Peter Shapiro: 16 books
Turn the Beat Around
The Secret History of Disco
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned it
Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and hip hop, it was born of a period...
Song of the Stubborn One Thousand
The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-87
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Offers a detailed view of the organizational and strategic challenges of a long strike under difficult conditions
Provides a better understanding of the complex relationship between the Mexican women strikers and the Teamsters union, which had long ignored them but was finally compelled to...
New Earth Politics
Essays from the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress.
Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social...
by Ed Simon, Michael Strauss, Raja Halwani
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #5: April 2019
Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink
The Good Landlord
A Guide to Making a Profit While Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Ever lost money from unpaid rent or property damage? Lay awake, furious over a tenant issue you couldn’t resolve? Clashed over a repair your tenant requested but wouldn’t give you access to complete? You may want to talk these things out but expect communication will break down unless you find a...
by Peter David Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
BOSTON 1896. Renowned psychic Ignatius Jones commissions his portrait to be painted by one of the leading artists of his time. He promises his followers that he will communicate with them through his portrait after he passes to spirit.
On the day that he is murdered in 1903, his portrait is...
by Peter David Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Fearful of wide scale disaster after a dangerous buffoon takes over the White House, Jacob Morais stocks his basement with emergency supplies and buys a gun. When the dangers he faces turn out to be directed at him specifically rather than the collapse of public order that he expected, Jacob realizes...
The Complete Aeschylus
Volume II: Persians and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order...
A Nietzschean Bestiary
Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Inspired by the ancient and medieval genre, A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays treating the most vivid and lively animal images in one of the philosophic tradition's greatest bodies of work. Leading scholars treat specific animals—such as the prowling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions,...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
by Peter Burian;Alan Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke...
The Ultimate Negotiation Book
Discover What Top Negotiators Do; Master Persuasion and Influence; Build Rapport with NLP
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset.
From influencing and persuading to choosing a negotiating style and using NLP, THE ULTIMATE NEGOTIATION BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success.
Discover the main themes and key ideas,...
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture is a bibliography of English-language publications for non-Korean-speaking academics, researchers, and professionals. In addition to the actual annotations of all the major books, book chapters, journal articles, and theses/dissertations, each chapter includes...
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