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Author : Loren C. Eiseley
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Man who Saw Through Time written by Loren C. Eiseley and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451480600
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Akata Woman written by Nnedi Okorafor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akata Woman is the New York Times bestselling third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, named one of Time magazine's "100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" and "100 Best YA Books of All Time," from award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor. "In this series, Okorafor creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels." —Time magazine From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the balance between nearly everything in her life—America and Nigeria, the "normal" world and the one infused with juju, human and spirit, good daughter and powerful Leopard Person. Now, those hard lessons and abilities are put to the test in a quest so dangerous and fantastical, it would be madness to go...but may destroy the world if she does not. With the help of her friends, Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object hidden deep in an otherworldly realm. Defeating the guardians of the prize will take more from Sunny than she has to give, and triumph will mean she will be forever changed.
Author : Campbell F. Scribner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501704117
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Fight for Local Control written by Campbell F. Scribner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment to those values was shifting and selective. In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law. Scribner's account unfolds on the metropolitan fringe, where rapid suburbanization overlapped with the consolidation of thousands of small rural schools. Rural residents initially clashed with their new neighbors, but by the 1960s the groups had rallied to resist government oversight. What began as residual opposition to school consolidation would transform into campaigns against race-based busing, unionized teachers, tax equalization, and secular curriculum. In case after case, suburban conservatives carved out new rights for local autonomy, stifling equal educational opportunity. Yet Scribner also provides insight into why many conservatives have since abandoned localism for policies that stress school choice and federal accountability. In the 1970s, as new battles arose over unions, textbooks, and taxes, districts on the rural-suburban fringe became the first to assert individual choice in the form of school vouchers, religious exemptions, and a marketplace model of education. At the same time, they began to embrace tax limitation and standardized testing, policies that checked educational bureaucracy but bypassed local school boards. The effect, Scribner concludes, has been to reinforce inequalities between districts while weakening participatory government within them, keeping the worst aspects of local control in place while forfeiting its virtues.
Author : Various
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0451627911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Mentor Book of Major American Poets written by Various and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1962-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice of the nation rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry. Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of 20 major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of: • Wallace Stevens • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Carlos Williams • Henry Wadsworth • Ezra Pound • Walt Whitman • Edgar Allen Poe • Emily Dickinson • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Stephen Crane • e. e. cummings • Robert Frost • Hart Crane • W. H. Auden • And more...
Author : Alison Smith
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780684192833
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Come Away Home written by Alison Smith and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus, a young sea monster, is blown off course by an ocean storm and becomes trapped in a Scottish loch, where he is discovered by Fiona and her dog James.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147678762X
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a selection of twenty-six short stories that includes famous classics as well as rare and previously unpublished works and an essay on the art of the short story.
Author : Tom Perrotta
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501144081
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Tracy Flick Can't Win written by Tom Perrotta and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great writers that we have today. I love this book.” —Harlan Coben An “engrossing and mordantly funny” (People) novel about ambition, coming-of-age in adulthood, and never really leaving high school politics behind—featuring New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta’s most iconic character of all time. Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job. Energized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion, Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal, determined to prove her worth to the students, faculty, and School Board, while also managing her personal life—a ten-year-old daughter, a needy doctor boyfriend, and a burgeoning meditation practice. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be. Her male colleagues’ determination to honor Vito Falcone—a star quarterback of dubious character who had a brief, undistinguished career in the NFL—triggers memories for Tracy and leads her to reflect on the trajectory of her own life. As she considers the past, Tracy becomes aware of storm clouds brewing in the present. Is she really a shoo-in for the principal job? Is the Superintendent plotting against her? Why is the School Board President’s wife trying so hard to be her friend? And why can’t she ever get what she deserves? A sharp, darkly comic, and pitch-perfect chronicle of the second act of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Tracy Flick Can’t Win “delivers acerbic insight about frustrated ambition” (Esquire).
