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  • Spiritual Radical

    Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940–1972

    by Edward K Kaplan ...
    The first full account of the life of one of America's greatest religious thinkers during World War II and in the decades afterward."This religiously contentious world needs the noble witness of Abraham Joshua Heschel more than ever. Edward K. Kaplan's lucid and compelling account of Heschel's life in America is an urgently important book." —James Carroll, author of House of WarBorn in Warsaw, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972

    by Edward K. Kaplan ...
    Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940. This lively and readable book tells the comprehensive story of his life and work in America, his politics and personality, and how he came to influence not only Jewish debate but also ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Interfaith Activism

    Abraham Joshua Heschel and Religious Diversity

    by Harold Kasimow ...
    Abraham Joshua Heschel was the towering religious figure of American Jewry in the twentieth century. In Interfaith Activism, Harold Kasimow, who is known for his work on Heschel and on interfaith dialogue between Jews and members of other faiths, presents a selection of his essays on Heschel's thought. Topics include Heschel's perspective on the different religious traditions, Heschel's three ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Victory

    Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age

    by Edward Kaplan ...
    The End of Victory recounts the costs of failure in nuclear war through the work of the most secret deliberative body of the National Security Council, the Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC). From 1953 onward, US leaders wanted to know as precisely as possible what would happen if they failed in a nuclear war—how many Americans would die and how much of the country would remain. The NESC told ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Hope Sings, So Beautiful

    Graced Encounters Across the Color Line

    by Christopher Pramuk, Edward Kaplan ...
    In Hope Sings, So Beautiful, award-winning author Christopher Pramuk offers a mosaic of images and sketches for thinking and praying through difficult questions about race. The reader will encounter the perspectives of artists, poets, and theologians from many different ethnic and racial communities.This richly illustrated book is not primarily sociological or ethnographic in approach. Rather, its ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • To Kill Nations

    American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

    by Edward Kaplan ...
    "Edward Kaplan's To Kill Nations is a fascinating work that packs a thermonuclear punch of ideas and arguments... The work is suitable for anyone from advanced undergraduates to experts in the field."â• Strategy BridgeIn To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950–1965) in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Abraham Joshua Heschel

    Mind, Heart, Soul

    by Edward K. Kaplan ...
    In this first one-volume English-language full biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Edward K. Kaplan tells the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story of the life, philosophy, struggles, yearnings, writings, and activism of one of the twentieth century’s most outstanding Jewish thinkers.Kaplan takes readers on a soulful journey through the rollercoaster challenges and successes of Heschel’s emotional ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • On History

    Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)

    by Jules Michelet, Flora Kimmich (translator), Lionel Gossman (translator), Edward K. Kaplan (translator) ...
    Series Book 1 - Open Book Classics
    Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K. Kaplan in his Michelet’s Poetic Vision (1977), has been revised by the translator for this volume. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quantitative Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs

    Edited by Professor Edward H. Kaplan, Ron Brookmeyer ...
    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy St
    How successful are HIV prevention programs? Which HIV prevention programs are most cost effective? Which programs are worth expanding and which should be abandoned altogether? This book addresses the quantitative evaluation of HIV prevention programs, assessing for the first time several different quantitative methods of evaluation.The authors of the book include behavioral scientists, biologists, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961-1965

    by Lawrence S. Kaplan, Ronald D. Landa, Edward J. Drea ...
    Series series History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
    The McNamara Ascendancy, the first of two volumes in the History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense dealing with the tenure of Robert S. McNamara, examines the dynamic, sometimes turbulent early years of his secretaryship under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Few secretaries of defense before or since entered the Pentagon with such a commanding start or left behind a more ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Scarlet and Black, Volume Three

    Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020

    by Roberto C. Orozco, Carie Rael, Brooke A. Thomas, Ian Gavigan, Pamela N. Walker, Joseph Williams, Kaisha Esty, Whitney Fields, Beatrice J. Adams, Jesse Bayker, Kenneth Morrissey, Edward White, Tracey Johnson, Joseph Kaplan, Meagan Wierda, Lynda Dexheimer ...
    The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Bomb

    Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    Narrated by Edward Bauer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 14 min

    From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and several presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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