Dennis: 3281 books
Still the Best Hope
Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Conservative radio host and syndicated columnist Dennis Prager provides a bold, sweeping look at the future of civilization with Still the Best Hope, and offers a strong, cogent argument for why basic American values must triumph in a dangerously uncertain world. Humanity stands at a crossroads, and...
The Spirit of Compromise
Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis—dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show why compromise is...
Americans and Europeans—Dancing in the Dark
On Our Differences and Affinities, Our Interests, and Our Habits of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Dennis Bark offers an in-depth examination of the deteriorating relationship between America and Europe: our differences and similarities, the reasons behind our conflicts, and the future of our alliance. He shows that, by learning what our essential difference teaches us about ourselves and drawing on our shared affinities, we might repair our fading relationship.
The Tiger and the Trojan Horse
Flashes of red in early Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
“Some mug had to do it,” said Lee Kuan Yew, explaining what appeared to be an act of pure folly—the decision of a politically puny group of young nationalists to take on the powerful communist movement in a crucial struggle for the strategic gateway to the East—Singapore. In the first phrase,...
The Original Rush Limbaugh
Lawyer, Legislator, and Civil Libertarian
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Born at the end of the nineteenth century into a farming family of modest means in southeastern Missouri, Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. led a distinguished professional life as an attorney, legislator, and special ambassadorial representative of the United States. Today his descendants...
Democracy for Hire
A History of American Political Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Though they work largely out of the public eye, political consultants-"image merchants" and "kingmakers" to candidates-play a crucial role in shaping campaigns. They persuaded Barry Goldwater to run for president, groomed former actor Ronald Reagan for the California governorship,...
by Cathy Lazere, Dennis E. Shasha
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Reports from the cutting edge, where physics and biology are changing the fundamental assumptions of computing.
Computers built from DNA, bacteria, or foam. Robots that fix themselves on Mars. Bridges that report when they are aging. This is the bizarre and fascinating world of Natural Computing....
Man vs. Weather
Be Your Own Weatherman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
A humorous and practical guide to the history and science of understanding the weather?plus, how to build your own barometer!
For as long as man has walked upon this earth, he has been forced to survive under the cruel tyranny of weather. Let?s face it: there is no escape. Now, in Man vs. Weather,...
by Dennis Paulson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West is the first fully illustrated field guide to all 348 species of dragonflies and damselflies in western North America. Dragonflies and damselflies are large, stunningly beautiful insects, as readily observable as birds and butterflies. This unique guide makes...
by Mark Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
A short guide to birding at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort in Panama. Trail maps, a bird list and advice on how to enjoy a vacation and see some great birds.
Witnessing Romania's Century of Turmoil
Memoirs of a Political Prisoner
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Nicolae Margineanu's journey started in 1905 in the village of Obreja in Transylvania and ended in 1980 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He began his life under Austro-Hungarian rule, was witness to the 1918 Union, lived under three kings (Ferdinand, Carol II, and Mihai), and survived all of Romania's dictatorships,...
by 丹尼斯．勒翰(Dennis Lehane)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 6, 2018
我愛你，我恨你，我從未真的認識你。
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人生第三十五個年頭，瑞秋開槍打死了丈夫。
在那最後幾秒間，他的眼中閃過千百種情緒，
最令人費解的一種是，愛。
他凝望著她，對她用無聲的嘴形說：我。愛。妳。
直到她槍殺了她最愛的男人，
她才發現，那個人她從未真的了解過，
而自己也被迫捲入了一場致命的騙局……
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《神祕河流》、《隔離島》、《夜行人生》原著作者；影集《海濱帝國》編劇
丹尼斯．勒翰...
Head Case
How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
When journalist Dennis Cass was nineteen years old his stepfather, Bill, suffered from a psychotic break. Cass tried to commit him to a mental institution only to watch Bill escape from a cab en route to a Harlem hospital and run raving down the streets of Manhattan. Some fifteen years later, a bout...
The Jury in America
Triumph and Decline
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain. When the founding generation enshrined the jury in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were not inventing something new, but protecting...