Kaplan: 716 books
Speechreading
A Way To Improve Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
"This book is a must for your office, for your clients, and for all public libraries." --Feedback "Unlike other consumer-oriented books on speechreading, this one not only focuses on practice exercises, but it also informs about the speechreading process and strategies to compensate...
by Deeny Kaplan Lorber
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
They’ve served the rich, the famous, and the infamous, ranging from Madonna and Al Capone to Amelia Earhart and Bill Clinton. They’ve escorted patrons to their cars during the cocaine wars and sent trays of food from the kitchen to high profile patrons via Secret Service agents. They work at the...
Poetry, Politics, and Culture
Argument in the Work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric...
Jewish Meditation
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Students of mediation are usually surprised to discover that a Jewish mediation tradition exists and that it was an authentic and integral part of mainstream Judaism until the eighteenth century.
Jewish Meditation is a step-by-step introduction to meditation and the Jewish practice of meditation...
Rolling Thunder
A Century of tank Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The tank is such a characteristic feature of modern warfare that its difficult to imagine a time when its presence wasn't felt on the battlefield in some form or another. Rolling Thunder, from eminent historian and author Philip Kaplan, traces the history of the vehicle from its developmental early...
The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research
Dangers For Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, is sufficient to explain the complex variations among humans.
by Peggy Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Every so often in life, events transpire which make you realize that things were supposed to happen this way. So, when Peggy Kaplan’s Pastor foretold she would publish a book of poetry praising God, it is one of those things we know was meant to be. Chock full of wisdom, worship and praise, it is...
Cunegonde's Kidnapping
A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle...
Daydream Believers
How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled...
by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril - Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Churchill, as a former First Lord of the Admiralty, was well versed in the importance of Britain protecting itself at sea. In the opening years of the Second World War, Germany’s...
The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
From Isolation to International Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advised. After World War II, however, Americans became more inclined to break with the past and take a prominent place on the world stage. Much has...
The Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe Blitz
Rare photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
This new collection of archive imagery from Philip Kaplan offers a gripping, graphic view of the routine repeated each day and night, from the summer of 1940 through to the following spring, by the German bomber crews bringing their deadly cargoes to Britain. Through mainly German archival photos,...
Tank
Heavy Metal at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
From monster to master, discover the history of the tank in this heavily illustrated book.
When the first tank weapon appeared on the killing fields of World War I, it was as if ancient superstitions were reborn in the modern industrial world. Soldiers on both sides of the war had never seen...
The Few: Preparation for the Battle of Britain
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This new addition to the Images of War series is sure to prove welcome, illustrating as it does the preparatory stages of the iconic Battle of Britain. Whilst the country geared up for action, the air forces rallied, readying the high-performance Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters...