Jeffrey: 3395 books
The Man Who Sold America
The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
We live in an age of persuasion. Leaders and institutions of every kind--public and private, large and small--must compete in the marketplace of images and messages. This has been true since the advent of mass media, from broad circulation magazines and radio through the age of television and the...
A Wasted Hour
A Specially Selected Story from Tell Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A Wasted Hour is one of those remarkable short stories that you just know has to be true. Kelley, a Stanford College student and aspiring writer, always thumbs a lift back to campus, not only to save money, but in the hope of meeting someone with an interesting story to reveal. But even Kelley couldn’t...
Pleasing Everyone
Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema....
David Sedaris Diaries
A Visual Compendium
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A remarkable illustrated volume of artwork and images selected from the diaries David Sedaris has been creating for four decades
In this richly illustrated book, readers will for the first time experience the diaries David Sedaris has kept for nearly 40 years in the elaborate, three-dimensional,...
by Jeffrey Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In this ebook you are going to be introduced to the most exciting, powerful and profitable business and marketing principles and strategies in the World. It’s important that you learn and understand the basic concepts and principles in this workbook as they are the foundation of building and marketing...
Grace of Monaco
The True Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The acclaimed biography by Jeffrey Robinson, now revised and updated to coincide with the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman as Princess Grace.
It was one of the most famous romances of the 20th century-Europe's most eligible bachelor, Prince Rainier of Monaco, and America's most beautiful...
by Jeffrey Kraynak
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
"And So I Climb..." is a collection of the lessons and realizations that I have come to in the months, and now years, of reflection and growth following the ending of an engagement. It covers the initial descent and how important it is to let pain affect you, to not block it out. It discusses how...
Crucibles of Black Empowerment
Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The term “community organizer” was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer wasn’t a serious one, and that it certainly...
Getting to 30
A Parent's Guide to the 20-Something Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s and the issues that...
The Deadliest Outlaws
The Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was cruel and unusual for the offense charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individualand the lastever to be executed for a crime of this sort. He was hanged in...
A Nation of Realtors®
A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
How is it that in the twentieth century virtually all Americans came to think of themselves as “middle class”? In this cultural history of real estate brokerage, Jeffrey M. Hornstein argues that the rise of the Realtors as dealers in both domestic space and the ideology of home ownership provides...
Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986
The Last Impressionist
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) is best known as composer of the hauntingly beautiful and moving Requiem of 1947, and as organist during his long tenure at the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont in Paris. He studied composition and organ with Tournemire, Vierne, Gigout, and Dukas among others, and became...
by Jeffrey Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.
City of Promises
A History of the Jews of New York, 3-volume box set
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America’s greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume...