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Damn Senators My Grandfather and the Story of Washington’s Only World Series Championship

In Damn Senators, Mark Judge has written a book that is at once a touching memoir of his grandfather, star first baseman for the old Washington Senators; a history of baseball in its golden age; and an exciting account of the Senators’ 1924 World Series victory. As one advance reader says, “This book is not only for the dedicated fan but for anyone interested in human endurance and courage and the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.”

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Class Warfare Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence

Western societies are divided more clearly than ever before into the haves and the have-nots, the needy and the greedy. In addition, neoliberal doctrines have been reshaped into more effective instruments of oppression and domination. Through a fascinating dialogue with long-time collaborator and fellow activist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explores this growing economic and social crisis, arguing that it is now acceptable political discourse to discuss class warfare.

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An Honest Writer The Life and Times of James T. Farrell

With a deep sympathy for Farrell and an informed reading of the larger context in which he lived and worked, Robert Landers has produced a sparkling history of an era and a compelling portrait of one of its major figures. This authoritative biography arrives right on time for the James T. Farrell centenary in 2004.

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Life, Liberty & the Defense of Dignity The Challenge for Bioethics

Kass believes that technology has done and will continue to do wonders for our health and longevity and that we have much to be thankful for. But there is more at stake in the biological revolution than saving life and avoiding death. We must also strive to protect the ideals and practices that give us dignity and keep us human. Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity challenges us to confront the posthuman future that may await us by thinking deeply about the momentous issues we face today.

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Bioevolution How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World

Michael Fumento’s Bioevolution is the first book to explain what biotech is all about and to describe the amazing scientific advances just over the horizon. Reporting from ground zero of experimentation and clinical trials, Fumento shows how biotech is already changing our lives and will do so even more dramatically in the near future.

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Tilting the Playing Field Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX

A former athlete herself, Jessica Gavora interviewed dozens of leading college athletes, educators and legal experts for this provocative, yet carefully researched book. She argues that the 1999 World Cup victory of the U.S. Women’s Soccer team, for instance, widely seen as a Title IX triumph, was actually the result of a far more profound social revolution that has changed America’s mind about sexual roles and female destiny.

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The Goodyear Story An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly

In The Goodyear Story, Richard Korman has written a fascinating biography that also provides a panoramic view of America in the first light of its industrial revolution. Drawing on newly discovered archival records, Korman tells a suspenseful story of scientific experimentation and legal struggle in creating a portrait of an eminent American whose eccentricity anticipates the new economy pioneers of today.

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More With Less Paul MacCready and the Dream of Efficient Flight

Paul Ciotti tells the story of the individuals who made up this group, but ultimately More with Less is about Paul MacCready himself, an American dreamer whose tough minded inventiveness altered our scientific skyline.

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Islam Unveiled Disturbing Questions about the World’s Fastest-Growing Faith

In Islam Unveiled, Robert Spencer dares to face the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches—and the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West.

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Islam Unveiled Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith

In Islam Unveiled, Robert Spencer dares to face the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches—and the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West.

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Heaven On Earth The Rise and Fall of Socialism

Socialism was man’s most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Indeed, no religion ever spread so far so fast. Yet while socialism had established itself as a fact of life by the beginning of the 20th century, it did not create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man.”

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Fighting the Mafia & Renewing Sicilian Culture

Fighting the Mafia is Orlando’s dramatic tale of witness and survival, of his effort to expose Mafia infiltration into the highest levels of Italian life and politics, and of the movements he helped to build—in schools and churches and at the ballot box—to recapture Sicilian culture and inspire a renaissance of democracy.

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Anti-Americanism

Revel probes the origins of the notion that America is the source of all evil: imperialistic, greedy, ruthlessly competitive—a hyperpower whose riches are acquired at the expense of the Third World. At a time when it seems that much of the world is marching against America, Revel’s clearheaded analysis of the protestors’ motives shows what they’re really marching for and what the world will lose if their anti-Americanism should ever take hold.

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The Road to Malpsychia Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents

The Road to Malpsychia charts the rise and fall of one of the most significant cultural movements of our time. It is a story filled with character and anecdote and also with daunting implications for the secular souls left stranded by the failure of what Maslow once called “the religion of human nature.”

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On Two Wings Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding

In the course of his illustrious career, Michael Novak has written several prize-winning books on theology and philosophy. In On Two Wings he has created a profound mediation on American history, and on human nature and destiny as well.

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