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Teachers are frequently told that they should be using the Thinking Hats to teach reading. This is great - except whereever they look, there are no simple, ready made worksheets for them to use. This discourages them from trying a great new way of teaching. This teaching method focuses on 6 different...

The eBook Insider is the ultimate readers’ resource for choosing great books. The perfect first stop to make along the way as you fill your e-reader with the books that you’ll want to have in your library and recommend to friends. It’s the place to find out what some of your favorite authors...

The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork. After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke...

“What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed...

There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Each chapter presents...

A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which...

"Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished literary magazines...

Follow the troublesome train as it speeds through the day, causing mayhem as it turns too quickly round bends and loses parcels, packets and sacks of potatoes long the way. The fun, lively pictures and silly story in this book help to make reading at home successful and enjoyable. The book can be used...

Follow the troublesome tractor through its day, causing mayhem as it splashes through muddy puddles, breaks down fences and plunges into a stream. 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 to help...

Follow the troublesome truck through its day, causing mayhem as it takes a short cut and gets stuck in a country lane, turns up late at the factory and then spills lunch all over everyone. The fun, lively pictures and silly story in this book help to make reading at home successful and enjoyable. The...

All people have their own individual weaknesses. Some may find it as one of their enemies and some may find it as a hindrance to growth.But we must all remember that every weakness has a solution, and overcoming a weakness can lead to improvement. For speed reading, I suggest that you first...

For anyone who'd rather be reading than doing just about anything else, this ebook is the ultimate must-have. In this visual ode to all things bookish, readers will get lost in page after page of beautiful contemporary art, photography, and illustrations depicting the pleasures of books. Artwork from...

Who cares about details? As Naomi Schor explains in her highly influential book, we do-but it has not always been so. The interest in detail--in art, in literature, and as an aesthetic category--is the product of the decline of classicism and the rise of realism. But the story of the detail...

This collection of reviews and reevaluations by Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley considers lesser-known works from renowned authors and underappreciated talents, and offers fresh takes on old favorites. Yardley’s reviews of sixty titles include fiction by Gabriel Garcia Márquez,...