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by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell | Conversation Starters
Thomas Sowell’s bestselling book Discrimination and Disparities is his empirical examination of how the economic disparities and other disparities arise. Different outcomes like economic and others have a big difference...
Elements of Surprise
Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip’s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire...
Recalling Recitation in the Americas
Borderless Curriculum, Performance Poetry, and Reading
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Spoken word is one of the most popular styles of poetry in North America. While its prevalence is often attributed to the form’s strong ties to oral culture, Recalling Recitation in the Americas reveals how poetry memorization and recitation curricula, shaped by British Imperial policy, influenced...
First 100 Farm Words
Highly Informative & Persuasive - First Farm Words Book with Most Scintillating & Colorful Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2018
First 100 Farm Words offer a fantastic choice for all the kids and toddlers to learn about the farming and other similar aspects with grace and convenience. First Farm Words Book offers the knowledge and learning perspectives to everyone in a colorful way in the shape of photographs so that they could...
Using Critical Theory
How to Read and Write About Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting area in a friendly and approachable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories that students are expected...
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel | Conversation Starters
In the New York Times, bestselling book No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Dr. Dan...
by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations by John McCain | Conversation Starters
In his latest memoir, The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations Senator John McCain contemplates his life, his career and his connection...
Crusoe
Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A remarkable literary hybrid—part biography, part detective story—about the enduring figure of Robinson Crusoe
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Where did Crusoe come from? Frank explores the intertwined lives of two real men, Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox, and the character and book that emerged from their...
Girl Sleuth
Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” (The Seattle Times).
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and...
Badass: The Birth of a Legend
Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever Envisioned
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Ben Thompson—author of Badass, creator of the epic website badassoftheweek.com, and the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—is back to enthrall lovers of skull-smashing, bone-crushing bad behavior with his latest compendium, Badass: The Birth of a Legend. Like its macho predecessor, Badass:...
Through the Window
Seventeen Essays and a Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career.
In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface,...
by Ernest J. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines...
American Pulp
How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)
American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main...
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time -- listed in accessible and succinct form -- by one of the world's greatest scholars.
From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets,"...