Harry: 2719 books
by Harry Stein
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This is an essay that provides a sobering look at the history of the Democratic Party. It touches on the party's dubious beginnings, its hypocritical leanings and pronouncements, and the truth behind the innuendo, half-truths and outright lies that are its life blood. We dare you to read this and have your eyes opened.
Dream City
Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
With a new afterword covering the two decades since its first publication, two of Washington, D.C.’s most respected journalists expose one of America’s most tragic ironies: how the nation’s capital, often a gleaming symbol of peace and hope, is the setting for vicious contradictions and devastating...
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers)...
by Harry Brighouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
What is education for? Should it produce workers or educate future citizens? Is there a place for faith schools - and should patriotism be taught?
In this compelling and controversial book, Harry Brighouse takes on all these urgent questions and more. He argues that children share four fundamental...
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the...
Labor and Monopoly Capital
The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic...
Northern Liberties
The Story of a Philadelphia River Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Since the time of William Penn, the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties has had a tradition of hard work and innovation. This former Leni-Lenape territory became one of the industrial River Wards of North Philadelphia after being annexed by the city in 1854. The district's mills and factories...
Building the American Republic, Volume 1
A Narrative History to 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing...
Upon the Altar of the Nation
A Moral History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States
The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout...
Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan
The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionary regime was built on four pillars - a new politics, economic liberalisation, an Islamic revival, and a U-turn in foreign relations - and mixed militant...
by Harry Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The accidental drowning of her young son shattered Lisa Griffin’s perfect life. She finds her own breath again as she writes the gripping narrative of slaveSally Hemings’ relationship with her white master and eventual president, Thomas Jefferson. As she gives Sally the voice she never had, Lisa...
Better for All the World
The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America–and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported it.In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius charts the little known history of eugenics in America–a movement that began in the early twentieth...
A Political Education
A Washington Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
This insider's view of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s, of the tumultuous presidency of Lyndon Johnson, and of the conflicts and factions of the president's staff has become a political classic since its original publication in 1972. In this reissue, Harry McPherson adds a new preface in which he...
by Harry Hearder
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Cavour was perhaps the key figure in the process of Italian unification. As prime minister of Piedmont, still reeling from military humiliation by Austria, he turned his backward and insignificant home state into the nucleus of the new Italy by his astute manipulation of the European great powers,...