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A Desperate Man

Claes G. Ryn

NOW AVAILABLE A Riveting Thriller, A Haunting Picture of America Could two people be more enviable than Richard and Helen Bittberg? They love each other, have two healthy, intelligent children, and are financially comfortable. Their home is in a desirable Washington, D.C., neighborhood. The culturally rich, cosmopolitan atmosphere of the [...]

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672 pages |
ISBN 978-0-9887508-0-7
Subject: Fiction
Cloth

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Christendom Press

Instaurare Omnia in Christo

1917: Red Banners, White Mantle
330 pages |
ISBN 978-0-931888-05-2
Subject: Catholicism, History
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $12.00



1917: Red Banners, White Mantle
By Warren H. Carroll

A captivating account that narrates, month by month, the events of 1917: Red Banners, White Mantle is popular Catholic history at its finest. The drama of the Great War and the Russian Revolution are juxtaposed with the spiritual dimension of the age: the diabolism of Rasputin, the Apparition of the Virgin at Fatima, the malignancy of Lenin, the saintly courage of (the now blessed) Charles of Austria.

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Discovery Institute Press

Making a Positive Vision of the Future Practical

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life
150 pages |
ISBN 978-0-9790141-9-2
Subject: Science
Paperback
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Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life
By Michael A. Flannery

Some regard him as a heretic, others as merely a misguided scientist-turned-spiritualist, still others as a prescient figure anticipating the modern Gaia hypothesis. The provocative thesis of this new biography is that Wallace, in developing his unique brand of evolution, presaged modern intelligent design theory.

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Hillsdale College Press

Pursuing Truth. Defending Liberty.

American Heritage: A Reader
882 pages |
ISBN 978-0-916308-28-5
Subject: History
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $40.00



American Heritage: A Reader
Edited by the Hillsdale College History Faculty

The Hillsdale College History Faculty painstakingly assembled American Heritage: A Reader in order to provide its own students with a true liberal arts education grounded in the American tradition. This comprehensive collection will provide readers both inside and outside the classroom with a traditional educational experience that enlarges and ennobles the mind.

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National Review Books

Sustaining the Modern American Conservative Movement

An Evening with <em>National Review</em>: Some Memorable Articles from the First Five Years
112 pages |
ISBN 978-0-9758998-4-7
Subject: History, Politics, Social Science
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $19.95



An Evening with National Review: Some Memorable Articles from the First Five Years
By William F. Buckley Jr., Whittaker Chambers, Russell Kirk, and Others

First published in 1960 to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Bill Buckley’s brash, consequential magazine of opinion, An Evening with National Review: Some Memorable Articles from the First Five Years is republished, in its exact form, for the enjoyment of today’s conservatives, who can see why the great writers who made National Review their journalistic home in the late 1950s remain worthwhile, entertaining, and timeless.

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Broadway Publications

Strengthening fundamental American values

Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith?: Calling the Churches to Confront the Impact of Family Change
120 pages |
ISBN 978-1-931764-37-7
Subject: Christian Living, Marriage and Family, Religion, Social Science
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $10.00



Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith?: Calling the Churches to Confront the Impact of Family Change
By Elizabeth Marquardt

Social scientists, psychologists, and practical theologians come together to offer new findings on how growing up in a divorced family impacts religious formation, with implications for faith communities.

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National Catholic Bioethics Center

Defending human dignity in health care and the life sciences

A Catholic Guide to Ethical Clinical Research
67 pages |
ISBN 978-0-935372-53-3
Subject: Bioethics, Catholicism, Ethics, Social Science
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $9.95



A Catholic Guide to Ethical Clinical Research
By the Catholic Medical Association and the National Catholic Bioethics Center

This small volume is designed to provoke thought about key question in modern research ethics and attempts to resolve a series of real-life cases in research ethics by applying four key principles of the moral life, namely, truth, respect for life, the integrity of persons, and the conjoined ideas of generosity and justice.

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Capital Research Center

Reviving the American Traditions of Charity and Philanthropy

Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America
144 pages |
ISBN 978-1-892934-06-2
Subject: Education
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $10.00



Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America
By Gene Edward Veith, Jr. and Andrew Kern

Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America examines the decline of American education and offers a solution. It is not more spending or a new and innovative program. Rather the solution, according to authors Gene Edward Veith, Jr. and Andrew Kern, is classical education.

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Pacific Research Institute

Championing freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility

2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends
288 pages |
ISBN 978-1-934276-17-4
Subject: Environmentalism, Politics, Science
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $24.95



2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends
By Steven F. Hayward

The 2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends brings tracking environmental progress fully into the 21st century of real-time analysis and commentary.

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The American Council of Trustees and Alumni

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni

The Intelligent Donor’s Guide to College Giving
44 pages |
ISBN 978-0-9708058-1-2
Subject: Education, Philanthropy
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $14.95



The Intelligent Donor’s Guide to College Giving
By Anne D. Neal and Michael B. Poliakoff

American philanthropists long have been generous in their support of colleges and universities. But donors do not always find the results they envisioned for their generosity and good intentions.

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Ruth Institute Books

Promoting Lifelong Married Love

Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village
306 pages |
ISBN 978-0-981605-91-3
Subject: Economics, Social Science
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $25.00



Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village
By Jennifer Roback Morse

In Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village economist Jennifer Roback Morse explains how the economy, which appears to a series of impersonal exchanges, is actually based upon love. Morse also shows how the political order—Hillary Clinton’s “village”—depends upon the prior existence of loving families.

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Freedom Foundation

Because people want to be free

Flunked
46 minutes run time |
ISBN 978-0-9835440-1-2
Subject: Current Affairs, Education, Politics

DVD Retail Price: $24.95



Flunked
By the Freedom Foundation

Flunked is the story of schools that are breaking the mediocre mold of American education by attaining superior results in college preparedness, test scores, and graduation rates.

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The Acton Institute

For the study of religion and liberty

Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition
119 pages |
ISBN 9781880595152
Subject: Environmentalism, Religion, Science
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $9.95



Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition
By The Acton Institute

A fair and honest debate about religious responses to environmental issues should always distinguish theological principles from prudential judgments. The Cornwall Declaraion and the accompanying essays in this volume were written to do just that.

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American Civil Rights Union

Protecting Civil Rights of All Americans

Government Is the Problem: Memoirs of Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Reformer
186 pages |
ISBN 978-0-978650-23-0
Subject: History, Politics
Cloth
Clo Retail Price: $25.00



Government Is the Problem: Memoirs of Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Reformer
By Robert B. Carleson and Edited by Susan A. Carleson and Hans Zeiger

Government Is the Problem is the story of a broken welfare system that needed to be fixed, of a great leader named Ronald Reagan who said that it could be fixed, of doubters who said that it could not be fixed, and of the man—Robert B. Carleson—who fixed it. Carleson pioneered the true reform that reversed a growing dependence on the welfare state and moved America away from the ruinous path of income redistribution.

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National Humanities Institute

Revitalizing the Humanities

Economics and the Moral Order
43 pages |
ISBN 978-0-932783-00-4
Subject: Economics, Ethics
Paperback
Paper Retail Price: $10.00



Economics and the Moral Order
By Joseph Baldacchino with an Introduction by Russell Kirk

This succinct but illuminating book defends the free market, while criticizing a narrowly economistic understanding of man and society. Baldacchino argues that a sound economy has ethical and cultural prerequisites that are integral to its survival. Includes an introduction by Russell Kirk.

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