Charles Samuels: 5 books

Over half century ago the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children complained to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, that Joe Keaton, a vaudeville actor, was brutally mistreating his five-year old son. At each afternoon and evening performance the child, billed as “The Human Mop”, was slammed...

In 1917 a revolution took place in Russia. One hundred years later, in 2017, another revolution is taking place in America. The two revolutions are completely different; the 1917 revolution installed a communist government and resulted in over 70 years of tyranny where the government controlled everything....

Climate Change has been going on since the earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. This piece takes a look at many of the claims and counter claims that Carbon Dioxide is causing the earth to warm up. It also describes weather related phenomenon such as El Nino and the Gulf Stream and weather trivia from ice-fog to hail.

This book is about sea-ice characteristics and coverage in Alaska’s arctic and sub-arctic seas and how it affects people and industry. Alaska’s arctic seas are essential for the economic well being of its residents. The primary factor limiting marine transportation in these areas is the presence...

This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue,...