Author: Carole Rothman
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Keywords: amp, scroll, woodworking, book, crafts, projects, surprisingly, bowls, useful, wooden, easy
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1565234332
ISBN-13: 9781565234338

While wood bowls are commonly made on a lathe, this guided resource offers 28 projects for crafting beautiful bowls with the more accessible scroll saw. Each project is organized in a progressive learning format; beginning crafters can start with the most basic starter bowl and gradually work their way toward more elaborate bowls—such as laminated swag bowls; a flared lobed bowl made with varied angles; a thin, eight-segmented bowl; and an inward curving bowl. Original patterns for other types of vessels include a vase, a ginger jar, and a candy dish. For advanced wood crafters, an appendix

Authors:Jospeh A. Ilardo, Carole Rothman,
Publisher: Vanderwyk & Burnham
Keywords: parents, competent, aging, getting, expanded, driving, crazy, second
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-11-25
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1889242187
ISBN-13: 9781889242187

Award-winning practical guide for people whose parents are still comepetent and living on their own but showing signs of aging.

Authors:Stephen P Powers, David J Rothman, Stanley Rothman,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: motion, pictures, themes, political, america, social, hollywood
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1996-06-21
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0813329337
ISBN-13: 9780813329338

American motion pictures still dominate the world market with an impact that is difficult to measure. Their role in American culture has been a powerful one since the 1930s and is a hallmark of our culture today. Though much has been written about the film industry, there has been very little systematic attention paid to the ideology of its creative elite. How does the outlook of that elite impact on the portrayals of America that appear on the screen? How do their views interact with the demands of the market and the structure of the industry to determine the product that is seen by mass audi

Authors:Sheila M. Rothman, David Rothman,
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: wars, willowbrook
Number of Pages: 417
Published: 2005-04-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0202307573
ISBN-13: 9780202307572

The Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. The wars began in 1972 with Geraldo Riveras televised raid on the Willowbrook State School. They continued for three years in a federal courtroom, with civil libertarian lawyers persuading a conservative and conscience-stricken judge to expand the rights of the disabled, and they culminated in a 1975 consent decree, with the state of New York pledging to accomplish the unprecedented assignment in six years. T

Author: Hal Rothman
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: twenty, first, century, started, vegas, metropolis, las, neon
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-04-18
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0415926130
ISBN-13: 9780415926133

Praise for the Previous Edition (0 415 92612 2): "...lively and provocative...this book will teach you something startling on nearly every page..." --The New York Times Book Review Like the Emerald City, Las Vegas glitters brightly in the vast Nevada desert, a haven for refugees from ordinary America. A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to mirror its success and huge, respectabl

Author: Robert A. Rothman
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: gender, class, race, stratification, inequality
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-08-08
List price: $62.80
ISBN-10: 0131849689
ISBN-13: 9780131849686

Using a concise and easy-to-understand style, this guide provides an integrated approach to the implications of social class, race and ethnicity, and gender—explaining how each relates to economic, social, and political inequality. Its straightforward perspective views the considerations of race and gender as central to a full appreciation of the composition and dynamics of class systems. A significant and effective organization incorporates fresh conceptualizations, new research findings, and census data, with the fundamentals of social stratification. Five-part organization: P

Author: Barry Rothman
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: man, life, dilemma, ginger, ann, mary
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2009-06-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1440145725
ISBN-13: 9781440145728

There is a French proverb which goes something like this: "In love, there is always the one who kisses and the one who offers the cheek." Author Barry Rothman admits that he has always been the one who kisses, and in his memoir, Mary Ann or Ginger, Rothman recounts his romantic relationships.Actively dating since 1960, Rothman has traveled the world searching for his soulmate and thought he had found her in a variety of different locales. He discovered that, from an early age, his choices in female companionship have been largely influenced by his interest in pop culture. Beginning with his fi