Sentences with phrase «good essay collection»

A good essay collection reveals something new about its subjects, while a great collection also reveals something about its author.

Not exact matches

Clearly the best collection of essays from a Kentucky farmer - philosopher, this book demonstrates the breadth of Wendell Berry's work, as well as his status as one of the most important commentators of our time on matters of community, land and ecology.

Beyond Tragedy is a collection of fifteen sermonic essays which grew out of materials that he had preached in colleges and universities, and is still perhaps the best introduction to Niebuhr.

In his 1959 essay entitled «My Present View of the World,» he argued that the fundamental entities are discrete but overlapping «events,» that the fundamental entities of mathematical physics are «constructions composed of events,» and that entities like conscious minds and «selves» are best understood as collections of events «connected with each other by memory - chains backward and forwards.

Jewish Polemics by Arthur Hertzberg Columbia University Press, 259 pages, $ 27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of essays written over the past ten years or so by the well - known American rabbi, professor, and communal leader Arthur Hertzberg.

A collection of little essays on a host of virtues» personal, social, and sacred» by a Canadian philosopher well «versed in the traditions of both Athens and Jerusalem.

Kramer brings these commitments to bear on Susan Sontag in one of the best essays in the collection.

He has used also the works of Ronald Stone, Paul Merkley, Gordon Harland, Hans Hofmann and Dennis McCann, as well as several collections of essays about Niebuhr.

The shortcoming of this brief book, perhaps inherent in the author's polemical task, is that it is negative, and to see how well Kimball conveys his own appreciations of great art a reader must look to his other works (his rich essays on Eakins and Delacroix, for instance, in his collection titled Art's Prospect).

Jewish Polemics is a collection of essays written over the past ten years or so by the well - known American rabbi, professor, and communal leader Arthur Hertzberg.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

Finding Your Inner Mama is a collection of essays by women just like that - smart, funny, and thoughtful women who like being a Mama, but are realistic in their sharing of the challenges and struggles as well.

Oh, and while you're there, check out 101 Reasons to Breastfeed Your Child as well as their large collection of articles and essays on breastfeeding.

Palisi, Tiffany LOVING MAMA: Essays on Natural Parenting and Motherhood Hats Off Books, 2004 A lovely collection of heart - warming essays full of conviction for a better way to parent, Loving Mama is written by contemporary mothers who have discovered attachment parenting: what it means, the rewards, and how it works for their famEssays on Natural Parenting and Motherhood Hats Off Books, 2004 A lovely collection of heart - warming essays full of conviction for a better way to parent, Loving Mama is written by contemporary mothers who have discovered attachment parenting: what it means, the rewards, and how it works for their famessays full of conviction for a better way to parent, Loving Mama is written by contemporary mothers who have discovered attachment parenting: what it means, the rewards, and how it works for their families.

A terrific book on Orwell - better, I think, than Taylor's prize - winning book - is the collection of essays and photos «Orwell at Home and Amongst the Anarchists» published by Freedom Press.

Stephen Hawking's new collection of essays, Black Holes and Baby Universes, errs in the opposite direction: a good deal of it seems extremely patronising.

The book, a wide - ranging collection of essays from artists, film critics and social analysts as well as doctors, nurses and scientists, has its origins in a women's conference at the University of Kentucky in 1989.

More recently, an essay by Chapman and Alan Harris in the Sept. / Oct. 2002 issue of «The Skeptical Inquirer,» «A Skeptical Look at September 11th» was selected by Richard Dawkins as one of the best science / nature essays of the year and was published in late 2003 in a compendium by Houghton - Mifflin; it was republished again in 2009 in a collection of S.I. articles ed.

Never mind that a purchase of the Legacy collection whole (essaying Dracula, The Wolf Man, and Frankenstein) proves to be far better for the soul than shelling out a few bones to catch Stephen Sommers's latest assault on sense and cinema, even if doing so feels a little like letting Universal have its cake and eat it, too: There are worse things in the world than a mainstream shipwreck inspiring a vital resurrection.

About Prieur I can say a little more, because I own a rather good 1980 collection of his film criticism, Nuits blanches («White Nights»), that includes an essay on «Artaud and the Cinema»; the book's jacket informs me that Prieur was born in Paris in 1951, writes on film and literature, and is — or was — the film critic for La nouvelle revue francaise.

Gay is a renowned author who has written well - regarded books (An Untamed State, Hunger) and collections of essays and short stories (Bad Feminist, Difficult Women).

This will be achieved through essay competitions in order to compile a well - structured and cross-referenced collection of concise, readable documents that together make a clearly - argued case for reform and propose practical measures to be taken.

