लेखक: Robert Gottlieb

The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movem …

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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a riveting portrait of the great Sarah Bernhardt from acclaimed writer Robert Gottlieb Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from …

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Los Angeles’s history is a story of conflicting visions. Most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on L.A. as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, …

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Originally published in 1993, Forcing the Spring was quickly recognized as a seminal work in the field of environmental history. The book links the environmental movement that emerged in the 1960s to …

In Reducing Toxics, leading experts address industry, technology, health, and policy issues and explore the potential for pollution prevention at the industry and facility levels. They consider both …

Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America’s cities and suburbs.The emerg …

The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table.In today’s food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, l …

A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life.In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that invo …

Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city …

How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.Over the past four decades, Lo …

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Why a care economy and care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration.This agenda-setting book presents a …

An overview of the key issues of public accountability and water policy innovation that confront urban and agricultural water agencies throughout the country–notably in California where the prospect …