Kurtz: 216 books
Three Minutes in Poland
Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
When Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its historical significance or of the impact it will have on his life. The film, shot long ago by his grandfather on a sightseeing trip to Europe, includes shaky footage of Paris and the Swiss...
by Paul Kurtz
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
For more than three decades, philosopher Paul Kurtz has been a strong advocate of skepticism, not only as a philosophical position, but also as a fulfilling way of life. Contrary to the view that skepticism is merely a negative, nay saying, or debunking stance toward commonly held beliefs, skepticism...
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room
A Biography of the William Badger,1828-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger.
Taking a biographical approach to his subject, Peter Kurtz describes three phases of the life of the William...
Spreading the Wealth
How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
When Barack Obama told “Joe the Plumber” that he wanted to “spread the wealth around,” he wasn’t just using a figure of speech.
Since the 2008 campaign, Stanley Kurtz has established himself as one of Barack Obama’s most effective and well-informed critics. He was the first to expose...
The JFK Assassination Debates
Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
Who killed JFK? Ever since that fateful day in Dallas, theories about President Kennedy's murder have proliferated, running the gamut from the official "lone gunman" verdict to both serious and utterly screwball conspiracy theories. Michael Kurtz, a distinguished historian who has plumbed...
Crossings
Memoirs of a Mountain Medical Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
DR. ELAM S. KURTZ WAS A MAN OF GREAT VISION, a man of deep faith, and a man of enormous energy. With these qualities, and more, God formed, fashioned, and refined a person, and a medical doctor, who had a profound and pervasive positive influence upon the many people whom his life touched and whom...
A Practical Guide to Prairie Reconstruction
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Thirty-five years and many acres after planting his first patch of prairie flowers, Carl Kurtz is considered one of the deans of the great tallgrass prairie revival. The Prairie Enthusiast called the 2001 edition of his book a “readable and understandable introduction to prairie and the general...
Forbidden Fruit
The Ethics of Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Paul Kurtz, America's leading secular humanist philosopher, affirms that it is possible to live the good life and be morally responsible, without belief in religion. In this original and penetrating book, Kurtz delineates the means by which humanity can transcend the limitations of traditional religious...
Drie minuten in Polen
de ontdekking van een verloren wereld aan de hand van een familiefilm uit 1938
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In Drie minuten in Polen vertelt Glenn Kurtz het verhaal van een verloren wereld. In 1938, aan de vooravond van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, trekken de grootouders van Kurtz door Europa en maken een film in hun geboorteplaats Nasielsk, in Polen. Die drie minuten durende film blijkt de belangrijkste getuigenis...
Radical-in-Chief
Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
President Barack Obama surprised many voters during a pre-election interview when he approvingly noted that Ronald Reagan had “changed the trajectory of America” in a way that other presidents had not. In effect, Obama was saying that he, too, aimed to transform America in some fundamental way....
The Good Story
Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
**J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
J.M. Coetzee: What relationship do I have with my life history? Am I its conscious author, or should I think of myself as simply a voice uttering with...
El buen relato
Conversaciones sobre la verdad, la ficción y la terapia psicoanalítica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 4, 2015
El fascinante diálogo entre el ganador del Premio Nobel J.M. Coetzee y la psicoanalista Arabella Kurtz sobre la inclinación humana a elaborar historias
«Las historias que nos contamos a nosotros mismos puede que no sean ciertas pero es lo único que tenemos. Me interesa la relación que...
Multi-Secularism
A New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The contemporary world is witness to an intense controversy about secularism. This controversy has intensified due to the presence of fundamentalism, which challenges secular society and the secularization of philosophical ideas and ethical values.
Secularists maintain that the state should...
by Margo Kurtz
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
In a compelling memoir as timely and important today as it was when it was first published 70 years ago, a spirited young girl takes to the skies with the love of her life and returns to earth a worldly, wise and self-determined woman. Margo Rogers is a poetically inclined college student from a salt-of-the-earth...