The Scarlet Professor

Author : Barry Werth
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307766526

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The Scarlet Professor by Barry Werth Pdf

During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to Truman Capote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspect Arvin nevertheless survived McCarthyism. But in September 1960 his apartment was raided, and his cache of beefcake erotica was confiscated, plunging him into confusion and despair and provoking his panicked betrayal of several friends. An utterly absorbing chronicle, The Scarlet Professor deftly captures the essence of a conflicted man and offers a provocative and unsettling look at American moral fanaticism.

Author : Katie Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190624873

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Scarlet A by Katie Watson Pdf

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from an abortion, but few want to reveal that they have done so. Approximately one in five pregnancies in the US ends in abortion. Why is something so common, which has been legal so long, still a source of shame and secrecy? Why is it so regularly debated by politicians, and so seldom divulged from friend to friend? This book explores the personal stigma that prevents many from sharing their abortion experiences with friends and family in private conversation, and the structural stigma that keeps it that way. In public discussion, both proponents and opponents of abortion's legality tend to focus on extraordinary cases. This tendency keeps the national debate polarized and contentious, and keeps our focus on the cases that occur the least. Professor Katie Watson focuses instead on the cases that happen the most, which she calls "ordinary abortion." Scarlet A gives the reflective reader a more accurate impression of what the majority of American abortion practice really looks like. It explains how our silence around private experience has distorted public opinion, and how including both ordinary abortion and abortion ethics could make our public exchanges more fruitful. In Scarlet A, Watson wisely and respectfully navigates one of the most divisive topics in contemporary life. This book explains the law of abortion, challenges the toxic politics that make it a public football and private secret, offers tools for more productive private exchanges, and leads the way to a more robust public discussion of abortion ethics. Scarlet A combines storytelling and statistics to bring the story of ordinary abortion out of the shadows, painting a rich, rarely seen picture of how patients and doctors currently think and act, and ultimately inviting readers to tell their own stories and draw their own conclusions. The paperback edition includes a new preface by the author addressing new cultural developments in abortion discourse and new legal threats to reproductive rights, and updated statistics throughout.

Author : Dan Ariely
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781466899544

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Amazing Decisions by Dan Ariely Pdf

Dan Ariely, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groundbreaking research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology. The internationally renowned author Dan Ariely is known for his incisive investigations into the messy business of decision-making. Now, in Amazing Decisions, his unique perspective—informed by behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology—comes alive in the graphic form. The illustrator Matt R. Trower’s playful and expressive artwork captures the lessons of Ariely’s groundbreaking research as they explore the essential question: How can we make better decisions? Amazing Decisions follows the narrator, Adam, as he faces the daily barrage of choices and deliberations. He juggles two overlapping—and often contradictory—sets of norms: social norms and market norms. These norms inform our thinking in ways we often don’t notice, just as Adam is shadowed by the “market fairy” and the “social fairy,” each compelling him to act in certain ways. Good decision-making, Ariely argues, requires us to identify and evaluate the forces at play under different circumstances, leading to an optimal outcome. Amazing Decisions is a fascinating and entertaining guide to developing skills that will prove invaluable in personal and professional life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074829353

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The Scarlet Letter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jamie Barlowe
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809322730

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The Scarlet Mob of Scribblers by Jamie Barlowe Pdf

"Barlowe examines the causes and consequences of the continuing disregard for women's scholarship. To that end, she chronicles The Scarlet Letter's critical reception, analyzes the history of Hester Prynne as a cultural icon in literature and film, rereads the canonized criticism of the novel, and offers a new reading of Hawthorne's work by rescuing marginalized interpretations from the alternative canon of women critics."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486849706

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The Professor's House by Willa Cather Pdf

This bittersweet tale about a professor's desire to stay in his old study and cling to what used to be on the eve of moving into a new house sparks deep introspection in a story that explores a mid-life crisis and family life in a 1920s Midwestern college town.

Author : Layne Fargo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982132033

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They Never Learn by Layne Fargo Pdf

"Two women ... give bad men exactly what they deserve--one an English professor/serial killer who murders the most evil man she knows each year, and the other a lost college freshman seeking vengeance after her best friend is sexually assaulted at a party"--

Author : Cathryn J. Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1616142243

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A Professor, a President, and a Meteor by Cathryn J. Prince Pdf

Describes how Professor Benjamin Silliman, beginning with his investigation of a meteorite that fell over Weston, Connecticut in the winter of 1807, inspired a generation of American scientists.

