Kaplan: 716 books
Sodom on the Thames
Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Sodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-nineteenth-century England. Morris Kaplan draws on extensive research into court records, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal correspondence and diaries, even a pornographic novel. He focuses on two notorious...
Contact Wounds
A War Surgeon's Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Dressing Station: “A gripping memoir” of a doctor’s education on the battlefield (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Inspired by his father’s time as a military surgeon in World War II, Jonathan Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a...
The Collaborator
The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je...
1959
The Year Everything Changed
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America
While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the...
by Genevieve Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house offers an innovative meditation on domestic life and the physical world that surrounds it, chronicling “at least the beginnings of some disaster” taking place in a landscape that “had no symmetry.” Deftly channeling poets like Wallace Stevens and John...
Questions of Travel
Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1996
Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces...
René Girard, Unlikely Apologist
Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Since the late 1970s, theologians have been attempting to integrate mimetic theory into different fields of theology, yet a distrust of mimetic theory persists in some theological camps. In René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology, Grant Kaplan brings mimetic theory...
Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside politics. They believed that neither the nation nor...
by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2005
Rejoice in the stories of Rebbe Nachman of Breslovfor their insight into the human condition and the realm of the mysterious.When Rabbi Nachman first started telling his stories, he declared: Now I am going to tell you stories. The reason he did so was because in generations so far from God the only...
by Roberta Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill Clinton
Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and...
by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This collection highlights the most important ideas and concepts from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, authors of The Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allows organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships....
The Strategy-Focused Organization
How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2000
The creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makes strategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, but by everyone. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and David Norton share the results of...
The Secrets in Their Eyes
Transforming the Lives of People with Cognitive, Emotional, Learning, or Movement Disorders or Autism by Changing the Visual Software of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Vision therapy techniques can correct not only visual problems, but also cognitive, emotional and physical difficulties. Based on the pioneering work of Dr Melvin Kaplan, this research-based book explains the basis of vision therapy, who it can help, and the outcomes it can bring.
Visual perceptual...
Rocking Around the Clock
Music Television, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The first non-stop rock video channel was launched in the US in 1981. As a unique popular culture form, MTV warrants attention, and in this, the first study of the medium, originally published in 1987, Ann Kaplan examines the cultural context of MTV and its relationship to the history of rock music....