A World of Ideas
Author : Lee A. Jacobus
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : College readers
ISBN : 9780312148638
Author : Lee A. Jacobus
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : College readers
ISBN : 9780312148638
Author : Bill D. Moyers
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN : 9780385263467
Author : Philip Gerard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2001-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1884910505
Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction Writing Creative Nonfiction presents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. You'll learn from some of today's top creative nonfiction writers, including: • Terry Tempest Williams - Analyze your motivation for writing, its value, and its strength. • Alan Cheuse - Discover how interesting, compelling essays can be drawn from every corner of your life and the world in which you live. • Phillip Lopate - Build your narrator–yourself–into a fully fleshed-out character, giving your readers a clearer, more compelling idea of who is speaking and why they should listen. • Robin Hemley - Develop a narrative strategy for structuring your story and making it cohesive. • Carolyn Forche - Master the journalistic ethics of creative nonfiction. • Dinty W. Moore - Use satire, exaggeration, juxtaposition, and other forms of humor in creative nonfiction. • Philip Gerard - Understand the narrative stance–why and how an author should, or should not, enter into the story. Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction–whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history–a welcome, rewarding endeavor. You'll also find an exciting, creative nonfiction "reader" comprising the final third of the book, featuring pieces from Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Beverly Lowry, Phillip Lopate, and more–selections so extraordinary, they will teach, delight, inspire, and entertain you for years to come!
Author : Sean Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0593186583
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Most appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone... Impeccable.”—Wall Street Journal “A porthole into another world.”—Scientific American “Brings science dissemination to a new level.”—Science The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality. Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time, and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables. No one else could so smoothly guide readers toward grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come.
Author : Richard Myers
Publisher : Palazzo
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
World Changing Ideas is divided into seven chapters, each one a category of the types of invention. Through these seven thematic sections, the book investigates all the entries shortlisted for the prize, including the winners and those selected for the honorary Edward de Bono Medal. It investigates how the innovation works and the way it has the potential to change the world. It also takes a look at how the companies and individuals have fared since the award, explains the technologies that were used and the broader applications these might have. This is an inspirational guide for all those who appreciate ingenuity and imagination.
Author : Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2004-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 078672496X
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced everywhere, these ideas have--for the first time in history--no serious rivals. And although the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were terrible and traumatic, they did not "change everything," as so many commentators have asserted. Instead, these events served to illuminate even more brightly the world that emerged from the end of the Cold War. In The Ideas That Conquered the World, Michael Mandelbaum describes the uneven spread (over the past two centuries) of peace, democracy, and free markets from the wealthy and powerful countries of the world's core, where they originated, to the weaker and poorer countries of its periphery. And he assesses the prospects for these ideas in the years to come, giving particular attention to the United States, which bears the greatest responsibility for protecting and promoting them, and to Russia, China, and the Middle East, in which they are not well established and where their fate will affect the rest of the world. Drawing on history, politics, and economics, this incisive book provides a clear and original guide to the main trends of the twenty-first century, from globalization to terrorism, through the perspective of one of our era's most provocative thinkers.
Author : Ronald A. Cass
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674067649
Cass and Hylton explain how technological advances strengthen the case for intellectual property laws, and argue convincingly that IP laws help create a wealthier, more successful, more innovative society than alternative legal systems. Ignoring the social value of IP rights and making what others create “free” would be a costly mistake indeed.
Author : Ian Crofton
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1623650941
Ian Crofton, former editor-in-chief of The Guinness Encyclopedia, has written a wide range of other general reference books, including Philosophy (Teach Yourself Instant Reference) and Science Without the Boring Bits. With Big Ideas in Brief, Crofton provides an accessible tour of 200 key concepts that really matter. The ideas covered come from a wide range of subjects--Philosophy, Religion, Politics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, the Arts, and Science. A series of short, lively articles, accompanied by 100 illustrations, introduces a host of diverse topics, from Existentialism to Expressionism, from Consciousness to Constitutionalism, from Feminism to Free Trade, from Class to Cognitive Theory, from Reincarnation to Relativityâ??all explained simply and clearly. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Lee A. Jacobus
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780312692049
Author : Lee A. Jacobus
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781457627590