Hansen Publishing Group: New and forthcoming books

Education and Empowerment: The Essential Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois

edited by Randall Westbrook,
paperback, $15.00; ebook, $5.99
ISBN 978-1-60182-046-4

W.E.B. Du Bois’ role as a contributor to educational thought was ignored throughout his lifetime and has been sparsely considered in the fifty years after his death. Many of the twenty-eight writings contained here have not been viewed in the context of Du Bois’ educational thought. Randall Westbrook has organized these writing in three chronological sections: 1883-1885, 1885-1903, 1914-1948.

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Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz, Volume 1

by David Kaplan,
ebook, 12 chapters, $39.99
ISBN 978-1-60182-650-3

Volume One of David Kaplan’s Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz: An Impolite Guide to Theater History contains chapters one through twelve. Volume one contains the chapters “The Middle Ages as a State of Mind,” “Commedia dell’ arte and Moliere,” “Shakespeare-to begin,” “Euripides-forever modern,” Aeschylus-Writing in an Age of Certainty,” “Sophocles and Aristotle-Defining Tragedy,” “Greek Comedy,” “Roman Theater,” “Asian Classics and Rules,” “China-the Pear Garden and the Red Pear Garden,” Neoclassic Theater and Why There is Such a Thing,” and “Shakespeare’s Classic.”

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And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies: 200 Quizzes for Golden Age Movie Lovers

by John DiLeo,
paperback, 158 pages, $15.00
ISBN 978-1-60182-650-3

  • Katharine Hepburn stars in what play at the climax of Stage Door?
  • Can you name the classic in which a cigarette is put out in a jar of cold cream?
  • What star (not Alan Ladd) is the top-billed male in This Gun for Hire?

If you think you know classic movies, well, prepare to be challenged as never before. Die-hard film buffs won’t be able to resist the cleverness, imagination, and pleasure of John DiLeo’s 200 memory-teasing quizzes on all facets of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Upon the book’s initial publication, legendary film critic Pauline Kael said, “It’s like a Christmas stocking full of surprises. This is the smartest movie quiz book I’ve ever seen.”

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An American Diplomat in Franco Spain

by Michael Aaron Rockland,
paperback, 178 pages, $15.00
ISBN 978-1-60182-304-5

An American Diplomat in Franco Spain is filled with Michael Aaron Rockland’s experiences as a cultural attaché at the United States embassy in Madrid, Spain in the 1960s. He shares how he avoided shaking Franco’s hand, how he spent a day with Martin Luther King in Madrid, how his son was selected to be in the movie Dr. Zhivago, how he came to know several Kennedys, including Senator Edward Kennedy, Pat Lawford Kennedy, and Jackie Kennedy, and how the U.S. accidentally dropped four unarmed hydrogen bombs on Spain.

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Shakespeare, Shamans and Show Biz: An Impolite Guide to Theater History

Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz

Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz: The Impolite Guide to Theater History by David Kaplan begins releasing in September 2012. Currently being released digitally only and chapter by chapter through online retailers Amazon.com, Apple iTunes, and BarnesandNoble.com. Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz: The Impolite Guide to Theater History will ultimately consist of twenty-four chapters. For more information and links to the invidual chapters please visit the Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz: The Impolite Guide to Theater History page for more information.


Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies

by John DiLeo
paperback, 312 pages, $24.95
ISBN 978-1-60182-656-5

Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies picks up where John DiLeo’s Screen Savers left off. It contains extensive essays about ten movie classics along with photographs from the movies, collected and catagorized blogs from John DiLeo’s screensaversmovies.com, and eighty-five classic movie quizzes.

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The Whip

by Karen Kondazian
paperback, 302 pages, $15.00
ISBN 978-1-60182-302-1

THE WHIP is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man.

As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love and had a child. Her husband was lynched and her baby killed. The destruction of her family drove her west to California, dressed as a man, to track down the murder.

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