Anne Clifford, in her Great Books of Records, places herself within the dynamic 600 year history of the Clifford family. This book is unique, including a wide variety of records that provide an unbrok
From a top young adult literary agent, Writing Great Books for Young Adults is the only guide on how to write for young adults and gives writers the advice they need to tap this incredible market.
Some of todays favorite books are horror stories. Now readers can create some of their personal favorites on the page, using their own creativity and simple tools. Step-by-step instructions and intere
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Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their
If you are looking for a book to give to a teenage reader, here's the reference you've been waiting for. Until now, there's been no accepted guide to what's good, bad, or indifferent in the flood of b
In Great Books, Denby lives the common adult fantasy of returning to school with some worldly knowledge and experience of life. A gifted story-teller, he leads us on a glorious tour - by turns eloquen
Great Books of China invites readers to discover—or rediscover—some of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it o
AN IRRESISTIBLE LITERARY FEAST Stories and recipes inspired by the world's great books As a young bookworm reading in her grandfather's butcher shop, Cara Nicoletti saw how books and food bring people
Great Books of China invites readers to discoveror rediscoversome of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it off
This lavishly illustrated encyclopedic reference work brings together and organizes virtually all the great works on horses published in the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century.
Nowadays almost all creatives work with type - actually everyone uses type - so knowledge of typography is essential. This book presents the reader with one hundred valuable and influential books on t
An exciting reissue of both books in the beloved Christmas Cottage series fromNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Samantha Chase, just in time for the holidays .Legend has it that any coup
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Great children’s and young adult novels offer their readers both wonderful outward adventures and stirring inward journeys. In The Magic Words, Cheryl B. Klein draws on fifteen years of experience as
This book argues that the deepest purpose of the twentieth-century's prominent great books promoters was to support an intellectually robust, consensus-oriented democratic culture. Using previously un
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite li
A witty history of an unlikely literary fad and an American pop culture phenomenon of the 1950s and early 1960s examines the overwhelming popularity of the Great Books of Western Civilization and how
Pick up a celebrity magazine and you'll see that the art of naming babies has reached new heights of self-expression, with recent choices like Shiloh, Sailor, Apple, and notably, Elijah Bob Patricius
Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin--Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of SpeciesAy (1859), The Descent of Man Ay(1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and An
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"A vivaciously witty and entertaining chronicle of one man's quest to better himself by reading fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones), The Year of Reading Dangerously--the grown-up version of
From J.K. Rowling's love of?Jane Austen to J.M. Coetzee, whose "top 10" includes Cervantes and Samuel Beckett, this irresistible companion for all passionate readers?explores why?"the canon" is for ev
