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  • Failure to Pursue

    How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War

    by David Frey ...
    Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither side could land a knockout punch? From the outset, both North and South had anticipated a brief conflict but despite more than 50 bloody battles neither could force a decisive conclusion. For most of the war, these battles followed a pattern: the victors claimed the field and the vanquished retreated to rest, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary

    The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944

    by David Frey ...
    Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany and Italy in feature output. Yet by 1944, Hungary's cinema was in shambles, internal and external forces having destroyed its unification experiments and productive capacity. ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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    Mathematica

    A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity

    by David Bessis ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a matter of genes. Yet the greatest mathematicians throughout history, from René Descartes to Alexander Grothendieck, have insisted that this is not the case. Like Albert Einstein, who famously claimed to have "no special talent," they said that they had accomplished what they did ... Read more

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    Scots Of The Riverina (Unabridged)

    by Henry Lawson ...
    Narrated by David Frey, Danny Weiss, Benjamin Vargas ...

    Unabridged

    27 min

    In the rugged and unforgiving Riverina region of Australia, a group of Scottish immigrants struggle to carve out a life for themselves. Led by the indomitable Lachlan Macquarie, they face adversity with courage and determination. But as the years pass, their dreams are tested by drought, floods, and the harsh realities of the Australian bush. Through their trials and tribulations, the Scots of the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Economic Ideas You Should Forget

    Edited by Bruno S. Frey, David Iselin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts. Economics is a vigorous and progressive science, which does not lose its force when particular parts of its theory are empirically invalidated; instead, they contribute to the accumulation of knowledge.By discussing problematic theoretical ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Film and Faith

    Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe

    by Carson Holloway, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Kirstin Carlson, J. Columcille Dever, Jennifer Frey, David McPherson, R. Michael Olson, Christopher Tollefsen, Jordan J. Ballor, Matthew J. Franck0, Francis J. Beckwith1, Micah Watson2 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion’s continuing manifestations in a secularizing age. The contributors are students of philosophy, political theory, and theology; examine religious and philosophical ideas in commercially and artistically important modern films. They offer a scholarly ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

    A Reader

    by Ruth Behar, David Bleich ...
    Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies and history, mathematics and medicine, philosophy, music, film, ethnic studies, law, education, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Equality

    More or Less

    by Robert E. Tully, Bruce Chilton, Brandon Jason Archuleta, Richard H. Davis, Morten G. Ender, David S. Frey, George W. Gawrych, Robert J. Goldstein, Christopher W. Jacobs0, Hugh Liebert1, Betsy Lucal2, Courtney Morris3, Graham Parsons4, Darya Pushkina5, Shai Secunda6, Tehseen Thaver7, Dominique Townsend8 ...
    Series series Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point
    The essays in this volume on the subject of equality are the work of scholars at Bard College and West Point. Their research falls within the areas of history, religion, legal theory, social science, ethics and philosophy. The regions covered include the Middle and Far East, Europe, and America; the time periods studied are both contemporary and historical. Each essay is a well-detailed ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Play in the Age of Goethe

    Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800

    by Christian P. Weber, Samuel Heidepriem, Nicholas Rennie, Patricia Anne Simpson, Ian F. McNeely, Christiane Frey, Michael Powers, David Martyn, Brian Tucker ...
    Series series New Studies in the Age of Goethe
    We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Gettysburg

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    A comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today's leading historians.The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation’s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

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  • Gettysburg

    A Testing of Courage

    by Noah Andre Trudeau ...
    This National Bestseller is a "gripping narrative. . . . the best one-volume history of the decisive battle of the Civil War" ( New York Times Book Review ).America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pennsylvania countryside in July 1863 that continues to fascinate, appall, and inspire new generations with its unparalleled saga of sacrifice and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How the South Could Have Won the Civil War

    The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat

    by Bevin Alexander ...
    Could the South have won the Civil War?To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable?Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander reveals in this provocative and counterintuitive new look at the Civil War. In fact, the South most definitely ... Read more

    $5.99 USD