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What Kind of Nation
Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Stru
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
What Kind of Nation is a riveting account of the bitter and protracted struggle between two titans of the early republic over the power of the presidency and the independence of the judiciary.
The clash between fellow Virginians (and second cousins) Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall remains...
by Mark Leipacher, Sam Mendes, Simon Russell Beale
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Sam Mendes and Simon Russell Beale have forged one of the most successful working partnerships in contemporary theatre history. Across twenty years and eight productions their collaboration has evolved, matured and keeps thriving through their work on stage; six Shakespeare and two Chekhov plays form...
And the Lamb Wins
Why the End of the World Is Really Good News
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
There is a growing collective interest in the end times. But with that interest comes a barrage of confusing, and sometimes misleading, ideas and messages. With so much available information, how can we discern fact from fiction?
Pastor Simon Ponsonby takes an eye-opening look at what the future...
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney
Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. James Simon, author of the acclaimed What Kind of Nation -- an account of the battle between President Thomas...
by Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
A bold reexamination of U.S. influence in the Middle East during the Cold War.
The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war, and the Syrian civil war—these contemporary conflicts have deep roots in the Middle East’s postwar emergence from colonialism.
In The Pragmatic...
Iraq Between the Two World Wars
The Militarist Origins of Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2004
Why did a group from the Iraqi army seize control of the government and wage a disastrous war against Great Britain, rejecting British and liberal values for those of a militaristic Germany? What impact did these actions have on the thirty-year regime of Saddam Hussein?
Departing from previous...
El Libertador:Writings of Simon Bolivar
Writings of Simón Bolívar
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2003
General Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolivar...
Riding the Outlaw Trail
An Eye Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Two men retrace the notorious pair's footsteps, covering thousands of miles of hazardous country on horseback and discovering how little has changed from the saddle in the last 100 years
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the last of the legendary outlaws, were captured on daguerreotype,...
Detour
My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
A finely wrought memoir of mental health, Detour takes a genre explored by Susanna Kaysen and Kay Redfield Jamison and propels it in a revelatory and rebellious new direction.
Detour is the extraordinary first book by Lizzie Simon, a twenty-three-year-old woman with bipolar disorder. We meet her as...
Different
Living the Holy Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Simon Ponsonby has been called a 'preacher's preacher' on the one hand, and a 'people's theologian' on the other. He speaks and writes from a passion to see God glorified and people's lives changed - and with an increasing concern that too often, even those who are deeply committed to Christianity...
by Simon Rademan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The guide no woman can do without … ‘Whereas fashion comes and goes, style is forever.’ So says Simon Rademan, one of South Africa’s foremost couturiers and author of The Style Bible, every woman’s guide to achieving effortless style. Having dressed some of South Africa’s richest and most...
Danubia
een persoonlijke geschiedenis van het Habsburgse Europa
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Op reis door het land van de Habsburgers met de grappigste reisleider ooit!
Eeuwenlang was Europa in handen van het eigenaardige Huis Habsburg, dat tot 1918 over grote delen van Centraal-Europa en Duitsland heerste en zich bemoeide met alles wat er in Europa gebeurde.
Danubia...
Social Location Marketing
Outshining Your Competitors on Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp & Other Location Sharing Sites
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Front cover “Too many people are running around nowadays calling themselves ‘social media experts.’ Simon doesn't call himself that. His clients do. And they're right. I'll read anything this man writes.” –Peter Shankman Back cover Social Location Marketing Breakthrough social...
The Passionate Photographer: Ten Steps Toward Becoming Great
Ten Steps Toward Becoming Great
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
If you’ve got a love and passion for photography, and a feel for your camera gear and settings, yet your images still fall short–The Passionate Photographer will help you close that disappointing and frustrating gap between the images you thought you took and the images you actually got.
This...