Stanley: 2315 books
From Poison Arrows to Prozac
How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In the 16th century, when explorers traveled deeper into the jungles of South America in search of gold and spices, they brought back many colorful tales of their adventures to amaze and impress their sponsors. None of these tales was more astonishing, or caused more concern, than that of the mystical...
by Stanley Finger
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Among his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the...
by Stanley Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split into feuding factions, and various schools of thought emerged, each with quite different ideas about the nature of the crime problem and its...
Man in the Crowd
A Fan's Notes on Four Generations of New York Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
For Stanley Cohen, baseball is the prism through which he views the events of the last seventy years. In The Man in the Crowd, Cohen chronicles America’s changing mood and lifestyle from the years of World War II through the silent generation of the fifties, the revolutionary turmoil of the sixties...
Sentinel Under Siege
The Triumphs And Troubles Of America's Free Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
If the unexamined life is not worth living, surely the unexamined media is not worth heeding. Sentinel Under Siege traces the evolution of the media in the United States and its capacity to examine and regulate itself, from its earliest colonial roots to the modern explosion of digital technology.Once...
Frontiers of Heaven
A Journey To The End Of China
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
For the Chinese, the Great Wall of China has defined much more than a physical barrier. Over the centuries it has represented a psychological frontier - within it lies the Celestial Kingdom, the compass of all civilization. Beyond lies a barbaric...
by Stanley A. Renshon
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he raised more questions than most. Would he prove to be a pragmatic centrist or would his politics of hope ultimately flounder on the rocky shoals of America’s...
Bethel, Maine
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The town of Bethel had a tumultuous birth, caught in a land battle between France and Britain in the late seventeenth century. This hardy Maine town was originally called SudburyCanada, and its rugged settlers weathered the hardships of nature and devastating Indian raids. With the growth of agriculture,...
Anthropology
A Student's Guide to Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Stanley R. Barrett's Anthropology has long been a premiere sourcebook for students, providing a comprehensive overview of both theory and method in the discipline. In this updated second edition, Barrett's discussion of the origins and evolution of anthropology remains, augmented by sections addressing...
by Stanley W. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
THE MEN WE ALL KNOW is about seven men that have had a positive influence on the Author Stanley W. Howard's life. These seven males are symbolic of men in all communities across this country that have given of themselves by living a positive life, taking care of their families, giving advice and just...
Taking It Big
C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
C. Wright Mills (1916–1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual"...
Against Schooling
For an Education That Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism. In an age where...
Left Turn
Forging a New Political Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new authoritarianism. Aronowitz draws on his vast knowledge of history and political theory and from currents of political change around the globe, from the...
World Disorders
Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
(ACADEMIC PAPERBACK DESCRIPTION) Long one of the fieldOs most distinguished thinkers, Hoffmann brings together in this volume his important recent work on international politics. Many published here for the first time, these essays offer incisive reflections upon the reemergence of nationalism and...