Rosen: 528 books
by George Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Since publication in 1958, George Rosen’s classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions...
Alphabetical
How Every Letter Tells a Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
A “beguiling . . . passionate and funny” biography of the alphabet—from A to Z and umlauts to dictionaries—by a bestselling author “whose fervor is contagious” (Boston Globe).
In Alphabetical, Michael Rosen tells the fascinating tale of how our modern alphabet—those twenty-six...
The World Split Open
How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly evokes the events and people who participated in...
by Stanley Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic...
Every Species of Hope
Georgics, Haiku, and Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
In his first book of poetry in twenty years, Michael J. Rosen captures life in the foothills of the Appalachians. Every Species of Hope: Georgics, Haiku, and Other Poems uses a variety of poetic forms, as well as Rosen’s own pen-and-ink drawings, to give voice to the predicaments of living among...
by Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders - such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology....
by Sidney Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Time
By: Sidney Rosen
Time is a fictionalized, autobiographical, personal introspection from author Sidney Rosen.
It is told through the eyes of Henry, an octogenarian who lost his first wife and has found a true love again. Abby and Henry were married for 52 years and their loving union...
Crossing the Jordan River
The Journeys of an Israeli Diplomat
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Jacob Rosen writes in this fascinating and illuminating book about his experiences in both Cairo, Egypt and Amman, Jordan as an Israeli Diplomat. He has learned a great deal about Egyptian and Jordanian societies and also more about the Israeli character. Time and again, Mr. Rosen witnessed how Arabs...
by Prof. David Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. British poets from Wordsworth to Auden attempted to present themselves simultaneously as persons of power and as moral voices in their communities. The modern...
Minor Characters Have Their Day
Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers...
Vital Conversations
Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The health-care system in the United States is by far the most expensive in the world, yet its outcomes are decidedly mediocre in comparison with those of other countries. Poor communication between doctors and patients, Dennis Rosen argues, is at the heart of this disparity, a pervasive problem that...
The Elusiveness of the Ordinary
Studies in the Possibility of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches...
Unveiling Eve
Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. In the Jewish Middle Ages, writing was...
by Jennifer Mieres, MD, Stacey Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Heart Smart for Women, Six S.T.E.P.S. in Six Weeks to Heart-Healthy Living equips women of all ages with a comprehensive program for heart-healthy living. This book is a call to action for women everywhere and the message is a positive one: Heart disease is preventable! Leading cardiologists, Drs....