Gerald: 1985 books
Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950
Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed...
by Gerald Dean
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
I wrote this book for the purpose of teaching people how to understand and develop personal relationships with God. I feel that understanding who your heavenly father is and how he operates through relationship is the foundation for not only praying, but in getting prayers answered. At the age of...
The Main Street Moment
Fighting Back to Save the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision, politicians are targeting working Americans as never before. As American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald W. McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer...
Managing Risk
Best Practices for Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Flying involves risks. Fortunately, most of these risks have been identified and managed down to remarkably low levels. However, accidents still occur, and the key to successful flight is an in-depth knowledge of the risks and how to effectively manage them.
"Managing Risk: Best Practices...
Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times
Modeling the Public Career of George C. Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
In Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times, leadership and organizational theory are blended with early 20th Century history to model public leadership that is both monumentally effective and classically ethical. What is leadership? What makes leadership good or bad? To answer these questions, Gerald...
by Phyllis A. Morse, Ian W. Brown, Marvin T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The...
by Gerald Stanley Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
"The best picture I know of my religion is Ludgate Hill as one sees it going down the foot of Fleet Street. It would seem to many perhaps like a rather strange half-heathen altar, but it has in it the three things with which I worship most my Maker in this present world—the three things which...
by Gerald Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
This is a collection of random thoughts concerning the impact our religious beliefs have on the way we live and experience life. Not from a theologians point of view, but from the point of view of the average or common man.
Get Technology: Be in the know. Upgrade your future
20 thought-provoking lessons (BUILD+BECOME)
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Know technology today, to equip yourself for tomorrow.
Using a unique, visual approach, Gerald Lynch explains the most important tech developments of the modern world – examining their impact on society and how, ultimately, we can use technology to achieve our full potential.
From...
Race to Revolution
The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined
and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution,
historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between
the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections
among slavery, Jim Crow, and...
Facing the Rising Sun
African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II
In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S.— an invasion that they planned to join. Since...
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged...
Red Seas
Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), stands out as one of the most—if not the most—powerful black labor leaders in the United States. Smith’s...
Race Woman
The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman, Gerald Horne draws a revealing portrait of this controvertial figure who championed the civil rights movement in America, the liberation...