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  • Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression

    Assessing the Scientific Evidence

    by Jonathan Freedman ...
    Series series Heritage
    The scientific evidence does not support the notion that TV and film violence cause aggression in children or in anyone else. So argues Jonathan Freedman, based on his findings that far fewer than half of the scientific studies have found a causal connection between exposure to media violence and aggression or crime. In fact, Freedman believes that, taken to a more controversial extreme, the ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Jewish Decadence

    Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

    by Jonathan Freedman ...
    As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and literature, philosophic pessimism, and an interest in nonnormative sexualities, decadence was also a smear, whereby Jews were viewed as the source of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Solito, Solita

    Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America

    Edited by Steven Mayers, Jonathan Freedman ...
    Series series Voice of Witness
    They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone.Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone), shortlisted for the 2019 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells—in their own words—the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Temple of Culture

    Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America

    by Jonathan Freedman ...
    From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • The Last Brazil of Benjamin East

    A Novel

    by Jonathan Freedman ...
    It takes courage to believe in your dreams, and after heartbreaking failures, it takes courage to go on dreaming. Returning to America in the twilight of his life with an old valise, an irascible parrot, and an expired U.S. passport, Benjamin East still dares to dream big. When Benjamin meets Amy McCafferty, they recognize in each other an unbreakable belief in infinite possibilities. Although the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership, Change, and Organizational Development

    Edited by H. Skipton Leonard, Rachel Lewis, Arthur M. Freedman, Jonathan Passmore ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks in Organizational Psychology
    A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of leadership, change and ODPuts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but who do not always have the time or resources to keep up with scholarly researchThematic chapters cover ... Read more

    $41.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

    Edited by Jonathan Freedman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to American Studies
    Alfred Hitchcock was, despite his English origins and early career, an American master. Arriving on US shores in 1939, for the next three decades he created a series of masterpieces that redefined the nature and possibilities of cinema itself: Rebecca, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho, to name just a few. In this Companion, leading film scholars and critics of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Hitchcock's America

    Edited by Jonathan Freedman, Richard Millington ...
    Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the changing shape of American society in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The authors of this anthology show how famous films such as Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window, along with more obscure ones such as Rope, The Wrong Man, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

    Edited by Jonathan Freedman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    HBR's 10 Must Reads on Employee Engagement

    by Harvard Business Review ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross, Sharon Freedman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    Engage your employees and transform your organization.If you read (or listen to) nothing else on employee engagement, listen to this book. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you make your employees feel valued, motivated, and ready to do great things.This book will inspire you to invest in a culture of cohesive teams; turn ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Jewish in America

    Edited by Sara B. Blair, Jonathan E. Freedman ...
    "Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on which our writers and critics offer creative commentary and to which they make compelling response. Shaped in the American crucible of race and ethnicity, pushed and pulled by the American traditions of ahistorical and individualist thinking, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD