This book may appear to be controversial to some readers. However, it is the product of many years of observation, research, soul-searching, and discovery. My intention is for this book to be enlightening and thought-provoking, as it is not my character to be disrespectful to any individual, race, or organization. My passion for this work is evident in my writing style. I felt compelled to speak up, inform, draw conclusions, and offer relevant recommendations....

What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted with the hopes, fears, and anxieties of modern life. Yet critiques of food and food systems all too often sprawl into jeremiads against modernity itself, while supporters of the status quo refuse to acknowledge the problems with today's methods of food production and distribution. Food Fights sheds new...

Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek-and our-consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000-years and making the distant past of the Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time. Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the poems themselves and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer's poems occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes...

After careful study of the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915, why did the British and the Americans come up to contradictory operational conclusions regarding the future applicability of amphibious operations? Divergent views from the lessons of Gallipoli campaign are the result of three differing operational approaches to strategic considerations that Britain and the Unites States faced in the 1920s and 1930s. The first were different theater strategic...

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? And what kinds of people have sought to reconstruct this past that no human witnessed or recorded? In this sweeping and accessible...

The history of our knowledge about matter and physics in general is still incomplete theoretically and experimentally. This book starts with a brief recount of those first steps into such a world of fundamental concepts and philosophies. Then, the author suggests a new theory that accounts for experimental data and philosophical thoughts of all current theories in physics. Even more, experimentally, it was determined that visible matter, or the matter...

"Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians" "Winner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)" Christopher Tomlins is the Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and an affiliated research professor at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago. His many books include Freedom Bound: Law, Labor,...

📘 I Believe, Therefore I Affirm: A World Where History, Facts, Evidence, and Logic Don't MatterThis is not a book about polite faith. It is a fearless investigation into the foundations of belief - where sacred narratives crumble under the weight of history, evidence, and reason.In I Believe, Therefore I Affirm, we dismantle the structure of fear and indoctrination that compels people to believe without confirmation, obey without question, and...

In this book Stanley Rosenblatt asks the question - "AMERICA: WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH US?" There are those who will be offended by that question. True patriotism requires an admission of mistakes and failed policies coupled with a determination to do better. Some of the topics covered: September 11, 2001 - probably the worst day in American history - 25 years later and the mass murderers have never been brought to trial. Yes - What is the...

Nationalism matters in China, and what matters in China matters to everyone. China's new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by foreign powers, China looks out at the twenty-first century through the lens of the past. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers, and Out of China explains...