Frey: 449 books
How to Write a Damn Good Mystery
A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Edgar award nominee James N. Frey, author of the internationally best-selling books on the craft of writing, How to Write a Damn Good Novel, How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, and The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth, has now written what is certain...
The Key
How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2002
In his widely read guides How to Write a Damn Good Novel and How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, popular novelist and fiction-writing coach James N. Frey showed tens of thousands of writers how--starting with rounded, living, breathing, dynamic characters--to structure a novel...
The Silent and the Damned
The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2002
The 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan would have far-reaching consequences for Georgia and the nation; in the years that followed a Jewish man named Leo Frank was convicted on dubious evidence, a governor's career toppled while an anti-Semite became Georgia's senator, and the Anti-Defamation...
Epiphany Z
Eight Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"Epiphany Z" is Futurist Thomas Frey’s dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light.
Frey’s unparalleled ability to detect emerging trends from the smallest of clues gives him...
How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II
Advanced Techniques For Dramatic Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
"Damn good" fiction is dramatic fiction, Frey insists, whether it is by Hemingway or Grisham, Le Carre or Ludlum, Austen or Dickens. Despite their differences, these authors' works share common elements: strong narrative lines, fascinating characters, steadily building conflicts, and satisfying...
Checking for Understanding
Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material. The students nod and say they get it. Later, the teacher is dismayed when many of the students fail a test on the material. Why aren’t students getting it? And, just as important, why didn’t the teacher...
by James Frey
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Scrittore tra i più acclamati, controversi e originali dell’America di oggi, James Frey non ha scelto soltanto un personaggio o una storia per il suo primo romanzo, ha scelto un’intera città: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula. Oggi, semplicemente, Los Angeles....
The Chairman
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
No one knows the dark side of “The Street” better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more thrilling...
Happiness
A Revolution in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.
Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge...
by Sylvia R. Frey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's "life and mind."...
Derek Jarman - Moving Pictures of a Painter
Home Movies, Super 8 Films and Other Small Gestures
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The English painter, film-maker and writer Derek Jarman (1942–1994) is mainly known
for his work in the medium of film, but he always saw himself primarily as a painter.
In this study of his lesser known home movies, Super 8 films and the ‘cinema of small
gestures’ that Jarman developed out...
Pilgrim Stories
On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1998
Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried....
Extreme Cinema
The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Best Monograph Award
From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their shockingly graphic depictions...
Text-Dependent Questions, Grades K-5
Pathways to Close and Critical Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Fisher & Frey’s answer to close and critical reading
Learn the best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading and the big understandings they yield. But that’s just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include illustrative video, texts and questions, cross-curricular...