Authors:Hassan Qazwini, Brad Crawford,
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: prejudice, future, islam, america, struggle, faith, crescent, muslim, cleric, power, american
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1400064546
ISBN-13: 9781400064540

In this inspiring narrative, one of this country’s most important Muslim leaders reveals the story of his life and his faith, and why Islam is good for America. As the religious leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, Imam Hassan Qazwini serves the largest Muslim congregation in the United States. His dramatic journey to these shores began in 1971, when his father’s anti-Baathist views forced his family to flee from Saddam’s Iraq to Kuwait and then to war-torn Iran. Then, in 1992, with his father’s blessing, he left for the United States, a place

Author: Chris West
Publisher: Random House UK
Keywords: perfect, time, series, first, need, written, english, right
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-02-07
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1847945031
ISBN-13: 9781847945037

This is an indispensable guide to mastering grammar and improving your writing style. Covering every aspect of good writing—from the correct way to use commas to the most persuasive structure for an argument—it gives step-by-step guidance on how to write fluently and convincingly. With helpful tips on avoiding common mistakes and practical sections on writing everything from personal webpages to corporate sales reports, this resource has all you need to make sure you get your message across elegantly and effectively.

Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: novel, man, invisible
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2002-03-05
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0375507914
ISBN-13: 9780375507915

Ralph Elllison’s Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching--yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.After a brief prologue, the story begins with a terrifying experience of the hero’s high school days, moves quickly to the campus of a Sou

Author: Robert J. Samuelson
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: american, affluence, future, past, aftermath, inflation
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-11-11
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0375505482
ISBN-13: 9780375505485

It’s a giant gap in our history. The Great Inflation, argues award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson in this provocative book, was the worst domestic policy blunder of the postwar era and played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life–and yet its story is hardly remembered or appreciated. In these uncertain economic times, it is more imperative than ever that we understand what happened in the 1960s and 1970s, lest we be doomed to repeat our mistakes.From 1960 to 1979, inflation rose from barely more than 1 percent to nearly 14 percent. It w

Author: Marcia Angell
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: deceive, companies, drug, truth
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-08-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0375508465
ISBN-13: 9780375508462

Many Americans have wondered why prescription drugs have become so expensive while advertising for those drugs seems to grow exponentially. Former New England Journal of Medicine Editor Marcia Angell has some answers. The pharmaceutical industry, according to Angell, is fraught with corruption and doing a disservice to customers, the federal government, and to the medical establishment itself. In The Truth About the Drug Companies, Angell explains how a huge portion of the revenue generated by "Big Pharma" goes not into research and development but into aggressive marketing campaigns to sell t

Authors:Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer J. Adler,
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: manifesto, capitalist
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1958-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: B000L7QOFM
ISBN-13:

Customer Reviews: Broadening the Ownership of Capital   March 20, 2008Drew Field (Carmel, CA USA)The Capitalist Manifesto was written during the Cold War, when capitalism and communism were competing economic systems. In part one, Lou shows where he thinks Karl Marx made his big mistake and says: The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone f

Author: Jeff Rubi
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: globalization, oil, smaller, whole, world
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-05-19
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1400068509
ISBN-13: 9781400068500

An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American–a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book that explores what the new global economy will look like and what it will mean for all of us.In a compelling and accessible style, Jeff Rubin reveals that despite the recent recessionary dip, oil prices will skyrocket again once the economy recovers. The fact is, worldwide oil reserves are disappea