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Price: $8.99
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Sale: $4.86
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Manufacturer: Signet
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ayn Rand::Nathaniel Branden::Alan Greenspan::Robert Hessen
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Publisher: Signet
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 1986-07-15
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Reading Level: 416
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: New Beginnings Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ben Stein::Phil DeMuth
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Publisher: New Beginnings Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.93
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: On the heels of his very successful books, How to Ruin Your Life, How to Ruin Your Love Life, and How to Ruin Your Financial Life, Ben Stein, in collaboration with his pal Phil DeMuth, has tongue firmly in cheek once again as he comes up with surefire ways to ruin the greatest nation in the history of the human race. Try a few of these on for size: · Trust the United Nations to protect us and our security. · Make it unlawful to worship God or even to show images of the Ten Commandments. · Convert our universities into fortresses of anti-Americanism, hatred of freedom, and centers of confusion and ignorance. · Encourage contempt for the family and for the community. · Allow Hollywood to brainwash us into believing that only suckers and criminals fight for their country. · Treat the military, the police, firefighters, and teachers as losers and pay them starvation wages. Hey, does any of this sound familiar? Maybe that’s because it’s already happening! Ben and Phil give you all the information you’ll ever need in order to successfully ruin the USA even further! Sardonic, humorous, but also angrily emphatic, this is a book every old-fashioned patriot really needs to read! |
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $8.79
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Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: George Lakoff
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Publisher: Viking Adult
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.01
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Publication Date: 2008-05-29
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: In What’s the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank pointed out that a great number of Americans actually vote against their own interests. In The Political Mind, George Lakoff explains why.
As it turns out, human beings are not the rational creatures we’ve so long imagined ourselves to be. Ideas, morals, and values do not exist somewhere outside the body, ready to be examined and put to use. Instead, they exist quite literally inside the brain—and they take physical shape there. For example, we form particular kinds of narratives in our minds just like we form specific muscle memories such as typing or dancing, and then we fit new information into those narratives. Getting that information out of one narrative type and into another—or building a whole new narrative altogether—can be as hard as learning to play the banjo. Changing your mind isn’t like changing your body—it’s the same thing.
But as long as progressive politicians and activists persist in believing that people use an objective system of reasoning to decide on their politics, the Democrats will continue to lose elections. They must wrest control of the terms of the debate from their opponents rather than accepting their frame and trying to argue within it.
This passionate, erudite, and groundbreaking book will appeal to readers of Steven Pinker and Thomas Frank. It is a fascinating read for anyone interested in how the mind works, how society works, and how they work together.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $37.50
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Manufacturer: G. S. G. & Associates, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Carroll Quigley
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Publisher: G. S. G. & Associates, Incorporated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909
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Publication Date: 1975-06
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Reading Level: 1348
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $13.77
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Rick Shenkman
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.973
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Publication Date: 2008-06-09
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Politicians tell us constantly that they trust the wisdom of "The American People." New York Times best-selling author Rick Shenkman explains why we shouldn't--at least when it comes to politics. Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics. But what exactly? Democrats blame Republicans and Republicans blame Democrats. Greedy corporate executives, rogue journalists, faulty voting machines, irresponsible defense contractors--we blame them, too. The only thing everyone seems to agree on, in fact, is that the American people are entirely blameless. In Just How Stupid Are We?, best-selling historian and renowned myth-buster Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people. The hard truth is that American democracy is more direct than ever--but voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power. Americans are paying less and less attention to politics at a time when they need to pay much more: Television has dumbed politics down to the basest possible level, while the real workings of politics have become vastly more complicated. Shenkman offers concrete proposals for reforming our institutions--the government, the media, civic organizations, political parties--to make them work better for the American people. But first, Shenkman argues, we must reform ourselves.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $2.99
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ahmed Rashid
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 958.104
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Publication Date: 2001-03-01
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Reading Level: 294
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Description: This is the single best book available on the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Afghanistan responsible for harboring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career reporting on the region--he has personally met and interviewed many of the Taliban's shadowy leaders. Taliban was written and published before the massacres of September 11, 2001, yet it is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the aftermath of that black day. It includes details on how and why the Taliban came to power, the government's oppression of ordinary citizens (especially women), the heroin trade, oil intrigue, and--in a vitally relevant chapter--bin Laden's sinister rise to power. These pages contain stories of mass slaughter, beheadings, and the Taliban's crushing war against freedom: under Mullah Omar, it has banned everything from kite flying to singing and dancing at weddings. Rashid is for the most part an objective reporter, though his rage sometimes (and understandably) comes to the surface: "The Taliban were right, their interpretation of Islam was right, and everything else was wrong and an expression of human weakness and a lack of piety," he notes with sarcasm. He has produced a compelling portrait of modern evil. --John Miller
