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by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Team of Teams: By Stanley A. McChrystal (Trivia-On-Books)
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Team of Teams is a book written by Stanley McChrystal with the help of his team, the McChrystal Group. It’s a work that describes the best way for...
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
You Must Read Before You Die
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the best work of one of the most accomplished authors, Gabriel García Márquez, and is considered to be one...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Bared to You by Sylvia Day
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Romantic, insightful, and well written, Bared to You is a part of New York Times best-selling author, Sylvia Day's, Crossfire series. The novel, first published in 2012, was one...
Reading 1759
Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics....
Reading Style
A Life in Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elicits...
Under the Chinaberry Tree
Books and Inspirations for Mindful Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Celebrating Chinaberry's twentieth anniversary, the women behind America's beloved children's book catalog share their wisdom about the joys of children's literature and parenting.
The Chinaberry catalog was created when Ann Ruethling became troubled by the violence in many old-fashioned nursery...
Sight Words Sentences
Ideal for Reading & Writing Habit - Kindergarten Sight Words for Progressing The Language Command & Overall Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
The most basic thing for the kids while growing is to get familiar with different learning aspects including writing, reading & more, and this is exactly where flash cards sight words book comes to help with sheer comfort and ease. Sight Words letter flash cards for kindergarten feature all in...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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The Book Thief is a wonderful novel about a feisty young girl named Liesel Meminger. She is sent to live with a foster family after the death of her brother. Not...
Reading in Russia
Practices of Reading and Literary Communication, 1760-1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
“Reader, where are you?”, wondered, in the mid-1880s, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, one of the Russian writers that paid the most attention to the readership of his time. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s call did not go unanswered. Over the past two centuries, various disciplines – from the social sciences...
The Pleasures of Memory
Learning to Read with Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? “A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated?...
Le reti della lettura
Tracce, modelli, pratiche del social reading
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Questo libro ha per oggetto, a partire da un approccio interdisciplinare, il significato in larga misura nuovo che oggi viene attribuito alla pratica della lettura, attraverso l’analisi delle tracce informative che vengono lasciate in rete utilizzando le piattaforme di social reading. Il volume...
Reading Rilke
Reflections on the Problems of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.
After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke...
by David Shields
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto
In this wonderfully...