Saul: 375 books
Chekhov's Doctors
A Collection Of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003
In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with readers across the world.
Chekhov experienced...
by John Dinges, Saul Landau
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Edgar Award Finalist: The gripping account of an assassination on US soil and the violent foreign conspiracy that stretched from Pinochet’s Chile to the streets of Washington, DC, with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman.
On September 10, 1976, exiled Chilean leader Orlando Letelier delivered...
Start-up Nation
The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like...
Men of Letters: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The writers who crafted the innovative ideas, characters and worlds that changed our perception of reality and shaped our future are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the masters of the stage like Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams...
by Would I Lie To You?, Peter Holmes, Ben Caudell
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The cheque's in the post. I'm still at the office. That looks great on you. Lies make the world go round. And in this book the Would I Lie To You? team celebrates the fine art of the everyday fib.
Like the deliriously funny contributions of Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell in the hugely...
Sitcom
A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
A carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in its history, the best of what the genre has accomplished, and the most standard of its works. From I Love Lucy, The Phil Silvers Show, and M*A*S*H to Taxi,...
Another Fine Mess
A History of American Film Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
From City Lights to Knocked Up, this history examines American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother, the comedy, and puts the comic titans of the present in the context of their predecessors. The 30 chapters and 100 essays follow the connections that link Mae West to Marilyn Monroe and...
by Walter Saul Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A young American soldier, blessed with the sure touch of the “born” journalist and a deep personal understanding of what it means to be an active participant in this war, tells here the story of his three eventful years in camp and in combat.
Beginning at Fort Benning, Georgia, on a fine...
On Equilibrium
Six Qualities of the New Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This international bestseller and “intellectual tour de force” (The Montreal Gazette) is both an attack on our weakness for ideologies and a manual for humanist action.
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
by Saul Bellow
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In More Die of Heartbreak, our erratic narrator explains to his audience that he must abandon Paris for the Midwest. Of course, Kenneth merely wants to be closer to his beloved uncle, the world-famous botanist Benn Crader, to receive the older man’s worldly wisdom. The mercurial Benn, however, struggles...
Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought
New Theories of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
This book explores the impact of poststructuralism on contemporary political theory by focussing on problems and issues central to politics today.
Drawing on the theoretical concerns brought to light by the ‘poststructuralist’ thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze and Max Stirner,...
No Haven for the Oppressed
United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
No Haven for the Oppressed is the most thorough and the most comprehensive analysis to be written to date on the United States policy toward Jewish refugees during World War II. Friedman draws upon many sources for his history, significantly upon papers which have only recently been opened to public...
Gestapo
Hitler’s Secret Terror Police
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The names Klaus Barbie, Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaltenbrunner struck terror into law-abiding citizens let alone those who resisted Adolf Hitler. These men were leaders of the Gestapo, the secret police during the times of the Nazis. This book outlines...