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Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature

Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays

de Andrew Bernstein, Walter Block, Susan Love Brown, Troy Camplin, Stephen Cox, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Carl Horner, Cynthia Hunter, Heather King, William Kline, Zennure Köseman0, Felix Livingston1, Matt McCaffrey2, Allen Mendenhall3, Virginia Murr4, Theodore Pauls5, Sarah Skwire6, Michael Spindler7, Gennady Stolyarov II8, Frederick Turner9, Michelle Albert Vachris0, Amy Willis1, Derek Yonai2, Carmen Elena Dorobat3, Paul Cantor4, Jeff Riggenbach5, Gary Wolfram6, Prof Edward W. Younkins7 ...

Series series Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating ... Leer más

$141.99 USD

Fiction can be a powerful force to educate students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. This anthology includes articles from a number of individuals from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. All of the contributors to Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating
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Sherman’s March

An Eyewitness History of the Cruel Campaign That Helped End a Crueler War

de Richard Wheeler ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

7 hora 10 minutos

General William Tecumseh Sherman is known as the man who said “War is hell” and who waged it so fiercely that it left a permanent scar on the Southern psyche. But Civil War historian Richard Wheeler offers a new view of Sherman, as a man of compassion as well as conviction, a military leader who was ahead of his time in understanding that the destruction of supplies and property—the means to wage ... Leer más

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General William Tecumseh Sherman is known as the man who said “War is hell” and who waged it so fiercely that it left a permanent scar on the Southern psyche. But Civil War historian Richard Wheeler offers a new view of Sherman, as a man of compassion as well as conviction, a military leader who was ahead of his time in understanding that the destruction of supplies and property—the means to wage
... Leer más
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

de Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

14 hora 2 minutos

Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history.Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced ... Leer más

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Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history.Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced
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Economic Facts and Fallacies

de Thomas Sowell ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

9 hora 46 minutos

Economic Facts and Fallacies is designed for people who want to understand economic issues without getting bogged down in economic jargon, graphs, or political rhetoric. Writing in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues, including many that are widely disseminated in the media and by ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Economic Facts and Fallacies is designed for people who want to understand economic issues without getting bogged down in economic jargon, graphs, or political rhetoric. Writing in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues, including many that are widely disseminated in the media and by
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John Quincy Adams

A Public Life, a Private Life

de Paul C. Nagel ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

18 hora 50 minutos

A United States minister, senator, president, and congressman in turn, John Quincy Adams was one of the most prevalent and dedicated Americans in history. Drawing from Adams' seventy-year diary, author Paul Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable career spanned so many offices. We learn about his ... Leer más

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A United States minister, senator, president, and congressman in turn, John Quincy Adams was one of the most prevalent and dedicated Americans in history. Drawing from Adams' seventy-year diary, author Paul Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable career spanned so many offices. We learn about his
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A Personal Odyssey

de Thomas Sowell ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

10 hora 56 minutos

Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.The vignettes of the people and ... Leer más

$20.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Disponible también en: eBook

Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.The vignettes of the people and
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Men in Black

How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America

de Mark R. Levin ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

7 hora 56 minutos

The Supreme Court endorses terrorists’ rights, flag burning, and importing foreign law. Is that in the Constitution? You’re right: it’s not. But these days the Constitution is no restraint on our out-of-control Supreme Court. The Court imperiously strikes down laws and imposes new ones purely on its own arbitrary whims. Even though liberals like John Kerry are repeatedly defeated at the polls, the ... Leer más

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The Supreme Court endorses terrorists’ rights, flag burning, and importing foreign law. Is that in the Constitution? You’re right: it’s not. But these days the Constitution is no restraint on our out-of-control Supreme Court. The Court imperiously strikes down laws and imposes new ones purely on its own arbitrary whims. Even though liberals like John Kerry are repeatedly defeated at the polls, the
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Amusing Ourselves to Death

Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

de Neil Postman ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

4 hora 49 minutos

In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how “entertainment values” have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how “entertainment values” have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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The Disappearance of Childhood

de Neil Postman ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

5 hora 58 minutos

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today—and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into ... Leer más

$13.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Disponible también en: eBook

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today—and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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Biology, Second Edition

de Eli C. Minkoff PhD ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Series Audiolibro 0 - The Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys Series
Completo

7 hora 19 minutos

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks.Biology covers key topics, including the ... Leer más

$16.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron's EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and textbooks.Biology covers key topics, including the
... Leer más
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The Glory and the Dream

A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972

de William Manchester ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

57 hora 23 minutos

This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti—everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the ... Leer más

$29.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti—everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the
... Leer más
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Jefferson Davis

The Man and His Hour

de William C. Davis ...

Narrado por Jeff Riggenbach ...

Completo

30 hora 50 minutos

This book paints a vivid picture of Jefferson Davis as a multifaceted, often charismatic man who mirrored the turbulent times in which he lived and who stood solidly for the South that he loved. Ranging over the complete span of his long life, it shows him as a hardworking Mississippi planter, a compassionate slave owner, a hero of the Mexican War, and an able secretary of war under Franklin ... Leer más

$29.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This book paints a vivid picture of Jefferson Davis as a multifaceted, often charismatic man who mirrored the turbulent times in which he lived and who stood solidly for the South that he loved. Ranging over the complete span of his long life, it shows him as a hardworking Mississippi planter, a compassionate slave owner, a hero of the Mexican War, and an able secretary of war under Franklin
... Leer más