Ivan R Dee imprint: 116 books

by Peter Schilling
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

by Paul Hollander
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

by Dave Clark
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

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

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

by Andre Sellier
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

by Raymond W. Smock
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

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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

by Victor D. Brooks
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

by John Arquilla, defense analyst and author of Insurgents, Raiders
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

by Thomas J. Whalen
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

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

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

by Theodore Dalrymple
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.
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