Author : Charles Prepolec,J. R. Campbell
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770530539

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Professor Challenger by Charles Prepolec,J. R. Campbell Pdf

This original anthology, from the authors and editors who brought you the Gaslight Sherlock Holmes series, sees Challenger and his stalwart companions including the reporter Malone, big game hunter Lord John Roxton and the skeptical colleague Professor Summerlee, travel across space and witness the ravages of time, narrowly eluding a dinosaur’s bite only to battle against the invasive red bloom of alien foliage, and then plunge deep into the mysteries hidden within the Earth and reach out to the moon and into the heart of the unknown. Strap yourself in for chills, thrills, and challenges to the unknown in exciting new worlds and lost places with literature’s foremost scientific adventurer. Featuring stories by: Simon Kurt Unsworth, Stephen Volk, Guy Adams & James Goss, Lawrence C. Connolly, Mark Morris, Josh Reynolds, John Takis, Wendy N. Wagner, Andrew J. Wilson and J. R. Campbell. With an Introduction by Christopher Roden.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528798419

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The Professor's House by Willa Cather Pdf

How do we continue with life when we no longer have anything to look forward to? Willa Cather ponders the time-old question in this short, intense novel. Professor Godfrey St. Peter leads a successful life. He has a wonderful wife, his two daughters recently married, and he was just awarded an esteemed literary prize. But when it’s time for his hard work to pay off and the Professor’s family is ready to move into their grand new home, he finds he doesn’t want to. He doesn’t want to leave his old house, his comforting study, or his happy memories. Soon he begins to question his reasons for being and wonders whether he has anything left to live for. Willa Cather’s quietly dark novel is split into three sections: ‘The Family’, ‘Tom Outland’s Story’, and ‘The Professor’. In the first section, Cather explores the cynical Professor’s relationships with his family, and it soon becomes evident that a deep grief hangs over them all. A favourite student of the Professor’s and his eldest daughter’s fiance, Tom Outland, passed away during World War I, and the second section explores his remarkable life through the Professor’s reminiscing mind. The final section rejoins the Professor as he considers the next stages of his life and his inevitable death. Originally published in 1925, The Professor’s House is now in a brand new edition, featuring an introductory essay by H. L. Mencken. Willa Cather fans should not miss this American literary classic.

Author : Emily Raboteau
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466861558

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The Professor's Daughter by Emily Raboteau Pdf

A daughter's future and her father's past converge in Emily Raboteau's explosive first novel exploring identity, assimilation, and the legacy of race "My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother, Bernie, winds up in a coma after a freak accident, it's as if she loses a part of herself. All their lives, he has served as her compass, her stronger, better half: Bernie was brilliant when Emma was smart, charismatic when she was awkward, and confident when she was shy. Only Bernie was able to navigate-if not always diplomatically-the terrain of their biracial identity. Now, as the chronic rash that's flared up throughout her life returns with a vengeance, Emma is sleepwalking through her first year at college, left alone to grow into herself. The key to Emma's self-discovery lies in her father's past. Esteemed Princeton professor Bernard Boudreaux is emotionally absent and secretive about his family history. Little does Emma know just how haunted that history is, how tortured the path from the Deep South town to his present Ivy League success has been. Though her father and brother are bound by the past, Emma might just escape. In exhilarating, magical prose, The Professor's Daughter traces the borderlands of race and family, the contested territory that gives birth to rage, confusion, madness, and invisibility. This striking debut marks the arrival of an astonishingly original voice that surges with energy and purpose.

Author : Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:3075665-20

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The professor's experiment by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Pdf

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782022032412

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The Scarlet Plague & Other Works (Set of 3 Bestseller Books by Jack London) The Scarlet Plague/ The Valley of the Moon/ When the World Was Young by Jack London Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0791077675

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter by Harold Bloom Pdf

A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Henry James, Harry Levin, Mark Van Doren, and Terence Martin.

Author : Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226473236

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The Beggar and the Professor by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Pdf

From a wealth of vividly autobiographical writings--diaries, travel journals, memoirs--Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter, born in France in 1499, and his sons, whose rich careers spanned the entire 16th century, from medieval times through the Renaissance and into the Reformation. 26 halftones. 5 maps.