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1) Politics
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English
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Similar to Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores another facet of good living by outlining the best governing practices that benefit the majority, and not the minority. In The Politics, he defines various institutions and how they should operate within an established system.
The Politics provides an analysis of contemporary government as it relates to all people. Aristotle discusses the positive and negative qualities of authority and how they affect...
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English
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A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate. In addition to being one of America's most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years. A blend of the straightforward, the wry, and the hopeful, the essays in The Life of Images explore subjects ranging from literary criticism to philosophy,...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Brief Encounters represents a multitude of voices, perspectives, sensibilities, and forms, and features the work of nearly eighty writers, both emerging and established-among them Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, Stuart Dybek, Patricia Hampl, and Hulian Barnes. From the rant to the rave, the meditation to the polemic, the confession to the valediction, this celebration of short creative nonfiction will enlarge your world. Book jacket....
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Features articles that were judged finalists and winners in the National Magazine Awards, presenting works from leading journalists on such topics as reparations, Internet sexual harassment, the public humiliation complex, and the college rape crisis.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Extraordinary stories of crime, passion, and adventure from The Atavist magazine, the trailblazing leader in longform narrative writing. Since its founding in 2011, The Atavist has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This collection presents the finest examples of a new kind of nonfiction storytelling as practiced by a young generation of longform...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1996-<c2010>
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English
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Volume 1. This book contains all the essays and reviews that W.H. Auden wrote during the years when he was living in England, and also includes the full original versions of his two illustrated travel books, Letters from Iceland (written in collaboration with Louis MacNeice) and Journey to a War (written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood). Auden's early prose ranges from extravagant indiscreet travel diaries through sharply observed critiques...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers selected the contents of The Best American Nonrequired Reading...
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery. Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology...
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Izdatelʹstvo "Alʹpina non-fikshn"
Pub. Date
2022.
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Russian
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"В сборнике рассказов и повестей Александра Иличевского "Точка росы" соседствуют тексты разных лет и разных мест--из любимого автором Иерусалима читатель переносится в нервную Москву девяностых, из холодного современного Берлина--в жаркий Крым, из...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"A sprightly dose of practical and insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of feel-good science, and a bounty of joyful stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the best writing to have appeared in O, the Oprah Magazine over its fifteen year history. From an ode to the power of questions by Elizabeth Gilbert, a tribute to the animal who taught her everything by Jane Smiley, practical advice about boosting your bliss from...
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Guys read volume 5
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable--and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction authors and journalists provides something for every reader, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Compiled and edited by...
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