Apter: 40 books
Is Wrestling Fixed? I Didn’t Know It Was Broken
From Photo Shoots and Sensational Stories to the WWE Network — Bill Apter’s Incredible Pro Wrestling Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Complete with exclusive photographs and sensational backstage stories, Is Wrestling Fixed? is the much anticipated memoir from the biggest legend in wrestling fandom himself, Bill Apter
As a kid growing up in New York in the late ’50s, Bill Apter fell in love with professional wrestling,...
by Terri Apter
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Terri Apter reveals how everyday judgments impact our relationships and how praise, blame, and shame shape our sense of self.
Do you know that praise is essential to the growth of a healthy brain? That experiences of praise and blame affect how long we live? That the conscious and unconscious...
by Terri Apter
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
"Parents and young adults alike should benefit from the advice in Apter's insightful book."—Washington Post
What do young people at the threshold of adulthood really need and want? Why do so many responsible and motivated teenagers become young adults who are still dependent, financially...
Oduduwa's Chain
Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In Oduduwa’s Chain, Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and ethnographic examples and offers a provocative rethinking...
Mères toxiques
Les comprendre pour se libérer de leur emprise
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Entre fusion et confusion, entre haine et passion, entre amour et rejet, la relation mère-enfant est un profond dilemme. Un dilemme entre l’attachement nécessaire pour combler nos besoins affectifs (je veux que tu m’aimes) et le détachement nécessaire pour exister par et pour soi-même (je...
Playing to Win
The Definitive Biography of John Farnham
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Teen idol. King of Pop. Voice of the common man. Australian of the Year. Friend. Icon. Superstar.
John Farnham is the quintessential Aussie legend. As a teenager he gave up an apprenticeship to chase his musical dreams, hitting the big time with ‘Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)’. A family man...
Jeff Buckley
Una goccia pura in un oceano di rumore
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Uno charming man capace di incantare il pubblico, un musicista eclettico, un punk affascinato da voci femminili senza tempo, come quelle di Billie Holiday e Nina Simone, dall’energia dei Led Zeppelin e dalla sfrontatezza dei Dead Kennedys, un artista in costante conflitto con le logiche di mercato...
by Jeff Apter
Language: German
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Dave Grohl ist für Viele der beste Schlagzeuger, Gitarrist und Sänger auf dem Planeten. Ein musikalisches Schwergewicht, das mit Nirvana Musikgeschichte geschrieben hat und mit seiner aktuellen Band Foo Fighters riesige Stadien rockt. Ganz nebenbei sammelt er auch noch mit Gold und Platin veredelte...
Feminizing the Fetish
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French...
by Terri Apter
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
An essential work for readers seeking compassionate, wise guidance about the powerful relationship between mothers and their sons and daughters.
Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children the relationship is a painful struggle. Using the newest research on human attachment and...
The Translation Zone
A New Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework...
by Terri Apter
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Understand what your teenage daughter really means—and learn to use your arguments to strengthen your bond with her.
Mothers and teenage daughters argue more than any other child-parent pair—on average every two-and-a-half days. These quarrels, Terri Apter shows, are attempts to negotiate...
Unexceptional Politics
On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A new vision of politics “below the radar”
One way to grasp the nature of politics is to understand the key terms in which it is discussed. Unexceptional Politics develops a political vocabulary drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV), highlighting the scams,...
by Terri Apter
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1997
"The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book Review
In this groundbreaking and insightful study Terri Apter traces womens midlife course, drawing on detailed interviews with...