Author: Alex Kudera Publisher: ISBN: 9780986240089 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
The precarious life of the adjunct instructor comes to life in this wry and comical novel about academic everyman Cyrus Duffleman. This classroom edition includes bonus essays, interviews and graphics about adjunct survival and the state of so-called "higher" education.
Author: Eugene O'Neill Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300190182 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
divEugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an invaluable guide to the text, including an essay on historical and critical perspectives; glosses of literary allusions and quotations; notes on the performance history; an annotated bibliography; and illustrations. "This is a worthy new edition, one that I'm sure will appeal to many students and teachers. William Davies King provides a thoughtful introduction to Long Day's Journey into Night—equally sensitive to the most particular and most encompassing of the play's materials."—Marc Robinson/DIV
Author: Andrew Bomback Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262370816 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
How parenting became a verb, from Dr. Spock and June Cleaver to baby whispering and free-range kids. When did “parenting” become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent, and so rife with the possibility of failure? Sitcom families of the past—the Cleavers, the Bradys, the Conners—didn’t seem to lose any sleep about their parenting methods. Today, parents are likely to be up late, doomscrolling on parenting websites. In Long Days, Short Years, Andrew Bomback—physician, writer, and father of three young children—looks at why it can be so much fun to be a parent but, at the same time, so frustrating and difficult to parent. It’s not a “how to” book (although Bomback has read plenty of these) but a “how come” book, investigating the emergence of an immersive, all-in approach to raising children that has made parenting a competitive (and often not very enjoyable) sport. Drawing on parenting books, mommy blogs, and historical accounts of parental duties as well as novels, films, podcasts, television shows, and his own experiences as a parent, Bomback charts the cultural history of parenting as a skill to be mastered, from the laid-back Dr. Spock’s 1950s childcare bible—in some years outsold only by the actual Bible—to the more rigid training schedules of Babywise. Along the way, he considers the high costs of commercialized parenting (from the babymoon on), the pressure on mothers to have it all (and do it all), scripted parenting as laid out in How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, parenting during a pandemic, and much more.
Author: Anthony Burgess Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393309430 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
Author: Brent Hendricks Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374146861 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
Chronicles the author's journey across the Deep South to the site of the crematory where in February 2002 it was revealed that hundreds of decayed bodies meant for cremation were discovered, including that of the author's father.
Author: Alex Kudera
Author: Eugene O'Neill
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Author: Eugene O'Neill
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