Gross: 466 books
Video Production
Disciplines and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The revised twelfth edition of Video Production: Disciplines and Techniques introduces readers to the operations underlying video production. It provides thorough coverage of the theory and techniques readers need to know, balancing complexity with practical how-to information about detailed subjects...
The Path
What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas—like the fallacy of the authentic self—can guide you on the path to a good life today.
Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one...
by Gross Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: His son says...
by Jan Tomasz Gross
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations during the war. The author is a founding father of a new approach...
by Ken Gross
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The true story of Alice Crimmins, an American woman who was charged with killing her two children who were discovered missing on July 14, 1965. Crimmins trial was later compared by some in the media to the Casey Anthony trial.
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God
Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection of essays on the religious communication of members of the Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning, and in their public and private writing. While many books on the market address issues at the intersection...
Peacebuilding and Post-War Transitions
Assessing The Impact of External-Domestic Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book asks how, and under what conditions, external-domestic interactions impact on peacebuilding outcomes during transitions to peace and democracy.
Why do so many peacebuilding interventions in post-war states result in stalled transitions despite heavy international support? This book...
by Linda P. Gross, Theresa R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Held in Philadelphia from May 10 through October 10, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition celebrated the 100th anniversary of American independence. Philadelphia hosted 37 nations in five main buildings and 250 additional structures on 285 acres of land. The celebration looked backward to commemorate the progress...
Ms. Cahill for Congress
One Fearless Teacher, Her Sixth Grade Class, and the Election that Changed their Lives Forever
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
The remarkable story of a teacher who ran a grassroots campaign for Congress . . . from her sixth-grade classroom
“You can’t run for office in this country unless you’re a millionaire or you know a lot of millionaires.” This offhand remark from one of her sixth-grade students dismayed...
Go Small
Because God Doesn't Care About Your Status, Size, or Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
It is in the seemingly ordinary moments of life where God does his greatest work.
Go big or go home . . . so they say. But do you ever feel like no matter how big you go, you still haven’t gone big enough? Have you grown so frustrated with the pursuit of “go big” that “go home” is...
Academic Labor
The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
USC Annenberg Press has published The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies, edited by Jonathan Stere. This collection features the work of 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in the field of communication studies. Twenty-one authors take on difficult questions...
by Craig Gross
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Not the birds and the bee’s, guys’ plumbing vs. girls’ plumbing, how-it-all-works talk. Let’s talk about sexuality; your sexuality and the sexuality of others. Let’s talk about what is and isn’t okay to look at, do, and think about.Questions You Can’t Ask Your Mama About Sex is exactly...
Out of Tune
David Helfgott and the Myth of Shine
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Margaret Helfgott, sister of the piano virtuoso David Helfgott, shines new light on the story behind the film that brought him into the public arena. Her story contests the ideas developed in the film Shine in a thought-provoking manner.
Poachers Were My Prey: Eighteen Years as an Undercover Wildlife Officer
Eighteen Years as an Undercover Wildlife Officer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Thus begins the story of R. T. Stewart’s career as an undercover wildlife law enforcement officer with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife. For nearly two decades, Stewart infiltrated poaching rings throughout Ohio, the Midwest, and beyond. Poachers Were My Prey chronicles...