Joel: 1733 books
The White House Vice Presidency
The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
“I am nothing, but I may be everything,” John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the “nothing” part of Adams’s formulation accurately captured the importance of the vice presidency, at least as long as the president had a heartbeat. But...
Bad Trip
How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The war against drugs was supposed to make America better, right? It failed. Not only does the drug war fail to keep Americans from using drugs, but its crackdown tactics also produce bigger problems than it promises to solve. In this fearlessly audacious book, Joel Miller shows that drug prohibition...
See No Evil
19 Hard Truths the Left Can't Handle
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Liberals take great pride in their supposed open-mindedness. Yet when it comes to hot-button issues like radical Islam, global warming, and abortion, “open-minded” liberals go to great lengths to discredit and suppress the ideas of their opponents. Breitbart senior editor Joel Pollak exposes the...
The State vs. Nelson Mandela
The Trial that Changed South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
On July 11, 1963, a seemingly harmless dry cleaning van drew up outside a rural farm near Johannesburg, South Africa. Within seconds, heavily armed police had burst out and arrested the entire high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned...
The Search for the Ultimate Sink
Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Whether it comes by air, by land, or by water, pollution has long plagued the American city. And for just as long, the question of how to deal with urban wastes has taxed the minds of scientists, engineers, and public officials - and the pocketbooks of ordinary citizens. For more than twenty years,...
The New Censorship
Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our...
by Joel Tyler Headley
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
J. T. Headley was born at the very end of the convulsive period of the French revolution and Napoleonic Wars that followed, and wrote a number of volumes on the French army and its leadership of the period. This volume is a short and pithy, none the less entertaining, account of the structure, growth...
In the Interest of Justice
Great Opening & Closing Statements Throu
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This rich and rewarding volume collects more than two dozen of the most memorable opening and closing arguments made by top prosecutors and defense attorneys of the last one hundred years. Carefully selected to explore every major aspect and challenge of the legal process, these speeches highlight...
The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America
From the Nazis to the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In this sequel to The Haunting of America, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes bring up to the present the story of how paranormal events influenced and sometimes even drove political events. In unearthing the roots of America's fascination with the ghosts, goblins, and...
The Foundation
A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of the public knows they even exist; and for those who are aware of them, as well as even those who seek grants from them, their internal workings remain a...
Mirror Touch
Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Challenging our understanding of what it means to be human, Joel Salinas, a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist at Massachusetts General, shares his experiences with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare and only recently identified neurological trait that causes him to feel the emotional and physical...
Why We Do the Things We Do
Psychology in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Can you really tell a criminal by the bumps on his head? What does a memory look like? Can a machine think? Why are some people shy? Is it better not to feel so much? All these questions are central to the study of psychology and have troubled the minds of some of the greatest thinkers in human civilization....
Mad-Doctors in the Dock
Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this mother sat down and poured herself...
Folks, This Ain't Normal
A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THIS AIN'T NORMAL, he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. Salatin has many thoughts on what normal is and shares...