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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed scientist and writer, essays collected for the first time in book form, on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more: once again 'passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science.'(New York Times)" --
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Una selección esencial de la obra de Luis Rafael Sánchez, el escritor puertorriqueño contemporáneo más reconocido internacionalmente. Esta "antología indócil" de Luis Rafael Sánchez, una figura clave de la literatura latinoamericana, atraviesa el cuento, la novela, la crónica periodística y el teatro de la mano de los profesores Luce López-Baralt y Aníbal González-Pérez. Como señalan en su iluminadora introducción, además de abarcar...
Publisher
n + 1/FARRAR, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1st Edition.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of essays--historical and personal--about the present and future of American cities Edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, City by City is a collection of essays--historical, personal, and somewhere in between--about the present and future of American cities. It sweeps from Gold Rush, Alaska, to Miami, Florida, encompassing cities large and small, growing and failing. These essays look closely at the forces--gentrification, underemployment,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"As a professional Internet personality, Hannah Hart spends a lot of time walking the line between public and private. Here, she shares stories from her life that have taken her time to process, in the hope that it will help readers do some internal processing of their own."--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.
Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 316-317
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A two-volume edition of essays, selected by the author and his longtime editor, Jack Shoemaker, which reveals as never before the evolution of Berry's thoughts and concerns as a farmer, neighbor, citizen, teacher, activist, and ecological philosopher. -- adapted from publisher's website.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz
“The world is abundant even in bad times,” guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, “it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness.” The essays Schulz
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current trajectories of new world history. These essays, together with the editors' introductions to thematic chapters, encourage educators and students to reflect critically on the development of the field and to...
Author
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted with suspicion by the general public. Unfortunately, Americans have increasingly accepted the tyrannical ideas of reduced private property rights and reduced rights to profits, and have become enamored with restrictions on personal liberty and control by government. In this latest collection of essays selected...
13) Population: 485
Author
Language
English
Description
Here the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Michael Perry loves this place. He grew up here, and now -- after a decade away -- he has returned. Unable to polka or repair his own pickup,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name.
“An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is...
“An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Hailed by Bruce Sterling as “a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” the Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his infamous articles, essays, and polemics.
Irreverently championing free speech and universal access to information—even if it’s just a free download of the newest
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert
Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger's essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of "desert books"-The Telling Distance, There Was...
19) Essays one
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis"--
20) Selected Essays
Author
Publisher
Floating Press, The
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Always controversial, always compelling, the German philosopher Karl Marx is one of the most influential thinkers of the modern era. In this thought-provoking collection of essays, Marx elucidates some his best-known theories and ideas about society, economics, and politics.
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