Sentences with phrase «of nonfiction work»

However, in the case of nonfiction work, a fan base becomes more important.

With a selection of original nonfiction titles, excerpts from forthcoming nonfiction books and reprints of nonfiction work we feel deserves to be read again, Now and Then Kindle books are focused on material that is historically based but also has relevance for our world today.

James D. Houston is the author of seven previous novels and a number of nonfiction works including Farewell to Manzanar, which he coauthored with his wife, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.

He is a keen canoeist, having canoed the Franklin River thirteen times, and was a member of the first expedition to canoe the Jane River and Gordon Gorge (one of his nonfiction works is A Terrible Beauty - History of the Gordon (1985).

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What it's about: This work of nonfiction intertwines an intimate experience of poverty in America with clear cut causation and politics, using the eviction crisis in Milwaukee, Wis., as a backdrop.

When you consider the sheer weight of his life's work — nearly 50 works of nonfiction, 20 of fiction, and four collections of poetry — it's hard to believe the man ever left his desk.

In his book The Art of the Deal (Random House)-- Trump's autobiography which has been described by his ghostwriter as a «nonfiction work of fiction» — he claims his first wife, Ivana, was an alternate for the Czech ski team, yet the Czech Olympic committee says they have no record of this.

Actually, nonfiction works for children are the untold story of the past two decades.

From a professional perspective, I would have been well - advised to follow it with a work of nonfiction of a similar kind.

Her nonfiction works on Christian doctrine and the role of Christianity in every aspect of daily life posited the reader's acceptance of or at least interest in a call to progress toward spiritual maturity.

She expounded her philosophy, which she called objectivism, in nonfiction works and as editor of two journals and became an icon of radical libertarianism.»

She published nonfiction works during the next 24 years, including The Death of Adam and Mother Country, but kept her fans waiting until 2004 for a second novel.

Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

After all, the best «selling nonfiction book of the past thirty years is Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970), and the Left Behind books are the all «time best «selling works of Christian fiction.

For the past three decades, the Hugo Award — winning author has been mapping out his vision of the future in dozens of works, both nonfiction and sci - fi.

His complete immersion in his subject makes for a superlative work of narrative nonfiction.

The Invisible War lays bare the reprehensible failings and hypocrisy of a powerful institution, as Dick did in previous nonfiction works such as Twist of Faith (2004), about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church; This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), an occasionally gimmicky exposé of the MPAA's outsize influence and idiocy; and Outrage (2009), on closeted pols who vote anti-gay.

As a work of nonfiction, it deserves its own nomenclature.

Shot in 1996 when director Michael Lucid was a senior in high school and then edited in 2000, Dirty Girls is a work of nonfiction portraiture about a group of rebellious thirteen - year - old «riot grrrls» who...

The engrossing work of creative nonfiction centers on Lakota rodeoer Brady Jandreau and his decision whether to ride broncos again after suffering a grisly head injury.

Yanillys Perez» feature debut, which won the TIFF 16 Dropbox Award for the Discovery Section, is a work of creative nonfiction.

But I do think that the best nonfiction writers working today approach their subjects with the same fearlessness and unorthodoxy and humor and personal investment that were all critical components of «gonzo.»

This revelatory film continues to educate and inspire viewers, and it is widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema.

Since that epic chronicle of two inner - city Chicago teens» crusades to become professional basketball players — one of the most acclaimed and successful nonfiction features of its decade — James has gone on to make other probing studies of American life, such as the intensely personal Stevie, the capital - punishment exposé At the Death House Door, and last year's The Interrupters, a devastating immersion in the work of street - violence mediators.

One of the country's most original nonfiction filmmakers, Bogdan Dziworski, made a comeback in May 2014, when he received a retrospective at the Kraków Film Festival and announced that he was at work on a new film.

A work of nonfiction that dances along the edges of documentary and fiction, confession and characterization, Actress follows Brandy Burre, former featured player on The Wire, as she struggles to revive her acting career while playing the real - life roles of mother and homemaker.

