Edward: 7422 books
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword".
In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.
by Edward Jurewicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Embark on an intellectual journey and begin to train your brain the way you would train your body. Think of this book as a BRAIN GYM, or a BRAIN DOJO, where you improve your skills of creative thinking, self-analysis, introspection, and debate. You can read this book following the page order, or you...
The Shadow of Unfairness
A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic...
by Edward Feser
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The philosophy of John Locke has dramatically shaped the way we live today. He is quoted in the Declaration of Independence and has had a lasting influence on many of our political systems, shaping our ideas on rights, government by consent, religious toleration, psychology and empirical science. Thought...
Something Happened
A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence...
Hoax
Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries really find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler actually pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination...
To the Edges of the Earth
1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
*** National Outdoor Book Award WINNER! ***
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time: in 1909 three daring expeditions–led by Ernest Shackleton, Robert...
Lincoln Legends
Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president. The mythmaking about this self-made man began early, some of it starting during his campaign for the presidency in 1860. As an American icon, Lincoln has been the subject of speculation and inquiry...
Bankrupting the Enemy
The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Award-winning author Edward S. Miller contends in this new work that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to deter its aggression. While researching newly declassified records of the Treasury and Federal Reserve, Miller, a retired chief financial executive of a Fortune 500 resources...
Nut Country
Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut country today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who...
Awakening Vocation
A Theology of Christian Call
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Does God have a specific plan for each of us, or is it more like general guidelines for all of us? How do my gifts and abilities, my personality and particular circumstances, impact my vocation? What is the role of the church in this process? What are the needs of the world that call us to respond?
Awakening...
by Edward J. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
George Washington was the unanimous choice of his fellow founders for president, and he is remembered to this day as an exceptional leader, but how exactly did this manifest itself during his lifetime? In George Washington, Nationalist, acclaimed author Edward J. Larson reveals the fascinating backstory...
Danger and Opportunity
An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
When Edward P. Djerejian arrived in Beirut for his first Foreign Service assignment, the city was a thriving metropolis, a nexus for a diversity of religious beliefs, political ideas, and cultural practices. More than forty years since, the broader Middle East region is undergoing significant change...
The Promise of the New South
Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching....