Why the Jews?
10 best books like Why the Jews? (Dennis Prager): Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, Philosophy: Who Needs It, The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, Galatians for You, The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
| Author | John Heilemann |
| ISBN | 0061733636 |
“It’s one of the best books on politics of any kind I’ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22.” —The Financial Times
“It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what...
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 0375423729 |
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The...
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0451163087 |
This is Ayne Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosphical doctrince of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philsophy...
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which...
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude...
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0451138937 |
This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore...
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0452282314 |
A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers--now available for the first time in print.Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work...
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 1908762578 |
First in a new series of expository guides to the Bible, Timothy Keller' Galatians For You closely examines the text of Galatians in an expositional, engaging and applied way. Tim Keller's trademark gift of clear explanation and compelling insights make this a uniquely flexible resource. This expository...
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
| Author | Larry Gonick |
| ISBN | 0062731025 |
Updated version featuring all new material.
If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on...
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
| Author | Vladislav M. Zubok |
| ISBN | 0807830984 |
Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet...
400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
How does it feel to be in a high-speed car chase? What is it like to shoot someone? What do cops really think about the citizens they serve? Nearly everyone has wondered what it’s like to be a police officer, but no civilian really understands what happens on the job. “400 Things Cops Know” shows police...
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0452010306 |
Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the essential...
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0452281547 |
In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript...
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0451088786 |
In her ethics Ayn Rand extolled the virtue of selfishness—and in her theory of art she was no less radical. Piercing the fog of mysticism and sentimentality that engulfs art, the essays in The Romantic Manifesto explain why, since time immemorial, man has created and consumed works of art.
Ayn Rand...
Dostoevsky's Greatest Characters: A New Approach to "Notes from the Underground," Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov
| Author | Bernard J. Paris |
| ISBN | 0230602932 |
There is still much interest in Dostoevsky and new ways to interpret his work and the range and breadth of the characters in his novels. Paris also focuses on his most widely read books and short stories so the titles alone will draw much appeal.While Paris builds off the theories of well-known scholars...
Today, still living undercover in the United States, the man credited by the CIA as the only person in the Western world who single-handedly demolished an entire enemy espionage service--the one he himself managed--takes aim at an even bigger target: the exotic, widely misunderstood but still astonishingly...
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0452010519 |
A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so enormous that those interested in finding her discussions of a given topic may have...
Introduction to Personality and Psychotherapy
| Author | Joseph F. Rychlak |
| ISBN | 0395297362 |
I took Joseph Rychlak for an honors class in Personality during the spring semester of 1997. Rychlak was a funded chair in the psychology department, had been around forever (he even corresponded with Carl Jung and his letter is the the Jung collection). Rychlak also had a joint appointment in the philosophy...
