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Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason to sacrifice everyone else's happiness for their sake.Mary Harrington shows that women's liberation was less the result of moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We've now left the industrial era for the digital age, in which technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differe...

In Global Filipino, author Brett Decker offers a behind the scenes look at the man at the center of power of one of America's most important allies. Since his meteoric rise to become Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives in 1992, Jose de Venecia has been the foremost architect for policies of war and peace in the Philippines.

This book is a masterpiece. It captures the essence of the Tuskegee Airmen's experience from the perspective of one who lived it. The action sequences make me feel I'm back in the cockpit of my P-51C 'Kitten'! If you want to know what it was like fighting German interceptors in European skies while winning equal opportunity at home, be sure to read this book!" -Colonel Charles E. McGee, USAF (ret.) former president, Tuskegee Airmen Inc. "All A...

Lyrically written and profoundly told … Kim Woodard Osterholzer's story … embraced me on the first page and held me tight until the very last word."-Leslie Gould, #1 bestselling and Christy-award winning author "Inspiring in the best of ways."-Stasi Eldredge, New York Times bestselling author of Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul "A master class in respectful, woman-centered midwifery."-Dr. Sara Wickham, author, midwifery lec...

Sex is powerful! Just saying the word "sex" can stir up all kinds of emotions inside people. Maybe it's a positive emotion for you, or a hurtful, shameful, confusing one. It's no wonder we humans struggle to understand its meaning and purpose. It can be difficult to talk about and even worse if we have experienced unwanted shame or grew up in a home where sex was a taboo topic. In Love & Sex, Nancy Houston provides a compassionate view of huma...

In the wake of tragic shootings in Newtown and Aurora, the anti-gun lobby has launched a campaign of lies, distortion, misrepresentation, and emotional manipulation that is breathtaking in its vitriol and its denial of basic facts. Their goal is to take away our Second Amendment rights and then disarm law-abiding Americans.Emily Miller tells her personal story of how being a single, female victim of a home invasion drove her to try to obtain a...

America today has the potential for the greatest economic boom and spiritual renewal in our history. Presidential candidate and publishing magnate Steve Forbes shows how we can once again brighten economic prospects for everyone, reform our corrupt political institutions, and restore the severely weakened moral foundations of our country.

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One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the words of the soldiers still reverberate with the power of their courage. Readers are transported to the battlefield by the letters, journals, articles, and speeches from the people who lived through those fateful three days.

In the age of adventure, when dirigibles coasted through the air and vast swaths of the Earth remained untouched and unseen by man, one pack of relentless explorers competed in the race of a lifetime: to be the first aviator to fly over the North Pole. What inspired their dangerous fascination? For some, it was the romantic theory about a "lost world, " a hidden continent in the Arctic Ocean. Others were seduced by new aviation technology, whi...

General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold is widely considered the father of the United States Air Force. But his long list of accomplishments doesn't begin or end there. He was also the first and only five-star general of the US Air Force, one of the first US military aviators, the first American to carry air mail, and the architect of the war-winning air strategy of World War II. In this new biography of one of the American military's most towering ...

Eureka! Skousen has done the impossible. Students love it! I will never use another textbook again.--Harry Veryser, University of Detroit-Mercy They said it couldn't be done. Austrian economics is so different, they said, that it couldn't be integrated into standard neo-classical textbooks. Consequently, college students learn nothing about the great Austrian economists (Mises, Hayek, Schumpeter). Professor Mark Skousen's Economic Logic aims t...

Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation. Which nine? Brion McClanahan, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers and The Founding Fathers' Guide to the Constitution, will surprise readers with his list, which he supports with exhaustive and entertaining evidence. 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America is a new look back at American history that una...

From THE ROOTS OF OBAMA’S RAGE We are today living out the script for America and the world that was dreamt up not by Obama but by Obama’s father. How do I know this? Because Obama says so himself. Reflect for a moment on the title of his book: it’s not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father. In other words, Obama is not writing a book about his father’s dreams, he is writing a book about the dreams that he got from his father.T...

In his new book, Dr. Utt not only sheds new light on the naval battles of the War of 1812 and how they gave birth to our nation's great navy, but also tells the story of the War of 1812 through the portraits of famous American war heroes.

Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on burning wood and candle wax. But with the ability to harness the energy in oil and other fossil fuels, quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. Thanks to incredible innovations in the energy industry, fossil fuels are as promising, safe, and clean an energy resource as has ever existed in history. Yet, highl...

A New York Times Bestseller! In the 2014 New York Times bestseller Jesus on Trial, David Limbaugh made a case for the Gospels as hard evidence of the existence of God, drawing on his own spiritual journey from skeptic to believer. Now, in The Emmaus Code, Limbaugh unlocks the mysteries of the Old Testament and reveals hints of Jesus Christ's arrival through all thirty-nine Old Testament books. The key to the secrets of the Old Testament, Limba...

The author chronicles the influence of "A payegyrick to the memory of His Grace Frederick, late Duke of Schonberg" by Hippolyte du Chastelet de Luzancy (English-language version published in London in 1690) upon building the character of the young George Washington.

Winston Churchill called it "the Beast." It was said to be unsinkable. More than thirty military operations failed to destroy it. Eliminating the Tirpitz, Hitler's mightiest warship, a 52, 000-ton behemoth, became an Allied obsession.In The Hunt for Hitler's Warship, Patrick Bishop tells the epic story of the men who would not rest until the Tirpitz lay at the bottom of the sea. In November of 1944, with the threat to Russian supply lines incr...