Adelman: 55 books
Worldly Philosopher
The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote...
Reagan at Reykjavik
Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland—the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War—by President Reagan’s arms control director, Ken Adelman.
In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour...
The Rise of Israel
A History of a Revolutionary State
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has not been adequately explained either by its friends (mainstream Zionists) nor by its detractors (Arabists and post-Zionists).
Using a variety of comparative methodologies;...
No Return, No Refuge
Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Refugee displacement is a global phenomenon that has uprooted millions of individuals over the past century. In the 1980s, repatriation became the preferred option for resolving the refugee crisis. As human rights achieved global eminence, refugees' right of return fell under its umbrella. Yet return...
by Richard Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of idleness and aesthetic consciousness during the nineteenth century. Through careful analysis of some of the period's most influential thinkers, including...
by Juliana Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of "popular" science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals that we now term scientists. Of course for Ireland, largely in contrast to the rest of Britain, the prominence of Catholicism posed various philosophical...
Black and Blue
Sandy Koufax, the Robinson Boys, and the World Series That Stunned America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
"Richly layered....An entertaining and informative portrait of two underappreciated teams in an unforgettable time."--Boston Sunday Globe
The most surprising World Series ever? Many baseball fans would agree that it was the epic 1966 clash between the reigning champion Los Angeles...
The Passions and the Interests
Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
"I Have a Dream"
A 50th Year Testament to the March that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
On August 28, 1963, something quite amazing occurred. On that day, one of the largest political rallies ever took place in support of civil and economic rights of African-Americans, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, gave one of the most stirring speeches in history...
by Richard Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the British response...
Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories
Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
There couldn't be a more appropriate method for illustrating the dynamics of psychoanalysis than the vehicle of story. In this book, Kerry L. Malawista, Anne J. Adelman, and Catherine L. Anderson share amusing, poignant, and sometimes difficult stories from their personal and professional lives, inviting...
by Clement Adelman, Clem Adelman, Roy Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
For many student teachers the classroom is a strange and potentially uncontrollable environment. This book shows how the period of classroom observation, which for most students precedes teaching practice, plays an important part in this transition process.
California Coast from the Air
Images of a Changing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
In a state identified with change, California’s 1,100-mile coastline lives up to the reputation. Storm waves attack sea cliffs, earthquakes trigger landslides, and ocean waves relentlessly move sand. Over the past century, humans have changed the coast too, particularly in Southern California, where...