Joel: 1733 books

Book cover of The View North from Liberal Cemetery
by Joel Wapnick
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Life amounts to nothing. That's the considered opinion of Carl Anderson, recently retired McGill professor of religion. Lonely, aimless, embittered by his children, unable to derive significance from his long career, irked by the “putter-putter” meaninglessness of existence at the seniors...
Book cover of A Political Companion to James Baldwin
by Rachel Brahinsky, Lisa Beard, Brian Norman
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

In seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time, acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin (1924--1987) expresses his profound belief that writers have the power to transform society, to engage the public, and to inspire and channel conversation...
Book cover of Author in Search of Six Characters
by Joel Rosenblum
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012

What could be more improbable than an author who joins his own characters in the story he is writing? Its as if he comes from a land where nobody suits him anymore. He craves literary revenge against a world full of unsympathetic publishers and out-of-order readers, and he takes on the prospect...
Book cover of Meet the Puritans
by Joel R. Beeke, Randall J. Pederson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This encyclopedic resource provides biographical sketches of all the major Puritans as well as bibliographic summaries of their writings and work. Meet the Puritans is an important addition to the library of the layman, pastor, student and scholar.
Book cover of Ethics without Morals

Ethics without Morals

In Defence of Amorality

by Joel Marks
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence...
Book cover of Autos and Progress

Autos and Progress

The Brazilian Search for Modernity

by Joel Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010

Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe...
Book cover of A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat
by Joel Kilpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010

They're Going to Heaven . . . and They Know It At last, a complete, unsparing guide to evangelical Christians. This hilarious and highly useful manual, written by an insider, illuminates this rapidly growing and unique segment of America and offers a thoroughly entertaining, no-holds-barred,...
Book cover of Ethics of Spying

Ethics of Spying

A Reader for the Intelligence Professional

by Joel H. Rosenthal, J E. Drexel Godfrey, R V. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005

Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Book cover of Readings in Caribbean History and Culture
by Dalea Bean, Eldon V. Birthwright, Trevor Burnard
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011

This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of...
Book cover of The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763-1995
by Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

This book describes the impact of U.S. government civilization and education policies on a Native American family and its tribe from 1763 to 1995. While engaged in a personal quest for his family's roots in Choctaw tribal history, the author discovered a direct relationship between educational policies...
Book cover of The 2016 Contenders: Rand Paul
by Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Presidential candidates are a breed apart, often propelled by traits that have shaped their careers and have deep roots in personal histories. Often their greatest strength can turn at supernova speed into their greatest weakness. The exact qualities that set them apart from the field trip them up eventually...
Book cover of Words Over War

Words Over War

Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict

by William J. Bien, Peter Bouckaert, Alan Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2000

The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention...
Book cover of UFOs and The White House

UFOs and The White House

What Did Our Presidents Know and When Did They Know It?

by William J. Birnes, Joel Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018

The author team that wrote the upcoming Skyhorse title Edison vs. Tesla, as well as The Haunting of the Presidents and other titles about the weird, the supernatural, and the unexplained, turn their attention to the oval office for a unique view of UFOs in America and more specifically, what America's...
Book cover of Iraq after America

Iraq after America

Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance

by Joel Rayburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

More than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, most studies of the Iraq conflict focus on the twin questions of whether the United States should have entered Iraq in 2003 and whether it should have exited in 2011, but few have examined the new Iraqi state and society on its own merits. Iraq...
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