| Edition |
5th ed. |
| Description |
xxx, 618 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin academics
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Penguin academics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-614) and index. |
| Contents |
How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua -- Of studies / Francis Bacon -- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me what is / James Baldwin -- Road warrior / Dave Barry -- Toys / Roland Barthes -- On sacramental things / Hilaire Belloc -- Into the electronic millennium / Sven Birkerts -- I want a life / Judy Brady -- Nature of scientific reasoning / Jacob Bronowski -- Influeza / Jane Brox -- Wound in the face / Angela Carter -- Fallacy of success / G.K. Chesterton -- Casa : a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Uncertainty / K.C. Cole -- Labyrinthine / Bernard Cooper -- On self-respect / Joan Didion -- Living like weasels / Annie Dillard -- No man is an island / John Donne -- Souls on ice / Mark Doty -- Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass -- Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle -- Lights of the long night / Andre Dubus -- Family values / Barbara Ehrenreich -- About men / Gretel Ehrlich -- Flow of the river / Loren Eiseley -- Living with music / Ralph Ellison -- Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Value of science / Richard Feynman -- Arriving at perfection / Benjamin Franklin -- Uniforms / Paul Fussell -- Tipping point / Malcolm Gladwell -- Company man / Ellen Goodman -- More than just a shrine : Ellis Island / Mary Gordon -- Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould -- Black widow / Gordon Grice -- On being the right size / J.B.S. Haldane -- On the pleasure of hating / William Hazlitt -- Lost in translation / Eva Hoffman -- Colonel / Michael Hogan -- Naps / Barbara Holland -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- Nowhere man / Pico Iyer -- Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- Decay of friendship / Samuel Johnson -- Uncertainty / Yoshida Kenko -- On seeing England for the first time / Jamaica Kincaid -- Why we crave horror movies / Stephen King -- Stone soup / Barbara Kingsolver -- On discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Dog, the family : a household tale / August Kleinzahler -- You are what you say / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- A bachelor's complaint / Charles Lamb -- On Ben Franklin's virtues / D.H. Lawrence -- Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Morals of the Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Silk parachute / John McPhee Advocate / Herman Melville -- Portrait of an ideal world / H.L. Mencken -- Cat people vs. dog people / Laura Miller -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Way to rainy mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Of smells / Michel de Montaigne -- Are you somebody? / Nuala O'Faolain -- Some thoughts on the common toad / George Orwell -- Seam of the snail / Cynthia Ozick -- Allegory of the cave / Plato -- Necessary enemy / Katherine Anne Porter -- On various kinds of thinking / James Harvey Robinson -- Heading into darkness once again / Richard Rodriguez -- Men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders -- What secrets tell / Luc Sante -- Look at your fish / Samuel Scudder -- Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris -- Masked marvel's last toehold / Richard Selzer -- Gospel of Andrew Undershaft / G.B. Shaw -- Nonverbal/verbal / Leonard Shlain -- World is all that is the case / Lee Siegel -- Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko -- A woman's beauty : put-down or power source? / Susan Sontag -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Just walk on by : black men and public space / Brent Staples -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Being a man / Paul Theroux -- Crickets, cats, bats, & chaos / Lewis Thomas -- Why I went to the woods / Henry David Thoreau -- And ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- Reading the river / Mark Twain -- Beauty : when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker -- Consider the lobster / David Foster Wallace -- Clamorous to learn / Eudora Welty -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- A shark in the mind of one contemplating wilderness / Terry Tempest Williams -- Bird of paradise : the hunter and the poet / E.O. Wilson -- Right stuff / Tom Wolfe -- Duke of deception / Geoffrey Wolfe -- A vindication of the rights of woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Death of the moth / Virginia Woolf -- Rise of the rest / Fareed Zakaria. |
| Subject |
College readers.
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College readers. |
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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English language -- Rhetoric. |
| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises.
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| Subject |
Report writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Report writing. |
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Essays.
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Essays. |
| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises.
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| Added Author |
DiYanni, Robert.
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| Added Title |
100 great essays |
| ISBN |
9780321872630 |
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0321872630 |
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9780134053387 |
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0134053389 |
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