Cohen: 1795 books
My Jesus Year
A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
One day a Georgia-born son of an Orthodox rabbi discovers that his enthusiasm for Judaism is flagging. He observes the Sabbath, he goes to synagogue, and he even flies to New York on weekends for a series of "speed dates" with nice, eligible Jewish girls. But, something is missing. Looking...
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives
From Stalinism to the New Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen shows...
Brotherhood of Warriors
Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At the age of eighteen, Aaron Cohen left Beverly Hills to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces. He was determined to be a part of Israel's most elite security cadre, akin to the American Green Berets and Navy SEALs. After fifteen months of grueling training designed to break down each...
How to Write Like Tolstoy
A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen...
Hearts Grown Brutal
Sagas of Sarajevo
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
In this brilliant book, Roger Cohen of The New York Times weaves together the history of Yugoslavia and the story of the Bosnian War of 1992 to 1995, as experienced by four families.
“I have tried to treat the story of Yugoslavia, which lived for seventy-three years, as a human one,” Cohen...
The Private Life
Our Everyday Self in an Age of Intrusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
With social networking and reality television, self-help columns and daytime talk shows, there’s an infinite array of platforms to both expose our deepest thoughts and examine the thoughts of others. In this age of non-stop communication, one’s privacy is subject to unrelenting examination, intrusion,...
by G. A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
This is the second of three volumes of posthumously collected writings of G. A. Cohen, who was one of the leading, and most progressive, figures in contemporary political philosophy. This volume brings together some of Cohen's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays, many of them previously...
by Alice Eve Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
**“A riveting journey.” —Julie Metz, author of Perfection
“A perfect book. I want to tell everyone, every mother, every daughter, to read it.” *—*Abigail Thomas, bestselling author of A Three Dog Life
For the first time in decades I’m remembering Mom, all of her--the wonderful...
Book of Numbers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER •“More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade . . . a wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean . . . [Joshua] Cohen, all of thirty-four, emerges as a major American writer.”—The...
The Shaping of American Higher Education
Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
SECOND EDITION
When the first edition of The Shaping of American Higher Education was published it was lauded for its historical perspective and in-depth coverage of current events that provided an authoritative, comprehensive account of??the...
Almost Chimpanzee
Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The captivating story of how a band of scientists has redrawn the genetic and behavioral lines that separate humans from our nearest cousins
In the fall of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between...
The Peddlerâ??s Grandson
Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Edward Cohen grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt, thousand of miles from the northern centers of Jewish culture. As a child he sang "Dixie" in his segregated school, said the "sh'ma" at temple. While the civil rights struggle exploded all around, he worked at the family clothing...
by Morris Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Much as he considered himself a philosopher, Morris Raphael Cohen was also immersed in the machinery of social life. From his first years of "engagement" as a volunteer teacher in Thomas Davidson's school for working-class people, to his last as professor of philosophy at New York's City...
Braceros
Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety...