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Reading Joan Didion
Lynn Marie HoustonThis book is a compelling reference guide for book clubs on the work of Joan Didion, with summaries of her major works and discussion questions. * Discussion questions on Joan Didion's works, literary movements, and literary analysis * An ...
Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in ...
Stephanie LaCavaIt's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July—with a touch of Joan Didion—in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris.
Journalism Unbound: New Approaches to Writing and Reporting
Mitchell StephensAlthough the focus is on what journalism might be, the book employs as examples the best of what journalism has been--from Joan Didion to Nate Silver, Edward R. Murrow to Samantha Power, and James Baldwin to Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
A Case for Irony
Jonathan LearJoan Didion has lamented that Obama’s United States is an “irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human.
Prayers for Hard Times: Reflections, Meditations and ...
Becca AndersonOrganized in daybook form, the book draws from sacred sources such as the Bible, the Torah, Buddhist and Native American texts, as well as the writings of Joan Didion, Elizabeth Gilbert, Maya Angelou, Rumi, Mark Nepo, Harriet Tubman, Dave ...
100 Most Popular Nonfiction Authors: Biographical Sketches ...
Bernard Alger DrewProvides alphabetically-arranged biographical entries of popular writers of nonfiction, including Richard Dawkins, Joan Didion, and Paul Theroux, and presents insights on the creative process for each individual.
The White Album: Essays
Joan DidionIn 1964 James Albert Pike, who had come home from St. John the Divine in New York and The Dean Pike Show on ABC to be Bishop of California, raised three million dollars, installed images of Albert Einstein, Thurgood Marshall and John ...
Finding Jim
Susan Oakey-BakerIn the spirit of books like Joan Didion'sThe Year of Magical Thinking and Maria Coffey's Fragile Edge, Susan Oakey-Baker writes eloquently of her efforts to relive and reanalyze her husband's death, to defy the pain that such a loss causes ...
The Balloonists
Eula BissNow on ebook, the brilliant debut by Eula Biss, author of On Immunity and Notes from No Man's Land "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," writes Joan Didion, with a certain skepticism. We also live by the stories we tell.
Talking book topics
Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicappedby. Mark. O'Brien. Where I Was From RC 57757 read by Dan Bloom by Joan Didion 2 cassettes read by Constance Crawford ' Poet and journalist relates his struggle 2 cassettes to live independently despite paralysis. O'Brien (1949-1999), ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina WarnerExamines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina WarnerThe night Joan spent with Catherine de La Rochelle in the winter of 1429, trying to discover if there were any truth in her, is one of the most interesting and extraordinary incidents in the whole of Joan's career. When Catherine said that her ...
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture
Robin BlaetzIn Visions of the Maid, Blaetz examines three pivotal films—Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 Joan the Woman, Victor Fleming's 1948 Joan of Arc, and Otto Preminger's 1957 Saint Joan—as well as addressing a broad array of popular culture ...
Joan Robinson
G. HarcourtThis section is based on Pervez Tahir's monograph, Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, which he wrote when he was the 1990 Joan Robinson Memorial Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge.
Joan of Arc: The Early Debate
Deborah A. Fraioli(Does) an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates.
Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth
Dirk Arend BerentsThe appearance of Joan of Arc JAN VAN HERWAARDEN The available documents have enabled us to learn to know the true Joan of Arc as a real person: of flesh and blood, intent on a mission and authoritarian, purposeful and arrogant, ...
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc
PreviewI am indebted to three earlier discussions of the cinematic treatment of Joan of Arc: a special issue of Etudes cine'matographiques 18— 19 (1962) devoted to “ Jeanne d'Arc a l'e'cran”; Robin Blaetz, “Strategies of Containment: Joan of Arc in ...
Shark Island
Joan DruettPraise for Joan Druett and A Watery Grave "What a terrific idea New Zealand naval historian Joan Druett had for a mystery series."—Chicago Tribune "This impressive debut will appeal both to fans of historical mysteries and to Patrick O' ...
Just Keep Breathing. At 44, he died. She didn’t.:
Joan Scott CurtisShe didn't. by Joan Scott Curtis © 2013 Joan Scott Curtis All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or by any ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina Warnerclothing, see knight, Joan of Arc as: clothing; transvestism cult of [after her death] attempted suppression of, 4 centered on Domremy, 237 early promoters of, 181 growth of, 19th cent, 181 see also Joan of Arc: veneration of death of, see death: ...
Business Week
More editionsLiam Roberts; 54, Liam Roberts; 55, (left) Joan Sydlow, (right Ron Joan Sydlow; 58. (left) Joan Sydlow, (right) Hunt Food & Industries, Inc.; 60, (left) The Toledo Blade. Appelbe; 67, Ray Fisher; 68,70, Coleman Co.; 72, (left) Ernest Reshovsky, ...
A Watery Grave
Joan DruettJoan Druett. A WATERY GRAVE JOAN DRUETT A WATERY GRAVE JOAN DRUETT INTI-L; g BUOKS. Front Cover.
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Joan BybeeThis volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee.
Squashed
Joan BauerHumor, agriculture and young love all come together in Joan Bauer's first novel, set in rural Iowa.
From Prevention to Wellness Through Group Work
Joan K ParryJoan K Parry. First published 1997 by The Haworth Press, Inc. Published 2013 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Parry, Joan K. From prevention to wellness through group work ...
Joan Bauer
Alleen Pace NilsenExamines the short stories and novels of young adult literature author Joan Bauer.
Joan of Arc: Her Story
Regine PernoudIn a distinguished English translation, the bestselling French book now considered the standard biography of Joan published just in time for the upcoming film by Luc Besson.
Tell Me
Joan BauerLuckily, a take-charge girl like Anna is not going to give up. Told with Joan Bauer's trademark mixture of humor and heart, Tell Me will enthrall her many fans and win her new ones.
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