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  • Reading Claudius

    by Caroline Heller ...
    "In Reading Claudius, Caroline Heller does what Rilke called the “heart-work,” exploring moral accountability and the toll exacted by the fact of survival. Her family story begins in pre-war Czechoslovakia, passes through the Nazi holocaust, and continues on in postwar America, affirming that events may end but repercussions never do. A searching and humane memoir." — Sven Birkerts, author The Art ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Telling the Story in the Data

    Narrative Writing for Doctoral Students and Qualitative Researchers

    Edited by Caroline Heller ...
    Traditional dissertations aiming to illuminate the landscapes of education are often too turgid and poorly written to have far-reaching readership. This book examines the inner workings of a doctoral course focused on teaching qualitative researchers strong narrative writing. By the time doctoral students finish their dissertation research, bolstered by theoretical grounding and time in the field, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Every Person Is a Philosopher

    Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams

    Edited by Bill Ayers, Caroline Heller, Janise Hurtig ...
    Series Book 10 - Teaching Contemporary Scholars
    Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect and reparation. Fostering communities of local writers and publishing their work in journals of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Appropriating Thomas Jefferson, 1929-1945

    We Are All Jeffersonians Now

    by Caroline Heller ...
    Series Book 74 - Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik
    This study counters the view that Franklin D. Roosevelt hegemonically exalted Thomas Jefferson to iconic dominance during the Great Depression. It analyzes the diversity of those who appropriated Jefferson to find answers to the socio-economic crisis and modern industrial capitalism. This discourse analysis, spanning the ideological spectrum between 1929–1945, reveals that the creation of the ... Read more

    $92.89 USD

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    The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

    by Sherry Turkle ...
    **“In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on.” —Aziz Ansari, author of Modern RomanceRenowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Soul of America

    The Battle for Our Better Angels

    by Jon Meacham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.“Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—NewsdayONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • A BEST BOOK OF THE ... Read more

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  • Writing Fiction

    A Guide to Narrative Craft

    by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Experiment

    The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series series The American Experiment
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he ... Read more

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  • You Just Don't Understand

    Women and Men in Conversation

    by Deborah Tannen ...
    From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic on interpersonal relations draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words.Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The S Word

    A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism

    by John Nichols ...
    This fascinating history of socialism is “a chilling reminder of how much rich American history has been erased by shallow messaging” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine).During the Cold War, it became a dirty word in the United States, but “socialism” runs like a red thread through the nation’s history, an integral part of its political consciousness since the founding of the republic. In ... Read more

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  • The Sweet Spot

    The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeOne of Behavioral Scientist's Notable Books of 2021.. ... Read more

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  • Hammer and Hoe

    Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

    by Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: ... Read more

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