The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators
Written by William J. Bennett
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2011
Price: $13.99
For decades Americans have turned to the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators to spot trends in the economy.
The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators brings a similar kind of empirical analysis to the moral, social, and behavioral condition of American society from 1960 to the present--a vivid, clearly accessible...
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Why Are Jews Liberals?
Written by Norman Podhoretz
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $13.99
From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant investigation of a central question in American politics and culture.
During his career as a neoconservative thinker, Norman Podhoretz has been asked no question more often than “Why are so many Jews liberals?” In this provocative book he sets out to...
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Elvis Is Titanic
Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan
Written by Ian Klaus
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a...
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Elvis is Titanic
Written by Ian Klaus
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $11.99
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a...
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Walled
Written by Sylvain Cypel
Format: Trade Paperback, 534 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2007
Price: $17.95
An award-winning journalist explores the culture of denial in Israeli and Palestinian societies–and its lethal consequences.
Walled examines the contemporary state of mind of Israel's citizens, tracing the history of the State of Israel back to the Jewish national movement and the beginnings of Zionism. Sylvain Cypel offers a lucid analysis of...
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