Birth of a Nation
10 best books like Birth of a Nation (Aaron McGruder): Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage, The Best American Essays 2006, The Best American Essays 2012, The Best American Essays 2008, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies, Mycroft and Sherlock, Black Panther & The Crew: We Are the Streets, Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther? Prose Novel
Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage
Author | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
ISBN | 1785659308 |
The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.
It is 1873, and as the economies of Europe threaten to crumble, Mycroft Holmes finds himself in service to the Crown once again. A distant relative of Queen Victoria has been slain by the Fire...
Author | Lauren Slater |
ISBN | 0618705295 |
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness....
Author | Robert Atwan |
ISBN | 0547840098 |
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
Author | Adam Gopnik |
ISBN | 0618983228 |
Here you will find the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless publications” (Chicago Tribune), ranging from The New Yorker and Harper’s to Swink and Pinch. In his introduction to this year’s edition, Adam Gopnik finds that great essays have “text and inner text, personal...
Author | Vince Beiser |
ISBN | 0399576428 |
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives.
After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer...
Author | Nancie Atwell |
ISBN | 0867093749 |
The best way to teach is to learn together with the students. One of the rare breed of teachers who do know this is Nancie Atwell.
- The New York TimesReading this book can be revolutionary. . . . Atwell leads us to new understandings of teaching and learning in a workshop classroom.
- Voices from...
Author | Kylene Beers |
ISBN | 0325050805 |
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"When students recognize that nonfiction ought to challenge us,...
Author | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.
Now a force to be reckoned with in the War Office, the young Mycroft Holmes is growing his network of contacts and influence, although not always in a manner that pleases his closest friend,...
Black Panther & The Crew: We Are the Streets
Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
ISBN | 1302908324 |
Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Manifold band together to take on a dangerous wave of street-level threats in a new series by co-writers Ta-Nehisi Coates (New York Times best-selling author of Between the World and Me and Marvel's Black Panther) and Yona Harvey (Black Panther: World...
Black Panther: Who Is The Black Panther? Prose Novel
He's known as the Black Panther. His home is Wakanda. Welcome to T'Challa's world. During the last ten centuries, as European colonial powers spread their guns and armies throughout the continent, the African nation of Wakanda stood alone as an unconquerable land inhabited by undefeatable warriors...
Author | Mat Johnson |
ISBN | 1582344086 |
Horizon Realty is bringing Harlem back to its Renaissance. With the help of Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons trying to forge a new life-Horizon clears out the rubble and the rabble, filling once-dilapidated brownstones with black professionals handpicked for their shared vision of Harlem...
Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society
Author | Peter Trudgill |
ISBN | 0140289216 |
This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. Trudgill's book surveys languages and societies...
Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction
Author | William D. O'Grady |
ISBN | 0312419368 |
Overall, a horrible choice for an intro course.
Chapter One is decent. It gives a general overview of the field of Linguistics, and what I can expect in my studies. It's easy to follow, and gave me high hopes for this unexpected (and largely unwanted) post-baccalaureate class choice.
Chapter...
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
Author | Neil Howe |
ISBN | 0679743650 |
This week’s headline? Boomers analyze GenX
Why this book? more nineties nostalgia
Which book format? used old textbook
Primary reading environment? beside swimming hole
Any preconceived notions? wannabe definitive text
Identify most with? um…my...
Author | Robert Atwan |
ISBN | 0395694671 |
Unrivaled in the high quality of its selections, this contemporary reader presents 36 diverse and provocative essays drawn from the widely respected Houghton Mifflin/Ticknor & Fields Best American Essays series. A thoughtful introduction by Atwan on the essay and additional reflections...
A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers
Author | Lee A. Jacobus |
ISBN | 0312434448 |
The most successful reader of its kind, A World of Ideas is ideal for composition instructors who want to introduce their students to some of the world's most important thinkers and their ideas: for example, Niccolo Machiavelli on government, Sigmund Freud on the mind, and Virginia Woolf on feminism....
Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Un Derprepared
Author | Mike Rose |
ISBN | 0143035460 |
The award-winning account of how America's educational system fails it students and what can be done about it
Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define America's educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally...
The Best American Essays 2000
Best-selling author Alan Lightman selects the year’s finest nonfiction as this acclaimed series celebrates its fifteenth year. He has chosen a diverse, very personal collection that celebrates the essay as an independent genre unlike any other. This year’s pieces embrace stylistic freedom...