Reading category: 4864 books
Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that...
by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The London Library is the world's largest independent library. Founded in 1841 by Thomas Carlyle (in reaction to the "museum headache" brought on by the crowds in the British Museum Reading Room), it has become a haven for readers, writers and all who draw strength, solace or inspiration...
The Futilitarians
Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Recommended Summer Reading -- Louise Erdrich, New York Times
"Gisleson writes with wit, warmth, and a spiritual devotion to books...Her search for purpose and connection amid chaos and loss permeates even the most heart-wrenching moments...
Remember Everything You Read
The Evelyn Wood 7 Day Speed Reading and Learning Program
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Learn how to read more quickly--and absorb more of of the information you are reading--with Remember Everything You Read.
For the first time the secrets that have made the completely revised Evelyn Wood learning program so effective and popular are revealed. Remember Everything You Read not...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: A Gentleman in Moscow
Study Guides for Book Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Whether you are a member of a reading group, or simply reading A Gentleman in Moscow for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience. A comprehensive guide to Amor Towles' acclaimed new novel A Gentleman in Moscow, this...
Dead White Guys
A Father, His Daughter and the Great Books of the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Dead White Guys is a timely defense of the great books, arriving in the middle of a national debate about the fate of these books in high schools and universities around the country. Burriesci shows how the great books can enrich our lives as individuals, as citizens, and in our careers. Extending...
by Pierre Bayard
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.)...
by Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, Eric Karpeles
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those...
The Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life....
Reading the 21st Century
Books of the Decade, 2000-2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago, as well as emerging writers...
The Read-Aloud Handbook
Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
** A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated**
Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved...
The Trouble with Dump Trucks
First Reading Books for 3 to 5 Year Olds
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Follow the troublesome dump truck as it hurries through the day, causing mayhem as it crashes into a car, falls into a hole and has to be dug out by a digger. The fun, lively pictures and silly story in this book help to make reading at home successful and enjoyable. The book can be used in several ways...
by Everett Ofori
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Read Assure takes advantage of the best asset all children have in abundance: tremendous brain power hungry for challenges. Children as young as four have successfully mastered reading English through phonics using Read Assure. The ability to read raises children's confidence and leads to a love of reading...
The Heart of the Humanities
Reading, Writing, Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From one of America's great professors, a collection of works exploring the importance of reading, writing, and teaching well, for anyone invested in the future of the humanities.
A renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, Mark Edmundson has devoted his career to tough-minded...