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  • Martin Van Buren

    The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841

    by Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy.The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic champion Andrew Jackson. Van Buren, a native Dutch speaker, was America's first ethnic president as well as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Quelling the Demons' Revolt

    A Novel from Ming China

    by Guanzhong Luo ...
    Translated by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that his daughter's demonic nature might be discovered, marries her off. Forced to flee, she and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Lincoln on the Verge

    Thirteen Days to Washington

    by Ted Widmer ...
    WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE“A Lincoln classic...superb.” —The Washington Post“A book for our time.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s greatest president discovering his own strength to save the Republic.As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Concept of Uncompromising Humanism

    Knowledge as the foundationfor an enabling and enabled society

    by Hans Widmer ...
    Translated by Alison Layland, Dieter Rister ...
    Uncompromising Humanism is the kind of idealism that begins with knowledge, the defining quality of humankind. Only that which has ist basis in reality is viable—the idea of the world endorsed by the world. Proceeding from a priori intuitions to hyperstases, the Concept of Uncompromising Humanism inevitably results in the following: individual happiness need not fail any more than bold dreams, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ark of the Liberties

    Why American Freedom Matters to the World

    by Ted Widmer ...
    In a sweeping history of centuries, Ted Widmer's Ark of the Liberties recounts America's ambition to be the world's guarantor of liberty.The United States stands at a historic crossroads; essential to the world yet unappreciated. America's decline in popularity over the decades has been nothing short of astonishing. With wit, brilliance, and deep affection, Ted Widmer, a scholar and a former ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • My Fellow Americans

    Presidents and Their Inaugural Addresses

    Edited by Yuvraj Singh ...
    Introduced by presidential historian Ted Widmer, this work offers both the original texts and insightful essays by leading historians on each of the presidential inaugural addresses--from George Washington to Joseph Biden. Every four years, the incoming president of the United States delivers an inaugural address in a tradition that dates back to 1789, with the first inauguration of George ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Art of Principled Entrepreneurship

    Creating Enduring Value

    by Andreas Widmer ...
    Narrated by Andreas Widmer, Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    Are you an entrepreneur, manager, employee, or business student seeking to lead in a people-centered way? The Art of Principled Entrepreneurship is an insightful, practical guide to how businesses can and should be run to be both virtuous and profitable.Art Ciocca orchestrated the creation of the largest wine brand that has dominated the industry for over twenty years. It is an achievement that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Essentials of Deductive Physics

    Foundation for the great theories of physics

    by Hans Widmer ...
    It is not nature imposing itself with concepts and laws, instead these have to be invented as hypotheses and validated in experiment. The touchstone for perception in deductive physics are the laws of inductive physics. Thus it is standing on the shoulders of giants from Kepler to the inventors of the Standard Model. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Up from Orchard Street

    A Novel

    by Eleanor Widmer ...
    In the tradition of Like Water for Chocolate and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this exhilarating novel centered around a memorable immigrant family brings to vibrant life the soul and spirit of New York’s legendary Lower East Side.Up from Orchard Street......where three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat at number 12. Long-widowed Manya is the family’s head and its heart: ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Kant’s Early Followers in Political Philosophy

    Edited by Reidar Maliks, Elisabeth Theresia Widmer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
    Immanuel Kant influenced a large and productive group of political philosophers in the 1790s. This volume argues that they brought out more fully the egalitarian principles of Kantian republicanism.“The Kantian school” featured young philosophers including Saul Ascher, Johann Adam Bergk, Johann Benjamin Erhard, Johann Ludwig Ewald, the early Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel, and Johann ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Margaret

    Friend of Orphans

    by Mary Lou Widmer ...
    A biography of Margaret Haughery, the beloved woman who went from a life of poverty to one of philanthropy and became known as the "Angel" of New Orleans.Margaret Haughery gave everything she ever had to the orphans and the poor. Despite being unable either to read or write, she possessed an incredible business acumen, which allowed her to donate—including what she bequeathed in her will—more than ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Orleans 1900 to 1920

    by Mary Lou Widmer ...
    Series series New Orleans History
    A autobiographical history of New Orleans at the dawn of the twentieth century from a Louisiana native.Ironically, taming nature and the elements to build an effective and safe urban infrastructure are issues as relevant in this century as they were one hundred years ago. With the invention of the Wood screw pump in 1906, and the subsequent drainage of swampland, the New Orleans footprint expanded ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus