The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

From time to time a book appears which analyzes a great historical movement or event with an insight so sure and comprehensive that it becomes a classic. A classic is, of course, among other things, a work which retains some of its initial freshness upon being reread and which continues to have an illuminating relevance to the themes it treats. Eric Hoffer's The True Believer is a classic study…

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Even as he said this, Robin was aware of armed men wearing the Sheriff's livery who were closing in round the tree, and of the Bishop of Peterborough with his followers riding through the forest towards where he was. 'A trap!' thought Robin, and in a moment he had dropped out of the tree and was running his hardest down the hill while Worman shouted: 'After him, men! It is Robin Hood! This …

Seabird

The history of America at sea is presented through the travels of Seabird, an ivory gull carved by a cabin boy. The story presents three generations of sailing families in America. Traveling all over the globe, students will delight in this story of sailing, whaling, ships and ship building, while they learn world geography and so much more!

Ambition: The Secret Passion

Who among us is not interested in success? Yet ambition, the chief means to success, is in bad repute these days, especially in America, and above all among educated Americans. Such is the reluctance even to approach the subject with candor, Joseph Epstein suggest, that many people live "with confusion and contradictions running up the center of their lives, in a state of perturbation, distract…

Youth, Brainwashing, and the Extremist Cults

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9780310242710 / 0310242711

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Softcover; 221 hlm.; 21.5 x 27.7 cm

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F 306.6 E596 C1

A Christian Philosophy of Education

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1-891777-06-8

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R 370.1 C593 C1