Apple: 132 books
by Max Apple
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
It was my fascination itself with the English language that made me a writer," Apple wrote in an essay for the New York Times Book Review. Its endless suggestiveness has carried me through many a plot, entertained me when nothing else could." Growing up in a Yiddish-speaking family, Apple writes a prose...
Apple's America
The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2007
Unpretentious, sophisticated, and always appetizing advice from a celebrated authority
For more than thirty years, R. W. Apple Jr. roamed the United States as an eyewitness to history. Here, in Apple's America, his robust enthusiasm for the food and culture of New England, the South and West,...
Far Flung and Well Fed
The Food Writing of R.W. Apple, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Celebrated journalist R. W. ("Johnny") Apple was a veteran political reporter, a New York Times bureau chief and an incisive and prolific writer. But the role he was most passionate about was food anthropologist. Known both for his restless wideopen mind and an appetite to match, Apple was...
Schlepping Through the Alps
My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Hans Breuer, Austria’s only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd’s stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish ditties.
When...
The Family Legacy of Henry Clay
In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary...
by Michael W. Apple
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Despite the vast differences between the Right and the Left over the role of education in the production of inequality one common element both sides share is a sense that education can and should do something about society, to either restore what is being lost or radically alter what is there now....
Apple the Golden Doodle
In Search of a Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Within the Tale, Follow Apple the Golden Doodle™ as she tells her adventures traveling from Georgia to Sunny Southern California, making new friends and triumphing obstacles trying to find her new family and home.
The Kama Sutra Kitchen
An Aphrodisiac Recipe Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The secret to successful aphrodisiacs is in the alchemy of creating, and this book is designed to increase sensuality to support the proper mood while concocting aphrodisiac recipes. Each section of the book is short and sweet, designed to introduce you to the basic concepts of alchemy and herbal...
Neighborology
Practicing Compassion as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Written as a follow-up to Not Just a Soup Kitchen, David Apple’s Neighborology provides a blueprint for how churches and servant leaders of every ministry can be neighborly helpers. Apple provides insight into developing the heart of a servant by modeling the compassion of Jesus Christ and presenting...
Different Seconds 2
Hello, Friend—See, Hear, Feel the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Continuing the approach he took in his first collection of poetry, R. S. Apple presents Different Seconds 2: Hello, FriendSee, Hear, Feel the Difference. In these verses, he celebrates the fact that no two people view life in the same way.
From the realization that each day dawns with hope...
by Sam Apple
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In a cheeky and hilarious picture book, author Sam Apple and illustrator Sam Ricks share a silly story about the potty-training experience…from the toilet’s point of view!
Danny would sit anywhere and everywhere: a comfy couch, a bean bag chair, his mom’s lap, a playground swing.
The...
Educating the Right Way
Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In this book Apple explores the 'conservative restoration' - the rightward turn of a broad-based coalition that is making successful inroads in determining American and international educational policy. It takes a pragmatic look at what critical educators can do to build alternative coalitions and...
Official Knowledge
Democratic Education in a Conservative Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This third edition of Official Knowledge, a classic text from one of education’s most distinguished scholars, challenges readers to critically examine how certain knowledge comes to be “official,” and whose agendas this knowledge represents. A probing and award-winning study, this new edition...
by Michael W. Apple
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The State and the Politics of Knowledge extends the insightful arguments Michael Apple provided in Educating the "Right" Way in new and truly international directions. Arguing that schooling is, by definition, political, Apple and his co-authors move beyond a critical analysis to describe...