Collapse
February 7, 2012 by admin
ISBN13: 9780143057185 Condition: USED – LIKE NEW Notes: In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from Easter Island and the Maya to Viking Greenland and modern Montana, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe—one...
Going Rogue: An American Life Reviews
February 6, 2012 by admin
ISBN13: 9780061939891 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world. As chief executive of America′s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: Energy independence. Ethics reform. And the biggest private sector infrastructure project in U.S. history. While revitalizing...
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
January 30, 2012 by admin
ISBN13: 9780061733635 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country’s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character-driven and dialogue-rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, it’s an intimate portrait of some of the most powerful and fascinating...
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
January 18, 2012 by admin
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century. Amazon Exclusive: Liaquat Ahamed on the Economic Climate In December 1930, the great economist Maynard Keynes published an article in which he described the world as living in “the shadows of one of the greatest economic catastrophes in modern history.” The world was then 18 months into what would become...
The 48 Laws of Power Reviews
January 12, 2012 by admin
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention–grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), the virtue of stealth (“Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions”), and many demand the total absence of mercy...
The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus Reviews
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Eliot Publication date: 1809 Subjects: Religion / Biblical Studies / Jesus, the Gospels Rating: (out of 1 reviews) List Price: $ 19.99 Price: $ 13.35 Read More →
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds Reviews
November 28, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780312560232 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. The widely anticipated memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot, Robin Olds Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at the time. In WWII, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22and an ace with 12 aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man...
The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream, by John Bunyan
November 15, 2011 by admin
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Puritan movements; Christian life; Rating: (out of 2 reviews) List Price: $ 20.00 Price: $ 15.80 Read More →
Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban
November 4, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9780805088274 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed An American reporter’s chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man’s-land between Afghanistan and PakistanJere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping to reach the home of a local chieftain by nightfall. But then a dozen...
A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror
October 7, 2011 by admin
ISBN13: 9781595230324 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or...