Essays

A thought-provoking and concise rebuttal to E.O. Wilson's Consilience In his best-seller Consilience, E.O. Wilson presented a blueprint for the reconciliat...

Seinfeld. For more than 33 million viewers, the Emmy Award-winning television show has become a Thursday night ritual. Now, even though the show has ende...

Introduction, Storytelling As Social Conscience: The Power Of Autobiography / Becky Thompson And Sangeeta Tyagi -- Word Problems / Kate Rushin -- Part I. Bl...

A giftable collection of essays from celebrity contributors celebrating the great work of teachers or a teacher they admire, curated by ABC journalist Debor...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her i...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A history of salt notes its role as currency, in the establishment of trade routes and cities, and as an agenda of wa...

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in ferti...

The Art Of Fact Is A Historical Treasury Tracing What Used To Be Called New Journalism Back To Such Pioneers As Defoe, Dickens, And Orwell, And To Crime Wri...

By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multiv...

A collection of essays and reviews by the British novelist and journalist Martin Amis (son of the late Sir Kingsley Amis), author of "The Rachel Papers," "S...

A collection of Bennett’s diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett’s third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the foo...

George Grant—philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist, Christian—was one of Canada's most significant thinkers, and the author of Lament for a Na...

The Cultural Critic Questions How Modern People Understand The Concept Of Villainy, Describing How His Youthful Idealism Gave Way To An Adult Sympathy With ...

'the Memory Chalet' Is A Memoir Unlike Any You Have Ever Read Before. Each Essay Charts Some Experience Or Remembrance Of The Past Through The Sieve Of Tony...

From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross—“a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces” (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).A staff ...

Is It Really Too Much To Ask? Vol 5: The World According To ClarksonCategories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceEssays

[a] Culinary Combo Plate Of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, And Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison Writes With Enough Force To Make Your Kn...

Redefining the classic essay, this modern edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most famous work, Self-Reliance, includes self-reflections from both historical...

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevar...

This memoir of the French provincial capital of Aix-en-Provence is, as the author tells us, "my picture, my map, of a place and therefore of myself...just ...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars. Thoreau’s literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experime...

The best of The Minimalists. This book by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays—some short, some long—from their...

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedi...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

A Collection Of Sharp, Poignant Essays That Expertly Blends The Personal And Political In An Exploration Of American Culture Through The Lens Of Our Obsessi...

Chronicles The Military Career Of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, Profiling His Military And Civilian Roles In The Vietnam War. The Funeral -- Going To War -- Ante...

Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstractio...

Curry Is A Dish That Doesn't Quite Exist, But, As This Hilarious And Sharp Essay Points Out, A Dish That Doesn't Properly Exist Can Have Infinite, Equally A...

Product Description “Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Re...

Collects The Author's Best New Yorker Pieces, Including Essays On Such Topics As Why There Are So Many Kinds Of Mustard But Only One Type Of Ketchup, A Surp...

"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."―James ...

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celeb...

Claudia Rankine's Bold New Book Recounts Mounting Racial Aggressions In Ongoing Encounters In Twenty-first-century Daily Life And In The Media. Some Of Thes...

In his first phenomenal best-seller, EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, Robert Fulghum reminded readers everywhere of some plain and sti...

Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy—the mysterious abduction of their son.In the late 1930s, in the shad...

The Final Work Of The Nobel Prize Winner Günter Grass--a Witty And Elegiac Series Of Meditations On Writing, Growing Old, The World In Spite Of The Trials ...

The Rights And Involved Duties Of Mankind Considered -- The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed -- The Same Subject Continued -- Observations...

'country Crock' First Published, In Different Form, In Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, And Revolution In Trump's America (macmillan Publishing Group, 201...

Explores A Range Of Modern Cultural Phenomenon, Including Internet Pornography, Tribute Bands, Baseball Rivalries, And Reality Television.Categories: Litera...

From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a co...

a Classic Work That Has Charmed Generations Of Readers, This Collection Assembles Carson Mccullers’s Best Stories, Including Her Beloved Novella “the Ball...

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns...

In these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliantsense of timming, ...

Time has passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, led the Araluens to victory against invaders, and Will is now a full-fledged Ranger wi...

Walden in a box: Contents of writings of Henry David Thoreau: (1) Walden or Life in the Woods, (2), Economy, (3) Where I lived and What I lived For, (4) Re...

The Characteristic Heart And Punch-packing Observations Are Back, But With A Newfound Coat Of Maturity. A Thin Coat. More Of A Blazer, Really. Fans Of I Was...

Drawn by some sympathetic not in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. Booknews This classic of sincerity and ...