Author : The Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603293523
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book MLA Handbook written by The Modern Language Association of America and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relied on by generations of writers, the MLA Handbook is published by the Modern Language Association and is the only official, authorized book on MLA style. The new, ninth edition builds on the MLA's unique approach to documenting sources using a template of core elements--facts, common to most sources, like author, title, and publication date--that allows writers to cite any type of work, from books, e-books, and journal articles in databases to song lyrics, online images, social media posts, dissertations, and more. With this focus on source evaluation as the cornerstone of citation, MLA style promotes the skills of information and digital literacy so crucial today. The many new and updated chapters make this edition the comprehensive, go-to resource for writers of research papers, and anyone citing sources, from business writers, technical writers, and freelance writers and editors to student writers and the teachers and librarians working with them. Intended for a variety of classroom contexts--middle school, high school, and college courses in composition, communication, literature, language arts, film, media studies, digital humanities, and related fields--the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook offers New chapters on grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, numbers, italics, abbreviations, and principles of inclusive language Guidelines on setting up research papers in MLA format with updated advice on headings, lists, and title pages for group projects Revised, comprehensive, step-by-step instructions for creating a list of works cited in MLA format that are easier to learn and use than ever before A new appendix with hundreds of example works-cited-list entries by publication format, including websites, YouTube videos, interviews, and more Detailed examples of how to find publication information for a variety of sources Newly revised explanations of in-text citations, including comprehensive advice on how to cite multiple authors of a single work Detailed guidance on footnotes and endnotes Instructions on quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, and avoiding plagiarism A sample essay in MLA format Annotated bibliography examples Numbered sections throughout for quick navigation Advanced tips for professional writers and scholars
Author : American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Concise Dictionary of American Biography written by American Council of Learned Societies and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume abridgment of the Dictionary of American biography contains concise versions of all 18,110 biographies contained in the original work and the eight supplement volumes. It also includes 1,026 biographies of figures who died between 1961 and 1970, as well as a 170-page listing of all subjects by occupation (in some 1,000 fields of endeavor). Edited under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476716781
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Candy House written by Jennifer Egan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER * Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more! OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24's TV adaptation of THE CANDY HOUSE and A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD! From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love. “A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history” (San Francisco Chronicle), “this is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Times).
Author : Michael Martone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476727368
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction written by Michael Martone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists. Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot , Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker, and Steve Yarbrough.
Author : Robert W. Trogdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Lousy Racket written by Robert W. Trogdon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The business of making an American literary icon The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway's working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical study of Hemingway's professional collaboration with Scribners also details the editing, promotion, and sales of the books he published with the firm from 1926 to 1952 and provides a fascinating look into the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century. This painstakingly researched study reveals the working relationship between Hemingway and his editors, with special emphasis on the friendship that developed between Hemingway and the dean of American book editors, Maxwell Perkins. Drawing on many unpublished resources, including correspondence between Hemingway and his editors and others in the firm, as well as printing, advertising records, and sales dummies, Robert W. Trogdon shows how Hemingway's public reputation was shaped in large part by Scribners. Hemingway scholars will appreciate this contribution to Hemingway studies, and The Lousy Racket is an important contribution to studies in the modernist era in American literature and to book history.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774649063
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book A Farewell to Arms written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''A Farewell to Arms'' is Hemingway's classic set during the Italian campaign of World War I. The book, published in 1929, is a first-person account of American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant ("Tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. It's about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of ''A Farewell to Arms'' cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."
Author : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Arabian Nights written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.
Author : George Cruikshank
Publisher : Hansebooks
ISBN 13 : 9783337343071
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Comic Almanack written by George Cruikshank and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Almanack - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : John M. Merriman
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Europe Since 1914 written by John M. Merriman and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents alphabetized articles on approximately eight hundred topics related to the history of Europe from the Bolshevik Revolution to the European Union, covering political, social, cultural, military, scientific, and economic aspects; and includes maps, a chronology, and illustrations.
Author : Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982111402
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books written by Edward Wilson-Lee and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
