Bill McKibben - award-winning author, activist, educator - is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing - knowing - that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable...

In an era where the American Dream seems to have faded into a dark new dawn, filmmakers Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan ponder what may have become of the world if the U.S. had never come into being. By creating an alternate history in which British forces kill General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, the filmmakers lay the groundwork for a thought-provoking meditation on the crucial role of the United States on the world...

"A closer look at the world of the ancient Egyptians. Find out how they lived, which games they played, and what discoveries they made"--Cover.

ANTHROPOGENY—The Esoteric History of Man's Origin This book and its contents devolve from four great questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where do we go to from here? In this brilliantly written masterpiece, Dr. Baker has tried as far as possible to avoid a repetition of facts and figures given by The Secret Doctrine except where these are important in elucidating, confirming, contradicting or supporting some point...

En plein coeur de la bande de Gaza, suivez la lutte d'un peuple en souffrance et en résistance qui souhaite ardemment transmettre au reste du monde leur réalité. Comme tout peuple en souffrance et en résistance, les habitants de la bande de Gaza, confinés dans leur cage, souhaitent ardemment transmettre au monde la réalité de leur vie. Suite à leurs séjours successifs à Gaza, les auteurs proposent de décrire la société gazaouie dans...

Discusses the triumphs and defeats of the Greek and Trojan heroes during the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy by combined Greek armies.

"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteri ously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!Hoping to capture Dr. Xeno, the Kingdom Science is hard...

"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! The battle between the Kingdom of Science and Petrification...

Western civilization fashioned a capitalism that created a worldwide economic cornucopia and higher standards of living than any other system, yet its legitimacy is often questioned by its beneficiaries. Boston University Emeritus Professor Angelo M. Codevilla, proclaims Donald Devine's The Enduring Tension between Capitalism and the Moral Order, "the best answer to this question since Adam Smith's. Like Smith, Devine shows the mutually sustaining...