Robert G : 606 books

The author, the son of an abolitionist minister, takes on his contemporaries’ views on religion in volume seven of his collected works. Included here are the discussions “My Reviewers Reviewed,” which takes on the subjects of women’s equality to men, immortality, and slavery, among others; “My...

The tenth volume of the works of Ingersoll features his speeches and articles on legal matters. Includes “Address to the Jury in the Munn Trial,” a speech made in court concerning alcohol, and which, ultimately, proved his client innocent; as well as “Closing Address to the Jury in the First Star...

In this fourth volume of Ingersoll’s works, the reader comes across one of the political activist’s best-known lectures, “Why I Am an Agnostic;” also “The Truth,” in which Ingersoll calls the science of theology the only dishonest science; “How to Reform Mankind;” “Thanksgiving Sermon;”...

In the early 2000s, the United States and Canada implemented new campaign finance laws restricting the ability of interest groups to make political contributions and to engage in political advertising. Whereas both nations' legislative reforms sought to reduce the role of interest groups in campaigns,...

Albion Fellows Bacon Indiana’s Municipal Housekeeper Robert G. Barrows Examines the career of a leading Progressive Era reformer. Born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1865, Albion Fellows was reared in the nearby hamlet of McCutchanville and graduated from Evansville High School. She worked...

This first of twelve volumes of works by the great nineteenth-century orator and freethinker is comprised of lectures, including “The Gods” (a logical critique of religion), “Humboldt,” “Thomas Paine,” “Individuality,” “Heretics and Heresies,” “The Ghosts,” “The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child,” “About Farming in Illinois,” and “What Must We Do to be Saved?”

Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.   Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...

FOREWORD by Tom Kyte Your Must-Have Guide to Everything New in Oracle Database 11g Realize the full potential of Oracle Database 11g with help from the experts. Written by Robert G. Freeman, and with insightful commentary throughout from Arup Nanda, this Oracle Press guide offers full...

Popular speaker, multimillionaire, and author of the all-time bestselling real-estate book Nothing Down, Robert G. Allen knows how to bring you financial success. With his seminars sweeping the nation, Allen is at the cutting edge of strategic wealth creation now more than ever. And in this completely...

As the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, Elmer L. Irey accomplished what J. Edgar Hoover wouldnt and Eliot Ness couldnt. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he headed the investigations that led to the prosecution of the ruthless, murderous bosses who ruled American...

A Washington Post Notable Book An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and how it doesn’t— Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman...

Two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets. Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts,...

From the man the Wall Street Journal hailed as "the guru of Revenue Management" comes revolutionary ways to recover from the after effects of downsizing and refocus your business on growth. Whatever happened to growth? In Revenue Management, Robert G. Cross answers this question with...

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation’s highest court. As in prior editions, McCloskey’s original text remains unchanged. In his...