This landmark film, which documents the journeys of two remarkable families, continues to educate and inspire viewers, and it is widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema.

A nonfiction film about the slow bleed of American manufacturing jobs over the past five to six decades, American Made Movie is engaging enough for armchair politicos, but generally more successful as a diagnostic statement of basic socioeconomic condition than a groundbreaking work in and of itself.

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

A remarkable snapshot of underclass life, love, humor and despair, Position Among the Stars, which picked up the Special World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and recently played at the Los Angeles Film Festival, is an utterly absorbing and strikingly humane nonfiction film that, in non-judgmental nor holier - than - thou fashion, locates the universality of human struggle in charting the tumultuous ups and downs of an extended Indonesian family trying to work their way out of the slums.

Jessica Oreck's fantastical work combines animation, traditional storytelling, and contemporary nonfiction filmmaking styles to recount the Slavic folktale of the frightful Baba Yaga, a witch said to live in a woodland hut perched on chicken legs who roasts her guests for dinner.

By Scott Mendelson HollywoodNews.com: Most of the ideas in Tony Kaye's Detachment are not revolutionary, especially not to anyone who has followed the last thirty years of debate regarding the public education system in America (Jonathan Kozel's many works of nonfiction come to mind).

Eschewing narration and on - screen text in favor of interviews that serve to keep the story propelled ever - forward — and often taking up residence right beside, or over the shoulder of, its Autodefensas subjects — Cartel Land is the rare nonfiction work that routinely keeps one's nerves on edge.

Starting in the late 1980s, Herzog began to focus much more on documentary storytelling (though he had always made documentaries previously, and would continue to make fiction films, going forwards), and now has a body of work that includes such nonfiction masterpieces as Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Grizzly Man, the Oscar - nominated Encounters at the End of the World and Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

Tracey Maurer, writer of over 100 nonfiction books, talked with students about how she does research, works with a publisher, and comes up with ideas for her texts.

Putting aside the conceit that we can align texts with specific ages when students» transactions with work depend on diverse life experiences, Appendix B of the CCSS provides a list of literary nonfiction «exemplars» arranged by grade level.

And KIPP is working with Common Core, Inc., the non-profit that developed Eureka, to create a new K — 8 English curriculum for KIPP schools that is designed to build student knowledge systematically through the use of high quality works of literature, nonfiction, and informational text.

As well as the components that make up a work of nonfiction: Thesis statement, evidence, diagrams, labels, research, data etc..

To teach works ranging from Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies about the dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic to Shakespeare's infamous tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we created literature units with supplemental nonfiction readings, as the Common Core standards suggest.

As the fin de siècle approaches, we have been besieged with lists: news events of the century, novels of the century, nonfiction works, films, songs, and, yes, books specific to fields of study.

Good Girl Work, (Millbrook Press, 1999), which relates stories of female child labor, was named by the ALA as one of the best nonfiction books published for young adult readers in 1999.

Examine appropriate reference and fiction and nonfiction resources, such as How Things Work by David Macaulay and The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher, in order to develop a list of basic tools and simple machines and answer such research questions as: What are some tools and devices that have been invented to make life easier?

Now, you may have noticed that nonfiction is seldom on my bookshelf; perhaps I read too much of it at work.

Several teachers also have assigned the book as a work of nonfiction to students in English classes, and have used it to prompt students» reflections on their education.

Great for readers of all literacy levels, these nine nonfiction titles work in English language arts, social studies, and science classes.

Our plays have to be based on a great work of fiction or nonfiction.

Middle school English classes will take on more of a social studies flavor to meet one of the main goals of the Common Core: introducing students to more of the types of nonfiction and informational reading they likely will encounter in college and at work.

Using other nonfiction works, the course guides students in recognizing the importance of analyzing evidence, recognizing symbolism, examining word choice, and identifying figurative language in nonfiction literature.

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award - winning author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction.

Most of those were selective - enrollment schools in CPS, including Skinner North Classical School, where, on a recent day this month, fifth - graders were working on sixth - grade material in social studies, weaving in the literacy goals and nonfiction text of the Common Core standards.