Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer
In Thumbs Up: Memoir of a Joyful Organizer, the author journeys through the seventies and beyond with the underground press, the Yippies and Zippies, his thumb, his Judaism, vegetarian catering, community organizing, emerging technology, and Emily. A funny, insightful, always hopeful memoir of a joyful writer, editor, dishwasher, Zen phony, and legendary historian of the underground press.
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You’ve Got the Time: How to Write and Publish That Book in You, 2nd edition
In You’ve Got the Time: How to Write and Publish That Book in You, Ken Wachsberger shows you how to find time in your busy schedule, then guides you step by step to book writing and publishing success. Learn how to purchase your basic supplies, keep track of your digital files, set up and conduct interviews, turn your prose into poetry, decide between traditional and independent publishing, choose your platforms, upload your final files, and more. For aspiring and seasoned writers. Special sections on marketing and how to understand and negotiate book publishing contracts.
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Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press
Ken Wachsberger has been called the “indefatigable underground-press chronicler.” Ken’s landmark four-volume Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press that In These Times called “the most important book on American journalism published in my lifetime” and about which the Los Angeles Times said, “comes closer than anything I’ve yet read to putting the sights, sounds, and texture of the ‘60s on paper.” Updated, revised, and expanded in this second edition, with new stories, lots more photos, and forewords by the leading activist voices then and now.
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Ken Wachsberger’s Puns and Word Plays for the Job Seeker
Embarking on your first job-hunting adventure or back at it against your will? Learn from the pros in Ken Wachsberger’s Puns and Word Plays for the Job Seeker. “I was never detail-oriented enough to be a good estate attorney. I didn’t like splitting heirs.” “I applied for a job as a contortionist but they didn’t have a position for me.” “You’ll never get rich being a member of the loyal opposition but you’ll earn a dissent living.” “I looked for a job in real estate. There were lots available.”
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Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance, 3rd edition
In Never Be Afraid: A Belgian Jew in the French Resistance, with Ken Wachsberger, Bernard Mednicki, a street-smart Belgian Jew from a working-class, Orthodox, socialist background, flees Belgium with his family in 1940 when the Nazis invade, assumes a Christian identity, and settles in Volvic, a small town in the mountainous region of southern France. There, a chance encounter with a prominent Nazi collaborator named Duhin forces Bernard to confess his Jewish roots and change the course of his destiny.
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Your Partner Has Breast Cancer: 21 Ways to Keep Sane as a Support Person on Your Journey from Victim to Survivor, 2nd edition
Finally, support for the breast cancer support person. Your Partner Has Breast Cancer: 21 Ways to Keep Sane as a Support Person on Your Journey from Victim to Survivor is the resource caregivers have been waiting for, especially husbands. A landmark step forward in the field of emotional and mental self-help. Includes “The Cancer Journals” and additional resources.
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Transforming Lives: A Socially Responsible Guide to the Magic of Writing and Researching
When was the last time an English textbook awakened your imagination and held out the hope that you could change the lives of your students? Ken Wachsberger’s Transforming Lives: A Socially Responsible Guide to the Magic of Writing and Researching, now in its second edition, is that book. It shows your students how to turn the I-Search paper into a full-length, life-changing research project. Textbook includes research strategies, assignments, sample student papers (written by actual students), anecdotal appendices, and more. For any developmental writing, Freshman composition, or high school English class where good writing and a research project are required.
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Beercans on the Side of the Road: The Story of Henry the Hitchhiker
Beercans on the Side of the Road: The Story of Henry the Hitchhiker is the seventies’ coming of age, on the road, cult classic adventure of a young college dropout hitchhiker in search of the perfect flow and what it means to be a writer. Author and Zen phony Ken Wachsberger is one of the country’s foremost experts on intranational hitchhiking in the seventies.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book
The 101 stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book, including Ken Wachsberger’s “Our Mantra,” provide inspiration to help deal with every aspect of this terrible disease. From initial diagnosis to breaking the news to securing a medical team to chemotherapy and then recovery, the story collection in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book is the most extensive of its kind.
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Facts On File Banned Books Series
The Facts On File Banned Books Series, 1st edition (now out of print), edited by Ken Wachsberger, profiles over 400 well-known, often classic works that have been harassed in one form or another throughout history and around the world for either sexual, social, political, or religious reasons. Each clearly written entry in this eye-opening four-volume series gives readers a summary of the work at hand, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading.
For the latest edition, contact Infobase, Facts On File’s current owner, at info@infobase.com.
100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature, edited by Ken Wachsberger, profiles 100 well-known, often classic works that have been harassed in one form or another throughout history and around the world for either sexual, social, political, or religious reasons. Each clearly written entry gives readers a summary of the work at hand, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading.
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The Ballad of Ken and Emily: or, Tales from the Counterculture
The Ballad of Ken and Emily: or, Tales from the Counterculture, by Ken Wachsberger, is an anthology of short stories, prison journals, poems, essays, and articles from the Vietnam era and beyond. Wachsberger’s writings from the Vietnam era capture a vital piece of that period’s brilliant countercultural mosaic.
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The Last Selection: A Child’s Journey through the Holocaust
When the Holocaust ended, so ended also the infamous “selections” of Dr. Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz death camp. But just before it ended, there was “the last selection.” In The Last Selection: A Child’s Journey through the Holocaust, by Goldie Szachter Kalib, with Sylvan Kalib and Ken Wachsberger, Goldie describes her life through World War II, from her idyllic childhood in Bodzentyn, Poland, to hiding with a Polish Christian family, to the slave camp, to Auschwitz, to life in the gas chamber, to Bergen-Belsen, and then to liberation.