So much of our national political debate these days revolves around economic matters -- taxes, health care, even affirmative action and immigration policy -- that it is essential for every informed American to have a working knowledge of economics. In Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, the renowned conservative economist Thomas Sowell has made it possible for you to grasp quickly and easily the economic elements of key public policies. Better yet, this revised and expanded edition now includes material on the roots of the Crash of 2008, the economics of immigration, and other timely topics.

The greatest and most enduring economic myth of the twentieth century is the idea that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal pulled America out of the Great Depression. This fantasy is so prevalent even today that liberal Democratic leaders in Congress call for a "new" New Deal to lift the incomes of the middle class and shelter American workers from the competitive forces of a global economy. Now, in New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, Burton Folsom makes the case that government intervention, not private enterprise, both triggered and prolonged the Great Depression -- and that much of what is threatening American prosperity today has its seeds in the government programs of the '30s and the New Deal legacy FDR left behind.

Do you know which images are used more often than any other to represent 20th century America in modern textbooks? If you guessed the moon landing, or John Kennedy, or Ronald Reagan, or even the civil rights marches -- go to the back of the class. The correct answer is: the Ku Klux Klan.

The liberal environmental movement takes for granted that strict government regulation and public ownership is necessary for the preservation of the environment. Yet who, in the end, is responsible for the great environmental catastrophes of the recent past? According to Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the real answer is: environmentalists themselves. "The dogmatic ideologies and restrictive policies pushed on us by the environmental Left have harmed nature more than helped it," argues Murray, "but the environmentalists have never borne the blame." Now, in The REALLY Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About – Because They Helped Cause Them, Murray reveals just how often and gravely liberal environmentalists have harmed the environment, how they have covered up this fact, and how conservatives can reclaim the environmental issue by stressing free-enterprise, private-property solutions.

Conservatives don't like to face it, but it's clear: conservatism is in deeper crisis today than it has been for decades. After seven years of a Republican administration, a majority of Americans say the country is "on the wrong track." Voters prefer Democrats to Republicans on almost every issue -- and a generation of young people has turned its back on the Republican party. David Frum, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush, is one of the few conservatives and Republicans who have refused to shut their eyes to negative trends. Now, in Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again, Frum shows how Republicans have lost sight of the issues that matter most to Americans -- and formulates a positive program for a conservative resurgence.

His early life in the dusty town of Pinpoint, Georgia, was marked by poverty and hunger. His father abandoned his family when he was one year old, leaving his teenage mother to raise him on a $10 a week maid's salary. When this became impossible to continue, she sent him, now seven, to live with her father in the comparatively big city of Savannah. This move would forever change the life of Clarence Thomas, a man who has moved from poverty and hardship to the Supreme Court, becoming one of our nation's most stalwart conservatives. In My Grandfather's Son, Thomas tells his own moving, inspiring story -- from the deprivations and humiliations of his youth to the unconscionable defamation he suffered at the hands of the Left during his hotly contested confirmation battle for the Supreme Court.

Power to the people! This has been the Left's slogan for decades -- but it has meant nothing for liberals except more power for them and less for free Americans. Now acclaimed radio host Laura Ingraham is calling for real power to be restored to the people ---- by the revival of traditional conservative principles, which, she argues compellingly here, constitute the true empowerment agenda. Power to the People is her call to arms, a ringing rallying cry to Americans to fight back -- to shake off our lethargy, reconnect with our American heritage, and fight for our culture and our country.

While non-Muslim leaders and Islamic apologists in the U.S. and Europe continue to insist that Islam is a religion of peace, every day Muslims commit more violence in the name of Islam. Now, in Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World, author and filmmaker Gregory M. Davis reveals why. Setting out the shocking teachings of the Qur'an and other Islamic holy books, Davis shows that the Muslims who commit violence in the name of Islam are not distorting the teachings of a great religion -in fact, they're carrying them out faithfully.

In too many English classes across America, good grammar is in bad repute. Modern "educators" view the study of grammar as an unnecessary dogma only slightly related to the skills of a writer. Far more important, they say, are such vagaries as "passion," "sincerity," and "knowing what you want to say." Baloney, responds professional writing instructor C. Edward Good. Good grammar is to good writing as good bone structure is to beauty. If you want your prose to be readable and effective, you must master the rules of grammar. In this compact yet comprehensive guide, Good explains everything you need to know -including the eight parts of speech and how to use them ... the do's and don'ts of tenses, voices, and moods ... the rules of sentence structure and punctuation ... common grammatical mistakes ... and important questions of style.

Ask a college student today what he knows about the Catholic Church, and his answer might come down to one word: "corruption." But according to Thomas E. Woods, Jr., that one word should be "civilization." In How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Professor Woods shows how the Catholic Church has shaped our civilization to a far greater degree than most people -- Catholics included -- have been taught. "To be sure, most people recognize the influence of the Church in music, art, and architecture," writes Woods (author of the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History). But her influence goes far beyond that. In fact, he reveals, the Church's imprint can be found on every major achievement and institution of the West -- from science and economics, to international law and "just war" theory, to the university system and organized charity.

While Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich spearheaded the Contract with America -- which brought us the first tax cut in sixteen years, real welfare reform, balanced budgets, and a strengthened military. In his latest book, he details how (if we have the same persistence and courage that the Republican Revolutionaries showed in the 1990s) we can defeat secularism and liberalism and restore American values. What we need to do so, he says, is a new 21st Century Contract with America.

In the years since 9/11, says Sean Hannity, too many Americans have forgotten why we are fighting the war on terror, and what's at stake. That's why he has written Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism and Liberalism. This trenchant new book from one of the nation's hottest conservative TV and radio personalities (and bestselling author of Let Freedom Ring) gives you Hannity's fresh and compelling conservative perspective on the harsh lessons America has learned in confronting evil in the past and the present -- in order to illuminate the course we must take now.

This book is the most comprehensive single-volume of John Adams's political writings ever published.

Paul Johnson burst into the front ranks of modern historians in the early 1980s with his remarkable history of the twentieth-century, Modern times -- a critically-acclaimed bestseller despite Johnson's unfashionably conservative perspective. Now, with A History of the American People, Johnson has delivered what, by common consent, is his masterpiece -- a single, sweeping volume so awesome in scope, so rich in fascinating detail, and so pulsing with sheer dramatic intensity that it instantly takes its place as the finest one-volume history of our country ever written. Best of all, for Club members, Johnson's conservative outlook is more in evidence than ever, as he corrects decades of liberal mythmaking on everything from America's founding principles to the achievements of Ronald Reagan.

In this classic conservative work, Ludwig von Mises shows that economics cannot be isolated from man’s non-economic activities and that we have no freedom without economic freedom.

His soaring rhetoric offers "change." He promises a utopian administration of unity, bipartisanship, and compromise that will bring about this "change." In reality, however, he is a Far-Left political hack and hustler whose policies could do nothing less than destroy America as we know it. As President, Barack Obama could bring back President Jimmy Carter's rock-bottom economy of double-digit inflation and unemployment, throwing millions into poverty and ending once and for all the great sustained wave of prosperity that Ronald Reagan set in motion.

Americans feel fleeced at every turn, and it's no wonder. As more and more critical problems develop that need national attention, the White House and Congress are effectively AWOL. And who’s calling the shots instead? Big government, big business, big labor, and big lobbyists -- all with self-serving agendas that do nothing to help the ever-increasing number of American people who are losing their homes, paying exorbitant credit card interest rates, and finding their jobs increasingly outsourced to foreign countries. Now, in Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the New Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Fleecing Us . . . and What to Do About It, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann help you, the American taxpayer, defend not only yourself, but also our embattled nation.

Patrick Buchanan is never one to mince words -- and in his latest trenchant analysis, he really lays it on the line. Day of Reckoning: How Ignorance, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart is his eye-opening analysis of the forces foreign and domestic that are threatening us today in a series of crises that are more severe than any we have faced in our history.

More than half a decade after 9/11, Americans across the political spectrum still refuse to see things as they are. Most Democrats, on the one hand, deny the plain fact that we are at war for our civilization's survival. Many Republicans, on the other hand, squeamishly go along with the pretense that vague "terror" is our enemy -- rather than a murderous jihadist ideology with a clear basis in Islam teachings. Now, in Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, George Wiegel -- one of America's foremost public intellectuals -- calls on Americans of all political stripes not only to admit the truth about global jihadism -- but to start acting on it.

Attacks on the historical reliability of the Gospels, especially their portrayal of Jesus Christ, are more common than ever in our increasingly secular society. But are these attacks based on sound scholarship -- or mere prejudice and wishful thinking? Is there legitimate reason to doubt the accuracy of the Gospels? In Can We Trust the Gospels?, Mark D. Roberts examines and refutes some of the most common criticisms of the Gospels -- and explains why they are indeed reliable accounts of actual events, deserving our trust two millennia after they were written.

On the evening of August 2, 1942, the doors of the Carmelite convent in the Dutch village of Echt opened, and a middle-aged nun calmly stepped from within the enclosure accompanied by two Gestapo officers. She walked with them a short distance to a long, sleek sedan, surrounded by an excited, protesting crowd. Born Edith Stein to Jewish parents in Germany, now Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, she was taken first to a concentration camp in Westerbork. Then, several days later, one of her former pupils from her days as an agnostic philosophy professor -- before she became a Catholic and, later, a Carmelite nun -- saw her on the station platform at Schifferstadt. "Give my love to the sisters at St. Magdalena," Sister Benedicta bade her. "I am traveling eastward."

