Ig Publishing: 94 books
by Kirby Gann
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
"A novelist of daring creativity and passion."-Edmund WhiteA dying drug kingpin enslaved to the memory of his dead wife; a young woman torn between a promising future and the hardscrabble world she grew up in; a mother willing to do anything to fuel her addiction to pills; and her youngest...
by Steve Yarbrough
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Set in a small, dusty Texas town, The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry's most memorable novels, and the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. In this volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, award-winning author Steve Yarbrough shares with us the importance of this...
by Charles Holdefer
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
George Saunders’ Pastoralia is an exaggerated dystopia of late capitalist America, merging the spirit of James Thurber with the world of the Simpsons. In his entry in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award-winning author Charles Holdefer addresses how Saunders captures the pain and absurdity...
by Vance Packard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising."--Salon"Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating."--The New York Times Book Review"A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians...
Why People Buy
Motivation Research and Its Successful Application
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
There are several competing brands on the store shelf. What will cause the shopper to purchase one product over another? Is it the brand name, the brand-identifying image, the design of the package, the color, or ads about the product that the consumer might have seen? In this 1959 classic, Cheskin...
by Edward Bernays
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
“Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.”—Noam Chomsky
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses...
by William Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak—euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook...
Green Washed
Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The message that our environment is in peril has filtered from environmental groups to theAmerican consciousness to our shopping carts. Every day, millions of Americans dutifully replace conventional produce with organic, swap Mr. Clean for Seventh Generation, and replace their bottled water with...
A Guest in the House of Hip-Hop
How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2018
Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word “darkies.” Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, while the environment in small-town Kentucky encouraged...
by Diana Wagman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Winnie Parker, mother to an angst-ridden teenage daughter and ex-wife to a successful game show host who left her for a twenty-something contestant, begins a normal day in her hum-drum existence by dropping her car off at the repair shop. After accepting what she believes is a ride to pick up her...
The Audacity of Greed
Free Markets, Corporate Thieves, and the Looting of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Over the past quarter century, we have lived through the greatest looting of wealth in human history. While billions of dollars streamed into the pockets of a few elites in the corporate and economic class, the vast majority of citizens have lived through a period of falling wages, disappearing pensions,...
Moving A Nation to Care
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in our returning combat troops is one of the most catastrophic issues confronting our nation. Yet, despite the fact that nearly 20 percent of the over half million troops that have left the military since 2003 have been diagnosed with PTSD, and that many who suffer...
Love Song For Baby X
How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Love Song for Baby X is the moving and humorous story of a lesbian couple's struggles with infertility as they attempt to become parents, set against the backdrop of the marriage equality movement. While poet Cheryl Dumesnil suspects she'll confront some formidable obstacles on her path to parenthood,...
Reviving the Strike
How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Joe Burns is an experienced labor negotiator who has worked in the airline industry among many others. This book presents his thesis that the return of the production-stopping strike, the kind which can inflict economic harm upon an employer, is the best hope for the future of the labor movement.
The...