Anchor imprint: 1481 books
Flux
Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Peggy Orenstein’s bestselling Schoolgirls is the classic study of teenage girls and self-esteem. Now Orenstein uses the same interviewing and reporting skills to examine the lives of women in their 20s, 30s and 40s.
The advances of the women’s movement allow women to grow up with a sense...
The Color Complex (Revised)
The Politics of Skin Color in a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A courageous, humane, and provocative examination of how differences in color and features among African Americans have played and continue to play a role in their professional lives, friendships, romances, and families.
Panama Fever
The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order...
Necessary Dreams
Ambition in Women's Changing Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the core of what ambition can provide—the essential elements of a fulfilling life—Fels describes...
One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are...
The Great Shame
And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the point of death, who in the face of...
The 7 Stages of Motherhood
Loving Your Life without Losing Your Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
This refreshingly candid parenting book puts mothers—not children—center stage. Ann Pleshette Murphy provides a reassuring, wise, and often wildly funny mix of anecdotes and advice as she describes the seismic shifts in women’s lives and identities from pregnancy through a child’s graduation. She...
The Schools We Need
And Why We Don't Have Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.
For over fifty years, American schools...
by Paul Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
An astonishing novel of legal and moral suspense from Paul Goldstein, a stunning new legal literary talent.Meet Michael Seeley, a take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator–and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. So when United Pictures virtually demands that he fly out to...
The Actor's Art and Craft
William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his...
by Amartya Sen
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.
Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key...
by Gurcharan Das
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2001
India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history...
by Wangari Maathai
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai, the...
Illicit
How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the...