Theodore: 1024 books
Cyprus and the Financial Crisis
The Controversial Bailout and What it Means for the Eurozone
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The 2012-2013 economic crisis in the Republic of Cyprus is commonly attributed to a number of factors, including the exposure of Cypriot banks to over leveraged local property companies; the knock-on effect of the Greek government debt crisis; and international credit rating agencies downgrading the...
The European Union and the Eurozone under Stress
Challenges and Solutions for Repairing Fault Lines in the European Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book explores the political and economic issues currently challenging EU member states affecting both the core Eurozone and non-core states. It analyses and explains how its own economic, and political, relationships have been critically influenced by fierce competition from its rivals in other...
Practical Wisdom in Management
Business Across Spiritual Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Practical Wisdom in Management is the first in-depth case-study book to explore how practical wisdom from spiritual and philosophical traditions inspires corporate culture and leadership. The outcome of the Practical Wisdom Initiative, between The Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) and Yale University...
The Red Pencil
Convictions from Experience in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This engaging and important book is a critique of American education wrapped in a memoir. Drawing on his fifty years as teacher, principal, researcher, professor, and dean, Theodore R. Sizer identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent....
by Theodore Sasson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a shift from a "mobilization" approach, which first emerged with the new state and focused on supporting Israel through...
The Birth of a New Europe
State and Society in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Between the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War, Europe underwent a transformation unparalleled in its history. No comparable degree of change had occurred on the Continent since the New Stone Age. Theodore Hamerow examines the innovations that challenged nineteenth-century...
by Theodore Draper
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This companion volume to The Roots of American Communism brings to completion what the author describes as the essence of the relationship of American Communism to Soviet Russia in the fi rst decade after the Bolsheviks seized power. The outpouring of new archive materials makes it plain that Draper's...
by Theodore Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
On the street, which was ankle-deep in discarded fast-food wrappings, I saw a woman who had pulled down her trousers and tied a pair of plastic breasts to her bare buttocks, while a man crawled after her on the sidewalk, licking them. At midnight along this street – with the sound of rock music...
Uses and Abuses of Moses
Literary Representations since the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski...
Music into Fiction
Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The "First Movement" of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present who, like Robert Schumann, first saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition,...
Stages of European Romanticism
Cultural Synchronicity across the Arts, 1798-1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Romanticism was a truly European phenomenon, extending roughly from the French Revolution to the 1848 revolutions and embracing not only literature and drama but also music and visual arts. Because of Romanticism's vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific...
Minos and the Moderns
Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by...
Classicism of the Twenties
Art, Music, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism.
In Classicism of the Twenties, Theodore...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Biography written by Theodore Roosevelt, and first published in 1888. According to Wikipedia: "Gouverneur Morris (January 31, 1752 November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention...