Herbert: 2062 books

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans...

A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically.   While much has been written about the significant events in the history of early Alabama, there has been little information available about the people...

In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very end of the earth, as two men raced to conquer the South Pole. A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's triumph and Robert Scott's tragic demise, our fascination with the Antarctic remains as acute as ever....

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable,...

This second volume of Marcuse's collected papers includes unpublished manuscripts from the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as Beyond One-Dimensional Man, Cultural Revolution and The Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy, as well as a rich collection of letters. It shows Marcuse at his most radical,...

In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind - to an interpretation of the basic trends of western civilization, stressing the philosophical and sociological implications.

Herbert E. Bolton (1870-1953) was a distinguished historian who received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899. He was a Harrison Fellow while at Pennsylvania. Bolton quickly became an expert on Spanish colonies in the New World. Professor...

This book is dedicated to Dr. Benjamin William Remondi for many reasons. The project of writing a Global Positioning System (GPS) book was con­ ceived in April 1988 at a GPS meeting in Darmstadt, Germany. Dr. Remondi discussed with me the need for an additional GPS textbook and suggested a possible...

Once dominated by large cattle operations covering thousands of acres, Alberta in the 1880s-1930s saw a shift as small, family-owned ranches began to dot the province's southern plains. While this era of agriculture might conjure images of cowboys riding through the foothills or ranch hands tilling...

This five-volume history of modern England was published between 1904 and 1906. Regarded as a masterwork, The New York Times said of the series, “[Paul’s] work is brilliant, epigrammatic, interesting.” The final volume of Herbert W. Paul’s engrossing history picks up on June 8, 1885 and the defeat...

Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and commonsense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning. The book ties together the research, policies, and practices relative to the state, district, school, classroom, and family, and explains their effects on student learning....

The Night Club is a group of friends who get together to tell tales, and each of them has a unique personality sure to grab the reader's funny bone.  This is a hilarious tale about hilarious people.  Mcuh-overlooked, never to be forgotten.  By Herbert Jenkins.  

This is an analysis of higher education in the past half century, a period of dramatic change and democratization. But it is more than that. The author has been a participant in the struggle to stem the decline in higher education, as it moved from an emphasis on classical liberal values toward relativism...

Most PLO books advocate a highly conservative game-plan this style is outdated and will get you crushed in today’s games.Mastering Pot-Limit Omaha is different. It is a unique and remarkable book, outlining a whole new approach to the game:teaches you an aggressive styleprovides you...