Steven Katz: 14 books
Lion Taming
Working Successfully with Leaders, Bosses and Other Tough Customers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
"This original, innovative and memorable book that will give you insights on how to work with leaders and executives."—John Glenn, United States Senator and former astronaut
Do you feel that you need a whip and a chair to work effectively with your boss, client, customers, or others?...
by Steven Katz
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2008
They were right. Global warming melted the ice caps and the world united... and survived. Now, a generation later, can that unity sustain itself for Earth's next challenge, or is this the beginning of humanity's final chapter?
Film Directing: Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
Visualizing from Concept to Screen
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of technique that has dominated the movies since 1915. This graphic approach includes comparisons of style by interpreting a 'model script', created for the book, in storyboard form.
Intentional Interruption
Breaking Down Learning Barriers to Transform Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Interrupt the status quo of activity-based PD to enable real professional learning by focusing on learning, collaborative inquiry, and instructional leadership in schools.
Film Directing Cinematic Motion
A Workshop for Staging Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
The book uses extensive illustrations to explain how to create extended sequence shots, elaborate moving camera choreography, and tracking shots with multiple story points.
by Steven Katz, Lisa Ain Dack, Dr. John Malloy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Jump start your roles as “learning leader” and “lead learner!”
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Designed for leaders to learn and lead within the “middle space” between the seemingly opposing dynamics of district expectations and practitioner experience, this book advances the concept of the school...
Facilitator's Guide to Leading Schools in a Data-Rich World
Harnessing Data for School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
This facilitator's guide helps trainers build educators' understanding of data analysis, promote an inquiry "habit of mind," and develop leaders' capacity to support an inquiry process.
The Holocaust and New World Slavery
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
This volume offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven Katz analyzes the fundamental differences between the two systems and re-evaluates our...
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing...
Historicism, the Holocaust, and Zionism
Critical Studies in Modern Jewish History and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1992
"[Of] the 12 well-crafted essays in this volume...the most useful are those dealing with the Holocaust."
Choice
"Especially recommended for college-level students of Jewish history and culture."
-The Bookwatch
This is a critical exploration of the most repercussive topics in...
Elie Wiesel
Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the...
The Paranoid Apocalypse
A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized...
The Essential Agus
The Writings of Jacob B. Agus
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Rabbi Jacob Agus' (1911-1986) intellectual production spanned nearly a half century and covered an enormous historical and conceptual range, from the biblical to the modern era. Best known as an important Jewish scholar, he also held important rabbinic, teaching, and public positions. Although born...
Holocaust Studies
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side. The distinctive feature of this book, both individually and as a collection, is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo-centric point of view. The present...