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  • Wilson's War

    How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II

    by Jim Powell ...
    The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in historyPresident Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.” But as historian Jim Powell demonstrates in this shocking reappraisal, Wilson actually made a horrible blunder ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Postmodernism For Beginners

    by Jim Powell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you.Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment.Jim ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • FDR's Folly

    How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

    by Jim Powell ...
    The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects and propping up thecountry on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Derrida For Beginners

    by Jim Powell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    In 1966, Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University that cast the entire history of Western Philosophy into doubt. The following year, Derrida published three brilliant but mystifying books that convinced the pollsters that he was the most important philosopher of the late 20th Century. Unfortunately, nobody was sure whether the intellectual movement that he spawned – ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Deconstruction For Beginners

    by Jim Powell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Deconstruction is so labyrinthine (and rumored to be fatal) that it’s become the monster that murdered philosophy. When Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, uses buzz-words such as “phallogocentrism” and “transcendental signified,” humanities students and aspiring philosophers may get weak in the knees.Following up on the success of Derrida For Beginners, Jim Powell’s Deconstruction For ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Eastern Philosophy For Beginners

    by Jim Powell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    The spiritual rewards and intellectual challenges of Eastern Philosophy are revealed in this visually stunning book, illustrated by Joe Lee and with 19th Century engravings.Eastern Philosophy is not an intellectual pursuit, but one that involves one’s entire being. Much of it is so deeply entwined with the non-intellectual art of meditation, that the two are impossible to separate. In this ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Greatest Emancipations

    How the West Abolished Slavery

    by Jim Powell ...
    For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west. Jim Powell offers some surprising insights and shows ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Poetry of Sappho

    by Jim Powell ...
    Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Bully Boy

    The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy

    by Jim Powell ...
    What Hath TR Wrought?“I don’t think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man’s hands.” —Theodore RooseveltThe notion that Theodore Roosevelt was one of America’s greatest presidents is literally carved in stone—right up there on Mount Rushmore. But as historian Jim Powell shows in the refreshingly original Bully Boy, Roosevelt’s toothy grin, outsized personality, colossal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Poetry of Sappho

    An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems

    by Jim Powell ...
    "The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the 'fluidity, ease, grace, and melodic variety' of Sappho's measures. Powell has tried to reproduce the effect. The resulting book is a brilliant success. Powell has ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Dirt Matters

    The Foundation for a Healthy, Vibrant, and Effective Congregation

    by Jim Powell ...
    Every church has a unique culture that serves as the soil where its ministry occurs. A church’s culture is the somewhat nebulous and complex blend of norms, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and practices that define the congregation. The culture establishes the environment that often predetermines the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of God’s Word within that body of believers. It influences a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Breaking of Eggs

    A Novel

    by Jim Powell ...
    Read Jim Powell's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.The Breaking of Eggs is the story of the curmudgeonly Feliks Zhokovski, Polish by birth, Communist at heart, who at age 61 finds that just about everything he has based his life on is crumbling. Separated from him family as a child when the Nazis invaded Poland, Feliks is currently living in Paris and his life's work is a travel ... Read more

    $8.99 USD