Steven Ross: 26 books
Waiting
An Anthology of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption....
by Steven Ross
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
In the very near future you'll need a helmet to drive, walk, shower or breathe.Better safe than sorry.But a brainy kid and his mom and his granddad fight the system.A cartoon-illustrated short story.
American War Plans, 1941-1945
The Test of Battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This is an examination of major American and Anglo-American war plans. Rather than discuss the history of planning, Ross considers the execution of the plans, compares the execution with the expectations of the planners and attempts to explain the differences.
Misunderstanding in Social Life
Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly...
Hollywood Left and Right
How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood...
Hitler in Los Angeles
How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda...
by Paul E. Ceruzzi, Howard Rheingold, Lee Felsenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.
Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars...
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to...
Pieces: A Mobile Writers Guild Anthology
Mobile Writers Guild Anthologies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Sweet Home Alabama.
Have a slice of Alabama Literature. This collection brings you over 20 authors from the Gulf Coast in Alabama, including USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORS Carolyn Haines and Craig A. Price Jr., Award Winning author Jodie Cain Smith and several others, including some first time...
by Kate Wolford, Steven Grimm, Lissa Marie Redmond
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Krampus is the cloven-hoofed, curly-horned, and long-tongued dark companion of St. Nick. Sometimes a hero, sometimes a villain, within these pages, he’s always more than just a sidekick. You’ll meet manifestations of Santa’s dark servant as he goes toe-to-toe with a bratty Cinderella, a guitar-slinging...
by Adam Jorgensen, Bradley Ball, Steven Wort
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Learn to take advantage of the opportunities offered by SQL Server 2014
Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 update means big changes for database administrators, and you need to get up to speed quickly because your methods, workflow, and favorite techniques will be different from here on out. The update's...
From Flintlock to Rifle
Infantry Tactics, 1740-1866
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This is a comprehensive study of the major changes in infantry tacticts from the time of Frederick the Great to the beginning of what many see as the era of modern war, in the 1860s. Ross lays social and political change side by side with technical change. He argues that the French revolution, due...
The Anger Fallacy
Uncovering the Irrationality of the Angry Mindset
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
A life without anger is attainable — if you understand The Anger Fallacy.
Anger is everywhere — behind everything from road rage to wrap rage, domestic violence to international conflicts. People cling to their anger, as a tool of influence and a driver of revenge. But is anger really...
by Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
SQL Server 2008 is how-to guide for experienced DBAs. Tutorial-based, this book will get you over the learning curve of how to configure and administer SQL Server 2008. Whether you're an administrator or developer using SQL Server, you can't avoid wearing a DBA hat at some point. The book is loaded...
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