Before Julia Child’s warbling voice and towering figure burst into America’s homes, a gourmet food movement was already sweeping the nation. Setting the Table for Julia Child considers how the tastes and techniques cultivated at dining clubs and in the pages of Gourmet magazine helped prepare many affluent Americans for Child’s lessons in French cooking.David Strauss argues that Americans’ appetite for haute cuisine had been growing ever since the repeal ...

Extremely controversial work in its day which resulted in major backlash for its author. In the book, Strauss theorizes that early Christians invented Jesus' miracles as a way to portray him as the Messiah the Old Testament spoke of. Translated by the famous novelist and skeptic George Eliot.

This is a compilation book consisting of six short books in one, based on the stories and life experiences of six young men from Colorado who grew up together:Authors: Ryan Miller, Kyler Graff, Matthew Wood, Eric Wright, Jesse Wright, and Ethan Jones.When they wrote their respective content, they were between 18 and 20 years old.Have you ever wondered how different our world would be if our educational systems went beyond teaching the basics and actually ta...

In his third book, Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork. How exactly does this happen? It's a question so basic, an act so fundamental to art-making, that it has rarely received attention. It makes an ideal topic for Strauss, a writer with an exceptional ability to animate art's philosophical dimensions in a clear, persuasive manner. During this time when craft and the direct manipul...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims of Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and other "originalists," explaining in clear, jargon-free Englis...

Do you have Vampires in your life? Have you ever had the experience of talking with someone, and when you were done you felt like the energy was sucked out of you? Or, have you ever felt like you were that person to yourself--that your own frustrations or negativity has worn you out and cast a shadow over your life? In Dancing With Vampires, speaker and life coach David Strauss shares how to become consciously aware of the Vampires in your life and how to remove their influence over you so...

"Valentine's Energy Vampire Detox" is your ultimate laugh-out-loud guide to shaking off those pesky relationship leeches and stepping into the sunshine of self-love and giggles. Imagine flipping through pages filled with uproarious advice on dodging Narcissists, Drama Queens, sidestepping Controllers, and giving Blamers the slip, all while snickering at the absurdity of past entanglements.This isn't your typical self-help snoozefest. It's a rollicking ride through the wilds of roma...

Wherever a religion, resting upon written records, prolongs and extends the sphere of its dominion, accompanying its votaries through the varied and progressive stages of mental cultivation, a discrepancy between the representations of those ancient records, referred to as sacred, and the notions of more advanced periods of mental development, will inevitably sooner or later arise. In the first instance this disagreement is felt in reference only to the unessential—the external form: the e...

In his third book, Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork. How exactly does this happen? It's a question so basic, an act so fundamental to art-making, that it has rarely received attention. It makes an ideal topic for Strauss, a writer with an exceptional ability to animate art's philosophical dimensions in a clear, persuasive manner. During this time when craft and the direct manipul...

An exciting new chapter in the Legend of Isis series begins here with Part one of the "Rise of Darkness" story arc. Recovering from the events of the "God War" the last thing Isis needs is for more trouble to come her way. Her evil brother Set makes a play for Isis' life by awaking the God of Darkness Apophis. Can Isis survive this onslaught of evil?

An exciting new chapter in The Legend of Isis series begins here with Part One of the "Rise of Darkness" story arc. Recovering from the events of the "God War," the last thing Isis needs is for more trouble to come her way. Her evil brother Set makes a play for Isis' life by awaking the God of Darkness, Apophis. Can Isis survive this onslaught of evil?

In a stand-alone issue, Isis runs away from her problems in L.A. to the opposite side of the country where she meets up with Roger Cormen's Black Scorpion! While in Black Scorpion's stomping ground of Angel City, Isis comes across a foe from her past and now that she is developing new god-like powers, she deals with him with more finality than ever before!