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  • Watergate, 1973-1974

    by John M. Parrish ...
    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Watergate, 1973–1974 explores America’s most dramatic constitutional crisis of the twentieth century: the investigation of the Watergate burglary. The scandal brought the nation’s political system to the brink of disaster: the US president had defied established norms of democracy, and his enemies and allies alike struggled to hold together the country’s fragile constitutional order.In the game, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Decline of Mercy in Public Life

    by Alex Tuckness, John M. Parrish ...
    The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian and non-Christian ancient traditions, along with Kantian and utilitarian strains of thought, they ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Manipulating Democracy

    Democratic Theory, Political Psychology, and Mass Media

    Edited by Wayne Le Cheminant, John M. Parrish ...
    Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. Observers charge that manipulative practices in political advertising, media coverage, and public discourse have helped to produce an increasingly polarized political arena, an uninformed and apathetic electorate, election campaigns that exploit public fears and prejudices, a media that titillates rather than educates ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Damned If You Do

    Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture

    by Paul Cantor, Joel Johnson, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Travis D. Smith, Charles Turner, A Craig Waggaman ...
    Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the value conflicts involved in private moral choice often find themselves reproduced on the public stage: for example, states may find it difficult to do right by both justice and mercy in much the same way ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Nation Must Awake

    My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

    by Mary E. Jones Parrish, Anneliese M. Bruner, Ajamu Kojo ...
    Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish’s daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. “Mother,” she said, “I see men with guns.” The two eventually fled and unwittingly became eyewitnesses to the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The 50 Greatest Historical Adventure Novels

    The Three Musketeers, The Pirate, With Fire and Sword, When Wilderness Was King, The Last of the Mohicans, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ivanhoe, The Spy

    by Alexandre Dumas, James Norman Hall, Mark Twain, Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Rudyard Kipling, Lew Wallace, Robert Louis Stevenson, Baroness Orczy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rafael Sabatini, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Joseph A. Altsheler, Lafcadio Hearn, J. E. Collins, Robert H. Fuller, G. A. Henty, Joseph Hocking, J. T. Trowbridge, Stanley John Weyman, Mary Johnston, Joseph Conrad, Harriet Martineau, Robert Neilson Stephens, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Alfred John Church, Randall Parrish, Zane Grey, Jules Verne, Herman Melville, R. M. Ballantyne, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Howard Pyle, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Daniel Defoe, B. Barker ...
    Embark on an unparalleled journey through the annals of history with 'The 50 Greatest Historical Adventure Novels,' a meticulously curated anthology that brings together the awe-inspiring narratives of some of the most celebrated literary figures. This collection spans a myriad of eras and countries, weaving tales that are as diverse in their narrative techniques as they are in their historical ... Read more

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  • Chronicles of Valor: 50 Historical Adventure Novels

    Fifty Classic Tales of Chivalry, Revolution, Frontier Peril, Sea Voyages, and Swashbuckling Adventure

    by Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Alexandre Dumas, James Norman Hall, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Lew Wallace, Robert Louis Stevenson, Baroness Orczy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rafael Sabatini, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Joseph A. Altsheler, Lafcadio Hearn, J. E. Collins, Robert H. Fuller, G. A. Henty, Joseph Hocking, J. T. Trowbridge, Stanley John Weyman, Mary Johnston, Joseph Conrad, Harriet Martineau, Robert Neilson Stephens, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Alfred John Church, Randall Parrish, Zane Grey, Jules Verne, Herman Melville, R. M. Ballantyne, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Howard Pyle, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Daniel Defoe, B. Barker ...
    Chronicles of Valor: 50 Historical Adventure Novels gathers a capacious tradition of romance, war narrative, sea tale, imperial adventure, and chivalric quest into a single panorama of the past. Ranging from medieval courts and revolutionary upheavals to frontier conflicts and oceanic voyages, the volume reveals how historical fiction converts research, legend, and national memory into suspenseful ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD

  • UV-A

    Biological Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation with Emphasis on Human Responses to Longwave Ultraviolet

    by John Parrish ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The origin of this text was a request by industry and government to summarize the biological effects and to estimate the limits of safe exposure to longwave ul traviolet radiation. The specific issue was the safety of a small medium-pressure mercury arc designed to emit UV-A (NUVA-Lite, L. D. Caulk Co. , Milford, Delaware) for photopolymerization of resinous fillings used in dentistry. How- ever, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Far from the Shores of Galilee

    Stories for Seekers and Wanderers

    by John Parrish ...
    When God created the world and all that is in it, he brought the concept of time into eternity. But with the entrance of sin and death during the fall of mankind, another form of time entered as well. This type of time is not attached to eternity, but it is a counterfeit production of Satan in his attempt to be God, and he's offering the temporal-a deceiving place with no time.God's eternal life ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 12, 20 & 5

    A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

    by John A. Parrish ...
    The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man's agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Autopsy of War

    A Personal History

    by John A. Parrish ...
    On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Deepest Darkness

    by John Stamos Parrish ...
    In the final decades of the 21st century, mankind has colonized the moon and Mars and has created a "technological" tower of Babel. But then, without warning, mysterious anomalies that defy all the laws of physics occur in space. These anomalies, called Orbs, unleash storms of cataclysmic proportions throughout the solar system. Once god in the making, mankind scurries back to earth like a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD