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14 produkter
The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child
With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills
Av Alan E. Kazdin, Carlo Rotella
2009
278 kr
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A lifesaving handbook for parents of children who are occasionally, or too often, ?out of control? from a Yale University psychology and child psychiatry professor.
Bittersweet Science – Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside
Av Carlo Rotella, Michael Ezra m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
217 kr
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Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport and most have never been in the ring. Moving beyond the typical sentimentality, romanticism, or cynicism common to writing on …
World Is Always Coming to an End
Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Inbunden, 2019
265 kr
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An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. …
Cut Time
An Education at the Fights
Häftad, 2005
162 kr
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Boxing is not just fighting," writes Carlo Rotella. "It is also training and living right and preparing to go the distance in the broadest sense of the phrase, a relentless managing of self that anyone who gets truly old must learn." Rotella's "Cut Time" chronicles his immersion in the fight world, …
Playing in Time
Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories
Inbunden, 2012
304 kr
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From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns - Carlo Rotella's "Playing in Time" delivers good stories full of vivid characters, all told with the unique voice and humor that have garnered him devoted readers in the "New York …
World Is Always Coming to an End
Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Häftad, 2020
175 kr
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An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. …
October Cities
The Redevelopment of Urban Literature
Häftad, 1998
460 kr
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Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the …
Good with Their Hands
Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt
Häftad, 2004
428 kr
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This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy …
What Can I Get Out of This?
Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics
Inbunden, 2025
799 kr
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A Forbes Best Higher Education Book Of 2025A moving story from a formidable teacher that doubles as a guide to teaching the humanities today. At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and English …
What Can I Get Out of This?
Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics
Häftad, 2025
215 kr
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A Forbes Best Higher Education Book Of 2025A moving story from a formidable teacher that doubles as a guide to teaching the humanities today. At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and English …
What Can I Get Out of This?
Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics
E-bok, 2025
346 kr
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An eloquent and moving story about the value and the pleasures of intellectual exploration—and why it matters beyond the classroom. At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and English professor …
October Cities
The Redevelopment of Urban Literature
E-bok, 1998
538 kr
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Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the …
Good with Their Hands
Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt
E-bok, 2002
518 kr
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This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America''s Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women''s boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; …
We Who Work the West
Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature
Av Kiara Kharpertian, Carlo Rotella m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
785 kr
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We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Moving from MarÍa Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s representations of dispossessed Californio ranchers in the mid-nineteenth century to the urban grid of early twentieth-century San …
