Andrew Ross: 30 books
Andrew Ross
Der Exorzist und die Maschinen (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 044)
Language: German
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Im Fokus der Texte des Kulturkritikers Andrew Ross, der einen alternativen Globalisierungsansatz verfolgt, stehen Themen wie die prekäre kognitive Arbeit, die Organisation von Arbeit sowie die urbane Gesellschaft. In seinem Notizbuch hinterfragt er den Preis für die permanente Steigerung von Effizienz...
Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted...
No Respect
Intellectuals and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture....
Creditocracy
And the Case for Debt Refusal
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
It seems like pretty much everybody homeowners, students, those who are ill and without health insurance, and, of course, credit card holders is up to their neck in debt that can never be repaid. 77% of US households are seriously indebted and one in seven Americans has been pursued by debt collectors....
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Life and Labor in Precarious Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Is job insecurity the new norm? With fewer and fewer people working in steady, long-term positions for one employer, has the dream of a secure job with full benefits and a decent salary become just that—a dream?
In Nice Work If You Can Get It, Andrew Ross surveys...
Real Love
In Pursuit of Cultural Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In Real Love, Andrew Ross, one of our preeminent social critics, explores the vital connection between economic life and cultural expression. From the consequences of cyberspace for work and play to the uses and abuses of genetics in the O.J. trial, from world scarcity to world music, Ross interrogates...
The Celebration Chronicles
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Scholar and iconoclast Andrew Ross spent a year living in the much scrutinized, and often demonized, Celebration--the picture-perfect town that Disney is building for 20,000 people in the swamp and scrub of central Florida. Lavishly planned with a downtown center and newly minted antique homes, and...
Stone Men
The Palestinians Who Built Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The story of Palestine’s stonemasons and the building of Israel
“They demolish our houses while we build theirs.”
This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” using some...
Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Brand New for 2018: an updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis
The brilliantly reported New York Times bestseller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington to give the definitive account of the...
Fast Boat to China
Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about...
by Andrew Ross
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Microscope. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Andrew Ross, which...
by Andrew Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1996
In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt’s book Higher Superstition, presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers...
Joining the Clubs
The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
How did a small Canadian regional league come to dominate a North American continental sport? Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 tells the fascinating story of the game off the ice, offering a play-by-play of cooperation and competition among owners, players, arenas,...
Canada's Entrepreneurs
From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose...