The latest releases from Encounter Books.
hardcover, by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch — After years of booming business and unbelievable wealth creation, the economy has slowed, stunned by a mortgage crisis that has only reinforced the notion of big businesses as insatiable masters of the universe with little regard for the public. The critics of capitalism have emerged from every corner to harangue those who create wealth with charges of greed, thievery, and[...]
hardcover, by Guy Sorman — The Western press these days is full of stories on China's arrival as a superpower, some even warning that the future may belong to her. Western political and business delegations stream into Beijing, confident in China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly. Crowning China's new status, Beijing will host the 2008 Olympic Games. But as Guy Sorman reveals in Empire of Lies China's[...]
hardcover, by Andrew C. McCarthy —
Long before the devastation of September 11, 2001, the war on terror raged. The problem was that only one side, radical Islam, was fighting it as a war. For the
hardcover, by Roy Spencer —
The current frenzy over global warming has galvanized the public and cost taxpayers billons of dollars in federal expenditures for climate research. It has spawned
hardcover, by Don Eberly — Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people at “the bottom of the pyramid” is summoning forth an unprecedented response to human need[...]
hardcover, by James Bowman — Although there is widespread acknowledgment that the “mainstream media” is in crisis—a crisis underscored as much by declining authority as declining circulation and viewership—no one has explained its intellectual and moral causes. James Bowman, media critic for The New Criterion, provides a scintillating and fast-paced anatomy of the mainstream media self-generated demise. In[...]
hardcover, by Philip F. Lawler — The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture, traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church as a cultural dynamo in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that has echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions have lost social influence in the face of rising secularization. The collapse of Catholicism in Boston became[...]
hardcover, by Caroline Fourest —
The name of Tariq Ramadan is well known in the West. Thanks to his urbane manner and articulate way of expressing himself – in a number of languages – this Swiss-born academic is a regular contributor to television and radio features dealing with Islam (and Islamism) and the West. In[...]
hardcover, by David Meir-Levi — In the United Nations, on university campuses, and among a growing number of our most prestigious Western newspapers, the historical record has been rewritten so thoroughly that Israel is seen as the worst of the oppressive Western occupiers of the Third World. So successful has this campaign been that Palestinian spinmeisters and their apologists have effectively declared that the[...]
hardcover, by Bruce Thornton —
Once a colossus dominating the globe,
hardcover, by Mark Stricherz — Has the 2006 election ushered in a new era of Democratic dominance? According to Mark Stricherz, the party’s own history should give us pause. The Democratic Party has lost seven of the last ten presidential elections. In the last thirty years, no Democratic presidential nominee has received even half of the popular vote. And the party’s base of support is limited to the “blue states” on[...]
hardcover, by Raymond J. Learsy — Longtime commodities trader Raymond J. Learsy explains the real reason behind today's outrageous gas prices by exposing the Mideast oil cartel and revealing how OPEC manipulates the oil markets-and, consequently, threatens the world's economy and American security. With refreshing candor and an insider's perspective, Over a Barrel, explains OPEC from the bottom up: its history of[...]
hardcover, by Carla T. Main — Eminent domain entered the awareness of many Americans with the recent U.S. Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London. Across the political spectrum, people were outraged when the Court majority said that a local government may transfer property from one private party to another under the “public use” clause of the Constitution, for the sake of “economic development. Carla T.[...]
hardcover, by Theodore Dalrymple — To call someone prejudiced is to relegate him to the lowest rung of intellectual life. But is there anyone who isn’t prejudiced? As Dr. Dalrymple argues in this brief and bracing rehabilitation both of prejudice itself and the necessity of prejudice, someone who walks out into the world completely unprejudiced is as helpless as a newborn babe. In fact, as Dr. Dalrymple shows, prejudice is[...]
paper, by Frederick W. Kagan — The American military has met a daunting set of challenges over the past few decades, from facing down the vast Soviet armies to hunting individual terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan. Throughout this period, the armed forces have been engaged in a continual process of reinvention, commonly called transformation. Military officers and civilians have been constantly forced not only to cope[...]
paper, by Victor Davis Hanson — In this revised and updated edition, Victor Davis Hanson locates the cause of our immigration quadmire in the opportunistic coalition that stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles any honest discussion of the present crisis. Conservative corporations, contractors and agribusiness demand cheap labor from Mexico, whatever the social consequences. Meanwhile, "progressive" academics,[...]
hardcover, by Tony Rafael —
It has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. Although it has fewer than 300 members, it controls a 40,000-strong street army that is eager to advance its agenda. It waves the flag of the Black Hand and its business is murder. Although known on the streets for over fifty years, the[...]
