Dennis: 3281 books
by Dennis Klocek
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
A seer sees more than meets the eye, using the eyes of the soul along with the physical eyes. As all seeing is a form of cognition, higher seeing is the key to higher cognition or knowing. For human beings the spiritual world is hidden deep within the disguise of the world available to the senses and...
Wrestling with Democracy
Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries...
Benjamin Constant
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.'
Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate...
The Pragmatic Enlightenment
Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the 'pragmatic...
Wicked Women
A Journey of Super Predators
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
In Wicked Women, Dennis Stevens, a criminology professor and prison counselor, shares the fascinating life stories of fifteen super predators, detailing their early life experiences and criminal activities through the time they interacted with him in prison. Withholding their names and identities,...
Speaker
Lessons from Forty Years in Coaching and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In this remarkable book Republican Dennis Hastert (R-IL) passes on the lessons he learned from his long political career.
by Dennis Richard Proux
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Every statement that a person makes is either true or falsethat is, a lie. In his comprehensive study, Lies Have Ruined the World, author Dennis Proux seeks to expose the dishonesty, myths, and fabrications provided by powerful influences in the most important areas of our lives, including religious...
Brave Journeys
Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
In Stranger Among Friends, renowned activist, political adviser, and White House insider David Mixner offered a compelling account of his decades-long fight for human rights and the challenges he faced as a gay man in Washington. Now, in this new book written with collaborator Dennis Bailey, Mixner...
From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama
African American Political Success, 1966-2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American to run for a public office or to face the complexities of race in a political campaign. For over a century,...
Statecraft
And How to Restore America's Standing in the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
How did it come to pass that, not so long after 9/11 brought the free world to our side, U.S. foreign policy is in a shambles? In this thought-provoking book, the renowned peace negotiator Dennis Ross argues that the Bush administration's problems stem from its inability to use the tools of statecraft—diplomatic,...
This Storied River
Legend & Lore of the Upper Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In This Storied River, longtime journalist Dennis McCann takes us on an intimate tour of the Upper Mississippi—from Dubuque, Iowa, to the Minnesota headwaters, and dozens of places in between. Far more than a travel guide, This Storied River celebrates the Upper Mississippi’s colorful history and the unique role the river has played in shaping the Midwest.
Doomed to Succeed
The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A necessary and unprecedented account of America's changing relationship with Israel
When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that...
Myths, Illusions, and Peace
Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
"A trenchant and often pugnacious demolition of the numerous misconceptions about strategic thinking on the Middle East"
-The New York Times
Now updated with a new chapter on the current climate, Myths, Illusions, and Peace addresses why the United States has consistently failed to...
The Missing Peace
The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
"The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players."--Bill Clinton
The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside...