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Religious Identity and National SocialismDerek Hastings here illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of early Nazi history, going back to the years after World War I--when National Socialism first emerged--to reveal its close early ties with Catholicism. Although an antagonistic relationship between the Catholic Church and Hitler&'s...

Heart Disease: The Facts stresses the importance and feasibility of primary prevention of heart disease by appropriate life-style changes, whilst helping the reader to understand and cope with existing heart disease....

Second EditionSince the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an overwhelming demand for information about Islam, and recent events - the war in Iraq, terrorist attacks both failed and successful, debates throughout Europe over Islamic dress, and many others - have raised new questions in the minds of policymakers and the general...

On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli delivered a dramatic rant against Obama administration programs to shore up the plunging housing market. Invoking the Founding Fathers and ridiculing "e;losers"e; who could not pay their mortgages, Santelli called for "e;Tea Party"e; protests. Over the next two years, conservative...

This unique edition brings together for the first time Austen-Leigh's memoir of his aunt Jane Austen, together with shorter recollections by James Edward's two sisters. It also includes Jane's brother Henry's two biographical accounts. - ;'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so...

In this groundbreaking book, noted philosopher and feminist Claudia Card presents a workable theory of evil, examining in particular human atrocities - acts of cruelty committed by human beings on others. Unlike natural disasters or morally ambiguous acts, Card describes atrocities as the wrongful infliction of harm -- in the form of rape,...