Essays category: 9344 books

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Out Loud

Essays on Mental Illness, Stigma and Recovery

by Ramona Dearing
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2010

Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and friends, by community members, and by professionals who deal with mental illness. The voices here are ones of hope, pain,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

The renowned nonfiction annual makes its Penguin debut For more than a decade, Philip Zaleski has collected into a single volume the best spiritual essays and poetry of the year. The Best Spiritual Writing 2010, featuring essays by John Updike and Diane Ackerman, poems from Nobel Prize winner...
Cover of Love’s Long Line
by Sophfronia Scott
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2018

Sophfronia Scott turns an unflinching eye on her life to deliver a poignant collection of essays ruminating on faith, motherhood, race, and the search for meaningful connection in an increasingly disconnected world. In Love’s Long Line, Scott contemplates what her son taught her about grief after...
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by Francois Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2004

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment,...
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Griffith REVIEW 43

Pacific Highways

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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014

Migration, demographic changes and new cultural references are re-shaping New Zealand. It is fast becoming a hub where Pacific and Tasman currents meet. As a result New Zealand is changing, responding to surging tides of people and ideas. Isolated by ocean, New Zealand's ecosystem is particularly...
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Ohio States

A Twentieth-Century Midwestern

by Jeffrey Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1998

With gentle humor, Hammond presents readers with the charms, aggravations, quirks, and disappointments of small-town life and frustrates any expectation that the past's deepest lessons are simple. In Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern, Jeffrey Hammond asserts the quiet mysteries of an ordinary...
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The Love of Baseball

Essays by Lifelong Fans

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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017

Written by and for baseball fans (or those trying to live with one), this collection of essays joins a perennial conversation all fans have—“Why do we love baseball?” Thirty contributors share personal narratives of how they found an abiding passion for the sport and how their relationship to...
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by Neil Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

Neil M Gunn (1892 – 1973), one of Scotland’s most distinguished and highly regarded novelists of the 20th century, was a prolific writer. While he is best known for his fictional work Gunn was also a perceptive and meditative essayist who wrote extensively throughout his life on a wide range of...
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Courage Is Contagious

And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama

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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

A collection of essays celebrating the influential former first lady, by an array of acclaimed contributors and with a foreword by Lena Dunham. Michelle Obama’s legacy transcends categorization. Mrs. Obama was not only our first black first lady; she was President Obama’s equal partner...
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by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012

To persuade undecided New York state voters to ratify the new Constitution of the United States, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote 85 compelling essays, under the title The Federalist and signed "Publius," that appeared in New York City newspapers in 1787–1788. These far-reaching...
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Grumbling at Large

Selected Essays of J.B. Priestley

by J.B. Priestley
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and he expressed his thoughts on a diverse range of subjects from old age to his horror of conferences. Writing sometimes 'out of devilment' to shake up a complacent public, Priestley's essays reveal the singular voice of one of Britain's most distinguished writers.
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Biting the Error

Writers Explore Narrative

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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004

What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language, storytelling and the world. The anthology includes...
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A Long Time Coming

essays on ageing

by Melanie Joosten
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NIB: WAVERLEY LIBRARY AWARD FOR LITERATURE A powerful collection of essays exploring what it means to grow old in our youth-obsessed world To live a long life should be a joy; to be old should not be a burden. With improved health care and higher standards...
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Able Muse, Winter 2015 (No. 20 - print edition)

a review of poetry, prose and art

by Alexander Pepple, Léon Leijdekkers, Amit Majmudar
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016

This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2015 issue, Number 20. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse—online and in print. After...
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