Benjamin: 3278 books
Lincoln and the Jews
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
One hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln's death, the full story of his extraordinary relationship with Jews is told here for the first time. Lincoln and the Jews: A History provides readers both with a captivating narrative of his interactions with Jews, and with the opportunity to immerse...
The New Black
A Neo-Noir Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesque-all with a literary bent-these stories are the future of genre-bending fiction.
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by Benjamin Roth
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.
This collection of those entries reveals another side of the...
We Bought a Zoo
The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals that Changed T
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The remarkable true story of a family who move into a rundown zoo-already a BBC documentary miniseries and excerpted in The Guardian.
In the market for a house and an adventure, Benjamin Mee moved his family to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Mee had a dream...
Dead End
Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason....
Rebels Rising : Cities and the American Revolution
Cities and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics debated the issues of the day in taverns and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work historian Benjamin L. Carp...
The Art of Possibility
Transforming Professional and Personal Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002
**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Discover the twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity and a sense of possibility into all of your endeavors in this bestselling guide from the author of Pathways to Possibility**
Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into...
by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Dona de uma obra que cruza fronteiras geográficas e de gênero, Clarice Lispector é considerada atualmente uma das mais importantes escritoras do século XX. Nesta coletânea, que reúne pela primeira vez todos os contos da autora num único volume, organizada pelo biógrafo Benjamin Moser, é possível...
by Benjamin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Did you know that everything that you do is a direct result of using your subconscious mind? You may not be aware of it, but behind the scenes the subconscious is working 24 hours a day recording everything that happens to you. It is also recording responses to given triggers. If you feel fear or...
A Crime So Monstrous
Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.
As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch...
Experimentalism Otherwise
The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by "experimental" in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time—New York City, 1964—Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s...
by Benjamin Franklin V
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians, Benjamin Franklin V documents the careers of South Carolina jazz and blues musicians from the nineteenth century to the present. The musicians range from the renowned (James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie), to the notable (Freddie Green, Josh...
by Benjamin Castaldi
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2015
La première émission de téléréalité de France, Loft Story, en 2001, a fait de lui l’une des figures les plus populaires du PAF. Animateur phare de ces vingt dernières années, il a connu la gloire et la reconnaissance, les défis permanents, la pression de l’audimat, mais aussi bien des...
Metamorphosis in Music
The Compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer György Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman Béla Bartók to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde. Through careful study of the...