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1.How Fiction Works by: James Wood July 22, 2008
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Several comments leave an impression to at least one not academically qualified to have wandered into a symposium for MBA/PhD degreed professionals. Give classicists their due in literary art forms, this common reader also enjoys contemporaries, such as David Guterson's introspective The Other, circa 2008. I don't care How Fiction Works, as long as a story works for me, written then or now.

2.How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by: Thomas C. Foster February 18, 2003
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Dr. Thomas C. Foster is a Michigan Professor of English who has written this bestseller and its sequel "How To Read Novels Like a Professor". This is the initial volume published in paperback by Quill in 2003. Foster is well versed in all aspects of the literary field from ancient works to fiction by living writers. In his lively little book he introduces us to such terms as the following: Seasons; Food; the Bible, Greek and Latin classical allusions and the world of fairy tales. He discusses irony, plote, motif and theme. All of this can be found elsewhere and in greater depth but Foster does an adequate job by using cogent illustrations from outstanding works such as "The Alexandrine Quartet" of Lawrence Durrell; "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess; "Grendel" by John Gardner ... Read More

3.How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book) by: Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren August 15, 1972
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A great book on a seemingly obvious subject. Very insightful and a must for any begining researcher.

4.The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 1 from: W. W. Norton August 15, 2005
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I bought this to use with Tapestry of Grace curriculum, and used it with a 14 yr old fresh out of public school. It was way beyond her vocabulary level and reading skill set. This is a book I have seen used in college classes, and it figures, because much of the poems and plays are written in old or medieval English. We ended up scrapping this book most of the time and reading the same works in modern English online. Having said that, for a child who is used to a classical education, this collection of works would be a pleasure to read.

5.Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 (4th Edition) by: Lauren Leslie, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell July 30, 2005
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I had to buy this book for a graduate class. I used the QRI II all the time in my school. As the special education teacher, it was a quick and easy assessment for those first meetings. The new one is a little more organized. Overall it is a quick and easy assessment tool.

6.Books: A Memoir by: Larry McMurtry July 08, 2008
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Larry McMurtry has had as great an influence on books and movies as any living writer over the last half-century. From THE LAST PICTURE SHOW to LONESOME DOVE, he has penned 30 novels and 41 books, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. As a Hollywood screenwriter he won an Academy Award for Brokeback Mountain and has written 70 scripts. Who would have guessed, as he tells us in BOOKS: A Memoir, that by the mid-1970s "Writing was my vocation, but I had written a lot, and it was no longer exactly a passion." And this was years before LONESOME DOVE and decades before Brokeback Mountain. BOOKS: A Memoir is the story of McMurtry's real passion in life: book buying and selling. Over the years he has handled at least a million volumes as a bookseller. He owned a bookstore in Washington, D.C. for ... Read More

7.A Pocket Guide to Writing in History by: Mary Lynn Rampolla July 17, 2006
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I am a History Professor at a small, Christian, liberal arts college on the outskirts of Chicago. I have used this book, both the fourth edition and the fifth edition, in my Historical Methods course for the last four years. The fifth edition is a great improvement over the fouth. Overall, the book provides an excellent introduction to what historians do and how we do it. It defines primary and secondary sources well and provides a good list of questions to ask about each type of source. It talks about the types of writing assignments that are used in history and how to approach them. It gives a straightforward explanation of each step in the process of writing a research paper. It has a nice explanation of what plagiarism is (although like most scholars she describes it as a form of theft rather than ... Read More

8.The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Package 1 (Volumes A, B, C): Beginnings to 1650 from: W W Norton & Company July 19, 2003
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I am a History Professor at a small, Christian, liberal arts college on the outskirts of Chicago. I have used this book, both the fourth edition and the fifth edition, in my Historical Methods course for the last four years. The fifth edition is a great improvement over the fouth. Overall, the book provides an excellent introduction to what historians do and how we do it. It defines primary and secondary sources well and provides a good list of questions to ask about each type of source. It talks about the types of writing assignments that are used in history and how to approach them. It gives a straightforward explanation of each step in the process of writing a research paper. It has a nice explanation of what plagiarism is (although like most scholars she describes it as a form of theft rather than ... Read More

9.Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach (4th Edition) by: Gail E. Tompkins April 02, 2005
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the book was in excellent condition and was very fast shipping. thanks for doing business!

10.Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by: Azar Nafisi December 30, 2003
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It took forever for me to start this book because I didn't think I would like it. However, It was extremely well-written...I thought that the weaving of the history of Tehran with the story of the girls/women in the book club with the review of the books (the great gatsby, Lolita, and Daisy Miller) was done so seemingly effortlessly. I felt like I was learning so much about all three topics and was fascinated by each. When I read this book, I was going through a very tough time at work...undergoing alot of institutional injustice. This was the perfect book to read during that trying time...I think it helped me to see that people can live inside of a world of injustice and ridiculous, illogical rules and still find art and beauty and love and friendship and that in some ways these things are cultivated more fully ... Read More

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