A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Library Edition)

Thomas Sowell

History

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Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story. Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom. With no map or compass but only an ax head, a homemade knife, and a week's supply of food, the compatriots spent a year making their way on foot to British India, through four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth. They braved the Himalayas, the desolate Siberian tundra, icy rivers, and the great Gobi Desert, always a hair's breadth from death. Finally returning home, Rawicz reenlisted in the Polish army to fight the Germans. This is his story.

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Library Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Slavomir Rawicz

Historical

In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr., into the public spotlight.

God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of ''Academic Freedom'' (Library Edition)

Education & Teaching

William F. Buckley

Higher & Continuing Education

All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View (Library Edition)

Business & Money

Walter E. Williams

Economics

An intimate look at the life of one of American history's most notable figures. Among other things, Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's autobiography captures the essence of his spirit. In it we can see him as a product of the eighteenth century enlightenment, a type of Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift and Defoe. In his autobiography, Franklin asks himself, ''Who am I, how did I come to be, and why am I a human being as I am?'' and he answers with the honesty, wit, and charm that have made this possibly the most famous of all autobiographies.Narrated/Read by Micheal Edwards.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Library Edition)

Benjamin, Franklin

#10 on National Review's List of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century Milton Friedman argues that the appropriate role of competitive capitalism occurs when the majority of our economic activity flows through private enterprise within a free market environment. This is unequivocally the most effective device for achieving economic freedom, as well as the necessary condition in which political freedom can be attained. Friedman's arguments are positively bold, enlightening, and impacting. Among the specific topics he addresses are ''The Control of Money,'' ''Fiscal Policy,'' ''Capitalism and Discrimination,'' and ''Social Welfare Measures.''

Capitalism and Freedom (Library Edition)

Milton, Friedman

The Wealth of Nations (Part 1 of 2) (Library Edition)

Adam, Smith

[This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] First published in 1776, this work is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire. Several fundamental principles or ''axioms'' were introduced in this work, including the division of labor, supply-and-demand, and free market capitalism as some of the most obvious. Smith's political economy is primarily individualistic: self-interest is the incentive for economic action. However, he shows that universal pursuit of self-interest contributes to the public interest, a concept probably best encapsulated by John F. Kennedy when he remarked, ''a rising tide raises all boats.''

The Wealth of Nations (Part 2 of 2) (Library Edition)

[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]  This sound primer of basic economics tells all you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about money, the market, prices, monopoly, competition, land, labor, capital, entrepreneurs, the Federal Reserve, and the distribution of wealth. For those desiring to educate themselves in economic principles, Carson will give you the tools to debate the warmed-over socialism presented by today's media.   Carson defines and describes all of the major political-economic systems of the past thousand years. Feudalism, mercantilism, free enterprise, capitalism, welfarism, and communism are each allotted a chapter in the concluding section. The basics are all covered in clear, plain English, and Carson even manages to make economics interesting.

Basic Economics (Library Edition)

Clarence B.Carson

[Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Bernard Mayes] During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams -- remarkable friends, writers, and scholars -- met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first found an audience.  Author Humphrey Carpenter was born in Oxford and was acquainted with Tolkien, Hugo Dryson, and several other Inklings. In this remarkable reconstruction of their meetings and momentous friendships, Carpenter brings to life those warm and enchanting evenings in Lewis' rooms at Magdalen College, when their imaginations ran wild. His account offers exciting insights into the influence these brilliant individuals had on each other's developing ideas and writing.

The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends (Library Edition)

Literature & Fiction

HUMPHREY CARPENTER

Classics

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