Ivan: 285 books
Not With a Bang But a Whimper
The Politics and Culture of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life....
by August Strindberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic young woman and her valet. Ms. Stockenstrom's new translation retains the rhythm and emotional feel of the original while making the prose more playable for today's audiences.
1968
The Election That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they...
by Athan Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
Documents uncovered from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in collecting and using derogatory information about prominent Americans and political groups. Historian Athan Theoharis charges that Hoover was an "indirect blackmailer,"...
Shakedown
The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
As their infatuation with President Obama fades, millions of Americans anxiously ask, Is this the change we were waiting for? The current administration represents change, for sure, Steven Malanga argues - a momentous transformation of the fundamental structure of American politics. A self-interested...
Missiles in Cuba
Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date...
Rostenkowski
The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2000
For thirteen years, during a time of Democratic congressional dominance in Washington, Dan Rostenkowski became one of the most influential American legislators of the twentieth century. As chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, the representative from Illinois influenced the nation's...
by John Ernest
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War. He examines fraternal organizations, churches, conventions, mutual aid benefit and literary...
Popular Justice
A History of Lynching in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment performed by "ordinary" people. He confronts racially fragmented historical memory and legacies of popular justice to help the reader make better...
A Bubble in Time
America During the Interwar Years, 1989–2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that extended from the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the War on Terror is the subject of William L. O'Neill's brilliant new study of recent American history. Mr. O'Neill's sharp eye for the telling incident and the apt quotation combine with...
Building the Continental Empire
American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Earl Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American empire. Mr. Weeks traces the origins of this initiative to the 1750s, when the Founding Fathers...
The Faculty Lounges
And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability...
by Ivan G
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Have you ever wanted to know how to be a successful drug (Marijuana) dealer? This book actually gives tips and solid advice for anyone who is interested in pursuing that path, currently is a dealer or anyone who is interested in how it all happens.
by Ivan Boikov
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
- Simple yet very effective training program consisting of bodyweight exercises and yoga poses based on findings of Dr. Izumi Tabata from National Institute of Fitness and Sports(Tokio, Japan) that allows you to burn fat and improve your body composition at the fastest rate possible while training...