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- Pathology of the Elites
Pathology of the Elites
In this bracing collection of provocative essays, Michael Knox Beran examines the false benevolence that characterizes the power classes in contemporary America. Their...
- Neoconservatism
Neoconservatism
The movement called neo-conservatism has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatism in our time. And if neo-conservatism can be said to...
- Eyewitness Auschwitz - F. Muller Three Years in th
Eyewitness Auschwitz - F. Muller Three Years in th
- Filip Muller
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- naučné
- 192
- 1999
Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was...
- Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf War Prados JohnPaperback
Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf War Prados JohnPaperback
In this newly revised and updated edition of his essential work, John Prados adds his concluding findings on U.S. covert operations in Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and the...
- Best of Ogden Nash
Best of Ogden Nash
- Nash, Ogden
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- 496
- 2007
It's been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America's laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of...
- Complete Essays
Complete Essays
- Aldous Huxley
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- 607
These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern...
- Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 Daniels RogerPaperback
Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 Daniels RogerPaperback
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- 192
- 1998
In the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States-a greater number than in any comparable period, before or since. They were often...
- Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin
Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin
- Bunin, Ivan
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- 398
- 2007
"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not...
- Molotov Remembers - V. Molotov
Molotov Remembers - V. Molotov
- V. M. Molotov, Feliz Chuev
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- 463
In conversations with the poet-biographer Felix Chuev, Molotov offers an incomparable view of the politics of Soviet society and the nature of Kremlin leadership under...
- The Man Nobody Knows - B. Barton
The Man Nobody Knows - B. Barton
- Barton, Bruce
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- 128
- 2000
Bruce Barton's 1925 effort to reconfigure Jesus for the Roaring Twenties turned into one of the great best-sellers of the century. In The Man Nobody Knows, Barton depicted...
- Slavery in the Americas
Slavery in the Americas
- Klein, Herbert S
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- 284
- 1988
Comparing the workings and effects of slavery in two New World colonies-Virginia and Cuba-Mr. Klein dramatically confirms institutional differences in Latin American and North...
- A Doll's House - H. Ibsen
A Doll's House - H. Ibsen
Ibsen's seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level...
- Aldous Huxley Complete Essays
Aldous Huxley Complete Essays
In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many...
- Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940
- Kyvig, David E
- 350
- 2004
The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this...
- Complete Essays - Huxley Aldous
Complete Essays - Huxley Aldous
This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley's stature as one of the most acute and informed observers of the social and ideological trends of the years between the...
- Chamberlain and the Lost Peace
Chamberlain and the Lost Peace
Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain. John Charmley's important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of the war is based on...
- Six Characters in Search of an Author
Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Piraello, Luigi
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- 86
- 1998
Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality, follows a group of characters who try to fashion their fife stories into acceptable drama. Mr. Brustein's new...
- Complete Essays
Complete Essays
At their best, Huxley's essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. From 1938 to 1956 Aldous Huxley continues to explore the role of science and...
- Lisbon Route
Lisbon Route
The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities,...
- Life at the Bottom
Life at the Bottom
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Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the...
- Our Culture, Whats Left of it
Our Culture, Whats Left of it
This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. It...
- Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline Dalrymple TheodorePaperback
Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline Dalrymple TheodorePaperback
In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality,...
- 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II Carley Michael JabaraPaperback
1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II Carley Michael JabaraPaperback
At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt...
- Doomed to Fail
Doomed to Fail
Since hardly anyone is happy with American schools, it's always open season for school reform with inevitable calls for better teaching, better curriculums, better organization,...