Ivan R Dee imprint: 116 books
The End of Baseball
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
In Peter Schilling's wonderful novel, the extraordinary baseball season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Bill Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and $500 to his name, has hustled his way into buying the Philadelphia Athletics. Hungry for a pennant, young Veeck...
Extravagant Expectations
New Ways To Find Romantic Love In America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals and self-help relationship books reflect the new ways Americans seek close, personal relationships. Exposed to changing and often conflicting values, trends, and fashions—disseminated by popular culture, advertising and assorted "experts"—Americans...
The Knucklebook
Everything You Need to Know About Baseball's Strangest Pitch—the Knuckleball
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
This little book will teach you all you need to know about the most frustrating yet entertaining pitch in baseball: the knuckleball. It makes batters look foolish when it works; it embarrasses pitchers when it doesn't...or if it works too well. It humiliates catchers and umpires. It confounds spectators....
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1999
By 1888, when he was just twenty-eight, Chekhov had published a staggering 528 stories, about half of them comic. Unpretentious, lively, and inventive, these comic stories have long been affectionately regarded in Russia, but publishers in the West, overawed by the prevailing image of Chekhov as a...
by Anton Chekhov
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Chekhov's treatment of theatre and love against the background of a magical lake attempts to define the role of the artist in the modern world. Plays for Performance Series.
A History of the Dora Camp
The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which it was to emerge vanquished. Faced with a shortage of manpower in armaments factories, the Third Reich sent concentration camp prisoners to work as slaves. While the genocide of the Jews and the Gypsies continued at extermination camps, numerous...
Booker T. Washington
Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence...
Fleeing for Freedom
Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Published to coincide with Black History Month and the opening of the new Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati, Fleeing for Freedom includes selected narratives from the two most important contemporary chroniclers of the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin and William Still. Here are firsthand...
Boomers
The Cold-War Generation Grows Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
The unexpected surge in the birthrate between 1946 and 1964 transformed American society. A nation that had projected a population peaking at 150 million, and feared a renewal of the Great Depression in the wake of World War II, found itself dealing with a booming economy and 70 million children straining...
Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits
How Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Insurgent, Raiders and Bandits explores the history of irregular warfare over the past 250 years through the lives and campaigns ofFrom w the greatest masters of this mode of conflict. The book not only tells their stories, but shapes an alternate history of the world as seen through the eyes of those...
A Higher Purpose
Profiles in Presidential Courage
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
In the American political system today, courage and the presidency are rarely spoken of in the same sentence. Forgotten is the wisdom of Andrew Jackson: "One man of courage makes a majority." Thomas J. Whalen's A Higher Purpose seeks to prove the truth behind Jackson's words by relating...
by Peter S. Temes
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
In the midst of the continuing controversy over the right ways to bring change to American schools, Peter Temes's book is a firebell in the night. In Against School Reform Mr. Temes sets out a straightforward prescription for our schools which centers on the life of the individual teacher and rejects...
by Luigi Pirandello
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality, follows a group of characters who try to fashion their fife stories into acceptable drama. Mr. Brustein's new rendering is accessible, contemporary, and highly speakable while retaining the flavor of the Italian original.
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2003
A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.