Authors:Meni Koslowsky, Avraham N. Kluger, Mordechai Reich,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: coping, stress, springer, series, effects, causes, commuting, methods
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1995-08-31
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 0306450372
ISBN-13: 9780306450372

This singular book describes various aspects of the commuting experience and delineates a process linking causes and consequences of commuting stress. The authors quote extensive survey data from metropolitan areas and examine literature on the known psychological, physiological, attitudinal, and behavioral consequences of commuting. They then provide a model integrating these variables. This comprehensive text features specific coping recommendations at the individual, governmental, and organizational levels.

Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: black, america, struggle, equality, education, board, justice, history, brown, simple
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2004-04-13
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1400030617
ISBN-13: 9781400030613

Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decis

Author: Ruth Kluger
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: remembered, girlhood, holocaust, alive
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1558612718
ISBN-13: 9781558612716

The first English language edition of an international best selling and award-winning Holocaust memoir that links the past with the present as the author explores both the realities of coming of age under the Nazis and her own complicated relationship with her mother. Ruth Kluger tells a powerful and nuanced story that begins in 1930s Vienna to the camps of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, through to her dramatic escape and her early years in the U.S.

Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: ashes, unabashed, triumph, philip, morris, health, war, america, hundred, year, cigarette, public
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 1997-07-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0375700366
ISBN-13: 9780375700361

No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind’s most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail.Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, all the strands of the historical process -- financial, social, psychological, medical, political, and legal -- are woven together in a riveting narrative. The key characters are the top corporate executives, public health investigators, and antismoking activists who have clashed ever more stridently

Authors:Jeffrey Kluger, James Lovell,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Keywords: apollo, voyage, perilous, lost
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1994-09-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0395670292
ISBN-13: 9780395670293

Out of the seven Apollo expeditions to land on the moon, six of the efforts succeeded outstandingly and one failed. Lost Moon is the story of the failure and the incredible heroism of the three astronauts who brought their crippled vehicle back to earth. This account--written by Jim Lovell, commander of the mission, and his talented coauthor, Jeffrey Kluger--captures the high drama of that unique event and is told in the vernacular of the men in the sky and on the ground who masterminded this triumph of heroism, intellectual brilliance, and raw courage. A thrilling story of a thrillin

Authors:James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger,
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: apollo
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-02-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0618619585
ISBN-13: 9780618619580

The best-selling book that inspired the blockbuster movie"A story of courage — in space, at NASA, and at the homes of those involved." — Houston ChronicleA timeless tribute to the enduring American spirit, Apollo 13 tells the story of America’s fifth mission to the moon, a mission that nearly ended in catastrophe in April 1970. Only fifty-five hours into the flight, disaster struck for Jim Lovell and two other astronauts after an explosion left them with a rapidly declining supply of oxygen and power. Lovell and Kluger vividly chronicle how the men were forced to abandon the main ship

Author: Avraham Oz
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Keywords: shakespeare, international, contemporaries, studies, perspectives, afar, remote, israeli, strands
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 1998-09
List price: $48.50
ISBN-10: 0874135974
ISBN-13: 9780874135978