson, Anthony R. Pratkanis
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN : 9780805074031
Americans create 57% of the world''s advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media. Persuasion has always been integral to the democratic process, but increasingly, thoughtful discussion is being replaced with simplistic soundbites and manipulative messages. Drawing on the history of propaganda as well as on contemporary res

Prophet Armed

Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN : 9781859843222
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience. Yet there was a danger that his name would disappear from history. Originally published in 1954, Deutscher's masterful three-volume biography was the first major public

Prophet Armed

Author: Isaac Deutscher
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN : 9781859844410
Deutscher's biography is still tremendous. The power and excitement of his prose knock the reader down. His command of the language, late Victorian in its freedom and in the absence of secondhand imagery, in some ways surpasses that of his fellow Pole Joseph Conrad. The scholarship is enormous and--given that the Moscow archives were closed to him--comprehensive. Above all, there is Deutscher's ow

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale, Walter Arnold Kaufmann
Publisher : Vintage Books
ISBN : 9780679724629
The great philosophers major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.

LA Muerte De Artemio Cruz

Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN : 9780140255829
After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life.

Ralph Ellison

Author: Arnold Rampersad
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Inc
ISBN : 9780375707988
A critical biography of the author of Invisible Man draws on access to Ellison`s personal papers to offer a definitive study of the life, work, and influence of Ralph Ellison, detailing his poverty-stricken Oklahoma youth, his education and involvement in New York`s liberal intellectual circles, his personal relationships, and the influence of racism on his life. Reprint. 20,000 first prin

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The Emerging Democratic Majority

Author: Ruy Teixeira, John B. Judis
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN : 9780743254786
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST' S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY' S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conserva

Wesley and Men Who Followed

Author: Iain Murray
Publisher : Banner of Truth
ISBN : 9780851518350
John Wesley - Oxford don and itinerant preacher, intellectual and evangelist, author and man of action, upholder of the Church of England yet founder of another world-wide denomination, disagreeing with George Whitefield, yet preaching his funeral sermon - truly a many-sided man. It is no wonder that he has had many biographers. Most books on Wesley have concentrated on his leading role in the Eva

Exposing Hamas

Author: Dennis Ross, Matthew Levitt
Publisher : Yale Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780300110531
How does a group that operates terror cells and espouses violence become a ruling political party? Written by a counter-terrorism expert, this important book provides the most fully researched assessment of Hamas ever written.

Ronald Reagan

Author: John Patrick Diggins
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN : 9780393060225
In this study of the life and thought of Ronald Reagan, historian John Patrick Diggins traces an arc in Reagan`s outlook that runs, over time, from liberal to conservative. He begins with Reagan`s years as governor of California, and notes that Reagan`s politics were rooted in his identification with the Founding Fathers and his readings of the revolutionary rhetoric of pamphleteers such as Thoma

Ronald Reagan

Author: John Patrick Diggins
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN : 9780393330922
In this study of the life and thought of Ronald Reagan, historian John Patrick Diggins traces an arc in Reagan`s outlook that runs, over time, from liberal to conservative. He begins with Reagan`s years as governor of California, and notes that Reagan`s politics were rooted in his identification with the Founding Fathers and his readings of the revolutionary rhetoric of pamphleteers such as Thoma

The Palm at the End of the Mind

Author: Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens
Publisher : Vintage Books
ISBN : 9780679724452
Gives all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career. Edited by Holly Stevens, it includes some poems not printed in his earlier COLLECTED WORKS.

The Road to Home

Author: Vartan Gregorian
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN : 9780743255653
Vartan Gregorian's odyssey begins in an obscure poor quarter of a provincial city. Childhood centered on his brilliant, beloved, illiterate grandmother who taught him so much on the beauty of Church, school, American movies, and the larger world he read about in his borrowed books. From there he traveled to a Beirut lycee, Stanford University, and the presidencies of the New York Public Library, B

What Terrorists Want

Author: Louise Richardson
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9780812975444
Beginning with a comprehensive definition of what terrorism is, a definitive study of the topic explores the origins of terrorism, the goals of diverse terrorist groups throughout history, the impact of 9/11 and the changing face of terrorism, the future prospects for terrorist actions, and what can be done to restore global order. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The Heart of Awareness

Author: J.L. Brockington, Thomas Byrom
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9781570628979
The Ashtavakra Gita conveys with beauty and simplicity the essential teachings of Advaita Vedanta, the most influential of the Hindu philosophical systems. Composed by an anonymous master of the school of the great sage Shankara, it is a book of practical advice for seekers of wisdom as well as an ecstatic expression of the experience of enlightenment. In this simple, aphoristic version, the trans

Active Liberty

Author: Stephen Breyer
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9780307263131
In this collection of essays on law and government, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, known as a moderate (though in comparison to several of his colleagues, a liberal), expresses his view that the Constitution is a living document that can be applied in modern-day cases that were not even imagined by the founders. The values expressed in the document can guide both judges and, more importan

Over Here

Author: Edward Humes
Publisher : Harcourt
ISBN : 9780151007103
Considered by many to have been one of the greatest ideas for the generation returning in large numbers from World War II, the G.I. Bill was intended to help make the peacetime transition disrupt the economy as little as possible. Soldiers were provided with home loans and education funds, along with other benefits: this jump-started the economy and transformed the American social landscape. Sold

The Nurture Assumption

Author: Judith Rich Harris
Publisher : Free Pr
ISBN : 9780684857077
This work heightens factors other than parental influence as determinants of children's development. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

.thinketh

Author: James Allen, Ruth (AFT) Rimm, Vic Johnson
Publisher : Global Renaissance Society Llc
ISBN : 9780974575018

Taming American Power

Author: Stephen M. Walt
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN : 9780393329193
A provocative analysis of the strategies employed by foreign states to counter U.S. global dominance evaluates how international responses work to undermine America`s foreign policy goals, explaining why the U.S. must utilize a foreign policy that is not fear-based. First serial, Boston Review. Reprint.