Seth: 937 books
The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told
Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
All aboard for the history of one of the most audacious and innovative railroad engineering feats in history from the celebrated Floridian author.
Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled...
The Spiritual Gift of Madness
The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A bold call for the “insane” to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation
• Explains how many of those diagnosed as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other forms of “madness” are not ill but experiencing a spiritual awakening
• Explores the...
The Inevitable Party
Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How they Weaken Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Seth Masket's The Inevitable Party is a study of anti-party reforms and why they fail. Numerous reform movements over the past century have designated parties as the enemy of democracy, and they have found a willing ally in the American people in their efforts to rein in and occasionally root out...
by Seth Monahan
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Why would Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), modernist titan and so-called prophet of the New Music, commit himself time and again to the venerable sonata-allegro form of Mozart and Beethoven? How could so gifted a symphonic storyteller be drawn to a framework that many have dismissed as antiquated and dramatically...
Blacks in the Jewish Mind
A Crisis of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish...
by Ted Seth Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Heralded as a revolutionary right-brain approach to figure drawing, this guide focuses on mentality rather than technique. Ted Seth Jacobs offers personal reflections and advice on developing the ability to draw what the eye sees rather than what the mind dictates. More than 180 black-and-white drawings...
Gameworlds
Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual...
The Universal Sense
How Hearing Shapes the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Every day, we are beset by millions of sounds-ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more pronounced sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. How do we know which sounds should startle us, which should engage us, and which should turn us off?
Why...
by Seth Whidden
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, while the ever-changing political contexts occasioned by the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 brought about differing degrees of political, social, and literary...
by Seth Quillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
My Amazing But (not) True Stories! From meeting presidents to historical cruises and more! Ronald Reagan, Marylin Monroe, Nikola Tesla, and more through the eyes of the man that (didn't) meet them!
Cold War Mandarin
Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the history of American support for Diem from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder...
Hallandale Beach Florida
For More than Ninety Years Broward County's City of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Beginning in 1897 with the arrival of Luther Halland, the story of Hallandale Beach is one of steady growth and enduring prosperity. Hallandale became a town during the great Florida boom of the 1920s, and in 1947, when its boundaries expanded to the Atlantic Ocean, Hallandale Beach became a city. Today,...
From Farms and Fields to the Future
The Incredible History of North Miami Beach
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Captain William Fulford first sailed into the Miami area from his duty in the Atlantic in 1881 and found an untamed wilderness of swamp marshes and mangroves awaiting his arrival. He never left. Amid the lowlands and flood plains, Fulford found his higher ground on the banks of the Oleta River and acquired...
by Seth Brodsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
What happened to musical modernism? When did it end? Did it end? In this unorthodox Lacanian account of European New Music, Seth Brodsky focuses on the unlikely year 1989, when New Music hardly takes center stage. Instead one finds Rostropovich playing Bach at Checkpoint Charlie; or Bernstein changing...