Philip: 4665 books
Napoleon
Passion, Death and Resurrection 1815–1840
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times
This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner on the island of St Helena. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon still held immense attraction. Every...
Made with Words
Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political...
Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna
The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Goose Lane Editions has released a biography that reveals the private world of one of Canada’s most fascinating politicians. Almost four years after stepping down as Premier of New Brunswick, Frank McKenna is as much on the minds of political watchers across Canada as ever. The question today, however,...
by Philip José Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A daybreaker rebels on an overpopulated planet in this dystopian adventure by the author of the World of Tiers series.
Jeff Caird was once a daybreaker: a criminal who avoided government-required suspended animation by living seven different identities. Now he goes by the name William St.-George...
by Philip Roth
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning...
Between the Wars
19191939
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War," was his bleak response.
In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international turning points - cultural...
The 9/11 Commission Report: The Attack from Planning to Aftermath (Authorized Text, Shorter Edition)
The 9/11 Commission Report: The Attack from Planning to Aftermath (Authorized Text, Shorter Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
“A document of historic sweep and almost unprecedented detail.”—Washington Post
Published for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this new edition of the authorized report is limited to the Commission’s riveting account—which was a finalist for the National Book Award—of the attack and...
The Commission
The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
In a work of history that will make headlines, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon investigates the investigation of 9/11 and tells the inside story of most important federal commission since the the Warren Commission. Shenon uncovers startling new information about the inner workings of the 9/11...
Blue Eyes on African-American History
A Learning Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Until Bayard Rustins lecture in the fall of 1962, no other person had brought author Philip Reiss so far toward gaining an understanding of what it was like for African-Americans living as second-class citizens in this nation, which sponsors a pledge calling for liberty and justice for all.
The...
by Philip Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense...
Jonathan Edwards
America's Evangelical
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
An important new biography of America's founding religious father.
Jonathan Edwards was America's most influential evangelical, whose revivals of the 1730s became those against which all subsequent ones have been judged.
The marvelous accomplishment of Philip Gura's Jonathan Edwards...
The Inspired Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
How Faith Shaped an American President -- and Changed the Course of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Not long after Lincoln's assassination, the debate began: Was Lincoln a committed Christian or a confirmed skeptic? Scholar Philip Ostergard provides the answer with a thorough study of the president's references to God, the Bible, and Christian principles in his letters and speeches. The Inspired...
Cuba Libre
A 500-Year Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus’s first arrival in 1492. With decades of experience studying and reporting on the island, Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner provide an incisive overview for all readers seeking to go beyond...
Decade of Nightmares
The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues...