Berger: 852 books
50 Ways to Understand Communication
A Guided Tour of Key Ideas and Theorists in Communication, Media, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Is consciousness like an iceberg? Does advertising lead to the commodification of humans? What is the hidden meaning of fairy tales? In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading communication and cultural theorists, such...
12 Hidden Rewards of Making Amends
Finding Forgiveness and Self-Respect by Working Steps 8-10
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Popular recovery author Allen Berger, PhD, guides us in working three of the most challenging of the Twelve Steps to reap the abundant rewards of making amends.
Letting go of resentment and forgiving ourselves for our past wrongs are critical to recovery from alcohol and other drugs. Yet, Steps...
Are You Happy Now?
10 Ways to Live a Happy Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
What is preventing you from being happy now? Is it your partner, your health, your job, your financial situation or your weight? Or is it all the things you think you “should” do? Barbara Berger takes a look at all the things we think and do that prevent us from living happy lives now. The book’s...
The Pious Ones
The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
As the population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States increases to astonishing proportions, veteran New York Times journalist Joseph Berger takes us inside the notoriously insular world of the Hasidim to explore their origins, beliefs, and struggles—and the social and political implications...
The Academic Writer's Toolkit
A User’s Manual
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Berger’s slim, user-friendly volume on academic writing is a gift to linguistically-stressed academics. Author of 60 published books, the author speaks to junior scholars and graduate students about the process and products of academic writing. He differentiates between business writing skills for...
by Arthur Asa Berger
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Where did you see it—that perfect quotation from Foucault or Kristeva to use in your upcoming keynote address? Stop the search and pick up Arthur Berger’s handy book of over 300 concise quotations from the vast literature in cultural theory. This compilation will give you just the right snappy...
The Disarticulate
Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language is integral to our
social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?
The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and other
neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial
intelligences, have all engaged with language...
Manufacturing Desire
Media, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The average person in America watches four hours of television per day and spends the equivalent of nine years of his or her life in front of the television set. If the attention most people devote to popular culture - listening to the news, watching soap operas, reading the comics-were added up,...
What Objects Mean
An Introduction to Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Arthur Asa Berger, author of an array of texts in communication, popular culture, and social theory, is back with the second edition of his popular, user-friendly guide for students who want to understand the social meanings of objects. In this broadly interdisciplinary text, Berger takes the reader...
Law's Religion
Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference. Yet the relationship between law and religion consistently proves more fraught than such...
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada
The 1982 Joanne Goodman Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
Professor Berger aims in this book to ‘explore the rise, expression, and relative decline of the idea of natural history’ in Canada, during the age of Victoria. Science, particularly natural science, was then accessible to the general public in a way scarcely imaginable today. Natural history...
Wem gehört Deutschland?
Die wahren Machthaber und das Märchen vom Volksvermögen
Language: German
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Die Mär vom Volksvermögen Wem gehören eigentlich die großen Unternehmen des Landes? Wem die Banken? Die Immobilien? Wem gehört Deutschland? Jens Berger geht diesen Fragen nach und präsentiert dem Leser einen schonungslosen Blick hinter die Statistiken. Wussten Sie schon, dass Sie über ein Vermögen...
by Barbara Berger
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Best-selling author Barbara Berger’s new book is a practical spiritual handbook that offers readers a complete guide to the awakening consciousness that is emerging on planet Earth. In this book, Barbara not only maps out the incredible power of mind, but she explains how to use this power wisely....
The Struggle Within
Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
An accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer, The Struggle Within discusses how mass imprisonment has been a state-sponsered tool of repression deployed against diverse, left-wing social movements over the last 50 years. Author Dan Berger goes on to examine some of the most dynamic social movements...