The financial follies of history suggest that depressions are not necessarily a thing of the past. In fact, argue maverick investment writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin, America's current economic picture mirrors Japan's decade-old "soft depression" -- caused by an aging population and a structural reaction to its record-breaking financial boom. Which means bear markets and falling consumer spending likely to span the next 10 to 15 years. In Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century, Bonner and Wiggin help you chart your own financial destiny in today's precarious economic climate.

Everyone knows that Bill Clinton wanted to be President of the United States ever since he was a boy. What almost no one knows is that his wife Hillary harbored the same ambition since she was a girl -- and that her plan from the very start of their marriage was to succeed him in the Oval Office. Now, as Hillary gears up to run for President in 2008, distinguished journalist Edward Klein has produced an exposé of her darkest secrets that just might do to her presidential ambitions what the Swift Boat Veterans' Unfit for Command did to John Kerry's.

It has become fashionable among Leftists to compare the United States of America to the Roman Empire -- both supposedly weary empires in decline, beset by decadence within and hungry, determined enemies outside. Of course, that's just how the Left wants to see America. But now, the renowned historian Thomas F. Madden says that there is something to the link after all.

Conservatives are ignorant, selfish, and hypocritical. Liberals are enlightened, generous, and honest. Or so we've been told for. . . oh, the last three generations or so. But now comes compelling new evidence that these popular stereotypes are not only false, they're the near opposites of the truth.

When it comes to the conservative movement in America, Alfred S. Regnery has seen it all. He has watched conservatism go from a shining idea held by a few in response to an overwhelming liberal ascendancy to a mainstream ideology stoutly defended by millions of Americans -- and he has seen it up close and personal. Now, in Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, he tells the story of that historic movement as no one else can.

If ideas have consequences, then it follows that bad ideas have bad consequences. And if bad ideas are written down in books, they are far more durable, infecting generation after generation and increasing the world's wretchedness. That's why we'd all be better off today if the books in Professor Benjamin Wiker's Ten Books That Screwed Up the World (and Five Others That Didn't Help) had never been written. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these are the books whose impact has been felt chiefly in the form of war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments.

Loony Leftism: it didn’t start with Hillary Clinton’s comparison of marriage and family with slavery and the Indian reservation system. It didn’t start when Thomas Frank wrote in What’s the Matter with Kansas about "the borderline criminality of capitalism." It didn’t even start with the Sixties! It’s surprising but true: the loony but now -- sadly -- mainstream Left has its roots in some radical movements that are centuries old.

"The truth," says Ann Coulter, "cannot be delivered with novocaine." In her latest blockbuster, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, she wallops Democrats with a full dose of unvarnished, unadulterated reality -- as only Coulter can deliver it. Witty, sharp-tongued, outrageous, and always faithfully conservative, here is Ann at her best, running circles around liberal pundits, pols and Leftist wackos before they even know what has hit them.

In Culture Warrior, O'Reilly marshals all of his celebrated firepower for the defense of traditional values against those who want to transform America into a secular-progressive country. The culture war, O'Reilly explains, differs in many ways from the usual liberal/conservative divide, but it is no less heated -- and the stakes are even higher for those who love the values on which our nation is founded.

You hear it all the time from supporters of Fidel Castro -and of socialized medicine generally. Cuban health-care,they say,is not only free for every citizen,it's technologically advanced -nay,the finest in the world. How a communist country that is impoverished and backward by every other measure could accomplish such a miracle is unexplained; but then,no one in the liberal media is asking any questions. Fortunately,Professor Katherine Hirschfeld did ask questions -and in Health,Politics and Revolution in Cuba,she exposes the myth of Cuban health-care for what it is: communist propaganda that just happens to serve the purposes of liberal advocates of government-run health-care.

In a culture where marriage is so misunderstood that, in the minds of many, it no longer even means a union of man and woman, it's no wonder that so many marriages struggle or fail. Unfortunately, most of what passes for marital "counseling" today is part of the problem -- because it reinforces many of the self-focused nostrums, feminist beliefs and politically-correct ideas that promote marital strife. Not so of the advice you'll find in Dr. Laura Schlessinger's The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage. In this follow-up to her bestselling The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, "Dr. Laura" -- America's most popular radio counselor -- forces each partner in a marriage to take a hard look at themselves and each other, and reveals how to bring marriage back from the brink of disaster.

Oscar-winning filmmaker and bestselling author Michael Moore has made a king's fortune railing against the hypocrisy he epitomizes. In "documentaries" like Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, and in "nonfiction" books like Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore has proved himself over and over to be the most shamelessly dishonest -- if crudely effective -- propagandist since Joseph Goebbels and Nazi documentarian Leni Riefenstahl. Now, in Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke dish it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use of doctored film footage, manipulated facts, and spliced speeches to tamper with the truth.