Ira: 311 books
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters.
Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism’s much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence...
by Ira Katznelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
“Fear Itself deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions.”—David Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from Fear
Redefining our traditional understanding of the New Deal, Fear Itself finally examines this pivotal American era through a...
The Best Care Possible
A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.
It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority...
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...
Living in fear.
The devil's den.
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Living in fear." is a chilling autobiography that chronicles my childhood as the son of an abusive father. I discuss the horrible details of living in fear of my mother's murder. As the accout begins i offer you a glimpse into a household which changed tremendously when th patriarch walked...
The DuSable Panthers
The Greatest, Blackest, Saddest Team from the Meanest Streets in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Twelve years before Kentucky and Texas Christian. Seven years after Jackie Robinson’s first at-bat in the Majors. A color barrier in both sports and in America was shattered—by a team of teenage boys. The weight of a season and the weight of growing up are burdens enough. For a high school...
by Ira Jacques
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In 2009,my stepson, Greg Holcomb-Jacques, was diagnosed with DIPG, which is short for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a type of brain cancer. We shared a very special relationship, and I would argue that even though he was a stepson and not my blood, he was every bit my son as any biological son...
Summers at Shea
Tom Seaver Loses His Overcoat and Other Mets Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Culled from 50 years’ worth of columns from one of the country’s most popular sportswriters, this work stands as a remarkable collection of opinions that is guaranteed to delight Mets fans of all ages. Former New York Times columnist Ira Berkow captures the spirit of the Mets in this unforgettable...
The Courageous Follower
Standing Up to & for Our Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Many significant failures—from FEMA’s response to Hurricane Katrina to the recent economic collapse—could have been prevented or mitigated if those lower in the hierarchy were successful at communicating to leaders the risks they saw in the system. Ira Chaleff’s Courageous Follower model has...
The Making of African America
The Four Great Migrations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one...
by Ira Katznelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during...
Find the Black Box
Prevent Needless Hospital Deaths
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
200,000 preventable deaths each year in the US healthcare system is like having 20
Boeing 747 airliners crashing each week. Things are bad in our nations healthcare
delivery system; people are dying needlessly in hospitals every single day. In Find
the Black Box, author Dr. Ira Williams provides a...
Present at the Future
From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Veteran NPR® science correspondent and award-winning radio and TV journalist Ira Flatow's enthusiasm for all things science has made him a beloved on-air journalist. For more than thirty-five years, Flatow has interviewed the top scientists and researchers on many NPR and PBS programs, including...
Timeless Learning
How Imagination, Observation, and Zero-Based Thinking Change Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Reinvent public schools with proven, innovative practices
Our homes, communities, and the world itself need the natural assets our children bring with them as learners, and which they often lose over time on the assembly line that pervades most of the public education system today. We see no...