Open Road Distribution: 425 books
by Joan Steinau Lester
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This refreshing handbook—equally useful in the boardroom, the classroom, and the living room—captures insightful lessons from personal encounters with diversity.
Award-winning author Dr. Joan Lester is a talented storyteller. Her generous voice sheds keen insight, humor and practical advise on the polarizing dilemmas of living with diversity.
The Late John Marquand
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Late John Marquand is an engrossing and well-studied literary biography of one of twentieth century America’s finest writers of fiction, by the bestselling protégé who took up his mantle.
Caresse Crosby
From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
An exciting figure among the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s, Caresse Crosby is little known today. She and her husband Harry founded the Black Sun Press, early publishers of such titans as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce. This flamboyant chapter...
The Dogma of Christ
and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The essays in this fascinating volume examine present-day psychological and cultural problems with the keen insight and humanistic sympathies characteristic of Erich Fromm’s work.
The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays provides some of the sharpest critical insights into how the contemporary world...
You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What
The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The author and humorist Sam Levenson is quoted hundreds of time each day on Twitter, and his sayings appear on everything from t-shirts to inspirational signs. To read through and savor You Don’t Have To Be In Who’s Who To Know What’s What is to discover much of the source material for his timeless...
Encyclopedia of American Activism
1960 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a spectrum of activist movements. In spirit and action, events ranged from: gentle to violent; from Tree People to Bloody Sunday; from Community Mental Health to Black Power. This rapid stream of social and political change defined the second half of the...
Dangerous Dossiers
Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Dangerous Dossiers is as powerful and relevant today as it was when it first made worldwide headlines 25 years ago: a chilling reminder of the dangers of unfettered government intrusion into the lives and beliefs of private citizens, whether famous or not.
This shocking account by award-winning...
The War Within
America's Battle Over Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam is a painfully engrossing and popularly written account of how the battle on the home front ended America’s least popular war. This absorbing narrative, hailed by critics of every persuasion, is the fruit of over a decade’s worth of research: the...
By Blood and Fire
July 22, 1946: The Attack On Jerusalem's King David Hotel
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory...
by Thomas Keneally
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In this playful and poignant memoir, Thomas Keneally returns to his adolescence in the suburbs of Sydney in 1952. At sixteen, the red-haired teenager idolized the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and had aspirations of becoming a star on the track or rugby field. He also dreamed of wooing the beautiful...
Chester L. Simmons
(The Great Lawd Buddha)
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Chester L. Simmons, nicknamed “The Great Lawd Buddha” by his hip constituents because of his almond shaped eyes and his generous tummy, is one of those delightfully free spirits that life gives the world now and then. With his storytelling he sometimes fuses reality and creativity into a seamless...
It Takes a Worried Man
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and profound, It Takes a Worried Man is the true story of a young husband and father whose life is changed forever by his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis. Following Brendan Halpin’s cranky, irreverent and lustful thoughts through the diagnosis and treatment...
Wind
How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The wind has sculpted Earth from the beginning of time, but it has also shaped humans—our histories, religions and cultures, the way we build our dwellings, and how we think and feel. In this poetic, acclaimed work, Jan DeBlieu takes the tempests of her home, the North Carolina Outer Banks, as a...
The Crisis of Psychoanalysis
Essays on Freud, Marx and Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book brings together Erich Fromm’s basic statements on the application of psychoanalytic theory to social dynamics. At the same time it offers an image of man consonant with the hopes of radical humanism.
The Crisis of Psychoanalysis is a collection of nine brilliant essays. Although his...