Deborah Cohen: 17 books

Book cover of Braceros

Braceros

Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico

by Deborah Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety...
Book cover of A Big Fat Crisis

A Big Fat Crisis

The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic - and How We Can End It

by Deborah Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013

Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding the...
Book cover of Family Secrets

Family Secrets

Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain

by Deborah Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013

We live today in a culture of full disclosure, where tell-all memoirs top the best-seller lists, transparency is lauded, and privacy seems imperiled. But how did we get here? Exploring scores of previously sealed records, Family Secrets offers a sweeping account of how shame--and the relationship...
Book cover of Performance Standards for Restaurants

Performance Standards for Restaurants

A New Approach to Addressing the Obesity Epidemic

by Deborah Cohen, Rajiv Bhatia, Mary T. Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

This report presents the results of a conference of 38 national experts in nutrition and public health who met to develop performance standards that could guide restaurants toward facilitating healthier choices among consumers and that local communities or states could use as a model for developing and implementing either voluntary or mandatory certification programs.
Book cover of Just Get Me Through This! - Revised and Updated
by Deborah A. Cohen, Robert M. Gelfand, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

You Can Get Through This Your doctor told you it was breast cancer. So now what?! You'll need plenty of essential advice—the kind that only comes from someone who's been there. In Just Get Me Through This! Deborah A. Cohen and Robert M. Gelfand, M.D. help you deal with all the ups...
Book cover of Technology and Values
by Richard DeGeorge, Hubert Dreyfus, Stacey Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1997

Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools...
Book cover of Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

For generations Nachshon’s family has been enslaved by the Egyptian Pharaoh. Nachshon is afraid it will be his destiny too. Then Moses confronts the fearsome Pharaoh, and Nachshon’s dream of freedom begins to come true. But soon he has to overcome his own special fear. The story of the brave boy who was the first to jump into the sea will inspire young and old alike.
Book cover of Left Elsewhere
by Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen, Elizabeth Catte
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019

An examination of the emerging rural left, from environmentalists blocking pipeline construction to teachers on strike. In Left Elsewhere, volume editor and lead essayist Elizabeth Catte turns a skeptical eye toward “purple” politicians, such as West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda, who...
Book cover of Schooling the Symbolic Animal

Schooling the Symbolic Animal

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

by Keith Basso, Gregory Bateson, Caroline Bledsoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000

This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies...
Book cover of Papa Jethro
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

With warm watercolor artwork and a gentle storyline, this picture book sensitively looks at the issue of interfaith families. "Why can't you be Jewish like me? Why can't I be Christian like you?" To answer these questions posed by his granddaughter, a modern grandfather tells her the parallel story of Jethro, the famous non-Jewish grandfather of the Bible.
Book cover of Engineer Arielle and the Israel Independence Day Surprise
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Engineer Arielle drives a train in Jerusalem, just like her great-great-grandfather, Engineer Ari. Except she drives a light rail train, and today is a special day. It's Israel's Independence Day! Arielle works all day taking people to their holiday destinations—but how will Arielle celebrate? Her brother Ezra, a pilot in the Israeli Air Force, has something special in mind.
Book cover of Engineer Ari and the Hanukkah Mishap
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Hurrying home to celebrate Hanukkah, Engineer Ari screeches his train to a halt to avoid hitting a stubborn camel sitting on the tracks. The camel’s Bedouin owner invites Ari to his tent to await help, where the two have an impromptu Hanukkah celebration, and become friends.
Book cover of The Seventh Day

The Seventh Day

A Shabbat Story

by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

In this adaptation of the creation story, God creates desert canyons and riverbeds as a potter would, the leopard's spots and the zebra's stripes as a painter would, and the voices of laughter as a musician would.
Book cover of Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

A Rosh Hashanah story based on the first historic train ride from Jaffa to Jerusalem in 1892, shortening the journey between the two cities from 3 days to 3 hours. Engineer Ari's train is coming to Jerusalem collecting goodies along the way to celebrate the Jewish new year, and he learns an important lesson along the way.
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