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Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship

Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship

Marjorie Heins

21. Dorothy Singer, Diana Zuckerman & Jerome Singer, “Helping Elementary School Children Learn About TV,” Journal of Communication 30(3), summer 1980: 84-93, 86. 22. Wanda Rapaczynski, Dorothy Singer & Jerome Singer, “ Teaching ...
Gifts

Gifts

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Gifts is a limited cloth-bound edition of six Singer stories, including “Gifts” in English and its original Yiddish. A beautiful slip-cased book that is perfect for I.B. Singer’s devoted readers.
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Peter Singer

The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment. Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make healthful, humane food choices.
New Order: Coming Up and Coming Down

New Order: Coming Up and Coming Down

Peter Hook

'We didn't really think about it afterwards. It just sort of happened. One day we were Joy Division, then our lead singer killed himself and the next time we got together, we were a new band...' Peter Hook That band was New Order.
The Pursuit of Love

The Pursuit of Love

Irving Singer

In this second volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer returns to the subject of his earlier work, exploring a different approach.
The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, "Gimpel the Fool," in 1957, until 1981.
Mahalia Jackson: Singer

Mahalia Jackson: Singer

Charles K. Wolfe

A biography of the renowned gospel singer who hoped, through her art, to break down some of the barriers between black and white people.
Practical Ethics

Practical Ethics

Peter Singer

This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live.
The Singer's Gun

The Singer's Gun

Emily St. John Mandel

But there is someone on his tail and they are getting closer . . . The Singer's Gun follows Anton, Alex Broden - a detective on the trail of a people trafficker, and Elena, caught up in the investigation against her will.
The Singer-Songwriter Handbook

The Singer-Songwriter Handbook

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The use of the term “roots” in this chapter generally refers to the more contemporary musicians or singer-songwriters (from roughly the late 1980s onward) who are influenced by the same vernacular music (to borrow Benjamin Filene's use of ...
The Creation of Value

The Creation of Value

Irving Singer

" In The Creation of Value, the first volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer studies the nature of imagination, idealization, and love in the context of humanity's attempt to define itself through the pursuit of meanings and values ...
Lost in America

Lost in America

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Singer, a Nobel Prize-winning author, reminisces about his leaving his friends in Poland in the 1930's, his coming to America to join his brother in New York, and his experiences in this strange new land.
My Heart...My Love

My Heart...My Love

Maggie Sims

As the story unfolds, the reader uncovers the heights of a renowned 18th century singer juxtaposed to the seedy, treacherous existence of castrati. the amorous adventure of a young singer begins in Italy and takes him to the court of King ...
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Bibliography of His Works in ...

Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Bibliography of His Works in ...

Roberta Saltzman

The text is divided into three sections, each arranged alphabetically. section A lists Singer's contributions to the Yiddish newspaper press; each entry includes the Yiddish title exactly as it appears in the original, an English ...
Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up

Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up

Irving Singer

Singer's writing on love embodies what he has learned as a contemporary philosopher, studying other authors in the field and "trying to get a little further." This book continues his trailblazing explorations.
The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world ...

The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world ...

Peter Singer

‘Brilliant. A practical plan to eradicate world poverty’ Observer Would you walk past a drowning child? This is a book that will change the way you think about giving.
Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, ...

Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, ...

Jane Stadler

2001. “Television, Children and Multicultural Awareness: Comprehending the Medium in a Complex Multimedia Society.” In Handbook ofChildren and the Media, ed. Dorothy Singer and Jerome Singer, 359–374. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Colorblind: A Mystery

Colorblind: A Mystery

Peter Robertson

In this third and final work in the series following Permafrost and Mission, Tom is determined to find the link between a young fan's death in the present day, and the singer's death in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the ...

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the ...

P. W. Singer

In Wired for War, P. W. Singer explores the great­est revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Included here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman.
Meaning in Life

Meaning in Life

Irving Singer

This final book in Irving Singer's Meaning in Life trilogy studies the interaction between nature and the values that define human spirituality.
Shosha

Shosha

Isaac Bashevis Singer

In the face of unimaginable horror, he chooses to stay... One of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most personal works, Shosha is an unforgettable novel about conflicted desires, lost lives and the redemption of one man.
Television and Families

Television and Families

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Victoria Socha Dorothy Singer Jerome and Dorothy Singer George Comstock Astonish Me! Welcome to the Revolution Good Guys Make Good Shows Gary Goldberg in Conversation Family Ties: Sex at Sixteen? TV Violence: What's All the ...
Pharrell Williams: Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter & ...

Pharrell Williams: Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter & ...

Alexis Burling

Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter and Producer Alexis Burling. CONTEMPORARY LIVES GRAMMY-WINNING SINGER, SONGWRITER & PRODUCER www.abdopublishing.com Published by Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO, PO.
Gwen Verdon: A Life on Stage and Screen

Gwen Verdon: A Life on Stage and Screen

Peter Shelley

American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925–2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on television.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life

Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life

Janet Hadda

Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom, and unerring feel for the ...
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing ...

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing ...

Peter Singer

Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the "most good you can do.
Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice

Jeannie Robertson: Emergent Singer, Transformative Voice

James Porter

Combining biography, folklore, oral history, and ethnomusicology, this book explores the life and repertoire of the Scottish traditional singer Jeannie Robertson (1908-1975) - an artist whom Alan Lomax hailed as "a monumental figure in ...
Judaica Reference Sources: A Selective, Annotated ...

Judaica Reference Sources: A Selective, Annotated ...

Charles Cutter

In addition, he lists translations of Singer's works into English. This bibliography is continued by Roberta Saltzman in Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Bibliography of His Works in Yiddish and English, 1960-1991 (entry 2.37). 2.35 Moonan, Willard.

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