Levy: 696 books
Rivoluzione Google
I segreti dell'azienda che ha cambiato il mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Vincente e ammirata come poche altre aziende nella storia, Google ha trasformato Internet ed è diventata una parte irrinunciabile della nostra vita. Come c'è riuscita? Steven Levy, giornalista di lungo corso ed esperto di tecnologia, ha potuto vederla dall'interno come mai nessuno prima, e in questo...
The Street Porter and the Philosopher
Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Adam Smith, asserting the common humanity of the street porter and the philosopher, articulated the classical economists' model of social interactions as exchanges among equals. This model had largely fallen out of favor until, recently, a number of scholars in the avant-garde of economic thought...
The Fighting Frenchman
Minnesota’s Boxing Legend Scott LeDoux
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Scott LeDoux’s face read like a roadmap of boxing’s last golden era—eye thumbed by Larry Holmes, brow gashed by Mike Tyson, ears stung by none other than Muhammad Ali. “George Foreman hit me so hard,” LeDoux said, “my ancestors in France felt it.” The only man to step into the ring with...
Puerto Ricans in the Empire
Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Most studies of Puerto Rico’s relations with the United States have focused on the sugar industry, recounting a tale of victimization and imperial abuse driven by the interests of U.S. sugar companies. But inPuerto Ricans in the Empire, Teresita A. Levy looks at a different agricultural sector,...
by Jerry Levy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Jerry Levy’s gritty, urban tales are driven by arresting prose and engaging human drama. Urban Legend is psychologically intense with characters attempting to overcome personal loss in peculiar ways. In “Paris is a Woman” a man hopes that, by escaping to Paris, he will learn to manage his uncontrollable...
Criminal Ingenuity
Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
"Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York...
by Rabbi Yael Levy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In "Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer," Rabbi Yael Levy gathers wisdom from Psalms and the Jewish mystical tradition into a unique mindfulness approach to the ancient Jewish practice of Counting the Omer. Using insights gained...
The Toxic Tooth
How a root canal could be making you sick
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Is Your Smile Worth Your Life? What You Need to Know Before Undergoing a Root Canal Undergoing a root canal procedure isn't anyone's idea of a good time, but if one is necessary, we don't question its safety. According to Robert Kulacz, DDS and Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD, we should. Here, they reveal...
Tennis Injury Handbook
Professional Advice for Amateur Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"A very comprehensive and well-written book about the most common tennis injuries. I certainly wish something like this had been available 25 years ago."--Fred Stolle, member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
"Maintaining fitness is a high priority for people of all ages,...
Cinema of Outsiders
The Rise of American Independent Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
The most important development in American culture of the last two decades is the emergence of independent cinema as a viable alternative to Hollywood. Indeed, while Hollywood's studios devote much of their time and energy to churning out big-budget, star-studded event...
Israel’s Death Hierarchy
Casualty Aversion in a Militarized Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
2012 Winner of the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel Studies
Whose life is worth more?
That is the question that states inevitably face during wartime. Which troops are thrown to the first lines of battle and which ones remain...
by Joseph A. Levy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The Look-Alike
By: Joseph A. Levy
Michael Biton is a young, ambitious law student. He has completed his first year at Brooklyn Law School, and everything is going perfectly for him as he is doing an internship with the City of New York. Suddenly out of nowhere, he gets identified, arrested...
by Ariel Levy
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 27, 2017
'De regels gelden niet' is het verhaal van Ariel Levy, een vrouw die dacht dat ze de wereld aankon, en tegelijk een onvergetelijk portret van een generatie die worstelt met vrijheid als 'gift' van het feminisme. Op achtendertigjarige leeftijd ging Levy voor het tijdschrift 'The New Yorker' op reportage...
by Marilyn Levy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Marilyn Levy’s extraordinary novel Chicago: August 28, 1968 relates what a dozen ordinary Americans experience on a single day during the Democratic National Convention and the riots outside in Grant Park. Viewed through the eyes of Levy’s varied characters—among them a teenager, a cop, an artist,...