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A public intellectual, author and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker writes an elegant assessment of the human race's condition during the third millennium in his book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. In this book, Pinker urges his readers to step back and look...

ABOUT THE BOOK The closest thing to an autobiography of Ayn Rand's early life, We the Living follows the main protagonist Kira as she tries to survive in an oppressive country that will not let her attend school, hold a steady job, or lead a normal life because her family belonged to the upper...

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker A public intellectual, author and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker writes an elegant assessment of the human race's condition during the third millennium in his book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason,...

A public intellectual, author and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker writes an elegant assessment of the human race's condition during the third millennium in his book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. In this book, Pinker urges his readers to step back and look...

Women Who Love Too Much (1985) by marriage and family therapist Robin Norwood is a self-help book written for women who make their romantic partners and their partners’ needs central in their lives, at the expense of taking care of their own needs first. Norwood calls women with this propensity...

CliffsNotes on Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad includes summaries and analyses of this 2016 National Book Award winning novel about the Underground Railroad and one slave's heroic struggle to gain her freedom via a "real" fictional Underground Railroad.

Perhaps you read Of Mice and Men, and want a refresher. Perhaps you read the novel, and require more clarification. Perhaps you didn’t read it, and the test is tomorrow. Whatever your need, this guide is for you. It tells the story that the novel tells, but in one-quarter of the words and in contemporary...

Perhaps you read The Great Gatsby, and want a refresher. Perhaps you read the novel, and require more clarification. Perhaps you didn’t read it, and the test is tomorrow. Whatever your need, this guide is for you. It tells the story that the novel tells, but in one-quarter of the words and in contemporary...

Almost Everything: Notes on Hope (2018) by bestselling author Anne Lamott is a collection of essays on finding glimmers of optimism even amid great turbulence. Just before her sixty-first birthday, Lamott wrote these essays to share the wisdom she has gleaned from her many decades of living with her grandson and niece... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Le roman de Jules Verne qui nous emmène au centre de la Terre. Dans une édition abrégée, annotée et commentée pour les élèves de 5e. L’œuvre • Le 24 mai 1863, le célèbre géologue Lidenbrock découvre un mystérieux manuscrit qui va l'entraîner, lui et son neveu Axel, dans une...

En lien avec le thème «  La fiction pour interroger le réel  » du nouveau programme de français en 4e, le chef-d’œuvre naturaliste d’Émile Zola (en texte abrégé). En complément, un dossier thématique sur la condition ouvrière au XIXe siècle.   Le roman Sous le Second Empire, Étienne...

CliffsNotes on Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, authored before but sensationally published well after Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including summaries and analyses of Lee’s novel. Features of this Lit Note include Focused...

CliffsNotes on Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale includes everything you've come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes. Features of this Lit Note include: Focused summaries of the plot and analysis of important themes, symbols, and character development Character analyses of major characters, focusing on what motivates each character Brief synopsis of the novel Short quiz

En lien avec le thème «  Imaginer des univers nouveaux  » du nouveau programme de français en 5e, une sélection des contes les plus célèbres des Mille et Une Nuits. En complément, un dossier thématique sur les arts et les sciences au temps des califes.   Le corpus principal Trompé par...