A Poetry Handbook
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and...
Cracking the SAT Subject Test in Literature, 16th Edition: Everything You Need to Help Score a Perfect 800 (College Test Preparation)
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 800. Equip yourself to ace the SAT Subject Test in Literature with The Princeton Review’s comprehensive study guide—including 4 full-length practice...
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea, an apparently simple fable, represents the mature Hemingway at his best. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...
Switch On Your Brain Every Day: 365 Readings for Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health
According to researchers, the vast majority–a whopping 75-98 percent–of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we...
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today’s students would be conducting...
The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning
The Fallacy Detective has been the best selling text for teaching logical fallacies and introduction to logic for over 15 years.”Can learning logic be fun?...
Julius Caesar (No Fear Shakespeare)
Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays...
501 Spanish Verbs (Barron’s 501 Verbs)
The world’s bestselling Spanish verbs reference book has just gotten better! The authors focus directly on a command of Spanish verbs–and fluency in Spanish starts...
The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You’ve probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual,...
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
The most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves.Mary Norris has spent more than three...