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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 tod

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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 skylin

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Commies A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left

Filled with anecdote and personality and also with hard won insights into the destructive nature of the radical project, Commies is a moving story of growing up in the other America of the left and finding the way home at last.

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Negrophobia A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Atlanta was regarded as the gateway to the new, enlightened and racially progressive South. An atmosphere of respect and cooperation between blacks and whites and a progressive economic atmosphere made it seem that the days of Jim Crow were numbered. But Atlanta’s dream of escaping the haunting memory of civil war and human bondage was shattered in 1906.

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Hegemon China’s Plan to Dominate Asia and the World

For centuries, China had not only had the largest population, but also the most advanced economy and the strongest army on earth. It saw itself as the Hegemon, the ever-expanding central power around which the world revolved. Steven Mosher believes that China still sees itself in these terms.

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Uncivil Wars The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery

In this well researched and carefully argued book, David Horowitz traces the origins of the reparations movement. He examines the case made by its advocates and concludes that it is “morally questionable and racially incendiary.”

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The Eleven Days of Christmas America’s Last Vietnam Battle

Moving from the White House to the B-52 cockpits to the missile sites and POW camps of Hanoi, The Eleven Days of Christmas is a gripping tale of heroism and incompetence in a battle whose political and military legacy is still a matter of controversy.

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My Love Affair With America The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative

My Love Affair with America is more than the poignant recovery of lost time. Podhoretz uses his own experience to launch a strong defense of America and American values at a time when he fears that his fellow conservatives are in danger of following the path of the New Left into contempt for their native land. The gratitude Podhoretz feels for the United States is a challenge to the political Right as well as the Left.

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Christianity On Trial Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry

In Christianity on Trial, Vincent Carroll and David Shiflett do not shrink from confronting the tragedies that have been perpetrated throughout the ages in the name of Christianity. But they argue that the current indulgence of anti-Christian rhetoric in our culture not only involves bad taste, but tunnel vision and willful historical illiteracy as well.

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Clarence Thomas A Biography

In this unauthorized biography, the most authoritative ever written about the controversial Supreme Court Justice, Andrew Peyton Thomas (no relation) explores Clarence Thomas’ remarkable rise from a childhood of poverty in segregated Georgia to the nation’s highest court. In his attempt to understand what drives the elusive and sometimes enigmatic Justice, the author located and conducted the first-ever interview with Clarence Thomas’ father, as well as interviews with his mother, sister, and other relatives and friends.

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Fighting the Mafia & Renewing Sicilian Culture

Fighting the Mafia is his dramatic tale of witness and survival, of his effort to expose Mafia infiltration of the highest levels of Italy’s national politics, and of the movement he helped build-in the schools and churches, and at the ballot box-to recapture Sicilian culture and inspire a renaissance of democracy.

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The Long March How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the “cultural revolution” of the 1960s and ’70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex and drugs, and manners and morality.

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Negrophobia A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Atlanta was regarded as the gateway to the new, enlightened and racially progressive South. An atmosphere of respect and cooperation between blacks and whites and a progressive economic atmosphere made it seem that the days of Jim Crow were numbered. But Atlanta’s dream of escaping the haunting memory of civil war and human bondage was shattered in 1906.

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Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.

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Against All Hope A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

Against All Hope is Armando Valladares’ account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro’s tropical gulag. Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Valladares was not released until 1982, by which time he had become one of the world’s most celebrated “prisoners of conscience.” Interned all those years at the infamous Isla de Pinos prison (from whose windows he watched the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion), Valladares suffered endless days of violence, putrid food and squalid living conditions, while listening to Castro’s firing squads eliminating “counter revolutionaries” in the courtyard below his cell.

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