Ronald: 2667 books
The Witch
A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep....
Red Flag Unfurled
History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later
Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after the October Uprising, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historians of the period—explores how scholars and political scientists have tried to understand...
by Ronald Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
The eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant figures of the last century.
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Born into the high world of the Whig...
Killing Time
An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola prison and confined to his cell twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial...
Watson Manor Eventually
1 of 4 books in series
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Charlie Watson didn't realize his regular stop at the diner that morning was going to turn his world upside down and change him forever. A cross country truck driver, he lives his life a safe distance from people and relationships. When he offers to lead Jenny, a stranger, on his run from Arkansas,...
Schooling the Freed People
Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People shatters this notion. The most comprehensive quantitative...
Worldviews in Conflict
Choosing Christianity in the World of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
This world is a battlefield in the arena of ideas. The prize is the heart and mind of humankind. In this book, Ronald Nash outlines the Christian way of looking at God, self, and the world. He holds that worldview up against the tests of reason, logic, and experience, particularly discussing the problems...
by Ronald N. Goulden, MBA, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
There is an Internet ‘conspiracy’ legend that a high-ranking member of the Administration developed as her Master’s thesis a plan that called for a ninety-three percent reduction in human population, and that it was incumbent upon the world Governments to execute this population reduction by...
Political Philosophy
What It Is and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
What is political philosophy? Ronald Beiner makes the case that it is centrally defined by supremely ambitious reflection on the ends of life. We pursue this reflection by exposing ourselves to, and participating in, a perennial dialogue among epic theorists who articulate grand visions of what constitutes...
Lincoln's Greatest Speech
The Second Inaugural
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2002
After four years of unspeakable horror and sacrifice on both sides, the Civil War was about to end. On March 4, 1865, at his Second Inaugural, President Lincoln did not offer the North the victory speech it yearned for, nor did he blame the South solely for the sin of slavery. Calling the whole nation...
The Tea Party
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Tea Party burst on the national political scene in 2009–2010, powered by right-wing grassroots passion and Astroturf big money. Its effect on electoral politics and the political process is undeniable, but the message, aims, and staying power of the loosely organized groups seem less clear....
The Republican Party
A Father-And-Son Review of Gop History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
When Ronald Laones son was eleven, he asked his father, What does it mean to be a conservative? From that simple question came a journey of political enlightenment for father and son, one that culminated in The Republican Party, a history of the Republican Party, leaders, and beliefs.
Beginning...
by Ronald Gies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Pope John XXIV, the elderly caretaker of the Catholic Church, awakens from a supposed stroke and decides to remake the Church in the image of its “glory days.” Most of the College of Cardinals would like to think that means its medieval period of power and prestige; but Pope John is thinking of...
The Second Civil War
How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened?
In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic,...