Power Through The Written Word

Author : Robin C. Scarcella
Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780838446683
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Through the Written Word written by Robin C. Scarcella and published by Heinle & Heinle Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the Tapestry philosophy and it also features: multicultural reading modules in thematic units that explore the many facets of personal and societal power; unit-opening surveys provide unique input on the theme under discussion; audio tape supplements the readings and provides students with additional exposure to meaningful text.

Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812988272
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Written World written by Martin Puchner and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature, he shows us how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. We meet Murasaki, a lady from eleventh-century Japan who wrote the first novel, The Tale of Genji, and follow the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes as he battles pirates, both seafaring and literary. We watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto. Puchner takes us to Troy, Pergamum, and China, speaks with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, and introduces us to the wordsmiths of the oral epic Sunjata in West Africa. This delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions—writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself—that have shaped people, commerce, and history. In a book that Elaine Scarry has praised as “unique and spellbinding,” Puchner shows how literature turned our planet into a written world. Praise for The Written World “It’s with exhilaration . . . that one hails Martin Puchner’s book, which asserts not merely the importance of literature but its all-importance. . . . Storytelling is as human as breathing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Puchner has a keen eye for the ironies of history. . . . His ideal is ‘world literature,’ a phrase he borrows from Goethe. . . . The breathtaking scope and infectious enthusiasm of this book are a tribute to that ideal.”—The Sunday Times (U.K.) “Enthralling . . . Perfect reading for a long chilly night . . . [Puchner] brings these works and their origins to vivid life.”—BookPage “Well worth a read, to find out how come we read.”—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

Author : Richard Webster
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 9780738700014
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Write Your Own Magic written by Richard Webster and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Write Your Own Magicshows you how you can use the incredible magical power of words to make your dreams a reality. This guidebook presents the three magic steps essential to manifesting exactly what you want, for dreams both big and small. There is no limit to what you can ask for as long as your requests hurt no one. For instance, you might want: ·vibrant health ·a fulfilling relationship ·greater happiness ·more money ·a better job ·stronger faith ·increased creativity and intuition All of this, and much more, can be brought into your life when you follow the step-by-step instructions in this magical guidebook. Write Your Own Magic will show you how to create original white magic spells that make your hopes and dreams come true. First, you'll learn how to determine your life's purpose. Next, you'll find out how to write magic that makes your dreams come true in six important areas-physical, spiritual, mental, financial, social, and intuitive. Finally, you'll discover how to use the hidden power of words-sacred names and secret writings, magic diaries and dissolving ink, along with other simple white magic techniques-to make your desires, hopes, and wishes come true!

Author : Nathan H. Mager
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780688032951
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Writing, Power Speaking written by Nathan H. Mager and published by William Morrow & Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explanations of basic techniques used by writers and speakers to create effective expression incorporate quotations from Julius Caesar to Carl Stokes to illustrate two hundred easy-to-use devices

Author : Mike Shatzkin
Publisher : Mike Shatzkin
ISBN 13 : 0986939706
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shatzkin Files written by Mike Shatzkin and published by Mike Shatzkin. This book was released on with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Elbow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199741042
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing With Power written by Peter Elbow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises promoting it are really not difficult at all. Employing a cookbook approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes: for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition, discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques, how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the production of writing and the revision of it. From students and teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in whatever it is we set down on paper.

Author : Pamela H. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226818241
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Lived Experience to the Written Word written by Pamela H. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a "new philosophy" that sought to investigate nature in a new way. Smith shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued to the present day and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge"--

Author : Marita Golden
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307720772
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Word written by Marita Golden and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways. In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual borders of their communities and broadening their sense of self. Edwidge Danticat movingly recounts the first time she encountered a Black character in a book and how this changed her worldview forever; Edward P. Jones speaks openly about being raised by an illiterate mother; J. California Cooper discusses the spiritual sources of her literary inspiration; Nathan McCall explains how reading saved his life while in prison; Pearl Cleage muses eloquently about how other people’s stories help one make one’s own way in the world; and world-renowned historian John Hope Franklin—in one of the last interviews he gave before his death—touchingly recalls his childhood in the segregated South and how reading opened his mind to life’s greater possibilities. The stories that emerge from these in-depth interviews not only provide an important record of the creative life of leading Black writers but also explore the vast cultural and spiritual benefits of reading and writing, and they support the growing initiative to encourage people to read as both a passion and a pastime.

Author : Lance Lucky Looney LLC.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983326908
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The i Like Book written by Lance Lucky Looney LLC. and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Elbow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195120183
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing with Power written by Peter Elbow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, "Writing with Power" provides readers (and writers) with various methods for getting words down on paper; for revising; for dealing with an audience; for getting feedback; and other recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing.