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Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature

Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays

par Andrew Bernstein, Walter Block, Susan Love Brown, Troy Camplin, Stephen Cox, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Carl Horner, Cynthia Hunter, Heather King, William Kline, Zennure Köseman0, Felix Livingston1, Matt McCaffrey2, Allen Mendenhall3, Virginia Murr4, Theodore Pauls5, Sarah Skwire6, Michael Spindler7, Gennady Stolyarov II8, Frederick Turner9, Michelle Albert Vachris0, Amy Willis1, Derek Yonai2, Carmen Elena Dorobat3, Paul Cantor4, Jeff Riggenbach5, Gary Wolfram6, Prof Edward W. Younkins7 ...

Collections series Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating ... En savoir plus

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Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating
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A Personal Odyssey

par Thomas Sowell ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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10 heure 56 min

Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.The vignettes of the people and ... En savoir plus

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Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.The vignettes of the people and
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How to Watch TV News

par Neil Postman, Steve Powers ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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4 heure 30 min

America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world.In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve Powers show how you can become a discerning viewer. ... En savoir plus

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America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world.In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve Powers show how you can become a discerning viewer.
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Men in Black

How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America

par Mark R. Levin ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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7 heure 56 min

The Supreme Court endorses terrorists’ rights, flag burning, and importing foreign law. Is that in the Constitution? You’re right: it’s not. But these days the Constitution is no restraint on our out-of-control Supreme Court. The Court imperiously strikes down laws and imposes new ones purely on its own arbitrary whims. Even though liberals like John Kerry are repeatedly defeated at the polls, the ... En savoir plus

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The Supreme Court endorses terrorists’ rights, flag burning, and importing foreign law. Is that in the Constitution? You’re right: it’s not. But these days the Constitution is no restraint on our out-of-control Supreme Court. The Court imperiously strikes down laws and imposes new ones purely on its own arbitrary whims. Even though liberals like John Kerry are repeatedly defeated at the polls, the
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The Glory and the Dream

A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972

par William Manchester ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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57 heure 23 min

This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti—everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the ... En savoir plus

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This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti—everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the
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That’s Not in My American History Book

A Compilation of Little-Known Events and Forgotten Heroes

par Thomas Ayres ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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7 heure 59 min

That’s Not in My American History Book collects an illuminating treasury of stories edited out of your textbooks. It explains why the Fourth of July isn’t really our Independence Day. It dispels the myth of Paul Revere’s ride. It reveals nineteenth-century political mudslinging that labeled Andrew Jackson a murderer and his wife an adulteress. It even unveils the only vice president ever to ... En savoir plus

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That’s Not in My American History Book collects an illuminating treasury of stories edited out of your textbooks. It explains why the Fourth of July isn’t really our Independence Day. It dispels the myth of Paul Revere’s ride. It reveals nineteenth-century political mudslinging that labeled Andrew Jackson a murderer and his wife an adulteress. It even unveils the only vice president ever to
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Edmund Burke

A Genius Reconsidered

par Russell Kirk ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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6 heure 8 min

In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined the public and the private man into a living whole. He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy and offers a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today than in his own time.Kirk defines four great struggles in the life of Burke: his work for conciliation ... En savoir plus

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In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined the public and the private man into a living whole. He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy and offers a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today than in his own time.Kirk defines four great struggles in the life of Burke: his work for conciliation
... En savoir plus

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Forge of Union, Anvil of Liberty

A Correspondent’s Report on the First Federal Elections, the First Federal Congress, and the Bill of Rights

par Jeffrey St. John ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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6 heure 50 min

One of the most important news stories of the last two centuries comes to life in this “eyewitness account” of America's first Federal elections, the First Congress, and the creation of the Bill of Rights. In a swift-moving and colorful chronicle written by St. John as though he were an on-the-scene reporter, listeners will discover how Madison had to fight both friend and foe of the Constitution ... En savoir plus

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One of the most important news stories of the last two centuries comes to life in this “eyewitness account” of America's first Federal elections, the First Congress, and the creation of the Bill of Rights. In a swift-moving and colorful chronicle written by St. John as though he were an on-the-scene reporter, listeners will discover how Madison had to fight both friend and foe of the Constitution
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Nathan Bedford Forrest

A Biography

par Jack Hurst ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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16 heure 58 min

He was a fierce and controversial Civil War officer, an unschooled but brilliant cavalryman, an epic figure in America’s most celebrated war. A superb tactician and ferocious fighter, Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of rising from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army.In this detailed and fascinating account of the legend of the “Wizard of ... En savoir plus

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He was a fierce and controversial Civil War officer, an unschooled but brilliant cavalryman, an epic figure in America’s most celebrated war. A superb tactician and ferocious fighter, Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of rising from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army.In this detailed and fascinating account of the legend of the “Wizard of
... En savoir plus

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The Roosevelts

An American Saga

par Peter Collier, David Horowitz ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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19 heure 11 min

The story of the Roosevelts is usually seen as a tale of two presidents—Theodore and Franklin—separated by time and politics, and of two families—the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches—that had little to do with each other. Collier and Horowitz paint an explosive new portrait which offers a completely unique view of America's longest lasting and most powerful dynasty.In this brilliant biography, we ... En savoir plus

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The story of the Roosevelts is usually seen as a tale of two presidents—Theodore and Franklin—separated by time and politics, and of two families—the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches—that had little to do with each other. Collier and Horowitz paint an explosive new portrait which offers a completely unique view of America's longest lasting and most powerful dynasty.In this brilliant biography, we
... En savoir plus
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Crusade

The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

par Rick Atkinson ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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24 heure 32 min

Throughout the Gulf War of 1991, unprecedented restrictions on the media’s access to the battlefield kept the true story of that brief, brutal conflict from being told. Now, after two years of intensive research, Rick Atkinson has written what will surely come to be recognized as the definitive chronicle of the war.Crusade follows the unfolding battle from the first night to the final day, ... En savoir plus

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Throughout the Gulf War of 1991, unprecedented restrictions on the media’s access to the battlefield kept the true story of that brief, brutal conflict from being told. Now, after two years of intensive research, Rick Atkinson has written what will surely come to be recognized as the definitive chronicle of the war.Crusade follows the unfolding battle from the first night to the final day,
... En savoir plus
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Amusing Ourselves to Death

Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

par Neil Postman ...

Lu par Jeff Riggenbach ...

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4 heure 49 min

In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how “entertainment values” have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the ... En savoir plus

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In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how “entertainment values” have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the
... En savoir plus

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