Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“prof david dowling”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “prof david dowling”
Skip side bar filters

  • Emerson's Protégés

    Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

    by Prof. David Dowling ...
    In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, Emerson freely offered them his time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and profoundly ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Beautiful and Damned with FREE Audiobook+Author's Biography+Active TOC

    The Great Gatsby's Author

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald ...
    FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Active Table of ContentsThe Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Café Society. As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Devil's Dictionary

    by Ambrose Bierce ...
    The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical reference book written by Ambrose Bierce. The book offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language, lampooning cant and political doublespeak, as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms such as Salder Bupp and Orm Pludge; the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview

    And other Conversations

    by Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated ManBut he also lived a fascinating life outside the parameters of sci-fi, and was a masterful raconteur of his own story, as he reveals in his wide-ranging and in-depth final interview with his acclaimed biographer, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Narrative Prosthesis

    Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

    by David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked

    by Curtis Smith ...
    Series Book 2 - Bookmarked
    Slaughterhouse-Five is a seminal novel of contemporary literature, a rumination on war, space, time and the meaning of life and death. In Kurt Vonnegut’s existential classic, we meet Billy Pilgrim, a man who has become unmoored in time after being abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a non-linear universe where time has no meaning, we revisit key moments in Pilgrim’s life, in ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

    Edited by Janet Beer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Vital Lie

    Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama

    by Anthony S. Abbott ...
    The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • E. B. White

    The Essayist as First-Class Writer

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White's distinctiveness as an essayist. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Hoosier Holiday

    by Theodore Dreiser ...
    "Theodore Dreiser, road warrior . . . Dreiser's account of his homecoming will touch a familiar and responsive chord in anyone who has undertaken one." — The Washington Post Book WorldBy 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over twenty years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with the idea of driving from New York ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Handbook of Modernism Studies

    by Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    Series series Critical Theory Handbooks
    Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature.Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research dataAdopts an original ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex

    Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone

    by M. Merck, S. Sandford ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD