How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution The Innovators is the story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s,...
Ethnic America: A History
Thomas Sowell follows the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans, and their journey to become Americans. Explore this book.
Rise and Fall of Communism
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University, examines the origins of communism, its spread in different nations, its collapse in the Soviet Union following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the...
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
C. Bradley Thompson examines Adam's "political and constitutional thought by interpreting it within the tradition of political philosophy stretching from Plato to Montesquieu....Thompson reconstructs the contours and influences of Adams's mental universe, the ideas he...
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis Founding Brothers connects the lives of seven of America's founding fathers - John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington - with the issues, they sought to resolve in creating...
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
With as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on―The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression systematically show where Communism was established, it led to terror, torture, famine, mass...
Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History
John David Lewis shows how victorious military commanders achieved long-term peace by identifying the fundamentals of the enemy’s ideological and social support for a war and then striking at this support destroying the enemy’s will to fight. Explore this book.
Race and Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
How culture (a body of human knowledge) fundamentally determines the progress of any racial group, and in fact civilization. Also worth reading is Sowell’s Conquests and Cultures: An International History, Migrations And Cultures: A World View, and Ethnic America: A...
The DIM Hypothesis by Leonard Peikoff
In The DIM Hypothesis, Leonard Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole: Disintegration, Integration, and Misintegration. He then surveys the history of Western Civilization and shows how the dominant method of thinking...