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Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
ix, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times best-selling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America's long slide from innocence to orthodoxy.
Author
Publisher
BasicBooks
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
xii, 208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Are Hispanics "making it"--Achieving the American dream following the pattern of other ethnic groups? This controversial book shatters the myth that 20 million Hispanics--fast becoming the nation's largest minority--are a permanent underclass. Chavez considers the radical implications for bilingual education, immigration policy, and affirmative action.
Author
Publisher
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 380 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is about evil, more specifically, one person’s chance encounter with evil, an encounter that ended up destroying the rest of his life. The dark secret involved in that encounter also resulted in a family taboo, one that lasted long after the person who had that encounter with evil had passed away. That person was Abraham Zapruder, the man who filmed the famous “Zapruder film” that captured the assassination of President John F. Kennedy...
Author
Publisher
Image
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xx, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rare firsthand account of Vatican politics as Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis each endeavored to lead the Catholic Church into the modern world--from an accomplished diplomat, lawyer, and Harvard professor. "In my years of service to the Holy See, I was a stranger in a rather strange land--a layperson in a culture dominated by clergy, an American woman in an environment that was largely male and Italian, and a citizen of a constitutional...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xv, 366 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project faltered, the abductees were hidden in a series of guarded communities known as Invitation-Only Zones--the fiction being that these were exclusive enclaves,...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
Language
English
Description
Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? Covering the eleven centuries from the end of the Neolithic period to the rise of Alexander the Great, this course traces the history of Classical Greece and its foundational influence on all of Western civilization. The knowledge gained here will increase comprehension not only of history but of all Western religion, art, architecture, philosophy,...
Author
Publisher
Headpress
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
iv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s and early 1970s a dizzying array of musical artists congregated in Laurel Canyon to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn't make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Charles Manson was integrated into the scene more than most would care to admit, as well as various political operatives, up-and-coming...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of 24 engaging lectures, Professor Robert Garland of Colgate University unpacks the development of Athenian democracy, going inside the assemblies and courts to reveal how citizen rule worked, and where it came up short.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan "Mni Wiconi"--Water is Life--was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (approximately 1593 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A late-night comedy show featuring memorable short skits, hilarious sketches, parodies of television commercials, a live guest band featuring original musical performances, and a pop-cultural guest host each week.
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (approximately 1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 48 lectures, award-winning Professor Jennifer McNabb guides viewers through centuries of exhilarating change in Europe, focusing on often-unexplored or overlooked areas, including the role of women in the Renaissance, the lives of the poor and elite, Renaissance home and family life, and the connections between the Renaissance and the Reformation.
13) China room
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A transfixing novel about two unforgettable characters seeking to free themselves-one from the expectations of women in early 20th century Punjab, and the other from the weight of life in the contemporary Indian diaspora Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she and her now-sisters spend their days hard at work in the family's "china room,"...
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