“david wagner”

David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. "Ordinary Peo... More

Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim you are driving me to the poorhouse or remember the card in the Monopoly game which says Go to the Poorhouse Lose a Turn Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundr... More

Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim you are driving me to the poorhouse or remember the card in the Monopoly game which says Go to the Poorhouse Lose a Turn Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundr... More

Culture and resistance in a homeless community.'Checkerboard Square is very impressive. It is, I think, the fullest view of homelessness from the inside ever presented. The book contributes not only to an understanding of the homeless but to an understanding of ourselves and our society. It is a val... More

'The New Temperance' contrasts the new obsession with personal behavior in America during the last two decades with the brief period of relative freedom in the 1960s and early 1970s and suggests strong consistencies with our past.The war on drugs ... the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ... v-ch... More

Now available in paperback, What's Love Got to Do with It? is an insightful debunking of the way charitable giving disguises American neglect of the public welfare. Award-winning Professor of Social Work and Sociology David Wagner points out that while the United States prides itself on being one of... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2008, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA in August 2008. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. Addressing all current foundational, theo... More

An opera handbook on the popular and still performed opera Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini.... More

"Hidden in Plain Sight" completes Buhle and Wagner's trilogy on the Hollywood blacklist. When the blacklistees were hounded out of Hollywood, some left for television where many worked on children's shows like "Rocky and Bullwinkle." A number wrote adult sitcoms such as "The Donna Reed Show," and M*... More