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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial - The Reporters Who Took On a World at War (Paperback): Deborah Cohen Last Call at the Hotel Imperial - The Reporters Who Took On a World at War (Paperback)
Deborah Cohen
R505 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial - The Reporters Who Took on a World at War (Paperback): Deborah Cohen Last Call at the Hotel Imperial - The Reporters Who Took on a World at War (Paperback)
Deborah Cohen
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendour of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers and Balkan gunrunners, then knocked back doubles late into the night. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson: a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler, Franco and Mussolini who sought to persuade them of fascism's inevitable triumph. Nehru and Gandhi also courted them, seeking American allies against British imperialism. Churchill saw them as his best shot at convincing a reluctant America to join the war against Hitler. They committed themselves to the cause of freedom: fiercely and with all its hazards. They argued about love, war, sex, death and everything in between, and they wrote it all down. The fault lines that ran through a crumbling world, they would find, ran through their own marriages and friendships, too. Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt to live through up close.

Comparison and History - Europe in Cross-National Perspective (Paperback, New): Deborah Cohen, Maura O'Connor Comparison and History - Europe in Cross-National Perspective (Paperback, New)
Deborah Cohen, Maura O'Connor
R1,231 Discovery Miles 12 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Historians today like to preach the virtues of comparison and cross-national work. In the last decade, cross-national histories have prospered, yielding important work in the subjects as diverse as the transatlantic trade in slaves and the cultures of celebrity. In the meantime, comparative history has also enjoyed a renaissance, but what is largely missing in the rush beyond the nation is any sense of how to tackle this research.
This volume brings together scholars who have worked either cross-nationally or comparatively to reflect upon their own research. In essays that engage practical, methodological, and theoretical questions, these contributors assess the gains--but also the obstacles and perils--of research that traverses national boundaries. Drawn from the subject-areas that have attracted the most comparative and cross-national attention: war, welfare, labor, nation, immigration, and gender.
Taken together, these essays provide the first critical analysis of the cross-national turn in European history.

Engineer Ari and the Passover Rush (Paperback): Deborah Cohen Engineer Ari and the Passover Rush (Paperback)
Deborah Cohen
R245 R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Save R46 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Gender and Sexuality in 1968 - Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination (Hardcover): L. Frazier, Deborah Cohen Gender and Sexuality in 1968 - Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination (Hardcover)
L. Frazier, Deborah Cohen
R1,563 Discovery Miles 15 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheaval of 1968.

Humanity Works Better - Five Practices to Lead with Awareness, Choice and the Courage to Change (Paperback): Deborah Cohen,... Humanity Works Better - Five Practices to Lead with Awareness, Choice and the Courage to Change (Paperback)
Deborah Cohen, Kate Roeske Zummer
R405 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R75 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Get the best--not just the most--out of your teams. Our modern workforce is suffering. For too long, organizations and leaders have sought success through a focus on efficiency and productivity, and it's costing us dearly. Workplace bullying and abuse has reached epidemic levels--along with high rates of burnout, staff turnover, and mental illness. Clearly, something needs to change. In Humanity Works Better, leadership experts Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer chart a new path forward: one that brings humanity, awareness, choice, and courage to the workplace. The result? A happier work environment that draws the best--rather than squeezes the most--out of people. Through the same tools and practices they've used to transform teams at organizations like Adobe, DocuSign, Saba, Pinterest, the authors guide you through a framework that converts company culture from toxic to healthy, from competitive to collaborative, from fearful to trusting, one human at a time. You'll address your own internal roadblocks to become a better person, and a better leader. And you'll master the skills and complexities to navigate the complex relationships that make us human. As you undertake this personal journey, you'll become aware of who you want to be and how to live the whole of your life, inside and outside the workplace. You'll emerge more confident, more effective, and more human, with the skills to lead a purpose-driven workforce that is energized, engaged, and driven to succeed. That's not just good leadership; it's good business.

Gender and Sexuality in 1968 - Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009): L. Frazier,... Gender and Sexuality in 1968 - Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)
L. Frazier, Deborah Cohen
R1,557 Discovery Miles 15 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheaval of 1968.

Framing the Global - Entry Points for Research (Paperback): Hilary E. Kahn Framing the Global - Entry Points for Research (Paperback)
Hilary E. Kahn; Foreword by Saskia Sassen; Contributions by Prakash Kumar, Stephanie Deboer, Deborah Cohen, …
R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key concepts that have emerged in each contributor's engagement with global studies in the course of empirical research, offering a conceptual toolkit for global research in the 21st century. http: //framing.indiana.edu

Boleyn Curse (Paperback): Deborah Cohen Boleyn Curse (Paperback)
Deborah Cohen
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Cry of Every Woman's Heart ... to be loved (Paperback): Deborah Cohen A Cry of Every Woman's Heart ... to be loved (Paperback)
Deborah Cohen
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ninja and The Pastor (Paperback): Deborah Cohen, Noam Cohen The Ninja and The Pastor (Paperback)
Deborah Cohen, Noam Cohen
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The War Come Home - Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 (Hardcover): Deborah Cohen The War Come Home - Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 (Hardcover)
Deborah Cohen
R1,977 Discovery Miles 19 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In "The War Come Home, " Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent nations--Germany and Britain--cared for their disabled.
At the heart of this book is an apparent paradox. Although postwar Germany provided its disabled veterans with generous benefits, they came to despise the state that favored them. Disabled men proved susceptible to the Nazi cause. By contrast, British ex-servicemen remained loyal subjects, though they received only meager material compensation. Cohen explores the meaning of this paradox by focusing on the interplay between state agencies and private philanthropies on one hand, and the evolving relationship between disabled men and the general public on the other.
Written with verve and compassion, "The War Come Home" describes in affecting detail disabled veterans' lives and their treatment at the hands of government agencies and private charities in Britain and Germany. Cohen's study moves from the intimate confines of veterans' homes to the offices of high-level bureaucrats; she tells of veterans' protests, of disabled men's families, and of the well-heeled philanthropists who made a cause of the war's victims. This superbly researched book provides an important new perspective on the ways in which states and societies confront the consequences of industrialized warfare.

Engineer Arielle and the Israel Independence Day Surprise (Paperback): Deborah Cohen Engineer Arielle and the Israel Independence Day Surprise (Paperback)
Deborah Cohen
R251 R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Save R45 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Braceros - Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico (Paperback, New edition):... Braceros - Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico (Paperback, New edition)
Deborah Cohen
R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros , historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen reveals the fashioning of a U.S.-Mexican transnational world, a world created through the interactions, negotiations, and struggles of the program's principal protagonists including Mexican and U.S. state actors, labor activists, growers, and bracero migrants. Cohen argues that braceros became racialized foreigners, Mexican citizens, workers, and transnational subjects as they moved between U.S. and Mexican national spaces. Drawing on oral histories, ethnographic fieldwork, and documentary evidence, Cohen creatively links the often unconnected themes of exploitation, development, the rise of consumer cultures, and gendered class and race formation to show why those with connections beyond the nation have historically provoked suspicion, anxiety, and retaliatory political policies. |At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros , historian Deborah Cohen asks why these migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen creatively links the often unconnected themes of exploitation, development, the rise of consumer cultures, and gendered class and race formation to show why those with connections beyond the nation have historically provoked suspicion, anxiety, and retaliatory political policies.

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