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Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students

8 best books like Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (Denise Clark Pope): Quichotte, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, Glory Road, Fences, The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites, Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Once Upon a Day

Quichotte
AuthorSalman Rushdie
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.

Inspired by the Cervantes...
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
AuthorWilliam Deresiewicz
ISBN1476702713
A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing.

As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest...
Glory Road
AuthorLauren K. Denton
ISBN0785219706
Written in Lauren Denton's signature Southern style, Glory Road tells the story of three generations of women navigating the uncertain pathways of their hearts during a summer that promises to bring change--whether they're ready for it or not.

At thirty-eight, garden shop owner Jessie...
Fences
AuthorAugust Wilson
ISBN0452264014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Now a Major Motion Picture directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning...
The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0679882804
A toe-tapper babies will love--the classic Seussian book about opposites: "Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot..."  

This Little Book is an adaptation of the original book The Foot Book published by Random House in 1963..
Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
AuthorAnn Hood
ISBN0393357538
From her Italian-American childhood, through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of good food. In Kitchen Yarns, pairing her signature humor and tenderness with simple, comforting recipes, Hood...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
AuthorDouglas Murray
ISBN1635579988
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.

In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
Once Upon a Day
AuthorLisa Tucker
ISBN0743492781
Nineteen years ago, a famous filmmaker disappeared from Los Angeles, taking his two children, Dorothea and Jimmy, to a desolate corner of New Mexico. There he raised them in complete isolation without television, computer, radio -- not even a newspaper. Now, at twenty-three, Dorothea leaves in search...
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