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by Nick Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK James Joyce was most definitely an artist ahead of his time; and, as is so often the case with prophetic characters of any sort, his ideas and works were met with some resistance by the general public. This is particularly true of Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses....
by Courtney Crisp
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Quicklets: Learn more. Read less. The Year of Magical Thinking documents the painful year of 2004 in author Joan Didion's life as she deals with the death of her husband John and the serious illness of her daughter Quintana. It's her most critically aclaimed book to date, earning her the National...
by Steven T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK "I am certain there is too much certainty in the world." Michael Crichton Born on October 23, 1942, John Michael Crichton was raised in Long Island, New York. His parents John Henderson Crichton and Zula Miller Crichton also gave birth to two girls, Kimberley...
by Anita Tsuchiya
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK As indicated by the blizzard of 70th birthday tributes published at the start of 2012, Muhammad Ali has the kind of international recognition matched by few public figures living or dead. Ali is arguably the most reviled and beloved spokesman in the history of U.S. civil...
by Anita Tsuchiya
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Lance Edward Armstrong, born in Plano, TX, on September 18, 1971, had a difficult childhood. His mother, Linda Mooneyham, was a high-school student with dreams of joining drill team and going to college. Instead, she found herself a newly married, 16-year-old dropout. Lance’s...
by Nicole Cipri
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK In his introduction to A Short History of Nearly Everything, author Bill Bryson describes a childhood experience common to many of us: a brief infatuation with science, with all its potential and possibility. For Bryson, it was inspired by a textbook’s cut-away illustration...
by Elise O.
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Many people know Beatrix Potter was a children's author and conservationist, but did you know she was also a rebel at heart? Born in 1866, Beatrix lived in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, commonly known as the Victorian Era. Don't let the fact that there was a woman...
by Scott Charles
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Someone I worked for once said to me, “there is a difference between your sphere of influence and your sphere of concern.” That’s the challenge of Thomas Friedman’s “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization” ‒ to grasp the awesome power of...
by Lacey Kohlmoos
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Have you ever walked through a park on a sunny spring day when everyone looks like they're having a great time and thought, gee, I wish I were that happy? Have you ever perused Facebook and seen a group of friends beaming into the camera and wished that your life could be as good as theirs? Have you...
by Leslie Truex
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK Jane Austen is more famous, loved and regarded today than when she was alive writing her witty stories of love in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Some suggest the resurgence has to do with the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that propelled Colin Firth’s...
by Karen Lac
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK At first glance, it would not seem that I, someone who was born in the United States and has never been to Africa, would have anything in common with a woman from Nigeria. My exposure to Nigeria is so limited that I am largely unable to distinguish it from the rest of the continent,...
by Jason Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
ABOUT THE BOOK It's not surprising that one of the of the twentieth century's most enduring and controversial figures, Ayn Rand, produced one of the twentieth century's most enduring and controversial books, Atlas Shrugged. In the novel's fifty-plus years of existence, Atlas Shrugged has been...
by Alexandra Grashkina-Hristov
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK This book includes a collection of essays and one short story ("The Simplest Thing in the World"). The first edition of the book was published by The World Publishing Company in 1969, The revised edition in 1975 added the essay "Art and Cognition. This was the first book Rand...
Quicklet on Michel Foucault's Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (CliffNotes-like Summary)
Quicklet on Michel Foucault's Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (CliffNotes-like Summary)
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK To read and understand Foucault is to know that you are not a free man, but in fact a prisoner/guard in a penitentiary named Western Society. Discipline and Punish changed the way the humanities and social sciences understood power and the way that I understood my place in the...