Author: Sandra Newman Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101554088 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 379
Book Description
A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we bluffed our way through in college, the dusty Everyman's Library editions that look classy on the shelf but make us feel guilty because they've never been opened. On a mission to restore the West's great works to their rightful place (they were intended to be entertaining!), Sandra Newman has produced a reading guide like no other. Beginning with Greek and Roman literature, she takes readers through hilarious detours and captivating historical tidbits on the road to Modernism. Along the way, we find parallels between Rabelais and South Park, Jane Austen and Sex and the City, Jonathan Swift and Jon Stewart, uncovering the original humor and riskiness that propelled great authors to celebrity. Packed with pop culture gems, stories of literary hoaxes, ironic day jobs for authors, bad reviews of books that would later become classics, and more.
Author: Marianne Daugharthy Publisher: ISBN: 9781516591749 Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 520
Book Description
College Technology Survival Kit provides students with the necessary tools and knowledge to succeed in their academic careers through the use of basic computer skills and other technology. The information shared in the book helps to prevent the technology-related frustrations students can encounter when asked to write papers, create presentations, or navigate a school's learning management system. The book features information on computer programs like Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as commonly used learning management systems Blackboard and Canvas. The text offers students lessons in file management, Google web applications, email programs, and developing presentations in Prezi. It provides complete, step-by-step instructions to help students navigate common computer-based programs and systems and develop technological competency. College Technology Survival Kit is a cross-disciplinary, supplementary text designed to support all higher education students, regardless of their field of study. It is ideal for foundational courses in computer sciences or other classes where basic computer skills are needed. Marianne Daugharthy received her B.S. in business administration and M.S. in computer information systems from The University of Phoenix. She is an adjunct professor of adult computer literacy at the College of Western Idaho. Her background includes 20 years in the U.S. Navy and her interests include analyzing, managing, and designing database information. Alanna Duley earned her B.A. in business education from The College of the Ozarks, her M.B.A. from Northwest Nazarene University, and her Ph.D. in management information systems technology/management at the University of Phoenix. She is an adjunct professor of computer education systems at the College of Western Idaho, Treasure Valley Community College, and the College of Idaho. Her research interests include computer problem-solving, computer forensics, cybersecurity, and programming.
Author: Howard Mittelmark Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061862894 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
"What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted. "Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'" "But how shall I absolve this dilemma? I have already read every tome available on how to write well and get published!" The writer tossed his head about, wildly. "It might help," opined the blonde editor, helpfully, "to ponder how NOT to write a novel, so you might avoid the very thing!" Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoid—at all costs—if you ever want your novel published. In How Not to Write a Novel, authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman distill their 30 years combined experience in teaching, editing, writing, and reviewing fiction to bring you real advice from the other side of the query letter. Rather than telling you how or what to write, they identify the 200 most common mistakes unconsciously made by writers and teach you to recognize, avoid, and amend them. With hilarious "mis-examples" to demonstrate each manuscript-mangling error, they'll help you troubleshoot your beginnings and endings, bad guys, love interests, style, jokes, perspective, voice, and more. As funny as it is useful, this essential how-NOT-to guide will help you get your manuscript out of the slush pile and into the bookstore.
Author: John C. Kunich Publisher: Skyward Publishing Company ISBN: 9781881554257 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Survival Kit for Leaders shows leaders how to cope with a frenetic pace of change. The book motivates and excites leaders, showing them how to aim for the impossible while gaining the self-confidence it takes to make the tough calls. With teamwork as the focus, leaders exceed expectations while acting according to ethical standards. It is a powerful books that will be welcomed by those serious about leadership. Survival Kit for Leaders provides the tools that will enable you to learn, to recall, and to apply powerful leadership principles directly and effectively in your own life. You will learn to survive your leadership challenges, and more--you will transcend them.
Author: J. A. Garrido Ardila Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 131629854X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the picaresque remains a controversial literary category, and its definition is still much contested. The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature examines the development of the picaresque, chronologically and geographically, from its origins in sixteenth-century Spain to the neopicaresque in Europe and the United States.
