Rosen: 528 books
by Neil Zlozower, Steven Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In a career spanning more than 40 years, legendary rock photographer Neil Zlozower has documented an amazing who's-who of the most influential and dynamic guitarists from the late 1960s to today. Six-String Heroes collects live, candid, and studio shots of 150 of the greatest guitar players in rock,...
Mirth of a Nation
The Best Contemporary Humor
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
A salvo of hilarity from that loose canon of American humor that Mirth of a Nation editor Michael J. Rosen has culled from some 1200 pages of brilliantly original works by our best contemporary humorists. This action-packed compilation of highlights includes Bobbie Ann Mason's stint at the La Bamba...
Freedom and the Arts
Essays on Music and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is perpetual negotiation required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work.
Flesh Collectors
Cannibalism and Further Depravity on the Redneck Riviera
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The acclaimed true crime author of Lobster Boy chronicles the brutal acts and eventual capture of two cannibalistic killers on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Jeremiah Rodgers and Jonathan Lawrence met in a Florida hospital for the criminally insane, where both had been serving time for petty crimes....
Rites of Realism
Essays on Corporeal Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social tensions. These essays by a range...
William Howard Taft
The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders’ vision against new populist threats to American democracy
William Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of...
Blood Crimes
The Pennsylvania Skinhead Murders
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Two brothers turn from Jehovah’s Witnesses in Allentown, PA, to neo-Nazi murderers in this true crime investigation from the author of Lobster Boy.
Raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses and frustrated with their parents’ repressive rules, Bryan and David Freeman rebelled as teenagers. Encouraged...
Any Body's Guess!
Quirky Quizzes About What Makes You Tick
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Part brainy quiz book, part brawny stand-up comedy, and all one hysterical anatomy lesson, Any Body's Guess!: Quirky Quizzes About What Makes You Tick poses 100 questions about this amazing machine, the human body, with its hopelessly lousy operating manual. Combining all the latest research, a collective...
by Delia Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Nashville Katz is about to be the main course of her own Early Bird Special!
Has deli owner and former New Yorker Gwen "Nashville" Katz bitten off more than she can chew? The spunky owner of Murray's Pastrami Swami finds the McCoy's Bakery delivery guy dead right in front of her deli,...
The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry
Studies in Ancient Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry focuses on the theoretical and practical suppositions of the long-standing conflict between philosophy and poetry. Stanley Rosen--one of the leading Plato scholars of our day--examines philosophical activity, questioning whether...
Tough Crimes
True Cases by Top Criminal Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty of Canada’s most prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but...
Founders of Faith: The Parallel Lives of God's Messengers
The Parallel Lives of God's Messengers
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Founders of Faith explores the lives of the Founders of the world’s major religions—including Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahai Faith—and reveals that they are linked by sets of striking patterns. These patterns suggest that our world’s religions...
The Emerald Diamond
How the Irish Transformed America's Favorite Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
From "Casey at the Bat" to Connie Mack to the Irish Sports Hall of Fame, here is the first-ever full history of the Irish people’s impact on America’s favorite past time, from its earliest years to its most significant milestones today. New York Times bestselling sportswriter Charlie...
Perfectly Awful
The Philadelphia 76ers' Horrendous and Hilarious 1972-1973 Season
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
During the 1972–1973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games....