Eric: 6009 books
Arab Fall
How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
How did Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood win power so quickly after the dramatic “Arab Spring” uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak’s thirty-year reign in February 2011? And why did the Brotherhood fall from power even more quickly, culminating with the popular “rebellion” and military coup...
Revolution and Aftermath
Forging a New Strategy toward Iran
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In Revolution and Aftermath: Forging a New Strategy toward Iran, Eric Edelman and Ray Takeyh examine one of the most underappreciated forces that has shaped modern US foreign policy: American-Iranian relations. They argue that America's flawed reading of Iran's domestic politics has hamstrung decades...
Spirits Of America
A Social History Of Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
"Thousands of years ago, before Christ or Buddha or Muhammad...before the Roman Empire rose or the Colossus of Rhodes fell," Eric Burns writes, "people in Asia Minor were drinking beer." So begins an account as entertaining as it is extensive, of alcohol's journey through world—and,...
by Eric Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional...
Reborn in America
French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure, 1815-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
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The history of the Vine and Olive Colony in Demopolis, Alabama, has long been clouded by romantic myths. The notion that it was a doomed attempt by Napoleonic exiles in America to plant a wine- and olive-growing community in...
Reforms at Risk
What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Reforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet as Eric Patashnik shows here, the political struggle does not end when major reforms become enacted....
by Eric Burkhart
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This is the story of a young American who would eventually fulfill his dream of becoming a CIA Case Officer, only to have a promising career cut short after having been purposely poisoned by a contact.
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe in a bilingual household, and accepted a job in Africa...
by Eric Hines
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
A call to arms for all American citizens to get active and to rescue our Republic from its dangerous drift away from our founding principles of small, limited government; individual liberties; personal responsibilities. From the pamphlet:"In the era of our War of Independence, governments,...
by Eric Posner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant...
by Eric Metaxas
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
In his New York Times bestseller *Bonhoeffer,*author Eric Metaxas presents the fullest account of Bonhoeffer's heart-wrenching 1939 decision to leave the safe haven of America for Hitler's Germany.
Now abridged and adapted in student-friendly...
The Book on Bush
How George W. (Mis)leads America
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
When George W. Bush became president in January 2001, he took office with a comfortably familiar surname, bipartisan rhetoric, and the promise of calming a public shaken by the convulsions of impeachment and a contested election. Then nine months later, after the tragedy of 9/11, both the country...
by Hesiod, Eric Voegelin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Philosopher C.S. Morrissey adapts Hesiod’s two great works, Theogony and Works and Days, taking into account the poet’s essential meditative insights that paved the way for the subsequent achievements of Greek philosophy,most notably of Plato, and thereby gave a distinctive shape to all of Western...
Biotech
The Countercultural Origins of an Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research. Given such extraordinary...
by Eric Berne
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Eric Berne is best known as the author of the 1965 classic Games People Play. A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, first published in 1947, is his introduction to the psychoanalytic school of thought, written in accessible language that anyone can understand and enjoy.