Shapiro: 578 books
Project President
Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Project President** is a hilarious romp through American electoral history.**
From short, fat, bald John Adams' wig-throwing tantrums during the 1800 election to Abraham Lincoln's decision to grow a beard in 1860; from John F. Kennedy's choice to forgo the fedora at his inauguration to John...
Nietzsche's Earth
Great Events, Great Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at Nietzsche’s thought, the nineteenth-century philosopher actually anticipated some of the most pressing questions of our own era. Putting Nietzsche into...
The Right Side of History
How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller.
Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?
In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California–Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers...
Broken
Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political center.
In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed...
Containment
Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security in the post-September 11 world is reminiscent of George Kennan's historic "Long Telegram,"...
Trying Biology
The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at...
The New York Co-op Bible
Everything You Need to Know About Co-ops and Condos: Getting In, Staying In, Surviving, Thriving
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
The New York Co-op Bible, a user-friendly guide to the art of buying and living in a co-op or condo
Sylvia Shapiro, a lawyer and board president of a major Manhattan apartment building, has written what will become required reading for anyone buying or selling an apartment, or curious about...
Evolution
A View from the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
James A. Shapiro proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological evolution, the core organizing principle of biology. Shapiro introduces crucial new molecular evidence that tests the conventional scientific view of evolution based on the neo-Darwinian synthesis, shows why this view...
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications...
How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Open your heart and mind and discoverthrough the sacred art of lovingkindnessthe image and likeness of God in yourself and others."The question at the heart of this book is this: Will you engage this moment with kindness or with cruelty, with love or with fear, with generosity or scarcity, with a joyous...
The Place You Live In
A Multigenerational Immigrant Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Deanna Shapiro looks back at the Jewish immigrant family that shaped her with honesty, understanding, forgiveness, and admiration. Moving with ease and grace between poetry and prose, she addresses familiar themes of immigrant life, such as uprooting, sacrifice, loyalty and the pull and push of assimilation,...
Take a Deep Breath
Clear the Air for the Health of Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
At some point during childhood, 80 to 90% of all children have a breathing problem. ‘Take a Deep Breath’ is a comprehensive, accessible, and indispensible guide for parents, caregivers, teachers, and healthcare providers on the subject of children's breathing issues.
From the uppermost...
by Thomas W. Polger, Lawrence A. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s, philosophical consensus has turned against the idea that mental processes could be identified with brain processes, and multiple realization has become the keystone of the 'antireductive consensus' across philosophy...