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This sneak peek teaser - featuring literary giants John Grisham and Danielle Steele - from Chapter 2 of The Bestseller Code, a groundbreaking book about what a computer algorithm can teach us about ……続きを見る

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From ……続きを見る

The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids. As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and foo……続きを見る

This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magno……続きを見る

There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been re……続きを見る

Get Your Child Hooked on Books! Reading can become a favorite part of any child's lifeーeven children who think they hate to read. And, with the help of this unique book, it's easy to put your reluc……続きを見る

The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacre……続きを見る

This bold, forward-thinking text offers a clear rationale for the development of curricula and pedagogy that will reflect young people’s in-school and out-of-school popular culture practices. By pro……続きを見る

Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary 'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collectio……続きを見る

The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study revea……続きを見る

We all want to know how novels end and to feel that they satisfy what we want in a good story. CLOSURE IN THE NOVEL will help you understand and appreciate why artists choose to conclude their novel……続きを見る

This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected with the business prac……続きを見る

Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the……続きを見る

This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magno……続きを見る

Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the e……続きを見る

"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all informatio……続きを見る

Mit einem Vorwort von Thomas Wörtche. Wölckens Buch ist substantiell, weil es Kriminalliteratur ganz selbstverständlich als Literatur begreift. Deswegen methodisch weit seiner Zeit voraus und angesi……続きを見る

O livro Crônicas do Cotidiano de Rockson Pessoa reflete um olhar de um jovem que se atém aos simples, mas não pequenos, significados da vida. Fugindo de certas naturalizações de nossas relações soci……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Veranstaltung: Buchmessen vom ausgehenden 15. Jahrhundert bis zum frühe……続きを見る

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked a……続きを見る

Wonderfully Wordless: The 500 Most Recommended Graphic Novels and Picture Books is the first comprehensive best book guide to wordless picture books (and nearly wordless picture books). It is an ind……続きを見る

Mit einem Vorwort von Thomas Wörtche. Wölckens Buch ist substantiell, weil es Kriminalliteratur ganz selbstverständlich als Literatur begreift. Deswegen methodisch weit seiner Zeit voraus und angesi……続きを見る

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. Th……続きを見る

YOUVE GOT MAIL... . That darn mouse keeps attacking and I continue my daily task of going through my e-mails- reading, forwarding, but now; I have saved that joke or story; before deleting.... be it……続きを見る

Why was Edgar Allan Poe unable to form either emotional or sexual bonds with the women in his life? Why did he worship at the grave of his friend's mother-a woman he may have loved but who he could ……続きを見る

Trilingual Joyce is a detailed comparative study of James Joyce’s personal involvement in both French and Italian translations of the iconic 1928 text Anna Livia Plurabelle, which later became the e……続きを見る

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both……続きを見る

Décryptez Les Trois Mousquetaires d'Alexandre Dumas avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir des Trois Mousquetaires, le roman de cape et d'épée le plus célèbre de la littérature f……続きを見る

How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their own Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book r……続きを見る

Download this e-Book that offers the story about the awakening of a London financier who, after having spent long years amassing wealth, reverts to his early life dream of becoming a great philanthr……続きを見る