Stern: 685 books
Snapdragon
The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Prior to Phil Stern's death on December 13, 2014, his original, unfinished, tattered wartime memoir was discovered, stashed away in an old folio box in his cluttered Hollywood bungalow. Best remembered for his iconic images of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and JFK's inauguration, his remarkable service...
by Milton Stern
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Heres a real story about a gefilte fish out of water! What happens when a life-long apartment dweller becomes a homeowner? But more importantly, what happens when a Gay Jew realizes the American Dream by moving into a trailer park? Could this really happen? It did! And Milton Stern tells you all about...
The Birth Of A Mother
How The Motherhood Experience Changes You Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 1998
As you prepare to become a mother, you face an experience unlike any other in your life. Having a baby will redirect your preferences and pleasures and, most likely, will realign some of your values.As you undergo this unique psychological transformation, you will be guided by new hopes, fears, and...
He Just Doesn't Get It
Simple Solutions to the Most Common Relationship Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2001
Almost every woman has uttered, "He just doesn't get it!" in frustration when her partner drives her crazy -- or to tears. Now this dramatically different relationship guide reveals the hidden reasons why. He Just Doesn't Get It! offers simple solutions to the problems women have with the infuriating,...
Southern California Cooking from the Cottage
Casual Cuisine from Old La Jolla's Favorite Beachside Bungalow
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2004
"The Cottage exudes the upmarket serenity of old LaJolla. Sunlight streaming in the windows makes pale yellows glow; mellow jazz recordings waft through the dining room and into the palm-shaded patio; pretty waitresses in short shorts carry fruit-garnished dinners of salubrious California food,"...
Race and Education in New Orleans
Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow’s demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city’s education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960. This timely historical analysis reveals that public schools in New Orleans both...
Denial
A Memoir of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
“Denial is one of the most important books I have read in a decade....Brave, life-changing, and gripping as a thriller….A tour de force.”
—Naomi Wolf
One of the world’s foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder, Jessica Stern has subtitled her book Denial, “A...
Voices from American Prisons
Faith, Education and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Voices From American Prisons: Faith, Education and Healing is a comprehensive and unique contribution to understanding the dynamics and nature of penal confinement. In this book, author Kaia Stern describes the history of punishment and prison education in the United States and proposes that specific...
Why Are We Waiting?
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action.
The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development,...
by Daniel N. Stern
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
While most psychotherapies agree that therapeutic work in the 'here and now' has the greatest power to bring about change, few if any books have ever addressed the problem of what 'here and now' actually means.
Beginning with the claim that we are psychologically alive only in the now, internationally...
Ecological Aesthetics
artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
With this poetic and scholarly collection of stories about art, artists, and their materials, Nathaniel Stern argues that ecology, aesthetics, and ethics are inherently entwined, and together act as the cornerstone for all contemporary arts practices. An ecological approach, says Stern, takes account...
by Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Gladys Bronwyn Stern or GB Stern (17 June 1890-20 September 1973) born Gladys Bertha Stern in London, England, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary critism. Read an excerpt: "What is love of one's land?… I don't know very well....
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?
From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly...
Unser Jahrhundert
Ein Gespräch
Language: German
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Ein Bundeskanzler außer Dienst und ein amerikanischer Historiker deutscher Herkunft tauschen Erinnerungen, Erfahrungen und Argumente aus, die um die großen Fragen ihres Jahrhunderts kreisen. Helmut Schmidt und Fritz Stern diskutieren mal im Konsens, mal im Widerspruch, und analysieren die aktuelle...