With 50 "very "brief readings -- all new to this edition -- from over 35 "very "recent periodicals and student newspapers on 12 topics of current interest, "America Now "reflects what students are talking and writing about right now. A key challenge in the first-year composition course is to inspire students as readers and to spark the kind of ...
The readings in "The Writer's Presence "are selected exclusively for the quality of the writing. Editors Donald McQuade of the University of California, Berkeley, and Robert Atwan, Series Editor of "The Best American Essays "scoured hundreds of essays in search of teachable readings with strong voices and clear points of view. The result is a ...
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness. The essays tell hard-won tales wrestled sometimes ...
By pairing essays with other kinds of compositions -- a TV show, a news report, a photo, an ad, a cast-off grocery list -- "Convergences "asks students to respond to all kinds of visual and verbal texts. Its organization into six broad thematic chapters -- each of which is broken out into six clusters -- presents the materials in a way that is ...
Beginning with Native American and pre-colonial narratives, and with an emphasis on whole works, this edition offers a full range of authors and selections representative of America's diverse literary traditions. Over 100 selections are new to this edition. "Cultural Portfolios"-together with thoroughly revised period introductions-provide ...
Edited by the bestselling writer Lauren Slater, this year's "Best American Essays" highlights provocative, lively writing from many of our brightest literary lights. Contributors include Adam Gopnik, Scott Turow, Marjorie Williams, Poe Ballantine, and others.
This selection of 25 essays, edited by Susan Orlean, contains work by Andrea Barrett ("The Sea of Information"), Kitty Burns Florey ("Sister Bernadette?s Barking Dog"), Jonathan Franzen ("The Comfort Zone"), David Masello ("My Friend Lodovico"), Oliver Sacks ("Speed"), and David Sedaris ("Old Faithful").
This respected, rhetorically-arranged reader shows students, through accessible language and remarkable literary examples, how underlying rhetorical structures stimulate and direct all clear thinking and effective writing. And while "Thinking In Writing" covers traditional rhetorical principles, it also reflects the contemporary and practical work ...
From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones - devotional and meditative, sardonic or political - and includes re-enactments of key episodes, lyrical descants on familiar passages, peronal expressions of faith, and veiled social ...
Popular Writing in America provides composition students with models of strategies and techniques in writing effective prose. It shows the interaction of style and audience by drawing texts from advertising, the press, popular magazines, best sellers, classics, film, and television, and illustrates how a particular medium and its presumed audience ...
With a unique focus on message, method, and medium, "Convergences" asks students to think about what, why, and how we communicate. What's the best way to tell the story of your life, through words or pictures? How would the Gettysburg Address be received if Lincoln had delivered it on PowerPoint? Why did Benetton design a marketing campaign around ...
Louis Menand (who contributes an introduction called "Voices") has chosen an array of 20 essayists from many publications. Writers include Oliver Sacks, Luc Sante, Cynthia Zarin, Anne Fadiman, Rick Moody, Laura Hillenbrand, and Tim Judah, with work from The American Scholar, Granta, Artforum, Harper's, and (of course) The New Yorker, which has a ...
Since 1986, "The Best American Essays" has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year. This year's volume is terrifically diverse, with subjects ranging from driving lessons to animal rights to citizenship in times of emergency.
Like its best-selling predecessors, the fifth edition of "Our Times" is built entirely around "very" contemporary selections from a wide variety of "very" recent periodicals on intriguing topics of "very" current interest -- more than ninety percent published since 1996 . With a new profile of the Class of 2000 based on UCLA's national survey of ...
Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, Chapters Into Verse surveys and defines the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Arranged in scriptural order from Genesis to Revelation, the book presents each poem alongside the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness ...
From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones - devotional and meditative, sardonic or political - and includes re-enactments of key episodes, lyrical descants on familiar passages, personal expressions of faith, and veiled social ...
The reflections and recollections of Saul Bellow, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, and Andre Dubus join company with many voices new to this series, as an astonishing variety of writers share their deepest thoughts on ecstasy and injury, ambition and failure, privacy and notoriety.
This series annually collects the best essays published each year. Lightman, the 2000 guest editor, chose a diverse group of voices writing on a variety of subjects. The collection is unified by the earnestness of each essay.
Facebook is the social networking site that has taken first undergrads, then high schoolers, and finally the rest of the world by storm since its 2004 launch at Harvard by then-undergrad Mark Zuckerberg. "The Facebook Book", by Harvard alums and early Booksters Atwan and Lushing, follows in the fine satirical tradition of "The Official Preppy ...
The Writer's Presence is the most flexible and balanced composition reader available, offering 157 superb readings arranged alphabetically by author and by five types of writing -- an organization that allows for many different approaches to teaching writing.
This essayists-in-depth reader is "also" a thematic reader. It arranges 55 essays by 10 of the most widely read and highly regarded writers in the English language today (including Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf, E. B. White, and George Orwell) under 10 classic and provocative themes.
Each new volume of this acclaimed collection reflects the guest editor's distinctive taste and perspective. This year, Ian Frazier provides an unusually humorous and unpredictable selection, featuring essays by some of our most respected writers, including Susan Sontag, Roy Blount, Jr., and Thomas McGuane.
Drawing on unparalleled access to Osama bin Laden and his key associates, journalist Abdel Bari Atwan gives an incisive and timely account of the rise of the notorious terrorist organization, al Qaeda.
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