How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form (Foster Thomas C.)(Paperback)

How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form (Foster Thomas C.)(Paperback)

How to Read Novels Like a Professor is a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels, making reading more enriching and satisfying. In the follow up to his wildly popular How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster provides students with tried-and-true

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse (Foster Thomas C.)(Paperback)

From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree--a line

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between (Foster Thomas C.)(Paperback)

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an information age, but it is increasingly

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Foster Thomas C.)(Paperback)

A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide--a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.While many books

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids (Foster Thomas C.)(Paperback)

The go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.With

Dodgers (Beverly Bill)(Paperback / softback)

One of the greatest literary crime novels you will read in your lifetime' - Donald Ray

Secrets of the Sommeliers: How to Think and Drink Like the World's Top Wine Professionals (Parr Rajat)(Pevná vazba)

A fascinating exploration of the inside world of sommeliers, sharing their unique perspectives, extensive expertise, and best stories. Rajat Parr's profound knowledge of wines, deep relationships with producers, and renowned tasting abilities have made him a legend in the business. As wine director

How to Read Islamic Calligraphy (Ekhtiar Maryam D.)(Paperback)

An accessible introduction to the quintessential art form of the Islamic world How to Read Islamic Calligraphy explores the preeminence of the written word as a means of creative expression throughout the Islamic world. Aimed at a general audience, the book introduces all five major Islamic

Reading Life - The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback / softback)

How to Read provides guidance and reflections on the love and enjoyment of books. Engaging and enlightening, this well-rounded collection includes Lewis' reflections on science fiction, why children's literature is for readers of all ages, and why we should read two old books for every new

Between Two Worlds - How the English Became Americans (Gaskill Malcolm (Professor of Early Modern History University of East Anglia))(Paperback / softback)

Black and White Thinking: How to outsmart the brain, celebrate nuance, and learn to think in technicolour - Kevin Dutton

In this groundbreaking exploration of how our brains work, psychologist Professor Kevin Dutton explains that by understanding the nature of our hardwired black and white thinking we are better equipped to negotiate life's grey zones and make subtler and smarter decisions.Our brains are hardwired to

How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps (Ford Thomas H.)(Paperback)

How to Read a Poem is an introduction to creative reading, the art of coming up with something to say about a text. It presents a new method for learning and teaching the skills of poetic interpretation, providing its readers with practical steps they can use to construct perceptive, inventive

How Tall was a T. rex? (Limentani Alison)(Paperback / softback)

Fascinating exploration of the world's scariest dinosaur - the T. rex! Packed full of fun

Calculating the Cosmos - How Mathematics Unveils the Universe (Stewart Professor Ian)(Paperback / softback)

One of the world's great mathematicians explores the origins, history and future of the

Understanding the Holocaust at KS3: How and why did it happen? (Foster Professor Stuart)(Paperback / softback)

Significantly improve understanding of the Holocaust with this research-informed textbook from the UCL Centre for Holocaust

Ready, Set, Go!: Sports of All Sorts (Cortright Celeste)(Paperback)

Come along on a lively, lyrical exploration of the world's most beloved sports. Rhyming text and energetic artwork featuring a diverse group of children introduce the basics of eight sports popular around the world: baseball, track, football/soccer, gymnastics, hockey, karate, basketball, and

Athens: A History of the World's First Democracy (Mitchell Thomas N.)(Paperback)

A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the

How to Read and Why (Bloom Harold)(Paperback / softback)

A new book by America's leading literary critic on the uses of deep reading. Practical, inspirational and learned, How to Read and Why is Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime (Flanders Judith)(Paperback)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Wonderful... Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries of melodramatic and sensational plotting.'

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime (Carroll Sean)(Paperback)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Science News favorite science book of 2019As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century physics. Already hailed

Professor Astro Cat's Intergalactic Activity Book (Newman Ben)(Paperback)

Looking at the stars, do you dream of new worlds beyond our own? Would you like to explore distant planets, fly a rocket or try some chocolate quantum physics? Good news, Professor Astro Cat is here to help! Packed with amazing experiments, thrilling facts and create-your-own adventures, his

A History of Tea: The Life and Times of the World's Favorite Beverage (Martin Laura C.)(Paperback)

As the world's most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years. A History of Tea tells the compelling story of the rise of tea in Asia and its eventual spread to the West and beyond. From the Chinese tea houses of the ancient

Not in Your Genes: The Real Reasons Children Are Like Their Parents (James Oliver)(Paperback)

Professor Robert Plomin, the world's leading geneticist, said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology: 'I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years. I don't have any'. Using a mixture of famous and ordinary people, Oliver James drills deep down into the

Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (Grayling Professor A. C.)(Paperback / softback)

Bestselling author A. C. Grayling explains how--fueled by original and unorthodox thinking, war, and technological invention--the seventeenth century became the crucible of modernity.What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that