Lawrence: 4086 books
Purging the Poorest
Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the “deserving poor.”
In the 1930s,...
The Speculation Economy
How Finance Triumphed Over Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008
American companies once focused exclusively on providing the best products and services. But today, most corporations are obsessed with maximizing their stock prices, resulting in short-term thinking and the kind of cook-the-books corruption seen in the Enron and WorldCom scandals. How did this happen?...
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient
The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his...
by Megan Lloyd Davies, Alice Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In April 2008, the world watched in horror as the news of Josef Fritzl made worldwide headlines. But for one British woman the story was not the stuff of unimaginable nightmares. Alice Lawrence knew all too well the torture suffered at the hands of a father whose depravity knew no bounds. She too...
by Lawrence Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work,...
by Lawrence Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future....
Pioneers of Jazz
The Story of the Creole Band
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century....
by Mark Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
International bestselling author Mark Lawrence continues the bold new world of dark fantasy he created in the Broken Empire trilogy with the first book of the Red Queen's War...
For all her reign the Red Queen has fought the long war, contested in secret, against the powers that stand behind...
The Haunted Smile
The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete listing of names makes...
by Lawrence Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Nearly a year after his arrest and subsequent conviction for drug possession, Jim Reid is struggling to rebuild his life. All he wants is a second chance, but it seems society will not allow him to forget the mistakes of his past. Battling unemployment, financial ruin, and his own personal demons,...
by Lawrence Miles, Tat Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Constituting the largest reference work on "Doctor Who" ever written, the multi-volume "About Time" strives to become the ultimate reference guide to the world's longest-running science fiction program. Written by Lawrence Miles ("Faction Paradox") and long-time sci-fi...
In the New World
Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades—the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating...
The Snark Handbook: Sex Edition
Innuendo, Irony, and Ill-Advised Insults on Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
According to NewYorker.com, Lawrence Dorfman assembled a heroic collection. I spent an hour in a state of catharsis, reveling in the sufficiency of the insults,” in his previous homage to snarkdom (Insult Edition). Now just imagine the reviewer’s state after an hour reading the Sex Edition....
The Future of War
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence.
Questions about the future of war are a regular feature...