Frederick: 2206 books

When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore Stephen Decatur, to end Barbary terror once and...

The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery, by Dr. Frederick N. Lukash, is the only complete guide to this ever-expanding phenomenon. Written by the American Society of Plastic Surgery‘s acknowledged expert and official media spokesperson on pediatric and adolescent plastic surgery, this book...

What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous world of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the "war on terrorism"? And how can the United States recruit spies to inform its struggle with Islamic fundamentalists' acts of anti-Western...

Many scholars of the modern Jewish identity focus on the ways in which the past two centuries have resulted in the loss of Jewishness: through "assimilation," intermarriage, conversion to other faiths, genocide (in the Holocaust), and decline in religious observance. In this work, author...

In this, the 7th volume of the "Visit the Zoo" series, we once again experience the marvelous and fascinating world of the modern zoo. With close-up and personal photography and compact description we learn about a completely different group of animals in the zoo. We learn about their lives and amazing facts about their capabilities. Time to pay another visit to the ZOO.

In this comprehensive assessment of Kant's metaethics, Frederick Rauscher shows that Kant is a moral idealist rather than a moral realist and argues that Kant's ethics does not require metaphysical commitments that go beyond nature. Rauscher frames the argument in the context of Kant's non-naturalistic...

'I have no doubt at all, that if philosophy is to prosper in the coming decades, it will have to treat with great seriousness that splendid seriousness that splendid body of philosophical writing of which the essays in this volume constitute one major part'. from the Foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre...

A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present day Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders and thinkers...

Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....

Scarred mentally and physically by a car accident which brought her fast-living city lifestyle to a close, Katherine wonders if she will ever be able to reclaim the selling skills which made her a bright star in the tough, demanding firmament of the fashion industry. New life in an uncompromising...

Divorced after discovering his beautiful wife in bed with his boss, acknowledged to be a mediocre accountant, Brendan Martin's grey flannel life seems set on a course to frustration and failure.Then comes an unexpected reunion. What has happened to Sarah? Can the dejected figure he discovers sitting...

A wonderfully illustrated story about a Hedgehog who wishes to be a Porcupine and a Porcupine who wishes to have nothing to do with an annoying little Hedgehog.

‘Een indrukwekkend, maar ook diep-menselijk verhaal.’ The Times Een stad van vier miljoen inwoners werd op 13 augustus 1961 van de ene op de andere dag op wrede wijze in tweeën gedeeld. De Berlijnse Muur vertelt het beklemmende verhaal van een betonnen versperring die bijna dertig jaar...

In all of Sykes’ novels he draws heavily on his own life experiences though none more so than in this, his third, semi-autobiographical novel. The Edward Beaumont of the novel is indeed Sykes; his solicitors practice and early political aspirations are featured along with his romance of the daughter...