A thorough understanding of Conservatism's lineage, principles, and impact on history is essential to making sense of the 21st-century political dialogue-a dialogue that consumes the television you watch, the newspapers you read, and the radio you listen to.No matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum, these 36 lectures will intrigue you, engage you, and maybe even provoke you to think about this political philosophy in an entirely

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From the NY Times's Middle East correspondent, a candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked and failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure. In 2011, Egyptians shook off millennia of autocracy, and then elected a Muslim Brotherhood president. The 2013 military coup replaced him with a strongman, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who cracked down on opposition with a ferocity Mubarak never dared. What went wrong? Is the Arab world stuck...

48 lectures on the history of ancient Rome beginning with pre-Roman Italy and ending with the fall of Rome.

Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography--a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. Unlike biographies that focus on Saladin's military exploits, especially the recapturing of Jerusalem from European Crusaders in 1187, Eddé's narrative draws on an incredible array of contemporary sources to develop the fullest picture possible...

"The Wall Street Way is an insider?s irreverent, acerbic guide on how to use gamesmanship to get hired, get ahead, and survive on Wall Street, on Main Street, any other highly competitive environment. The tactics described for getting in the door and rising to the top of the food chain apply whether you spend 18 hours a day in a dog-eat-dog office sitting two steps from your nearest colleague, or if you?re working from home because of the pandemic....