Author: Thane Gustafson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: style, russian, capitalism
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-01-31
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521645956
ISBN-13: 9780521645959

Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world today: the building of capitalism in Russia. It describes Russian achievements in building private banks, companies, stock exchanges, new laws and law courts. It analyzes the role of the mafia, the new financial empires, entrepreneurs, business tycoons, and the shrinking Russian state. Thane Gustafson tells how the Soviet system was dismantled and the new market society was born, and examines the prospects for a Russian economic miracle in the twenty-first century.

Authors:Daniel Yergin, Thane Gustafson,
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: world, means, russia
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-02-14
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0679759220
ISBN-13: 9780679759225

Examines four possible scenarios for the future of Russia, looks at the internal forces shaping the new Russia, and discusses Russia’s future influence on the West. Reprint.

Author: Pat Thane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: present, issues, experiences, past, english, history, old
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0198203829
ISBN-13: 9780198203827

People are now living well into their seventies, eighties, and even beyond. A tribute to medicine, the trend is also a challenge for governments as the costs of healthcare and retirement continue to grow. But is this really a new trend? And is it a serious problem? This history of old age in England challenges many contemporary assumptions about aging and its role in culture. Tracing the experiences of older people back two thousand years, it shows that in fact there were large numbers of vigorous older people in many periods and that they often made important contributions to their families,

Author: Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, gotham, golems
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060959452
ISBN-13: 9780060959456

Many years have passed since Oliver Levin -- a bestselling mystery writer and a lifetime sufferer from blocked emotions -- has given any thought to his parents, Holocaust survivors who committed suicide. But now, after years of uninterrupted literary output, Oliver Levin finds himself blocked as a writer, too. Oliver’s fourteen-year-old daughter, Ariel, sets out to free her father from his demons by summoning the ghosts of his parents, but, along the way, the ghosts of Primo Levi, Jerzy Kosinski, and Paul Celan, among others, also materialize in this novel of moral philosophy and unforge

Author: Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: fails, right, system, legal, moral, justice, myth
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060735244
ISBN-13: 9780060735241

We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following real-life trials. Yet, at the same time, most of us don’t trust lawyers and hold them and the legal system in very low esteem. In The Myth of Moral Justice, law professor and novelist Thane Rosenbaum suggests that this paradox stems from the fact that citizens and the courts are at odds when it comes to their definitions of justice. With a lawyer’s expertise and a novelist’s sensability, Rosenbaum tackles complicated philosophical questions about our longing

Author: Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: stories, visible, elijah
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-02-15
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0312198655
ISBN-13: 9780312198657

With the publication of Elijah Visible, Thane Rosenbaum emerged as a fresh and important new voice on the American literary scene, a young writer in the great Jewish storytelling tradition of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaac Babel. In this haunting debut, Rosenbaum weaves together nine postmodern tales about Adam Posner, a young man determined to climb the American corporate ladder, who finds himself paralyzed by he legacy of the Holocaust. Encumbered by the psychic screams of his deceased parents, Posner embodies the disintegration, as well as the spiritual search, of the modern Jewish family.

Author: Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: novel, smoke, hand, second
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-02-22
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0312254180
ISBN-13: 9780312254186

In the seamy atmosphere of Miami Beach’s Collins Avenue, Mila Katz, a streaky card shark and confidante of mobsters, lives by the wits with which she has survived the Holocaust. Second Hand Smoke is the story of Mila’s sons, Issac and Duncan, the one secretly abandoned in Poland, and the other, American-born, raised as an avenging Nazi hunter, poisoned with rage. Told in bursts of fractured realism and dark comedy, Second Hand Smoke is a postmodern mystery of great lyrical power, deep insight, and emotional resonance.