Schechter: 78 books
The Devil's Gentleman
Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an...
Blogothon
Reflections and Revelations from the News Dissector
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In just a decade, blogging changed from a fad to a phenomenon with an estimated 51 million participants, mostly creative citizens with something to say or express. Citizens who want to participate in media rather than be subjected to it. Blogothon is a selection of blogs and essays posted by raconteur...
Systems Thinking for School Leaders
Holistic Leadership for Excellence in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book presents a new approach to school leadership – Holistic School Leadership, whereby school leaders lead schools through systems-thinking concepts and procedures. Facing growing complexity, change and diversity, school leaders need to regularly apply the systems view and perform at the systems...
Winning Fantasy Baseball
Secret Strategies of a Nine-Time National Champion
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In Winning Fantasy Baseball, Larry Schechter discloses the secrets of his proven methods. Packed with commonsense, easy-to-use strategies for beginners through experienced players, Schechter supplies readers with a toolkit to achieve the most important thing in fantasy ball--winning!
Some have...
by Ronald Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought,...
Madiba A to Z
The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
From the makers of the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a completely unique biography and thematic telling of the story of Nelson Mandela. This book, which provided key source material for the film, is an unexpurgated collection of the views and opinions of South Africa's first...
Occupy
Dissecting Occupy Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Danny Schechter the "News Dissector," a veteran journalist, filmmaker, and participant in many social movements, began covering Occupy Wall Street for Al Jazeera and other leading websites, international TV News programs, and Progressive Radio Network shows. Occupy collects his essays, blog reports,...
Edgar Poe and the Mystery Museum
An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Nevermore in this historical murder mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe. It’s the spring of 1844 and Poe and his young wife, Sissy, have moved to Manhattan, the publishing center of America. When showman P.T. Barnum advertises a display of...
Edgar Poe and the Concord Killer
An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Nevermore in this historical murder mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe. It’s the spring of 1844 and Poe and his young wife, Sissy, have moved to Manhattan, the publishing center of America. When showman P.T. Barnum advertises a display of...
by Patricia A. Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled,...
by Elizabeth Schechter, Peter Tupper, Vinnie Tesla
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Five complete book-length works of steamy steampunk from Circlet Press! Available only until February 15th, 2016 in this bundle!
A discreet brothel staffed by robots. A theatre that enacts your most secret fantasies. A mad scientist whose machines are powered by human arousal. A team of secret...
Playing for Keeps
Tales from the Arena
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Award-winning author Elizabeth Schechter takes us to a faraway world where dominance and submission are far more than a bedroom game.
Rakesh is one of the most skilled of the Collared, the men and women who serve in the Arena to fulfill the unique needs of the super-soldiers known as Swords.
The...
The Whole Death Catalog
A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
In the tradition of Mary Roach’s bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford’s classic exposé The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing...
Edgar Poe and the Frontier Fiend
An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
In this historical murder mystery Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Edgar Poe and the Mystery Museum. During the sweltering summer of 1845, the savage murder of two girls shocks the citizens of Manhattan. Edgar Allen Poe, despite the grisly subject matter of his own writings, is...