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A Big Fat Crisis - The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic - And How We Can End It by Deborah Cohen
Category: Non-Fiction
Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. InA Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding the mod ...Show more
Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Category: Children's
A Rosh Hashanah story based on the first historic train ride from Jaffa to Jerusalem in 1892, shortening the journey between the two cities from 3 days to 3 hours. Engineer Ari's train is coming to Jerusalem collecting goodies along the way to celebrate the Jewish new year, and he learns an important le ...Show more
Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen
Category: History
Deborah Cohen's "Family Secrets" is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why. In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? On a Liverpo ...Show more
Family Secrets: The Things We Tried to Hide by Deborah Cohen
Category: History | Series: Themes in British Social History
On a Liverpool railway platform a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption...A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men...The one-year-old daughter committed to an institution and b ...Show more
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial by Deborah Cohen
Category: History
'A fresh, fast-paced history ... Riveting' MAYA JASANOFF'The celebrated journalists of the lost generation were voracious, reckless, promiscuous, funny, and drunk, and they were also shrewd and deeply political ... As intimate and gripping as a novel ... I read it all at once. I couldn't stop ... Brilli ...Show more
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial - The Reporters Who Took on a World at War by Deborah Cohen
Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE * A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account of 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 "High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . ...Show more
Nachshon Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Category: Judaica
According to rabbinic lore, Nachshon was the first Israelite to enter the sea when Pharaoh's army pursued the fleeing slaves. Cohen (The Seventh Day) and Jago (Fig's Giant) offer a backstory to this legend, portraying Nachshon as a boy brave enough to defy his taskmasters yet unable to overcome his fear ...Show more
On Anger by Agnes Callard (Editor); Deborah Chasman (Foreword by); Joshua Cohen (Foreword by)
Category: Reference | Series: Boston Review / Forum Ser.
Is anger eternal? Righteous? Reflections on the causes and consequences of an phenomenon critical to our intimate and public lives. From Aristotle to Martha Nussbaum, philosophers have explored the moral status of anger. We get angry for a reason: we feel wronged. That reason can be eternal, some argue ...Show more
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