Encounter Books,USA
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Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A law professor''s memoir of his own ascendancy from prosecutor to influential legal thinker.From prosecuting murderers in Chicago, to arguing before the Supreme Court, to authoring more than a dozen books, Georgetown University law professor…1 056 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Science
In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks…594 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
Charles R. Kesler, an eminent scholar and prodigious editor, has exerted a profound influence on the study of American politics and the practice of American conservatism.A precocious high-school student, he impressed a visiting William F.…792 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
In Prophetic Statesmanship: Harry V. Jaffa, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address, Edward J. Erler presents the lesser-known, late-life scholarship of renowned Lincoln scholar, Harry Victor Jaffa. Through a deep reading of LincolnÂ’s Gettysburg Address and Second…792 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
A wide-ranging collection of essays from one of America's leading public intellectualsIn Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar Robert P. George tackles one of the most vexing issues dividing Americans today.…825 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction, Psychology
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased…495 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
Western civilization fashioned a capitalism that created a worldwide economic cornucopia and higher standards of living than any other system, yet its legitimacy is often questioned by its beneficiaries. Boston University Emeritus Professor Angelo M.…759 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called…726 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
 You shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book.—Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme CourtIf reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty terrorist attack and indicated likely suspects, what preventive actions…726 Kč Koupit
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