Eisenstadt: 20 books
I Am Martin Eisenstadt
One Man's (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In the days after the 2008 presidential election, we heard that Sarah Palin thought Africa was one big country. We heard that the leak came from Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser. And then, within forty-eight hours, we heard that he was a fraud, a fake, and that Martin Eisenstadt didn't exist.
Maybe...
Rochdale Village
Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens, New York. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood....
Swell
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Thirty years after From Rockaway ("A great first novel" --Harper's Bazaar), Jill Eisenstadt returns with a darkly funny new work of fiction that exposes a city and a family at their most vulnerable.
When Sue Glassman's family needs a new home, Sue relents, after years of resisting,...
by Jill Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy....
by Mark Eisenstadt, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2011
"Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia Made Simple" is a treatment manual for these conditions. This means that it lays out a complete set of steps that enable an individual to overcome them. The author has gone to great lengths to explain these conditions and how to become free of them...
Visions of a Better World
Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
In 1935, at the height of his powers, Howard Thurman, one of the most influential African American religious thinkers of the twentieth century, took a pivotal trip to India that would forever change him—and that would ultimately shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States.
When...
A Woman in Both Houses
My Career in New Mexico Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
The first woman to serve in both houses of the New Mexico legislature, Pauline Eisenstadt has witnessed many exciting moments in the state’s political history and made much of that history herself. Her memoir takes readers to the floors of the House and Senate, offering an insider’s view of how...
by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The republication of From Generation to Generation-almost half a century after its first appearance in 1956-constitutes a good occasion for a look at the way in which problems of youth and generations developed in contemporary societies. In this brilliant, pioneering effort, different approaches in...
by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 18, 2011
S.N. Eisenstadt è stato uno dei più importanti studiosi della modernità. In questo libro ha esplorato il contesto delle Grandi Rivoluzioni Moderne dal punto di vista delle civiltà e della loro storia, analizzando le caratteristiche specifiche delle rivoluzioni e delle loro relazioni con la modernità;...
The Women's Passover Companion
Women's Reflections on the Festival of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
A powerful—and empowering—gathering of women’s voices transmitting
Judaism’s Passover legacy to the next generation.
The Women’s Passover Companion offers an in-depth examination of women’s relationships to Passover as well as the roots and meanings of women’s seders. This groundbreaking...
by Todd A. Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Drawing on an original survey of more than 5,000 respondents, this book argues that, contrary to claims by the 1994 Zapatista insurgency, indigenous and non-indigenous respondents in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic conditions and land tenure institutions as well as by ethnic identity....
by Bernhard Giesen, S. N. Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book deals with triumphant and tragic heroes, with victims and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western imagination. A major recent change in Western societies is that memories of triumphant heroism-for example, the revolutionary uprising of the people-are increasingly replaced by the public...
by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks...
by Eisenstadt
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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