On Looking: Essays, Paperback

Reducere. The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting...

This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award...

Reducere. What are you Looking at? details a series of public, performance-based social experiments. Framed within personal essays, Wakeland reflects on the ...

A prize-winning and bestselling novelist, this is an inspiring and academic collection of essays that focus on art, feminism, neuroscience and psyc...

Film reporter Alicia Malone brings a collection of personal essays looking at the representation and impact of women on film. In addition to person...

Reducere. Thotscholar is an underground indie scholar and creative looking to expand people's views on erotic labor economic and reproductive justice, and ma...

Reducere. The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. This outstandi...

Analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. This work surveys a major segment in t...

Reducere. Designed to address the needs for a college course in traditional English grammar from the conservative Christan worldview. This textbook spends a ...

Examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colours the vision...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at A...

DescriptionThe Victorian period has a strong tradition of poetry written by women. In this Companion, leading scholars deliver accessible and cutti...

Reducere. Coles is a true original. ―Tom Sleigh The Stranger I Become probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science...

A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means ...

Reducere. Peter van Inwagen, author of the classic book An Essay on Free Will (1983), has established himself over the last forty years as a leading figure i...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this third volume of essays adapted from the acclaimed blog TARDIS Eruditorum you'll find a critical history of the Jon Pertwee years...

Reducere. When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Be...

Reducere. "I had a real romance with this book." --Miranda JulyA highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, "bracingly good...r...

Reducere. A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How ...

Reducere. What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a pr...

This is a volume of articles and essays by well-known teacher, David Gorman. Gorman is a teacher of the Alexander Technique, the founder of the Lea...

Reducere. Are you looking to bring low-tech STEAM learning to your elementary students but do not know where to start? Capturing Creativity provides over 20 ...

Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the wo...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this newly revised and expanded first volume of essays adapted from the acclaimed blog TARDIS Eruditorum you'll find a critical histo...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today - From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News, " a heartfelt and hila...

A selection of reflective essays about mental health on the autism spectrum from a diverse range of people. Each contributor follows the topics of ...

Paperback. Pub Date : 2013-02-28 Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics Reading Brodskys essays is like a conversation with ...

In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provo...

Reducere. DescriptionBrilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writ...

Reducere. DescriptionAhmet Hamdi Tanpinar, poet, novelist and critic, was a professor of Ottoman and Turkish literature at Istanbul University. His 'Five Cit...

Reducere. Scottish Rite Reflections is a stimulating way of looking at Scottish Rite Masonry in particular and Freemasonry in general. This book examines the...

The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence is a brilliant consideration of the strategies of poetry, and the similarities between early Zen thou...

Reducere. Tell the administration what they want to hear, then do what is best for your students. That's advice Barry Garelick tries to follow in the process...

DescriptionAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." --Dan Rather A...

Few other economists have been read and cited as often as R.H. Coase has been, even though, as he admits, "most economists have a different way of ...

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks f...

Reducere. Weighing Approaches to Finish the TaskChristians have been reflecting on best practices for as long as they have been engaging in missions. Practit...

Reducere. Whether he's looking for wild orangutans on Borneo or diving off the coast of South Africa, Randy Wayne White is one of America's most adventurous ...

Reducere. Parenting with PTSD is an anthology and workbook for parents who are survivors of childhood abuse. Editors Joyelle Brandt and Dawn Daum are survivo...

The role of women in the church is highly debated, with Christians on all sides using Paul's teachings in 1 Timothy to justify their positions. Now...

The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions--thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Haunted by Books Mark Valentine explores the more curious byways of literature. He presents the author who was always being told he h...

Reducere. This book is a collection of 12 essays looking at touchstones of Russian popular culture, mostly from the Soviet period, that continue to resonate ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of a chronologi...

Reducere. Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, E...

Reducere. I would love for my younger fans to readWhat Will It Take to Make a Woman President?by Marianne Schnall. It s a collection of interviews and essays...

Reducere. In the capstone work of his career, distinguished military historian Jay Luvaas brings together in one volume the military genius of Napoleon. Unli...

Reducere. Society has prescribed this idea of growing older as sad and lonely-which may not speak to your experience at all. What if you are having a great t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jesse LiebmanWhat do high school teachers expect from your writing? Here's the inside information on how your teachers thin...

Reducere. When it comes to customer experience, Don Peppers is one of the world's most respected authorities. Over the last twenty years he and co-author Mar...

DescriptionAre you a lover of crime fiction looking for new discoveries or hoping to rediscover old favorites?Then look no further. There are few c...

Reducere. For more than a century now Lewis Carroll has been read and celebrated as the author of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hun...

Reducere. Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respecte...

Reducere. Thoughts on People, Planet, & Profit is a collection of essays about responsible investing from the field's pioneer. It's also a book about hope. T...

Reducere. This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to underst...

Reducere. This history of the Nez Perce War was written in 1878-79 by Duncan McDonald, a relative of Chief Looking Glass and the son of a Hudson's Bay Compan...

Reducere. Already an internet phenomenon, these wise and insightful lessons by popular newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Regina Brett will make...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Margaret WeisAuthor: Wolfgang BaurAuthor: Jeff GrubbThe Best Role in Roleplaying Whether you're a new gamemaster or a seaso...

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessme...

Contributor(s): Author: Kiki Sabater"I don't want to be anyone anymore. I especially don't want to be a woman, " Sabater writes in the opening piec...

Reducere. DescriptionFive years ago after its original publication on Medium: The Economics of Star Trek: The Proto-Post-Scarcity Society is finally availabl...

Gershom Scholem was the master builder of historical studies of the Kabbalah. When he began to work on this neglected field, the few who studied th...

Reducere. Funeral for Flaca is an exploration of things lost and found-love, identity, family-and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and g...

Spellbinding meditations on conjuring your own bliss. Everyday Enchantments is a love letter to the magic of everyday life, the sweet moments and t...

Description"Davies' collection of essays soars.... It's a memoir that locates the profound within the ordinary." --Entertainment WeeklyIf you're lo...

Reducere. After the fires are out, the smoke has cleared, the divorce is over, the widow has stopped wearing black, the sun has risen, the monsters are dead,...

Reducere. We live in a world where, all too often, our public conversation is reduced to sound bites, which is no conversation at all. Sound bites are a part...

Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul Ree, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals -- a...

From nationally bestselling author, YouTube star, and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays that paint "an hone...

Batman: Gotham Knights made history as the very first ongoing Batman series to be launched by a woman, and now this popular series is collected tog...