Shapiro: 578 books
by Robin Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Quick, essential techniques to practice ego state therapy, a popular therapeutic approach.
Most of us have different aspects, “parts,” or “ego states” of ourselves—the silly and imaginative five-year-old part, for example, or the depressed, anxious, or angry adolescent—which manifest...
by John Locke, Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration remain vital to political debates today, more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts appear in this volume, accompanied...
Nothing Like a Dame
Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving aside those...
by Michael J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon.
In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic"...
The Byline Bible
Get Published in Five Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices and anyone, in any field, can break in. So why not you?
Over the last two decades, writing professor Susan Shapiro has taught more than 25,000 students of all ages and backgrounds at NYU, Columbia, Temple, The New School, and...
Turn the Beat Around
The Secret History of Disco
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned it
Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and hip hop, it was born of a period...
The Zetas
History, Hybrids, and Human Contacts
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
"The beings on Zeta Reticuli are the future selves — granted, several million years into the future — of the beings on Earth right now. On the soul line, this has to do with your evolution to become more, to be more established benevolently on a creative level. By the time your souls become those...
John McCain
A View from the Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
There’s a lot people don’t know about John McCain. They know the war hero, the prisoner of war. Those are the things that have made the headlines and the history books. But there is also the John McCain, working statesman, who has spent two terms in the House of Representatives and six terms in...
Speed Shrinking
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
"Proust had a cookie. Susan Shapiro has a cupcake—and a really hilarious book."
—Patricia Marx, author of Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him
In Susan Shapiro's laugh-out-loud funny fictional debut Speed Shrinking, Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got...
Traumatic Politics
The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
The opening events of the French Revolution have stood as some of the most familiar in modern European history. Traumatic Politics emerges as a fresh voice from the existing historiography of this widely studied course of events. In applying a psychological lens to the classic problem of why the French...
by Barbara J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688. Shapiro argues that an assessment of English political culture requires an examination of all means by which this...
Healing into Possibility
The Transformation Lessons of a Stroke
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An uplifting look at the neuroplasticity of our brains and our human ability to grow and change Alison Bonds Shapiro suffered two debilitating and nearly fatal strokes in her fifties. Healing into Possibility chronicles her experience of learning, through trial and error, that her attitude would play...
by Anne Schwan, Stephen Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Michel Foucault’s *Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read...
The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public
Special Interests, Government, and Threats to Health, Safety, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus that it should protect us from such dangers as bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and unsafe toys. And yet, the agencies that shoulder these responsibilities...