Anderson: 5213 books
This Is Our Music
Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation...
by Hope Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In a series of essays, Hope Anderson explores the life and death of Peg Entwistle, a talented young actress who became the only person to have committed suicide off the Hollywood Sign. In discussing the making of her short film, "Peg Entwistle's Last Walk," which depicts the actress's last hour in 1932;...
The Ice Diaries
The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
The greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century.
The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Bristling with newly classified, never-before-published...
Fractured Lands
How the Arab World Came Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.
In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become...
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously...
Lonesome Dreamer
The Life of John G. Neihardt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
American poet and writer John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) possessed an inquiring and spiritual mind. Those qualities came to the fore in Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Lakota holy man Black Elk, for which he is best remembered. Over the course of thirty years he also wrote a five-volume epic poem,...
Paul's Prayers
A Mother's Account of Raising an Autistic Son
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Recipient of the Catholic Writers Guild 2018 Seal of Approval
“A journey of compassion, frustration, and triumph . . . Anderson’s love for her son marks this beautiful portrait of family and faith.” —Publishers Weekly
Paul's Prayers is the story of a moderately autistic young...
by Karen A. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Winner of over a dozen National and International Literary Awards
Are you struggling with the loss of a beloved pet? Have painful feelings of grief or guilt overwhelmed you?
The loss of a pet is not only heart wrenching it is often more difficult than anything else we have ever experienced....
Saying Goodbye to Your Angel Animals
Finding Comfort after Losing Your Pet
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
In this thoughtful book, Allen and Linda Anderson walk you through the numbing pain and dreadful sense of loss that arise when a beloved animal dies. They offer solace to help you deal with grief, remember and honor key moments in the animal’s life, find comfort through groups and with professionals,...
More and Different
Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today, USA.
Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution....
by Joan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
Hello, reader. How many times have you found a sock in the bread box, priced your kids at a garage sale, invited the fire department to your barbeque and finally shrieked, “Someday I’ll write a book about all this!”Well, now you have. Actually, Joan Wester Anderson, author of the New...
by Perry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire
Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the divergent interests...
The Dominion of War
Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Americans often think of their nation’s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and...
The Well-Balanced Teacher
How to Work Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
You’ve probably heard the advice “put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” This is true both in airplanes and in classrooms—you have to take care of yourself before you can help someone else. If teachers are stressed out and exhausted, how can they have the patience, positive...