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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
By: Foster, Thomas C.
Published by: PerfectBound
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.
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Price: $10.95
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The Science of Harry Potter
By: Highfield, Roger
Published by: The Penguin Group (USA)
Can Fluffy the three-headed dog be explained by advances in molecular biology? Could the discovery of cosmic "gravity-shielding effects" unlock the secret to the Nimbus 2000 broomstick's ability to fly? Is the griffin really none other than the dinosaur Protoceratops? Roger Highfield, author of the critically acclaimed The Physics of Christmas, explores the fascinating links between magic and science to reveal that much of what strikes us as supremely strange in the Potter books can actually be explained by the conjurings of the scientific mind. This is the perfect guide for parents who want to teach their children science through their favorite adventures as well as for the millions of adult fans of the series intrigued by its marvels and mysteries.
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Price: $15.00
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A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary Texts
By: Jacobs, Richard
Published by: Routledge
A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading brings literature to life by combining a rich selection of literary texts with genuinely original and lively commentary. Unlike so many introductions to literary studies, this is a book which vividly demonstrates how criticism and theory can actually enhance your own enjoyment and appreciation of literature.
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Price: $11.99
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Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books about Boys
By: Rand, Donna; Parker, Toni Trent
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
These are exciting times for African American children's literature. Never before have there been so many titles available.
Now two of the mothers who founded Black Books Galore! - the nation's leading organizer of festivals of African American children's books - and the authors of the highly acclaimed Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books share their expert advice on how to find and choose the best African American books in two new fully annotated guides - one featuring boys, one featuring girls - opening the door to a wonderful world of reading for children. Discover hundreds of young black heroes, heroines, and positive role models of every age in every category, including board books, story and picture books, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, history, biography, fables, and more.
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Price: $15.95
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Country House
By: Gerould, D.
Published by: Routledge
"Country House", a "comedy with corpses" is a subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. This send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world.
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Price: $42.95
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Dante in Love
By: Rubin, Harriet
Published by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
In the vein of Brunelleschi's Dome, Galileo's Daughter, and Wittgenstein's Poker, Dante in Love is a geographic and spiritual re-creation of the poet's travels and the burst of creativity that produced the greatest poem ever written. Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Rubin follows Dante's path as the poet, exiled from Florence, walked the old Jubilee routes that linked monasteries and all roads to Rome and Tuscany -- a path followed by generations of seekers from T. S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and Primo Levi to Bruce Springsteen. Following Dante's route, we, too, are inspired to undertake the journey of discovering ourselves.
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Price: $17.99
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Familiar Studies of Men and Books
By: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Published by: Electric Book Company
The essays that were later published as Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882) began to appear in the Cornhill Magazine in 1876. The essay was the form in which Stevenson first gave promise of his future distinction and these critical essays were very favourably received.
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Price: $4.95
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Joy of Reading
By: Van Doren, Charles
Published by: Sourcebooks, Inc.
This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th century America. Like a professor whose enthusiasm enwraps his students, Van Doren explains what’s wonderful in the books you’ve missed and awakens your desire to reopen the books you already know.
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Price: $22.99
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Laura's List
By: Darnall, Beverly
Published by: Jeremy P. Tarcher
Laura's List presents the First Lady's published list of recommended books, and builds on her public commitment to books and learning. Parents need basic tools to give their children opportunities to grow, and here is an easy-to-understand guide to great reading for kids-from a highly visible source, Laura Bush. Mrs. Bush's own background and dedication to reading gives rise to this collection and can inspire others to take up her passion for reading as a means to expanding a child's world. Simple and powerful in conception, Laura's List discusses each book that our First Lady has publicly recommended, providing summaries and excerpts. It examines the values taught by each selection, and offers a reader's guide, listing prevalent themes and questions to ask after reading. Also Included are:. - a short biography of the First Lady;. - appendices of themes found in each book; and. - Laura Bush's reading recommendations for adults.
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Marketing in Publishing
By: Forsyth, Patrick; Birn, Robin
Published by: Routledge
Offers a wealth of practical information on creative strategies to increase book sales in a competitive and rapidly changing marketplace and gives expert guidance on different elements of the marketing process.
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Price: $43.95
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