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Food Justice(Reprint)
(Food, Health, and the Environment)
by Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi, Mun S. Ho
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51866-6, ISBN: 0-262-51866-X

"In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of American fast-food franchises has been a major contributor to an epidemic of "globesity." To combat these ..."

Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others(Reprint)
by Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-14105-7, ISBN: 1-250-14105-2

"Winner of the Anne M. Sperber PrizeA spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of D ..."

Great Expectations(Reprint)
The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
by Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-03946-0, ISBN: 1-250-03946-0

"THE STRANGE AND VARIED LIVES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD'S MOST BELOVED NOVELISTCharles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created―from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield―was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). Who those children were and what happened to them is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb's Great Expectations.With sympathy and understanding, Gottlieb narrates the ..."

Sarah(Reprint)
The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (Jewish Lives)
by Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19259-9, ISBN: 0-300-19259-2

"A riveting portrait of the great Sarah Bernhardt from acclaimed writer Robert Gottlieb Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career—redefining the very nature of her art—to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I, as well as criss ..."

Forcing the Spring(Reprint)
The Transformation Of The American Environmental Movement
by Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 423 Pages, Published 1994 by Island Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55963-122-8, ISBN: 1-55963-122-8

""Forcing the Spring" challenges standard histories of the environmental movement by offering a broad and inclusive interpretation of past environmentalist thought and a sweeping redefinition of the nature of the contemporary environmental movement. Robert Gottlieb demonstrates the centrality of environmental concerns to a wide range of social movements of the past century as he explores the connections between pressures on human and nat ..."

The Journals of John Cheever(Reprint)
(Vintage International)
by John Cheever, Mr. Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38725-7, ISBN: 0-307-38725-9

"In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail.John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always closely observed inner world. No American writer of comparable stature has left such an unreservedly revealing and moving accou ..."

George Balanchine(Reprint)
The Ballet Maker (Eminent Lives)
by Mr Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by Harper Perennial
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-075071-8, ISBN: 0-06-075071-5

Near-death Experiences... and Others(Reprint)
by Gottlieb, Robert
364 Pages, Published 2019 by Picador Paper
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-21506-2, ISBN: 1-250-21506-4

Changing Lanes(Reprint)
Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Cliff Ellis, Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2014 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52677-7, ISBN: 0-262-52677-8

"The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the idea ..."

Big Hunger(Reprint)
The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups (Food, Health, and the Environment)
by Andrew Fisher, Saru Jayaraman, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2018 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53516-8, ISBN: 0-262-53516-5

"How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a s ..."

Organic Struggle(Reprint)
The Movement for Sustainable Agriculture in the United States (Food, Health, and the Environment)
by Brian K. Obach, Robert Gottlieb, Mun S. Ho
Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53374-4, ISBN: 0-262-53374-X

"An analysis of the successes and failures of the organic movement, focusing on coalition dynamics, movement-state relations, and market-based strategies for social change. In the early 1970s, organic farming was an obscure agricultural practice, associated with the counterculture rather than commerce. Today, organic agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry; organic food can be found on the shelves of every supermarket in America. ..."

Sharing Cities(Reprint)
A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Dr Duncan Mclaren, Associate Professor Julian Agyeman, Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53371-3, ISBN: 0-262-53371-5

"How cities can build on the "sharing economy" and smart technology to deliver a "sharing paradigm" that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing -- of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and commercialization of the public realm. I ..."

Recycling Reconsidered(Reprint)
The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Samantha Macbride, Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52524-4, ISBN: 0-262-52524-0

"Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice, a thriving private recycling industry, and widespread public support and participation. In the United States, more people recycle than vote. But, as Samantha MacBride points out in this book, the goals of recycling -- saving the ..."

Small, Gritty, and Green(Reprint)
The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Catherine Tumber, Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52531-2, ISBN: 0-262-52531-3

"America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities -- Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others -- increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and middle-class flight, disproportionately devastated by metro freeway systems that laid waste to the urban fabric and displaced the working poor, small industrial cities seem to be ..."

Reading Jazz(Reprint)
A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage and Criticism from 1919 to Now
by Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 1,088 Pages, Published 1997 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-3336-8, ISBN: 0-7475-3336-9

"There is perhaps a reason why so many people write so well about jazz--there is an extent to which the free improvisation of the music finds an echo in the way that journalists and poets think about their own art. Both are performances in which, in the end, you are on your own and without a net. Richard Gottlieb, formerly of the New Yorker has put together a quirky collection of memoirs, autobiography, essays and reviews, which cove ..."

New York for Sale(Reprint)
Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Tom Angotti, Peter Marcuse, Thomas Angotti, Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2011 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51593-1, ISBN: 0-262-51593-8

"Remarkably, grassroots-based community planning flourishes in New York City -- the self-proclaimed "real estate capital of the world" -- with at least seventy community plans for different neighborhoods throughout the city. Most of these were developed during fierce struggles against gentrification, displacement, and environmental hazards, and most got little or no support ..."

The Land That Could Be(Reprint)
Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by William A. Shutkin, David Brower, Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 295 Pages, Published 2001 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-69270-0, ISBN: 0-262-69270-8

"In this book, environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies. In the face of challenges posed by often corrosive market forces and widespread social disaffection, this civic environm ..."

A Life of its Own(Reprint)
The Politics and Power of Water
by Mr Robert Gottlieb
Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 1991 by Mariner Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-651287-9, ISBN: 0-15-651287-4