Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780434829576
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Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mainly reviews of novels written by such authors as Susan Sontag, John O'Hara, John Hersey, and Henry Miller.
Encyclopedia of the Essay
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 1032
ISBN-13: 1135314101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Reflections on Classroom Thinking Strategies
Author: Eric Frangenheim
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-09-15
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1847878474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →`Frangenheim aims to lead teachers and learners out of their ''comfort zone'' towards the goal of independent learning. His classrooms must be exciting places for both groups' - Debate This book is designed specifically to create a more successful classroom climate in which all students are empowered to be better thinkers. The four main parts of this book deal with - Beliefs about the thinking classroom - Strategies for Analysis and Evaluation - Strategies for Creative Thinking - Strategies for Co-operative Thinking There is also a bonus section in which the author has supplied a large range of posters for the classroom dealing with the subjects above. Everything in this book was forged and tested in the classroom. It is a book about teaching, by teachers, for teachers. It is designed to encourage passion for teaching with an eye on that important ingredient FUN. Teachers are invited to reflect on how the ideas in this book can complement what they do in the classroom, curriculum meetings and staff meetings. Enjoy it!
Gore Vidal
Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780810860018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This comprehensive bibliography of Gore Vidal charts his career and covers the span of his sixty years of writing-from his first novel, Williwaw, to his 2006 memoir Point to Point Navigation.
Imperial America
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 2009-04-27
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 078673826X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gore Vidal has been described as the last 'noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America -- those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue -- by demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend the bill of rights, those who seek to restrain America's international power, are the true patriots. "Those Americans who refuse to plunge blindly into the maelstrom of European and Asiatic politics are not defeatist or neurotic," he writes. "They are giving evidence of sanity, not cowardice, of adult thinking as distinguished from infantilism. They intend to preserve and defend the Republic. America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America."
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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
Published:
Total Pages: 889
ISBN-13: 9326192512
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Author: Fred Kaplan
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 775
ISBN-13: 1480409774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This “fascinating” biography of an iconic American author and public intellectual “is so full of incident and celebrity . . . a pageant of entertaining stories” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Few writers of recent memory have distinguished themselves in so many fields, and so consummately, as Gore Vidal. A prolific novelist, Vidal also wrote for film and theater, and became a classic essayist of his own time, delivering prescient analyses of American society, politics, and culture. Known for his rapier wit and intelligence, Vidal moved with ease among the cultural elite—his grandfather was a senator, he was intimate with the Kennedys, and one of his best friends was Tennessee Williams. For this definitive biography, Fred Kaplan was given access to Vidal’s papers and letters. The result is an insightful and entertaining portrait of an exceptional and mercurial writer.
Advocacy Journalists
Author: Edd Applegate
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-05-11
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0810869292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In all likelihood advocacy journalism is the oldest form of reportage. It appears frequently whenever journalists desire to advocate their beliefs or ideas about major political or social problems. In Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors, Edd Applegate identifies the most notable figures in this field. Each entry contains biographical information about a writer or editor who either wrote advocacy journalism or edited one or more publications that featured such material. Entries consist of discussions of the journalists' lives, professional careers, major works, and, in some cases, commentary on those works. Among those profiled here are such notables as Ambrose Bierce, William F. Buckley Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Daniel Defoe, Germaine Greer, Pete Hamill, Karl Marx, H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Wilfrid Sheed, Gloria Steinem, and Jonathan Swift. Unlike other books that focus on the form of advocacy journalism itself or how and why it developed, this book focuses on the lives of journalists and editors and their contributions to advocacy journalism. For scholars, teachers, and students of journalism, along with general readers who wish to discover more about advocacy journalism, this volume is an important and accessible resource.
Contemporary Authors: 1945 to the Present
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britanncia Educational Publishing
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1622750152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contemporary literature encompasses so many genres, literary forms, and themes that it would seem almost impossible to identify a unifying thread between them. Yet in the tradition established by literary heavyweights who came before, modern writers of all stripes and backgrounds have continued to entertain and to confront the social, cultural, and psychological realities of the timesincluding everything from racial identity to war to technologywith their own flair and insight. The diversity of authors profiled hereinfrom Toni Morrison to Sylvia Plath to Stephen King to David Foster Wallaceattests to the scope and complexity of modern society.