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Price: $3.99
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Sale: $3.70
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Manufacturer: Filiquarian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Karl Marx
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Publisher: Filiquarian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335
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Publication Date: 2007-11-07
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Reading Level: 86
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Description: This title is the classic communist party manifesto which started this one and a half decade political movement. The seven rarely published prefaces, mostly written by Frederick Engels after the death of Karl Marx, are included making this publication the complete communist manifesto. Although this title is known as one of the most famous left-wing propagandist publications, it serves as a lesson for thos of all political philosophys. The Communist Manifesto should be required reading when studying political science, radicalism and radical political thought.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $13.61
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bill Bishop
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 2008-05-07
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: The untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided
America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. This social transformation didn't happed by accident. We've built a country where we can all choose the neighborhood -- and religion and news show -- most compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. And we are living with the consequences of this way-of-life segregation. Our country has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred, that people don't know and can't understand those who live just a few miles away. The reason for this situation, and the dire implications for our country, is the subject of this groundbreaking work.
In 2004, the journalist Bill Bishop, armed with original and startling demographic data, made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves over the past three decades into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by region or by red state or blue state, but by city and even neighborhood. In The Big Sort, Bishop deepens his analysis in a brilliantly reported book that makes its case from the ground up, starting with stories about how we live today and then drawing on history, economics, and our changing political landscape to create one of the most compelling big-picture accounts of America in recent memory.
The Big Sort will draw comparisons to Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone and Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class and will redefine the way Americans think about themselves for decades to come.
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Price: $13.99
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Sale: $6.00
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Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Karen Kingsbury::Gary Smalley
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Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2003-01-23
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Convinced she could make it on her own, Ashley Baxter has kept the most important people in her life at a distance--her family, the man who loves her, and the God she is sure can never forgive her. Now, just as she begins to open her heart, the events of September 11 rip into Ashley's world and she is led to heartbreaking and hope-filled decisions that will forever change her life. This story vividly illustrates that we must value others more than ourselves, and it drives home one of Gary Smalley's key messages: Honor one another. Remember is second in the five-book Redemption series by Gary Smalley and Karen Kingsbury that centers around the Baxter family. As readers follow the hopes and struggles of the family, they will explore key relationship themes as well as the larger theme of redemption, both in characters' spiritual lives and in their relationships. Each book includes study questions for individual and small-group use as well as a "teaser" chapter of the next book in the series.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.75
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Baer
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 953.8053
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Publication Date: 2004-05-25
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: According to Robert Baer, the center of the global economy is a "kingdom built on thievery, one that nurtures terrorism, destroys any possibility of a middle class based on property rights, and promotes slavery and prostitution." This kingdom also sits on one quarter of the world's oil reserves, thus ensuring that it receives the full support and protection of the U.S. government. Sleeping With the Devil details the hypocritical and corrupt relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and the potentially calamitous economic consequences of maintaining this Faustian bargain. As Baer makes clear, the U.S. has been aware of problems within the bitterly divided Al Sa'ud family for years, but has ignored the facts in order to keep lucrative business deals afloat. (The amount of money the royal family spends to influence powerful American politicians and lobbyists is staggering.) Particularly damning are his details regarding Saudi Arabia's support of militant Islamic groups, including al Qaeda. The ruling family funnels millions of dollars to such groups in order to dissuade them from overthrowing the monarchy--a protection scheme that is shaky at best, given the hatred most citizens feel for the ruling family. To prevent economic disaster that could come from either a local uprising or an interruption in the flow of oil due to terrorism, Baer raises the possibility of the U.S. seizing the Saudi oil fields and forcing a regime change on its own terms: "An invasion and a revolution might be the only things that can save the industrial West from a prolonged, wrenching depression," he warns. Baer spent 21 years with the CIA, much of it in the Middle East, so he is an informed guide to this complex subject. His alarming book deserves to be read for raising many important and troubling questions. --Shawn Carkonen
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