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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Enterprise)

by Tim Parks

Published: 2006-05-17

Paperback: 288 pages

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“A swift and brilliant synthesis of finance, politics, and history.”?Ben Sisario, New York Times Book Review Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at the height of the Renaissance,...

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What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers

by Richard Brookhiser

Published: 2006-05-15

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Why do Americans care so much about the Founding Fathers? After all, the French don't ask themselves, "What would Napoleon do?" But Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Adams built our country, wrote our user's manuals--the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution--...

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Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul

by John Eldredge

Published: 2002-04-02

Paperback: 288 pages

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In his book Wild at Heart, author John Eldredge thrust a generation of men, young and old, toward a journey to recover true masculinity?the soul of a man as God designed him.If you've already begun the journey, you know how thrilling?and hard?it can be. So you may have longed for a tool to...

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The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials)

by Paul Hawken

Published: 2010-03-25

Paperback: 224 pages

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The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregio...

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China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America

by James Kynge

Published: 2006-09-27

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, trace...

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Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue by Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A to Z

by Gregg Jackson

Published: 2006-07-18

Paperback: 383 pages

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THE CONSERVATIVE S POLITICAL BIBLE. Let s say you re listening to a loony liberal, debating some dopey Democrat, or arguing with a gaggle of goofy lefties. Wouldn t it be great to have the facts to combat all those liberals lies? Well, here it is: finally, the book that sets the record straight! Radio...

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Choosing Your Faith: In a World of Spiritual Options

by Mark Mittelberg

Published: 2008-03-01

Hardcover: 269 pages

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In a world of spiritual options, people constantly tell us what to believe. Yet, while we hear these pleas, we're already functioning with existing beliefs?even if they are beliefs by default. So how do we choose what to believe?especially in the area of faith? Do we need to choose? In Cho...

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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - New Edition

by Bryan Caplan

Published: 2008-08-24

Paperback: 296 pages

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The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening ...

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When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak

by Neil Hayes

Published: 2014-07-29

Paperback: 416 pages

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Revised and updated edition of the book to accompany the major motion picture directed by Thomas Carter and starring Jim Caviezel, Alexander Ludwig, Laura Dern, and Clancy Brown.This insider’s account of the greatest winning streak in sports history brings to life the tragedies, triumphs...

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For God and Country : Foundations of Faith

by Fisher Deberry, Bob Schaller

Published: 2000-09-01

Paperback: 188 pages

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Subtitle: Foundations of Faithdations of Faith Air Force Academy Football coach Fisher DeBerry writes about the keys to his success, and how his Christian beliefs coincides with his career of preparing young men to defend their country and possibly fight in wars and other international conflicts.