Nine Short Essays

Author : Michael Bierut
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616890711

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Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut Pdf

Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's intelligent and accessible texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye, as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066144883

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Nine Short Essays by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

"Nine Short Essays" is a collection of sketches on different topics by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner. He was a great friend of Mark Twain, with whom he shared his light sense of humor and wit, which he generously supplies in the presented here works. By nature, they are observations or the author's recollections on different topics, such as the essence of truthfulness or the charming atmosphere of the night spent in the Gardens of Tuileries.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Essays
ISBN : OCLC:1013790395

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Nine Short Essays by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Author : Ross Gay
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781643755472

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The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay Pdf

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, and St. Louis Public Radio** The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with exactly the book we need in these unsettling times. Margaret Roach of The New York Times says, “Yes, please. I'll have another dose of delight.” In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

Author : Michael Bierut
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781616896768

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Now You See It and Other Essays on Design by Michael Bierut Pdf

"Design is a way to engage with real content, real experience," writes celebrated essayist Michael Bierut in this follow-up to his best-selling Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design (2007). In more than fifty smart and accessible short pieces from the past decade, Bierut engages with a fascinating and diverse array of subjects. Essays range across design history, practice, and process; urban design and architecture; design hoaxes; pop culture; Hydrox cookies, Peggy Noonan, baseball, The Sopranos; and an inside look at his experience creating the "forward" logo for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Other writings celebrate such legendary figures as Jerry della Femina, Alan Fletcher, Charley Harper, and his own mentor, Massimo Vignelli. Bierut's longtime work in the trenches of graphic design informs everything he writes, lending depth, insight, and humor to this important and engrossing collection.

Author : Katherine O. Acheson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551119922

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Writing Essays About Literature by Katherine O. Acheson Pdf

This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper. Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.

Author : J. D. Salinger
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316459983

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Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger Pdf

The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of Salinger's fictional Glass family. Nine exceptional stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and frequently affecting, Nine Stories sits alongside Salinger's very best work--a treasure that will passed down for many generations to come. The stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut Just Before the War with the Eskimos The Laughing Man Down at the Dinghy For Esmé--with Love and Squalor Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period Teddy

Author : Jane Hirshfield
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780060929480

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Nine Gates by Jane Hirshfield Pdf

A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art. A person who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. Delving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. Nine Gates is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world -- alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably. In part a primer for the general reader, Nine Gates is also a manual for the working writer, with each "gate" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, Nine Gates is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive.

Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780063290945

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Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera Pdf

"A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading." —New York Times Book Review "Testaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued within the margins. And frequently reread." — Washington Post A brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the twentieth century’s masters of fiction, Testaments Betrayed is written like a novel: the same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book, as do the principal themes that preoccupy the author. Kundera is a passionate defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due a work of art and its creator’s wishes. The betrayal of both—often by their most passionate proponents—is one of the key ideas that informs this strikingly original and elegant book.

Author : Bimal Gurung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798612559481

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9 Short Essays by Bimal Gurung Pdf

9 Short Essays, is a collection of short essays written over a period of long time. Please see the contents for quick overview of essays,

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 149448109X

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Nine Short Essays by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

The short essays in this book are: (1) A Night in the Garden of the Tuileries, (2) Truthfulness, (3) The Pursuit of Happiness, (4) Literature and the State, (5) The Life-Saving and Life Prolonging Art, (6) “H.H.” in Southern California, (7) Simplicity, (8) The English Volunteers During the Late Invasion, and (9) Nathan Hale – 1887. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless essays.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307368454

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Something to Declare by Julian Barnes Pdf

Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes's previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes's appreciation extends from France's vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Here are the prolific and priapic Simenon, Baudelaire, Sand and Sartre, and several dazzling excursions on the prickly genius of Flaubert. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy.

Author : LearningExpress (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1145005886

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501 Writing Prompts by LearningExpress (Organization) Pdf

"This eBook features 501 sample writing prompts that are designed to help you improve your writing and gain the necessary writing skills needed to ace essay exams. Build your essay-writing confidence fast with 501 Writing Prompts!" --

Author : Marina Keegan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476753621

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The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan Pdf

The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan’s posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories “sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story “Cold Pastoral” was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay “Even Artichokes Have Doubts” was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times. Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media. As Marina wrote: “We can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over…We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.” The Opposite of Loneliness is an unforgettable collection of Marina’s essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to impact the world. “How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, Keegan could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful” (People).

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066208882

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The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

"The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner" by Charles Dudley Warner. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.