Jonathan Rose: 16 books
The Literary Churchill
Author, Reader, Actor
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill’s careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill’s personal, carefully composed grand story...
Well Worth Saving
How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is...
by Jonathan Rose
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Which books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their...
by Jonathan Rose
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Lesley Molseed was eleven when she was killed in 1975. For sixteen years Stefan Kiszko served a prison sentence having been wrongly convicted of her murder by police anxious to find a culprit. English justice catastrophically failed little Lesley Molseed and her family even though, at the trial of...
Readers' Liberation
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
by Jonathan Rose
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This is the first book covering those who abused and misused the legal system in medieval England and the initial attempts of the Anglo-American legal system to deal with these forms of legal corruption. Maintenance, in the sense of intermeddling in another person's litigation, was a source of repeated...
The Well-Tempered City
What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher
In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in...
The Foot Book
A Complete Guide to Healthy Feet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Aching or painful feet make it hard to stand or walk—not to mention dance, play sports, and take part in other activities. To keep you on your feet, this book offers a rich resource for understanding what can go wrong and how disorders, diseases, and injuries to the foot are diagnosed and treated.
In...
by Margery Collin, Jacki Thomas, Martin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secular...
by Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Craig M. Boise, Anna Manasco Dionne
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Offshore financial centers (OFCs) have a troubled reputation for enabling tax evasion, money laundering, autocratic looting, and even the financing of terrorism-but they play an essential role in the world economy. Fears of criminal activity have prompted many onshore governments to restrict offshore...
The Chicago Freedom Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership...
Delirious Naples
A Cultural History of the City of the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Stages an encounter, at once critical and celebratory, with historical and contemporary Naples, a city that presents itself as an irresolvable paradox for its ability to remain intellectually and culturally animated (“delirious”), even in the face of its recurring economic and political crises.
Jewish Theology in Our Time
A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
A powerful and challenging examination of what Jews believe today—by a new generation's dynamic and innovative thinkers.
At every critical juncture in Jewish history, Jews have understood a dynamic theology to be essential for a vital Jewish community. This important collection sets the next...
JavaScript Robotics
Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
JavaScript Robotics is on the rise. Rick Waldron, the lead author of this book and creator of the Johnny-Five platform, is at the forefront of this movement. Johnny-Five is an open source JavaScript Arduino programming framework for robotics. This book brings together fifteen innovative programmers,...
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