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You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld | Conversation Starters You Think It, I’ll Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest book, is a collection of fictional short stories that will entertain all who read them. With humor, intrigue and quick wit, Sittenfeld turns assumptions on relationships,...

The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald | Conversation Starters American universities are in crisis for undermining humanistic values that further cause divisions among its citizens. The ideologies against...

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson | Conversation Starters “Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High” is a communication and self help book written by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler. In it,...

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler | Conversation Starters Clock Dance, the latest book from author Anne Tyler, follows the life of Willa Drake. The story shows snapshots of her life, starting at age 11 with her mother walking out of her life. At the age of 21, Willa is proposed to by her college boyfriend,...

A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger | Conversation Starters A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger, bestselling author and innovation expert, discusses the importance of asking questions in order to succeed—in life and business....

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"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated...

Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or...

"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at...

The 1867 Canadian confederation brought with it expectations of a national literature, which a rising class of local printers hoped to supply. Reforming copyright law in the imperial context proved impossible, and Canada became a prime market for foreign publishers instead. The subsequent development...

Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright | Conversation Starters Fascism: A Warning, by Madeleine Albright, brings reader’s attentions to the warning signs that surrounds America. Using her own experiences with fascism during her childhood in war-torn Europe, Madeleine Albright uses her expertise...

Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk | Conversation Starters Gary Vaynerchuck released his first book Crush It! In 2009. He shared with readers why it was important for them to have a personal brand and how they could be successful as an entrepreneur. Crushing It! is the 2018 follow up book to Crush...

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters...