Cultural Issues

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Socrates and Jesus: The Dialogue that Shaped Western Civilization
Socrates and Jesus provides an overview of Western cultural development from the ancient Greeks to the current time.

Michael E. Hattersley Price range: $21.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Tapestry
The History and Consequences of America's Complex Culture
Written for a general audience, Tapestry explores the myths of American culture and reveals surprising cultural roots including the fact that American democracy and representative government were inspired more by Native American ways than by the…

Jerry Carrier Price range: $21.95 through $31.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Fall of an American Rome
Deindustrialization of the American Dream
The author considers US industrial policies that have shaped today’s economic landscape and finds that, however well-intended, our polices have been misguided. Free trade was to promote world peace and democracy.

Quentin R. Skrabec Jr. Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Grandeur of Gandhara: The Ancient Buddhist Civilization of the Swat, Peshawar, Kabul and Indus Valleys
Hundreds of thousands of beautiful stone sculptures belonging to the Gandhara Civilization were recovered through excavations in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the late-19th century.

Rafi-us Samad View Details
The Making of the Slave Class
Class is America’s forbidden thought. Class and culture rigidly control who we are, who we associate with, and how much money we can earn. American class culture determines who will prosper and who will fail.

Jerry Carrier Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Mythic Forest, the Green Man and the Spirit of Nature
Mankind has given a recognizable face to the awesome and impalpable forces of nature in the image of the Green Man and the nature spirits that this book explores.

Gary R. Varner Price range: $21.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Origin of Chinese Characters
An Illustrated History and Word Guide
Used in East Asia for over 2000 years, the Hanzi (set of Chinese characters) is beautiful in typography and from an artistic perspective. Today’s Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese character sets all originated here.

Kihoon Lee Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Other Face of Public Television
Censoring the American Dream
Government and corporate interference have robbed the public of access to point-of-view programming. Through subterfuge, suppression of dissent, and thought control, Washington (with eager assistance from Madison Avenue) has locked out the “creatives”.

Roger P. Smith Price range: $22.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Shakespeare Game
Or the Mystery of the Great Phoenix
Gililov, Secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Shakespeare Committee, sets out in intricate detective-novel detail why he believes the fifth Earl of Rutland and his wife actually wrote Shakespeare’s work.

Ilya Gililov Price range: $29.95 through $48.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Tyranny of Pleasure
This book hits the question of sexual morals head-on, asking what is the place of the forbidden in modern society. Sexuality is a matter of history, psychoanalysis, anthropology, theology, political philosophy, demography, economics, and criminology.

Jean-Claude Guillebaud $24.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Vibrant Andalusia
The Spice of Life in Southern Spain
Almost a thousand years ago, when most of Europe was just edging out of the Dark Ages, the South of Spain was a brilliant center of world culture, a site of splendor, and a magnet for the talented and ambitious from all around the Mediterranean, the…

Ana Ruiz Price range: $21.95 through $27.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
What Good Are Intellectuals?
44 Writers Share Their Thoughts
What Good Are Intellectuals was originally published in Paris as the 1998 edition of an annual series entitled The Rules of the Game: Literature, Philosophy, Art, and Politics under the direction of Bernard Henri-Lévy.

Nadine Gordimer Price range: $22.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Whistling Dixie
A Linguistic Journey
Most literature that deals with languages, dialects, and accents is quite dry, taking a broad, analytical approach, often attempting to organize a region into geographical, social, ethnic, and other groupings, and then examining the speech of entire…

Wilber W. Caldwell Price range: $19.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Windows on Japan
A Walk Through Place and Perception
Windows on Japan: A Walk through Place and Perception is a deeply insightful commentary that alternates chapters of physical travel with ‘travel’ through perception about Japan, and challenges the logic of much Western thought about the country that…

Bruce Roscoe Price range: $23.95 through $33.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Wine
From Neolithic Times to the 21st Century
The story of wine, one of the foundations of Western Civilization, is the story of religion, medicine, science, war, discovery and dream.

Stefan K. Estreicher Price range: $24.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
World Heritage Monuments and Related Edifices in India
Hundreds of India’s stunning temples are catalogued and copiously illustrated in this two-volume work loaded with color photographs.

Ali Javid Price range: $45.00 through $75.00 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page