Silverman: 413 books
Who's Better, Who's Best in Hockey?
Setting the Record Straight on the Top 50 Hockey Players of the Expansion Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Who are the best centers in NHL history? How about wingers? How can we objectively rate the performances of individual defensive players? And how can we make reasonable judgments about players at different positions? Who is the greatest hockey player of the Expansion Era? Bobby Orr? Wayne Gretzky?...
The Prudence of Love
How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Lover
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
The Prudence of Love: How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Lover focuses upon the intersection of philosophical, theological, and psychological issues concerning love. Eric Silverman advocates an account of the virtue of love derived from Thomas Aquinas's account of charity and makes three...
The Island Dwellers
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
For readers of Miranda July, Rebecca Lee, and Mary Gaitskill, a debut short-story collection that is a mesmerizing blend of wit, transgression, and heart.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
A passive-aggressive couple in the midst of a divorce compete over...
by Jen Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Three plays from award-winning American Playwright Jen Silverman. Contains the plays The Roommate, The Moors and Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.
Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties - Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah.”
The...
Fighting God
An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Fighting God is a firebrand manifesto from one of the most recognizable faces of atheism. In his book, Silverman-a walking, talking atheist billboard known for his appearances on Fox News-discusses the effectiveness, ethics and impact of the in-your-face-atheist who refuses to be silent.
Silverman...
by Kaja Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
What is a woman? What is a man? How do they—and how should they—relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized...
by Professor David Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006
In this exciting and major updating of one the most important textbooks for beginning qualitative researchers, David Silverman seeks to match the typical chronology of experience faced by the student-reader. Earlier editions of Interpreting Qualitative Data largely sought to provide material for students...
by Mike Silverman, Tony Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
As one of the UK’s leading forensic scientists, Mike Silverman has helped to identify and convict dozens of murderers, rapists, armed robbers, burglars and muggers, thanks to the evidence they – or their victims – unwittingly left behind at the scenes of their crimes.
Mike Silverman started...
Romani Routes
Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora. Over the past two decades, a steady stream...
Student Voices
We Believe in You
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
We are surrounded by voices, but how often do we actually stop and listen to the stories they have to tell? Martha E.Casazza and Sharon L. Silverman have been listening to the stories of students for the past five years, and they share how high achievers have overcome obstacles. Throughout the interviews,...
Begin Again
A Biography of John Cage
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents: musician, inventor, composer, poet. He became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Now award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives...
The Bedwetter
Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne and star of the powerful 2015 film I Smile Back Sarah Silverman comes a memoir—her first book—that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still pee-in-your-pants funny. If you like Sarah’s television show The Sarah...
Lightning Man
The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
In this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as “perhaps the most illustrious American of his age.”
Silverman presents Samuel Morse in all his complexity....
The Time of Their Lives
The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—“A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures” (The New York Times).
According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began...