Download Hitch Your Wagon To A Star And Other Quotations From Ralph Waldo Emerson full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Hitch Your Wagon To A Star And Other Quotations From Ralph Waldo Emerson ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Keith Frome |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780231103725 |
Possibly the most quoted man in American letters, Emerson is represented in most general quote books but this is the first devoted to Emerson alone. Here are 750 quotes arranged by subject so that readers can easily locate the ideas that interest and inspire them.
| Author | : Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780231103268 |
-- Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Lincoln Herald
| Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Quotations, American |
| ISBN | : 9780231103886 |
. Simplify, Simplify distills Thoreau's massive body of work into 750 of his most profound ideas on subjects ranging from the ecology movement to English literature, from Confucius to John Milton.
| Author | : Larry G. Hinman |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2000-12-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0313091471 |
An outstanding research guide for undergraduate students of American literature, this best-selling book is essential when it comes to researching American authors. Bracken and Hinman identify and describe the best and most current sources, both in print and online, for nearly 300 American writers whose works are included in the most frequently used literary anthologies. Students will know exactly what information is available and where to find it.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0231112912 |
From menopause to moving in, from losing weight to starting a business, this organized book is filled with 1,500 quotations that capture the mundane and the magnificent and covers 150 occasions.
| Author | : Mark Twain |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780231104982 |
Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.
| Author | : Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780231104784 |
How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's eco-system impact on biodiversity loss over the long term--not in the next ten or even fifty years, but on the vast temporal scale be dealt with by earth scientists? This volume brings together data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology to answer this question.
| Author | : Oscar Wilde |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780231104562 |
More than 1,000 quotations from Wilde on subjects from absinthe to Zola as well as selections from personal letters filled with poignant remarks on his life and the human condition.
| Author | : John P. Miller |
| Publisher | : Corwin Press |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2005-07-20 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1483361713 |
"A clearly written, concise, and inspired book..." -Lourdes Arguelles Professor of Education and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University Blending philosophy, research, and three decades of practice, the author offers an engaging discussion of essential principles of timeless learning, including attention, contemplation, connection, participation, responsibility, wholeness, and joy. Educators in today′s schools can apply these principles, models, and methods to inform instruction in their own classrooms and teaching practices. Some of the benefits timeless learning can bring include: Helping students develop deep joy, wholeness, awe and wonder, and a sense of purpose Improving attention, alertness, perception, and memory Using meditation and contemplation to help reduce stress, anxiety, heart rate, and blood pressure
| Author | : Wolfgang Mieder |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2021-09-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1800731329 |
Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Compiled by Wolfgang Mieder, a key figure in the field of proverb studies, this compendium features nearly 1,500 proverbs with American origins, spanning the 17th century to present day, including a scholarly introduction exploring the history of proverbs in America, the structure and variants of these proverbs, known authors and sources, and cultural values expressed in these proverbs. Along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship, this dictionary offers a glimpse into the history of American social and cultural attitudes through uniquely American language.
