Passions and Politics, Paperback

Rejecting the conventional Western interpretation of Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the author contends that the r...

DescriptionHannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. And storytell...

Reducere. In Taking Down Fences, the aphorism, "if you want to know why a fence was put up, take it down, " provides a reference point for examining and asse...

Reducere. From America's preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Ch...

Reducere. WE MUST PUT GOD BACK IN OUR GOVERNMENT The Integration of Church and State begins in Chapter One debunking one of the biggest lies of our generatio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Terry Tempest WilliamsIllustrator: Mary FrankTerry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and po...

Reducere. DescriptionBest Biography of the Year--Western Writers of America Spur Award. General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was one of California's most distin...

Reducere. In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, v...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques Derrida"The name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when on...

Reducere. Mayhayley Lancaster was many things through her interesting life: lawyer, schoolteacher, political activist, fortune teller, numbers runner, and se...

Reducere. Maine's Remarkable Women tells the stories of fifteen strong and determined women who broke through social, cultural, or political barriers. Throug...

Reducere. Lyndon Johnson's secretly recorded tapes offer us the only chance we are ever likely to have to eavesdrop on an American President from his first m...

Reducere. A penetrating, mesmerizing biography of a scientific icon"Absolutely fascinating . . . Davidson has done a remarkable job."-Sir Arthur C. Clarke"En...

First published in 1739 to an unenthusiastic British public, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" has since been referred to as one of the most sign...

Reducere. A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III---a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by historyIn this beautifully re...

The fourth of Trollope's Palliser novels, Phineas Redux is one of his most spellbinding achievements. Trollope shows a remarkably prescient sense o...

European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the...

Reducere. Rarely has America been so bitterly divided. Partisans now view those with differing opinions as the enemy. Cable news programs inflame passions ra...

DescriptionIntroduction by Catherine Camp: Writing about your own life is complicated and a little presumptuous. Writing about people you love and ...

Reducere. Huey P. Newton remains one of the most misunderstood political figures of the twentieth century. As cofounder and leader of the Black Panther Party...

Reducere. Cultures of the West: A History, Third Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally,...

Reducere. Cultures of the West: A History, Third Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally,...

Reducere. A despised priest is drowned in a pond in this medieval mystery filled with "lively period detail" (Kirkus Reviews).In a mild December in the year ...