Jacobsen: 323 books
Marie Grubbe
Seventeenth Century Interiors
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
'Jacobsen has made a more profound impression on me emotionally than anything else I’ve read in recent years.' Sigmund Freud ‘In Jacobsen we have the earliest and noblest example of an author who combines a powerful imagination and a wistfully tender nature with all the finesse of the most highly...
From Thomas to Train Conductor
The Story of a Special Boy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In 2010 Kirin Jacobsen walks across the auditorium stage to receive his Bachelor’s Degree. For his parents, Suzanne and John Jacobsen, this moment is more than a milestone – it is a celebration of Kirin’s courage to overcome enormous obstacles. Follow the Jacobsen family as Kirin grows from a boy...
The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000
A Personal Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age." Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen, a New Orleans resident...
The Sound of Navajo Country
Music, Language, and Diné Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections...
by Peter Jacobsen, Jack Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
From one of golf's funniest, most popular players comes another hilarious look inside the pro sport and the people who play it.
For nearly thirty years, Peter Jacobsen—player, entertainer, (off-) color commentator, TV host, golf-course designer, and entrepreneur—has been a favorite of fans...
by Jens Peter Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
In the decade from 1870 to 1880 a new spirit was stirring in the intellectual and literary world of Denmark. George Brandes was delivering his lectures on the Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature; from Norway came the deeply probing questionings of the granitic Ibsen; from across the North...
by J. P. Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
“ LANGUAGE is like an instrument that requires to be tuned occasionally. A few times in the course of a century the literary language of a country needs to be tuned afresh; for as no generation can be satisfied to think the thoughts of the preceding one, so no group of men in the world of letters...
The Brat Stops Here!
5 Weeks (or Less) to No More Tantrums, Arguing, or Bad Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In her private practice, Mary-Elaine Jacobsen worked with thousands of parents to help them with their defiant, obnoxious, and challenging children. By following her program parents have seen their children's arguing, tantrums, and disobedience come to an end.
In THE BRAT STOPS HERE, Dr. Jacobsen...
Traditional New Orleans Jazz
Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
About a century after its beginnings, traditional jazz remains the definitive music of New Orleans and an international hallmark of the city. The enduring sound and boundless energy of this American art form have produced a long list of jazz legends. From Lionel Ferbos -- the city's oldest working...
Remembering Anna O.
A Century of Mystification
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Remembering Anna O. offers a devastating examination of the very foundations of psychoanalytic theory and practice, which was born with the publication of Breuer and Freud's Studies on Hysteria in 1895. Breuer described the case of Anna O., a young woman afflicted with a severe hysteria whom he had...
by David Schnasa Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
David Schnasa Jacobsen draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of Mark in this volume of the Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries series. Jacobsen takes a broad thematic approach to the first Gospel, while at the same time giving exegetical and homiletical insights...
by J. P. Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
"LANGUAGE is like an instrument that requires to be tuned occasionally. A few times in the course of a century the literary language of a country needs to be tuned afresh; for as no generation can be satisfied to think the thoughts of the preceding one, so no group of men in the world of letters...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
*The USA Today bestseller*
*Surprise... your target.
Kill... your enemy.
Vanish... without a trace.*
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, t******he untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.
When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president...
Das Apple-Imperium 2.0
Die neuen Herausforderungen des wertvollsten Konzerns der Welt
Language: German
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Das Apple-Imperium 2.0
Apple ist größer, wertvoller und mächtiger als je zuvor. Doch im Zenit der Macht liegt bekanntlich der Keim des Niedergangs. Wie andere Imperien in der Geschichte ist auch Apples scheinbar unangefochtene Regentschaft vom Verfall bedroht. Die Apple Watch, die erste...