The book also presents a fine collection of short essays written by Prof. Krishna that serve as a good introduction to Krishnamurti's work.They examine either the fundamental aspects of his teachings or enquire into important matters of life in the manner Krishnamurti furthered.

His essays on race and education regularly appear in The New Yorker and The Atlantic; he was the 2014 National Poetry Slam champion; and his debut collection of poetry, Counting Descent, won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

A collection of resources including some short activities, note and presentations on key issues of the play as well as example essay questions.

Nikesh is the editor of the essay collection, The Good Immigrant, where 21 British writers of colour discuss race and immigration in the UK.

Better yet, an essay earlier in the book from which that line was taken — Songbook, a collection of 31 essays about songs — centered on a Ben Folds song.

This collection includes many entries never before published in book form, including transcripts of appearances on «Fresh Air» and «This American Life,» as well as many snarky, hilarious essays.

Well, that's one way to launch an imprint: The first - ever title released by Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillian, will be an essay collection from media mogul Oprah Winfrey.

ESSAYS WITH ATTITUDE Frank and fearless — there's no better way to describe The Bitch Is Back, a collection of 25 essays contributed by some of today's top female wrESSAYS WITH ATTITUDE Frank and fearless — there's no better way to describe The Bitch Is Back, a collection of 25 essays contributed by some of today's top female wressays contributed by some of today's top female writers.

Author of two New York Times best - sellers and three collections of short stories, a children's book and a ground - breaking collection of essays.

Former Gawker editor Emily Gould (who now is the co-proprietor of Emily Books) is known for her frank - to - a-fault writing — and the much - written - about (by Gould as well as others) flop of her 2010 memoir / essay collection, And the Heart Says Whatever.

Our Self - Publishing Issue features a comprehensive collection of articles on the rise of the independent author, including an overview of options, expert advice, and important warnings for self - published writers; profiles of Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert, poet August Kleinzahler, and fiction writer Andre Dubus III; an essay on the short stories of Denis Johnson; tips on how to be a good literary citizen; and much more.

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The types of books that do well through self - publishing are niche market books, books targeted to a specific region, mixed genre (a mixture of story, essays, and poems), offbeat fiction, memoirs & autobiography, collections of verses, or a personal story that needs to be told.

Every year The Masters Review opens submissions to produce our anthology, a collection of ten stories or essays written by the best emerging authors.

«Books to Die For is... as good a collection of short essays on crime fiction as one is likely to find.»

Increasingly, we've seen the availability of more nonfiction and children's materials (for example, Thomas the Tank), and even some books that are being issued exclusively in the e-book format (for example, Jack Layton's essay collection, Hope is Better than Fear, published by Random House Canada).

It's a collection of personal essays on equality and diversity from some well known authors including Mara Purl, Catherine Ryan Hyde, and Anne Perry as well as yours truly.

Eva Holland I picked up Consider the Lobster, a collection of David Foster Wallace essays, over the weekend, and each one has been better than the last.

2015 also saw the release of several essay collections, including Shooter, a roundup of essays on various genre entries and edited by Reid McCarter and Patrick Lindsey, as well as The State of Play, edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson.

As well as a deep collection of textual, archival and visual material, ARTIST WORK LISSON includes a number of short essays by Nicholas Logsdail and other members of Lisson Gallery, including Greg Hilty (Curatorial Director), Alex Logsdail (International Director) and Ossian Ward (Head of Content).

This 1,000 + page comprehensive collection of Donald Judd's writings includes the artist's key essays and reviews as well as previously unpublished writings and hundreds of notes

Read a biography of Fred Grunwald, as well as new scholarly essays about the Grunwald family collection.

Alan Gilbert is the author of two books of poetry, The Treatment of Monuments and Late in the Antenna Fields, as well as a collection of essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight.

He is the author of 11 collections of poetry (including Study for the World's Body, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry), most recently the collection, The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems, as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us.

She has worked in museums including the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, and Tate, as well as for the artist Jenny Holzer and the investment firm D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. Amy is the author of Museum Legs, an essay collection about the creative life of museums and the public life of art.

To reflect the museum - quality nature of this collection, the «Eyes Wide Open» exhibition and auction are accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, which features texts by curators and critics such as Carolyn Christov - Bakargiev, Hans - Ulrich Obrist and Sarah Whitfield, as well as essays by the collectors.

Conceived as the companion to the 2009 publication Art at Colby, the catalogue includes seven essays on the collection's major areas: ancient Chinese art; art through the American Centennial; the art of James McNeill Whistler; art of the Gilded Age; art of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collection.

Also included in writings is a typescript for Tales of Aunt Dicy, an annotated collection of Biggers» drawings of folk tales, as well as other shorter essays on Biggers, including «John Biggers: American Muralist.»