Ivan R Dee: 116 books
A Bubble in Time
America During the Interwar Years, 1989–2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that extended from the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the War on Terror is the subject of William L. O'Neill's brilliant new study of recent American history. Mr. O'Neill's sharp eye for the telling incident and the apt quotation combine with...
Building the Continental Empire
American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Earl Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American empire. Mr. Weeks traces the origins of this initiative to the 1750s, when the Founding Fathers...
The Faculty Lounges
And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability...
by John Charmley
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1999
Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain. John Charmley's important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of the war is based on extensive new work in the Chamberlain papers. It starts from Chamberlain's belief that even a victorious war would be a disaster—it...
by Heinrich von Kleist
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Von Kleist's last work and his masterpiece is an historical tragedy in which a prince's love for a woman confounds his orders of battle.
Catcher
How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Today the baseball catcher is a familiar but uninspiring figure. Decked out in the so-called tools of ignorance, he stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers...
by Hank Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Once in a great while there appears a baseball player who transcends the game and earns universal admiration from his fellow players, from fans, and from the American people. Such a man was Hank Greenberg, whose dynamic life and legendary career are among baseball's most inspiring stories. The Story...
A Game of Inches
The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game on the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
A fascinating and charming encyclopedic collection of baseball firsts, describing how the innovations in the game—in rules, equipment, styles of play, strategies, etc.—occurred and developed from its origins to the present day. The book relies heavily on quotations from contemporary sources.
The Fifth Season
Tales of My Life in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would...
by Leonard W. Levy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2000
For more than two hundred years a debate has raged between those who believe that jurists should follow the original intentions of the Founding Fathers and those who argue that the Constitution is a living document subject to interpretation by each succeeding generation. The controversy has flared...
The Fourth Network
How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
A fast-paced, behind-the-scenes account of how programming innovations, innovative business models, and larger-than-life risk-takers revolutionized the television industry. The story of the rise of FOX is the story of contemporary American television. A deeply researched and fast moving history. —Leo Bogart
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children—a desperate and powerful act. Nicholas Rudall's deft translation for contemporary audiences provides new insight into this classic story.
by Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1992
Ibsen's great social drama of a caged woman in the late nineteenth century explores her tormented desire for escape and her yearning for individual and spiritual freedom. Mr. Rudall's new translation makes Hedda Gabler beautifully speakable and playable for today's audiences.
by Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1999
Ibsen's seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment. The reverberations of Nora's slamming the door as she leaves Torvald continue to this present day....