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  • Academic Writing as if Readers Matter

    by Leonard Cassuto ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    A guide to writing with the reader in mindIf you want people to read your writing, it has to be readable. In Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, Leonard Cassuto offers academic writers a direct, practical prescription for writing that will be read and understood: Take care of your reader. With a wealth of examples from the arts and sciences, this short, witty book provides invaluable advice to ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The New PhD

    How to Build a Better Graduate Education

    by Leonard Cassuto, Robert Weisbuch ...
    This book examines the failed graduate school reforms of the past and presents a plan for a practical and sustainable PhD.For too many students, today's PhD is a bridge to nowhere. Imagine an entering cohort of eight doctoral students. By current statistics, four of the eight—50%!—will not complete the degree. Of the other four, two will never secure full-time academic positions. The remaining ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • The Reimagined PhD

    Navigating 21st Century Humanities Education

    by Leanne M Horinko, Jordan M Reed, James M Van Wyck, Leonard Cassuto, Robert Townsend, Robert Weisbuch, Michael J. McGandy0, Augusta Rohrbach1, Joseph M. Vukov2, Melissa Dalgleish3, Karen Wilson4, Stephen Aron5, Vernita Burrell6, William Fenton7, Alexandra M. Lord8, Paula Chambers9 ...
    Long seen as proving grounds for professors, PhD programs have begun to shed this singular sense of mission. Prompted by poor placement numbers and guided by the efforts of academic organizations, administrators and faculty are beginning to feel called to equip students for a range of careers. Yet, graduate students, faculty, and administrators often feel ill-prepared for this pivot. The ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Graduate School Mess

    What Caused It and How We Can Fix It

    by Leonard Cassuto ...
    It is no secret that American graduate education is in disarray. Graduate students take too long to complete their studies and face a dismal academic job market if they succeed. The Graduate School Mess gets to the root of these problems and offers concrete solutions for revitalizing graduate education in the humanities. Leonard Cassuto, professor and graduate education columnist for The Chronicle ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Hard-Boiled Sentimentality

    The Secret History of American Crime Stories

    by Leonard Cassuto ...
    Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the American Novel

    by Clare Virginia Eby, Benjamin Reiss ...
    This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones. Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Baseball

    Edited by Leonard Cassuto, Stephen Partridge ...
    Baseball is much more than a game. As the American national pastime, it has reflected the political and cultural concerns of US society for over 200 years, and generates passions and loyalties unique in American society. This Companion examines baseball in culture, baseball as culture, and the game's global identity. Contributors contrast baseball's massive, big-business present with its ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    This essential anthology of Poe's critical works features items from the Southern Literary Messenger, Graham's Magazine, and other periodicals, reviewing works by Dickens, Hawthorne, Cooper, and many others. The Theory of Poetry — consisting of "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Rationale of Verse," and "The Poetic Principle" — appears as well. Introduction. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser

    Edited by Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are ... Read more

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    A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

    by Alan Jacobs ...
    "Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." **—David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.**As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poe's complete tales and poems, such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all ... Read more

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  • Raising Critical Thinkers

    A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age

    by Julie Bogart ...
    A guide for parents to help children of all ages process the onslaught of unfiltered information in the digital age.Education is not solely about acquiring information and skills across subject areas, but also about understanding how and why we believe what we do. At a time when online media has created a virtual firehose of information and opinions, parents and teachers worry how students will ... Read more

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