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The Conservative Century

From Reaction to Revolution

By: Gregory L. Schneider

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The Conservative Century

From Reaction to Revolution

By: Gregory L. Schneider

This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in the twentieth century up to the present. Gregory L. Schneider traces the course of a once-reactionary movement opposed to progressive reform and the New Deal and describes how it came to advance alternative policies and programs that revolutionized the shaping of domestic politics, foreign policy, and economic policy. Along the way he profiles such influential thinkers as William F. Buckley, Frank Meyer, Henry Regnery, and Barry Goldwater. He also details how the decline of liberalism after the 1960s helped conservatives gain political power, and how their energized activism and organization culminated in the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Schneider also describes how the years since the Reagan Revolution have been decidedly mixed for American conservatives.

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280

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

074254284X

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9780742542846

Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I

The Presocratics

By: Gregory Vlastos

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Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I

The Presocratics

By: Gregory Vlastos

Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that established his place as a leading authority on early Greek philosophy. The two volumes that comprise Studies in Greek Philosophy include nearly forty contributions by this acknowledged master of the philosophical essay. Many of these pieces are now considered to be classics in the field. Perhaps more than any other modern scholar, Gregory Vlastos was responsible for raising standards of research, analysis, and exposition in classical philosophy to new levels of excellence. His essays have served as paradigms of scholarship for several generations. Available for the first time in a comprehensive collection, these contributions reveal the author's ability to combine the skills of a philosopher, philologist, and historian of ideas in addressing some of the most difficult problems of ancient philosophy. Volume I collects Vlastos's essays on Presocratic philosophy. Wide-ranging concept studies link Greek science, religion, and politics with philosophy. Individual studies illuminate the thought of major philosophers such as Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. A magisterial series of studies on Zeno of Elea reveals the author's power in source criticism and logical analysis. Volume II contains essays on the thought of Socrates, Plato, and later thinkers and essays dealing with ethical, social, and political issues as well as metaphysics, science, and the foundations of mathematics.

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423

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Princeton University Press

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0691241880

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9780691241883

The Fringe of Fear

By: Gregory Holden

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The Fringe of Fear

By: Gregory Holden

This anthology will grab your attention with claws of intrigue: Two criminals are hounded by a mysterious car that appears out of nowhere. A wifebeater learns that he is not the only one who can foment fear . Some college pranksters find out that some prank calls lead into the stygian realm of horror... These are just some threads of the masterful stories in this collection that won't let go! This book is dedicated to Jessica Richardson and to what could have been.

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188

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669826732

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9781669826736

Thinking About God

First Steps in Philosophy

By: Gregory E. Ganssle

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Thinking About God

First Steps in Philosophy

By: Gregory E. Ganssle

What is God like? What can God do? What can God know? How does God communicate? Philosopher Gregory E. Ganssle appeals to philosophy for some answers to these questions in this introduction to thinking clearly and carefully about God.

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192

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InterVarsity Press

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0830877487

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9780830877485

The Bonanza King

John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West

By: Gregory Crouch

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The Bonanza King

John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West

By: Gregory Crouch

“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode. Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza,” a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown. But for the ore to be worth anything it had to be found, claimed, and successfully extracted, each step requiring enormous risk and the creation of an entirely new industry. Now Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself.

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480

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Scribner

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1501108204

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9781501108204

Book's by Gregory Kirk

The Conservative Century

The Conservative Century

Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I

Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I

The Fringe of Fear

The Fringe of Fear

Thinking About God

Thinking About God

The Bonanza King

The Bonanza King

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