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A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World by Morris Dickstein
pdf |en | | Author: Morris Dickstein

( Category: General February 18,2022 )
Book review: Schrödinger: Life and thought by Unknown
pdf | | | Author:Unknown

( Category: General February 10,2022 )
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books by Horning Kathleen T
epub |eng | 1997-03-31 | Author:Horning, Kathleen T. [Horning, Kathleen T.]

CHAPTER 6 Easy Readers and Transitional Books It is a common misconception among many adults that picture books are the best books to give a child who is just learning ...
( Category: Children's Literature August 5,2020 )
Power of Reading by Frank Furedi
epub |eng | 2019-11-24 | Author:Frank Furedi

6 READING AND HEALTH: AN ENDURING DILEMMA The controversy surrounding Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther illustrates the ease with which the rhetoric used to depict the impact and experience ...
( Category: History of Books July 25,2020 )
Narcissistic Narrative by Linda Hutcheon
epub |eng | 2010-09-05 | Author:Linda Hutcheon

CHAPTER SIX The Language of Fiction: Creating the Heterocosm of Fictive Referents These people aren’t real. I’m making them up as I go along, any section that threatens to flesh ...
( Category: History of Books July 21,2020 )
10 Books that Screwed Up the World by Benjamin Wiker
epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:Benjamin Wiker

There you have it. A cold shudder indeed. Think of it, the future landscape with nothing but unaspiring Irishmen multiplying off into the horizon, while the Great Scot sits sternly ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 20,2020 )
Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books by Mark Glickman
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Mark Glickman [Glickman, Mark]

Sutzkever concealed some of the material in the walls and floors of his own apartment, and he found other such hiding places as well. In one of the great ironies ...
( Category: Jewish July 20,2020 )
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn & Petra Couvée
epub |eng | 2014-06-17 | Author:Peter Finn & Petra Couvée

Irina and a friend brought the letter to the Central Committee building on the Old Square that night. They asked a guard smoking in the shadows of the entryway where ...
( Category: History of Books July 17,2020 )
The Emperor's Tomb (With Bonus Short Story the Balkan Escape): A Novel by Steve Berry
epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Steve Berry

Malone kept the plane’s altitude at around 5,000 feet. Never had he thought that he’d be leisurely cruising across Vietnamese airspace. Below stretched a panorama of jagged mountains and sloping ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling July 16,2020 )
Blatty, William by The Exorcist
epub |eng | | Author:The Exorcist

...In cases of possession by the dead, there are manifestations such as Oesterreich's account of a monk who, abruptly, while possessed, became a gifted and brilliant dancer although he had ...
( Category: Ghosts July 16,2020 )
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini
epub |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Jay Parini [Parini, Jay]

III. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK consists of fourteen separate essays and sketches, most of which had a separate life before coming together in book form. There is even one ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Tatar Maria
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Tatar, Maria [Tatar, Maria]

THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE SECRET GARDEN, AND THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH CHAMPION the importance of learning how to do things with words, hinting that control over language conquers helplessness and ...
( Category: Children's Literature July 7,2020 )
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century by John B. Thompson
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:John B. Thompson [Thompson, John B.]

1 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York: Random House, 2007). 2 See Richard E. Caves, Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling July 7,2020 )
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker
epub |eng | 2002-08-12 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

CHAPTER 29 * * * Slash and Burn Patricia Battin gave me a brittle book when we met one afternoon in Washington, at the offices of the Council on Library ...
( Category: General July 4,2020 )
Proof of Murder by Lauren Elliott
epub |eng | 2020-02-20 | Author:Lauren Elliott [Elliott, Lauren]

Chapter 17 This was the second time in as many days that Marc had treated her like a child, sending her from the room for a time-out. Addie leaned forward ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling June 15,2020 )

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