Essays category: 9344 books
by Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of...
The Reckonings
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
“Unflinching and honest…both timely and timeless” (Houston Chronicle), this extraordinary collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions that strike at the heart of our national conversation about the...
by C. Patrick Neagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This second volume of author and photographer C. Patrick Neagle's series is even bigger and better than the first, containing 36 travel-sized essays and 30 photographs from around the globe (but mostly from Arabia, Asia, and the Mediterranean). Written while the author taught college classes on board...
In Other Words
40 Years of Writing on Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A wide-ranging and beautiful collection of essays from one of world literature’s most important writers.
Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia’s foremost public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays-spanning from 1968 to the present day-demonstrates the breadth of his perceptive...
Citizen Doctorow: Notes on Art & Politics
The Nation Essays 1978-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The novelist E.L. Doctorow, who died in 2015, will long be remembered for his highly imaginative historical fiction. In intricate and profound works like Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The March and many others, Doctorow helped redefine American fiction by subverting our received ideas about the past and...
Colonial Consequences
Essays in Irish Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Colonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast-born, Vancouver-based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural backgrounds, from eighteenth-century landscape verse, the origins of Irish modernism, Yeats's great poem 'Easter 1916',...
by Zafar Anjum
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
This book contains four well-researched original essays that deal with India and China. In the opening essay, "The unmaking of the East—India and China in the age of globalisation", journalist Zafar Anjum examines the high-octane economic growth of India and China in the light of the wisdom...
How Not To Be A Doctor
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor—a real doctor—should mean being able to draw...
by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson's wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta....
At Odds in the World
Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose works that span the years 1956...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
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Of the following essays, five are new, and were written for...
Slush Pile Essays
Slush Pile Essays, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The Slush Pile is Bruce Anthony’s repository of short reads. The fertile mind of an author is always sprouting opinions, viewpoints, observations, and sometimes simply thoughts of wonderment that are shown to friends who continually ask, “So, what have you written lately?” They are offered here...
The Essential Essays of Woodrow Wilson
The New Freedom, When A Man Comes To Himself, The Study of Administration, Leaders of Men, The New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of Woodrow Wilson's essays. Woodrow Wilson, a disciple of Walter Bagehot, considered the United States Constitution to be cumbersome and open to corruption. He favored a parliamentary system for the United States and in the early 1880s...
Adapt and Overcome
Essays on the Student Veteran Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The essays in Adapt and Overcome: Essays on the Student Veteran Experience explore issues faced by veteran-students when they confront the demands of college. Written for students, faculty and staff, and university administrators, the text helps readers gain a deeper understanding of the veteran-student...