Cohen: 1795 books
by Brigid Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The German-Jewish émigré composer Stefan Wolpe was a vital figure in the history of modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop and the kibbutz movement to bebop, Abstract Expressionism and Black Mountain College. This is the first full-length study of this often overlooked...
by Tish Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Bestselling author Tish Cohen returns with a story of one woman’s love for her child and the courage it gives her to face her biggest fear
As the owner of the upscale children’s boutique Pretty Baby, Eleanor Sweet is surrounded by gleaming strollers, organic cotton onesies and roundbellied...
Easing Their Stress
Helping Our Girls Thrive in the Age of Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Today’s teenage girls are in a pressure cooker of expectation. They are told to excel in academics, juggle extracurricular activities, become popular, look great and get into an elite college. As a result they are experiencing debilitating stress that threatens their health and well-being,...
Black Queer Studies
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies visible as a developing field of study in the United States....
What I Thought I Knew
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
"Darkly hilarious...an unexpected bundle of joy."
-O, The Oprah Magazine
Alice Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she had a new love in her life, she was raising a beloved adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Then she started experiencing...
Drop the Act, It's Exhausting!
Free Yourself from Your So-Called Put-Together Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Drop the Act, It’s Exhausting! is one woman’s call to all women to embrace the imperfections in their lives and to air their “improper” thoughts about relationships, love, sex, parenting, careers, self-esteem, and self-image. By no longer being ashamed or apologetic about how they "really...
by Susan Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
The number of wounded in the First World War was unprecedented, and inadequate military planning presented the medical and voluntary community with huge and daunting challenges. Yet in the face of tremendous adversity both tackled their work with resourcefulness, courage and great humanity. This book...
The Sisterhood
The Inside Story of the Women's Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In this epic drama of personality and politics, passion and ambition, courage and betrayal, Marcia Cohen tells the fascinating inside story of the feminist revolution through the lives of the women who made it—and were sometimes unmade by it. Focusing on Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer,...
The Storms Can't Hurt the Sky
The Buddhist Path through Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Buddhism has been applied to everything from parenting to golf, but until now no one has offered Buddhist principles as a healing path through divorce. In Storms Can't Hurt the Sky, Gabriel Cohen bravely delves into his personal experience-along with insights from Buddhist masters, parables, humor,...
Movement, Manifesto, Melee
The Modernist Group, 1910-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
The years before World War I were a fertile period for artists in Europe and the United States who were challenging aesthetic convention in music, writing, and the visual arts. These early pioneers of modernism sometimes preferred to work alone, but just as often they were associated with groups whose...
by Nadia Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
From starring as the ruthlessly ingenious drug lord 'Stringer' Bell in the iconic HBO series The Wire, to playing Madiba himself in the long-awaited biopic of Nelson Mandela, it has been some journey for Idris Elba.
From humble beginnings, a second generation immigrant born in Hackney, London,...
by August Macke, Walter Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
August Macke (1887-1914) was a master of German Expressionism, a movement which sprang up in the early 1900s with the intent to forego physical reality in search of its emotional counterpart, with a particular emphasis on expressing dark moods of tragedy and angst. Macke was a master of color and...
Rites of Realism
Essays on Corporeal Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "performative realism," a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social tensions. These essays by a range...
Radical Orientalism
Rights, Reform, and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham, Cobbett, Carlile, Hone and Wooler, among others in post-Revolutionary Britain, invoked Turkey, North...