Taking the reader through a long view of American history, What Happened to the Vital Center? offers a novel and important contribution to the ongoing scholarly and popular discussion of how America fell apart and what might be done to end the Cold Civil War that fractures the country and weakens the national resolve. In What Happened to the Vital Center?, Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney Milkis tackle a foundational question within American political history: Is current partis...

From two expert presidential scholars comes a new answer to why the Trump presidency happened: decades of partisanship and policies have centered the president as the sole focus of American government to create a treacherous system whose danger may far outlive the politics of Donald J. TrumpDonald Trump∍s presidency and the extraordinary events that led to his reelection in 2024 have changed how we understand the presidency—but this transformation was not of his ow...

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into roadside diners and opining from afar. Rural Americans are supposedly bigots, culturally backw...

For those facing hospitalization -- or those with loved ones in need of hospital care, this book provides an excellent guide for a better understanding of the entire process. The reader will gain invaluable insight regarding the admission process, what to expect from the doctors, nurses and administrators and much much more. From the ER to the OR to rehab, the reader will be lead through the step by step process with candor and understanding. Mostly, the writer provides the tools to give Y...

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump’s surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into roadside diners and opining from afar. Rural Americans are supposedly bigots, culturally backw...

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump’s surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into roadside diners and opining from afar. Rural Americans are supposedly bigots, culturally backw...

This 600-page volume of Luxemburg's Complete Works contains her writings On Revolution from 1906 to 1909 - covering the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, an epoch-making event, and its aftermath. Over 80 per cent of writings on this volume have never before appeared in English. The volume contains numerous writings never before available in English, such as her pathbreaking essay "Lessons of the Three Dumas," which presents a unique perspective on the transition to socialism, her "Notes...

Tales of Steel and Sorcery is a collection of Fantasy stories from every corner of the genre. The stories in Tales of Steel and Sorcery take you on adventure after adventure. Be it the familial bonds of "Dragons and Domesticity" by Jessica Andrewartha, the wizardly court intrigue of Jon Negroni's "The Fool Who Learned the Spell," or David Shoemaker's epic poem "The Bard's Song," there is something for everyone who has ever stayed up too late because they couldn't put a boo...

Out of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury against Luk�cs and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as "the only theoretical equal to Marx." Luk�cs shows, with unprecedented clarity, how Lenin's historical interventions-from his vanguard politics and repurposing of the state to his detection of a new, imperialist stage of capitalism-advanced the conjunction of theory and practice, class consciousness a...

Deadpool is the super-anti-hero who knows he's in a comic book. His unique situation and blood-stained history give rise to many philosophical puzzles. A group of philosophical Deadpool fans delve into these puzzles in Deadpool and Philosophy. For instance, if you know that someone is writing the script of your life, can you really be a hero?Is Deadpool really Wade Wilson, or did Wilson have his identity stolen by the monster who is now Deadpool? Are his actions predetermi...

What is The Rainbow Promise?Today, more than at any other time, our society has many voices regarding gender identity that are adversely affecting our children. The Rainbow Promise gives a biblical view of gender and the fact that God made only two-male and female.It tells a pure and uncomplicated story that can be used as an icebreaker tool by parents and educators to address the topic of gender ideology with their children and students. The Rainbow P...

"Where there is love, there is life."-Mahatma GandhiGet ready for an exciting adventure in The House That Love Built! Join a little brown boy and his grandmother as they go to a special place, a church that's super cool.Like a big hug from Granny Annie, you'll find new things happening on every page. The House That Love Built is more than a book. It's like going on a treasure hunt of love, warmth, and family. So, if you wa...