Ronald Cohen: 17 books
The Second Bounce Of The Ball
Turning Risk Into Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
'One of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years' FINANCIAL TIMES
In business, everyone can see the first bounce of the ball. It is the second bounce that is uncertain. Ronald Cohen, one of the world's leading private-equity investors, argues that the entrepreneur's aim is...
Regulating Screens
Issues in Broadcasting and Internet Governance for Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The digital age has carried with it a tsunami of change. Children who have grown up with the delivery platforms that are a part of that change are now able to absorb more and more unregulated media on their own, often without any supervision. Bedroom computers, tablets, and smart phones provide private,...
by Ronald Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Folk Music: The Basics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. Drawing upon the most recent and relevant scholarship, it will focus on comparing and contrasting the historical nature of the three aspects of understanding folk music: traditional, local performers; professional...
Depression Folk
Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the complex cultural history...
Civil–Military Relations in Israel
Essays in Honor of Stuart A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This book, a collection of essays in honor of Stuart Cohen, examines a variety of issues in civil-military relations (CMR) in Israel and abroad. Beyond honoring Cohen’s work, this collection makes a substantial contribution to the field for a number of reasons. First, it brings together prominent...
Slingshot
The Defeat of Eric Cantor
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Incumbents don't lose. So how did nationally prominent House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lose a primary battle to college professor David Brat, an unknown political rookie? In Slingshot: The Defeat of Eric Cantor, authors Lauren Cohen Bell, David Elliot Meyer and Ronald Keith Gaddie take advantage...
Folk City
New York and the American Folk Music Revival
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk City explores New York's central role in fueling...
Woody Guthrie
Writing America's Songs
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the United States. His most popular song, "This Land is Your Land" has become the country's unofficial national anthem, known to every school child since the 1960s. His influence exceeded...
Selling Folk Music
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals...
by H. Ronald Vandermey, Gary Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1981
God used Hosea and Amos--one right after the other--to announce to the Northern Kingdom (Israel) that God's patience had at last ended and that the hour of decision had arrived. These prophets challenged Israel to repent now or face God's immediate judgment and endure pitiless conquest and plundering at...
Singing for Peace
Antiwar Songs in American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Wars have dominated the history of the United States since its founding, but there has also been a long history of antiwar activity. Peace songs have emerged out of every military conflict involving the United States. "Singing for Peace" vividly portrays this rich antiwar history, beginning...
Markov Logic
An Interface Layer for Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Most subfields of computer science have an interface layer via which applications communicate with the infrastructure, and this is key to their success (e.g., the Internet in networking, the relational model in databases, etc.). So far this interface layer has been missing in AI. First-order logic...
by Ronald A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
It has been 15 years since the original publication of Neuropsychology of Attention. At the time of its publication, attention was a construct that had long been of theoretical interest in the field of psychology and was receiving increased research by cognitive scientists. Yet, attention was typically...
Children of the Mill
Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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