Ivan R Dee: 116 books
The Treatment Trap
How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar...
by Robin Blake
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Blake, an author living in London, explains that the impetus for this biography of the great Dutch painter came from his own connection in childhood to a painting purchased by his grandmother
The Theatre of Revolt
An Approach to Modern Drama
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1991
In a new edition of this now-classic work, Robert Brustein argues that the roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eight outstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet. Focusing on each of them in turn, Mr....
Hour Chicago
Twenty-five 60-Minute Self-guided Tours of Chicago's Great Architecture and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Chicago's marvelous architecture and the great paintings and sculpture of its famous museums are the stars and focus of this unique new tour guide. In a compact, easy-to-carry, and easy-to-follow format, the book contains twenty-five self-guided tours to the city's world-renowned masterpieces. Each...
Louis Armstrong
The Soundtrack of the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American music as one of the preeminent shapers of the world's popular culture. Vast numbers of black American musicians deserve credit for this remarkable turn of...
by Burton W. Peretti
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
This history of jazz, spanning the twentieth century, is the first to place it within the broad context of American culture. Burton Peretti argues persuasively that this distinctive American music has been a key thread in the tapestry of the nation's culture. The music itself, its players and its...
Walter White
The Dilemma of Black Identity in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most visible and most powerful African-American...
Guru
My Days with Del Close
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2005
A legend of improvisational theater, Del Close is best known for discovering and cultivating the talents of John Belushi, Chris Farley, Bill Murray, Mike Meyers, and countless other comedy giants. He was resident director of Chicago's famed Second City and "house metaphysician" for "Saturday...
The Lisbon Route
Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way across France and Spain to reach the neutral nation....
by Stephen Citron
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Rarely is a book about the theatre as entertaining and informative as Stephen Citron's new guidebook to the creation of the musical. Filled with anecdotes, practical advice, and sparkling comments from the biggest Broadway insiders, The Musical from the Inside Out examines this major theatrical form...
After the War
The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the Civil War and its principal players in the years after the conflict. The value of military glory and ties to greatness would turn toward the...
Prelude to Catastrophe
FDR's Jews and the Menace of Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. FDR's promise of economic and social justice was consonant with the mainstays of Jewish culture and with the ethos of the Old Testament and the prophets. And of course these themes were especially resonant during the desperate days of the...
Safe for Democracy
The Secret Wars of the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing-episodes in United States relations with the world. Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations...
by Paul Strathern
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit...