An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press, Hardcover - Stephen Bates

The Commission on Freedom of the Press was the greatest collaboration of intellectuals in the twentieth century. In this book, First Amendment scho...

Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that end...

Reducere. In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically diffe...

This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time, and will provide a valu...

DescriptionDuring World War II many escape-line organizations contributed to the Allied cause by funneling hundreds of servicemen trapped behind en...

Reducere. In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later standard...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Carey ShenkmanIllustration(s): 20 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 336Collection: The Hi...

Reducere. The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democra...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Noortje JacobsIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Noortje JacobsIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery AllinghamPublisher: Icon BooksAut...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. DescriptionLust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation is a concise, reader friendly depiction of the "Her...

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

A deftly crafted insider account of how congressional committees really work, updated for 2021Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s):...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Gregory NoblesIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time--and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's t...

Uncovering the secrets behind England's best-known country houses and their unusual inhabitantsPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): David Lon...

This book has two currents. The first is an analysis of the three concepts of freedom that are called, respectively, negative, positive, and inner....

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what pets are thinking? In the world of Gordon Pumpkin Smith the Second, a small kitten is adopted by a loving family. As he...

Reducere. Paul Brian Heise's The Wound That Will Never Heal is an original allegorical reading of Richard Wagner's epic music drama The Ring of the Nibelung....

Reducere. The core of the global cultural revolution is the deliberate confusion of sexual norms. It is the culmination of a metaphysical revolution as well-...

In this, her first published work, she shares her long sojourn from the miry pit of a childhood replete with complex trauma and evil to the healing...

Reducere. This reissue of a twentieth-century classic by H. Richard Niebuhr emphasizes an understanding of God's revelation that takes seriously both the Bib...

An engaging popular history of the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.Publis...

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influ...

Reducere. In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into ...

Reducere. Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United...

When scientific socialism, which for many years was implemented by Abdullah calan and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), became too narrow for his...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin's Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs...

Reducere. For sixty years, Errico Malatesta's involvement with international anarchism helped fuel the movement's radical approach to class and labor, and di...

Description"The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." --Los Angeles TimesThis is the Executive Summary of t...

Reducere. "Luther is lyrical, even ecstatic, as he proclaims the benefits of justification by faith alone...The three treatises are short reads. It would not...

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes--of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over w...