Review imprint: 1779 books
The Founder's Mentality
How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A Washington Post Bestseller
Three Principles for Managing-and Avoiding-the Problems of Growth
Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market,...
Phallic Frenzy
Ken Russell and His Films
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A biography of director Ken Russell that details the wild ideas, surreal moments, personal faith, and cavalcade of colorful personalities surrounding this eccentric filmmaker-on and off the set. Best known for the acclaimed movies Altered States, The Devils, Gothic, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Women...
by Tom McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy
Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters,...
Ireland
A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Drawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Johnson traces the important social, religious and political development of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. Johnson describes with accurate detail Ireland's barbarous beginnings, Oliver Cromwell's religious "crusade,"...
by Bonnie Shimko
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Lizzy McMann, A feisty twelve-year-old, lives with her immature mother and Manny, her father (she thinks) in a fleabag Phoenix hotel. One night, Manny's sudden announcement that he wants a divorce forces mother and daughter to move to upstate New York to live with Lizzy's grandmother and grandfather—a...
The Socialist Alternative
Real Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
“A good society,“ Michael Lebowitz tells us, “is one that permits the full development of human potential.” In this slim, lucid, and insightful book, he argues persuasively that such a society is possible. That capitalism fails his definition of a good society is evident from even a cursory...
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps
Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway?
By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate...
E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left
Essays and Polemics
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
E. P. Thompson is a towering fi gure in the fi eld of labor history,
best known for his monumental and path-breaking work, The
Making of the English Working Class. But as this collection shows,
Thompson was much more than a historian: he was a dedicated
educator of workers, a brilliant polemicist,...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt for Kids
His Life and Times with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s enduring legacy upon the history, culture, politics, and economics of the United States is introduced to children in this engaging activity book. Kids will learn how FDR, a member of one of the founding families of the New World, led the nation through the darkest days...
The Roughest Riders
The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The inspiring story of the first African American soldiers to serve during the postslavery era
Many have heard how Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. But often forgotten in the great swamp of history is that Roosevelt’s success was...
Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation...
The Thunder of Angels
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white council...
The Russians Are Coming, Again
The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy, resulting in millions of civilian...
Lincoln's Pathfinder
John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US senator senseless on the floor of the Senate. But...