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A Professor, a President, and a Meteor

Cathryn J Prince

• Hardcover | Engels
• When a fiery meteor crash in 1807 lit up the dark early-morning sky in Weston, Connecticut, it did more than startle the few farmers in the sleepy vil... Lees meer

Denying Science

John Grant

• Hardcover | Engels
• Is global warming just scaremongering by climatologists conspiring to protect their jobs? Is evolution "just a theory"? Is autism caused by vaccinatio... Lees meer

The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions

• Hardcover | Engels
• The macabre mass suicide by adherents of the Heaven's Gate Cult in 1997 was shocking and difficult to comprehend for most outsiders. Their bizarre min... Lees meer

Incredible Shrinking Son of Man

Robert M Price

• Hardcover | Engels
• "This book should be mandatory reading for all scholars concerned with Christian origins ... nothing of comparable importance has been written for at ... Lees meer

War and Sex

John V H Dippel

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this engrossing exploration of men's motives for war, the author argues persuasively that one important subconscious reason young men volunteer for... Lees meer

Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays

Clarence S Darrow

• Paperback | Engels | Freethought Library
• The renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was also an impassioned defender of intellectual freedom, individual liberties, and social justice. In... Lees meer

Out of Our Minds

Sascha Garson

• Paperback | Engels
• The pain and anguish suffered by the victims of mental illness and their families is overwhelming. The problems and the inability to cope are often to... Lees meer

The Ontology of Time

L Nathan Oaklander

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Analytic Philosophy
• L. Nathan Oaklander is one of the leading philosophers of time defending the tenseless or B-Theory of time. He has remained at the forefront of this f... Lees meer

Young Thurgood

Larry S Gibson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Like the movie Marshall, this book--theonly biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family--focuses on his early civil r... Lees meer

Seasons of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Literary Classics
• This remarkable anthology of poems and prose on the human condition brings together a wide range of romantic and humanist thought from around the worl... Lees meer

Power of the Middle Ground

Marty Babits

• Paperback | Engels
• The Power of the Middle Ground explains-as no other self-help book does-why and how the inherent difficulties entailed in the change process itself ar... Lees meer

Which Koran?

• Hardcover | Engels
• For many millions of Muslims there is one and only one true Koran that offers the word of Allah to the faithful. Few Muslims realize, however, that th... Lees meer

What's So Wrong with Being Absolutely Right

Judy J Johnson

• Paperback | Engels
• Like pesky wasps buzzing circles around us, people who act as if they were the sole expert on a subject put us on edge. In halls of learning where we ... Lees meer

The Lost Art of Happiness

Arthur Dobrin

• Paperback | Engels
• Though everyone wants to be happy, for most people the pursuit of happiness is a tantalizing and frustrating endeavor. Even in this most prosperous er... Lees meer

Earl Warren

D J Herda

• Hardcover | Engels
• The definitive biography of one of history's greatest Supreme Court justices. How did a conservative Republican end up creating the most liberal Supre... Lees meer

The Making of FDR

Linda Lotridge Levin

• Hardcover | Engels
• Though practically unknown to the public today, Stephen T. Early was one of the most influential men in mid-twentieth-century America. As the press se... Lees meer

The Most Dangerous Man in America?

Robert Boston

• Paperback | Engels
• Televangelist Pat Robertson has built one of the most powerful religious-political movements in American history. His Christian Coalition - with its '... Lees meer

Koranic Allusions

• Hardcover | Engels
• For anyone with an interest in the early history of Islam, this erudite anthology will prove to be informative and enlightening. Scholars have long kn... Lees meer

Let's Talk about Death

Steve Gordon, Irene Kacandes

• Paperback | Engels
• Experts in end-of-life care tell us that we should talk about death and dying with relatives and friends, but how do we get such conversations off the... Lees meer

The Unhackable Internet

Thomas P Vartanian

• Hardcover | Engels
• This incisive and important book investigates the creation and history of our financial Internet, the vulnerabilities of our current data storage and ... Lees meer

Believing

Michael McGuire

• Paperback | Engels
• A new book about brain chemistry, neural systems, and the formation of beliefs from the scientist who brought to light serotonin's many crucial roles ... Lees meer

Divided on D-Day

Edward E Gordon, David Ramsay

• Hardcover | Engels
• Two historians--one American and one British--examine the ways in which rivalries and personality conflicts among Allied commanders adversely affected... Lees meer

Counterterrorism Strategies for Corporations

Mike Ackerman

• Paperback | Engels
• When America's corporate leaders need reliable information and expertise about dealing with threats to personnel both here and abroad, they turn to Mi... Lees meer

The Poetics

Aristotle, Theodore Buckley

• Paperback | Engels | Great Books in Philosophy
• Analyzing the poetic genres of his own day, particularly epic and tragedy, Aristotle sets forth a comprehensive theory of the poetic art. In this semi... Lees meer