Author: Sandra Newman Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 0802159672 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 271
Book Description
From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mindbending novel in which all people with a Y chromosome mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and acts of love. Children, adults, even fetuses are gone in an instant. Leo and Benjamin are gone. No one knows why, how, or where. After the Disappearance, Jane forces herself to enter a world she barely recognizes, one where women must create new ways of living while coping with devastating grief. As people come together to rebuild depopulated industries and distribute scarce resources, Jane focuses on reuniting with an old college girlfriend, Evangelyne Moreau, leader of the Commensalist Party of America, a rising political force in this new world. Meanwhile, strange video footage called “The Men” is being broadcast online showing images of the vanished men marching through barren, otherworldly landscapes. Is this just a hoax, or could it hold the key to the Disappearance? From the author of The Heavens, The Men is a gripping, beautiful, and disquieting novel of feminist utopias and impossible sacrifices that interrogates the dream of a perfect society and the conflict between individual desire and the good of the community.
Author: Sandra Newman Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062227122 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 492
Book Description
In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language, from a remarkable literary talent. My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States . . . In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies—a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure. When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting with her whole heart and soul to protect the only world she has ever known. Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman delivers an extraordinary post-apocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas. Like Hushpuppy in The Beasts of the Southern Wild grown to adolescence in a landscape as dangerously unpredictable as that of Ready Player One, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.
Author: James Wesley, Rawles Publisher: Thunder Bay Press ISBN: 1645173771 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Take the initiative and be ready to survive! Could you survive the end of the world as we know it? The Ultimate Prepper's Survival Guide will set you on the path to learning all the skills you will need to survive full societal collapse. We live in precarious times, and sensible people all around the world are recognizing that preparedness could mean the difference between life and death. Author John Wesley, Rawles—one of the world’s leading survivalist experts—explains how to survive in the short term as society begins to collapse, and how to thrive in the long term. Practical, easy-to-follow instructions are included to instruct you on the preparations you can make today, as well as advice on the mental and emotional resilience required to help you not just cope but prosper in the new world.
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh Publisher: Parallax Press ISBN: 1937006603 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
The Five Mindfulness Trainings (also referred to as “Precepts”)—not to kill, steal, commit adultery, lie, or take intoxicants—are the basic statement of ethics and morality in Buddhism. Zen Master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh argues eloquently for their applicability in our daily lives and on a global scale. Nhat Hanh discusses the value and meaning of each precept, offering insights into the role that it could play in our changing society. Thich Nhat Hanh calls the trainings a “diet for a mindful society”. With this book, he offers a Buddhist contribution to the current thinking on how we can come together to define secular, moral guidelines that will allow us to explore and sustain a sane, compassionate, and healthy way of living. The Five Mindfulness Trainings offer a path to restoring meaning and value in our world, whether called virtues, ethics, moral conduct, or precepts they are guidelines for living without bringing harm to others.
Author: Melissa Stewart Publisher: Holiday House ISBN: 1682632679 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Underdogs, unite! Celebrated nonfiction author Melissa Stewart offers young readers a funny, informative look at some animal "underdogs" that have amazing means of survival. Pee-ew! Should the stinky, skunklike zorilla take a bath? And should the slowpoke Galápagos tortoise get a move on? Everyone knows "cool" animals like elephants and cheetahs, but you should meet these lesser-known creatures that have amazing, creative means of survival! Written with a lively, playful voice, this book introduces young readers to a variety of animal "underdogs" and explains how characteristics that might seem like weaknesses are critical for finding food and staying safe in an eat-or-be-eaten world. Along with her engaging animal facts, Stewart weaves in a gentle message of understanding and celebrating differences. Stephanie Laberis's bright, humorous, and scientifically accurate illustrations add to the fun.
Author: Sandra Newman
Author: Marianne Daugharthy
Author: Howard Mittelmark
Author: John C. Kunich
Author: J. A. Garrido Ardila
Author: Sandra Newman
Author: Sandra Newman
Author: James Wesley, Rawles
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Author: Melissa Stewart