Adelman: 55 books
by Sid Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
You just landed your first professional job. You are in a new environment, one in which you have had little experience. Your experience working at McDonalds will not help you much. Unfortunately, you have been consistently exposed to models of behavior in movies and on television that are dangerously...
Rebel
A Biography of Ram Jethmalani
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Ram Jethmalani has been called many things—a legal legend, a wizard of the law and a magnet for controversy with a knack for defending the most notorious figures in India. With a career spanning the entire history of independent India, and still going strong, he has managed to command respect and...
Figuring Violence
Affective Investments in Perpetual War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In the United States, the early years of the war on terror were marked by the primacy of affects like fear and insecurity. These aligned neatly with the state’s drive toward intensive securitization and an aggressive foreign policy. But for the broader citizenry, such affects were tolerable at best...
by Paul Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This popular study covers two major topics: the formation of the Labour Party and its emergence as the main rival to the conservatives. This transformation of the British political scene has been accounted for in a variety of ways. Dr Adelman examines these explanations and concludes that while there...
by Paul Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Paul Adelman seeks to explain the Liberal Party's dramatic transformation in political fortune. This clear, objective up-to-date account of the history of the Liberal Party covers the key period, 1910-1931. Focusing on liberal decline and drawing upon the different views forwarded by historians to...
Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees
Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species: An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
In this companion volume to the bestselling The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz offer another indispensible guide to replacing nonnative plants with native alternatives. This time, their subject is the native...
Pioneer
A Woman in a Man’S World of Sales
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Jeanne Adelmann was raised in a middleclass, blue-collar family. Growing up in a male dominated world at home and in her community may have prepared her for her lifes work in insurance sales. When she started in 1978, there were very few women in sales and no women in sales management. She attained...
The Girls' Guide to Elvis
The Clothes, The Hair, The Women, and More!
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
Can’t get enough of the King? A lively romp through all things Presley, this sassy guide covers what you really want to know about the man who continues to leave generations of females “All Shook Up.”
“It’s just like being in junior high again. This book offers the scoop on Elvis’s...
Extreme Couponing
Learn How to Be a Savvy Shopper and Save Money... One Coupon At a Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In today’s economy, being money savvy is a necessity. For most American households cutting back on the things they love has become harder and harder to bear. But there are ways to get what you want at a fraction of the cost—if not free.
With this book, extreme couponing expert Joni Meyer-Crothers...
by Michelle Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Told with warmth and intelligence, Piece of Mind introduces one of the most endearing and heroic characters in contemporary fiction.
At twenty-seven, Lucy knows everything about coffee, comic books, and Gus (the polar bear at the Central Park Zoo), and she possesses a rare gift for drawing....
by Robert H. Adelman, George H. Walton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The 'Devil's Brigade' was the name given to US/Canadian special forces in World War II, who saw action in the Aleutian Islands, Italy and the south of France. This account was co-written by a brigade veteran and includes profiles of many of his comrades in this famously rugged unit.
Suffocating Mothers
Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall.
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how...
The JGirls Guide
The Young Jewish Woman's Handbook for Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
The Essential Survival Manual for Growing Up Jewish!
What does it mean to become a Jewish woman?
Did you ever think that Judaism had any advice on how to deal with pressure from your friends? Arguing with your parents? Feeling stressed out? Well, this book shows you that Judaism can...