Schwartz: 1127 books
by Andor Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
They have no graves, no markers of ever having existed. The millions of people murdered by the Nazis live on only in the memories of the survivors. In his seventy-ninth year, Andor Schwartz was driven to record the lives of his family and friends who perished. Writing with the instincts of a born storyteller,...
In the Mind Fields
Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain.”
“I’d never been a science person,” Casey Schwartz declares at the beginning of her far-reaching...
Judaism's Great Debates
Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: David Lerman and Shelley Wallock; D. Walter Cohen, Wendy and Leonard Cooper; Rabbi Howard Gorin; Gittel and Alan Hilibrand; Marjorie and Jeffrey Major; Jeanette Lerman Neubauer and Joe Neubauer; Gayle and David Smith;...
You Are Not Your Brain
The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taki ng Control of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Two neuroscience experts explain how their 4-Step Method can help break destructive thoughts and actions and change bad habits for good.
A leading neuroplasticity researcher and the coauthor of the groundbreaking books Brain Lock and The Mind and the Brain, Jeffrey M. Schwartz has spent his...
Right of Boom
The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
“[A] seasoned national security professional and gifted writer” offers an in-depth analysis of what might happen after a nuclear attack on US soil (Matthew Kroenig, author of Exporting the Bomb).
In the parlance of disaster preparedness, “right of boom” refers to the terrifying moments...
by Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly...
Ties That Bound
Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation’s...
by Laura Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Communications wunderkind Laura Schwartz networked her way from answering phones in President Clinton’s press office at age 19 to producing more than 1,000 events as the White House Director of Events. Schwartz, a national television commentator and public speaker, shares the secrets that skyrocketed...
Journey
Memoirs of an Air Force Chief of Staff
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An uncensored account of General Schwartz's term as the wartime US Air Force Chief of Staff under presidents Bush and Obama.
The General’s dysfunctional home life drove him to apply to the Air Force Academy over forty years ago, where he was provided with a new family and sense of worth he...
Scarface and the Untouchable
Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago–a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller
A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“An extraordinary achievement. The writing is riveting, the research impeccable.” *—*Sara Paretsky
“Gripping. ... Reads...
Your Soul's Plan
Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of physical illness, parenting handicapped children, drug addiction, alcoholism, the death of a loved one, accidents, deafness, and blindness?
Your Soul’s Plan (which was originally published under the title Courageous Souls: Do We...
by Delmore Schwartz, Irving Howe
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
A new edition of the definitive book on the depression-era immigrant experience in New York City.
Now with an exciting new preface by rock musician Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartz’s student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities collects eight of Schwartz’s finest delineations of New...
This Is Where We Came In
Intimate Glimpses
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Award-winning novelist, poet and essayist, Lynne Sharon Schwartz returns with what is perhaps her most personal book yet. These memoirs, gathered under the title of Intimacies,” are exactly that. Intimate recollections of her life, beginning with her serious heart-valve surgery and ranging back...
Accidental Soldier
A Reserve Officer at West Point in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B. Schwartz's military experiences, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1959, Vietnam was little more than a word on a map; within ten years, Americans saw the Tet Offensive and...