Schrag: 19 books
Not Fit for Our Society
Immigration and Nativism in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over...
by Calvin O. Schrag
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political presents fourteen essays devoted to the interconnected topics of religion, ethics, and politics, along with an introductory interview with the author regarding his philosophical development over the years. This volume serves two interconnected...
Likewise
The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Ariel Schrag concludes her turbulent ride through high school in the long-awaited final volume of her acclaimed series of compelling and strikingly honest autobiographical graphic novels.
Set in Berkeley, California, Likewise takes us into the holy grail of teenagers, every bit as terrifying...
Part of It
Comics and Confessions
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Ariel Schrag, a critically-acclaimed memoirist and screenwriter, takes us on a painfully funny tour of her formative years, from her childhood in Berkeley to her mid-twenties in Brooklyn, exploring what it means to connect to others when you don’t yet know who you are—when you want to be “part...
California Fights Back
The Golden State in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Veteran journalist Peter Schrag argues that California's role in the era of Donald Trump is twofold: to act as a leader in the resistance to the current administration, and to be held up as an alternative to the course being pursued in Washington. Given the Democratic Party's stronghold on all statewide...
Potential
The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Ariel Schrag continues her tumultuous passage through high school in the second book of her acclaimed series of frank, insightful, and painfully honest autobiographical graphic novels. Written during the summer following her junior year at Berkeley High School in California, Potential recounts Ariel's...
Awkward and Definition
The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Ariel Schrag captures the American high school experience in all its awkward, questioning glory in Awkward and Definition, the first of three amazingly honest autobiographical graphic novels about her teenage years.
During the summer following each year at Berkeley High School in California,...
by Ariel Schrag
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RHYS ERNST AND STARRING NICHOLAS ALEXANDER, BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ, LEO SHENG, AND MARGARET QUALLEY
“An insightful, funny, and unexpected love story.”—Aimee Mann
When Adam Freedman — a straight, cis teen from Piedmont, California — goes...
by Peter Schrag
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
In this witty and insightful memoir, Peter Schrag meditates on the life of his mother, Ilse, who left Germany in 1933 to marry a German Jewish doctor in Lebanon. She left that marriage after five years (1933-1938) and made her way to New York City with her infant son. Together, mother and son built...
The Suppressed History of America
The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
An investigation into the discoveries of Lewis and Clark and other early explorers of America and the terrible acts committed to suppress them
• Provides archaeological proof of giants, the fountain of youth, and descriptions from Lewis’s journals of a tribe of “nearly white, blue-eyed”...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
by Francis Schrag
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In this book, first published in 1988, the author integrates relevant ideas from philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics and political science to provide a comprehensive analysis of the problem of education for thinking. Professor Schrag takes account of the classroom as well as the larger society,...
Asylum Denied
A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently...
When Europe Was a Prison Camp
Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In a compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp weaves together two accounts of a family’s eventual escape from Occupied Europe. One, a memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in the story of himself and his mother, supplemented...
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