Resultados para "On Class" en Literatura y ficción

"Noi ci stiamo difendendo da voi, voi da noi: così le aule diventeranno campi di battaglia, vincerà il più forte, ma la scuola sarà finita." Quella che voleva essere una semplice bravata sollecita le parole di un professore dalle mani e dal cuore di gigante buono. Il pannello svitato di una cattedra nel 1967 si tramuterà nella prima ribellione. Avrà la meglio la nuova, fragile, coesione della classe o qualcuno cederà al timore della punizione?

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been...

"Author Laurie Gelman delivers her second in the Class Mom series in a style no less enthusiastic than her first narration." — AudioFile Magazine In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman’s "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is...

“A must-read for today’s politics” (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America’s class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume. In Bone...

Если уж Гвендолин поехала в соседнюю Академию обмениваться опытом, значит, стоит ждать веселья! Такая девушка не останется в стороне от бурной студенческой жизни! И ничто не сможет этому помешать, даже обнаженный незнакомец в ее постели. Тем более, он оказался новым преподавателем….

""Sarai Walker has done it again. With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal."" —Maria Semple The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her “slyly subversive” (EW) cult-hit Dietland—a feminist gothic about the lone survivor...

Death of an American Beauty is the third in Mariah Fredericks's compelling series, set in Gilded Age New York, featuring Jane Prescott. Jane Prescott is taking a break from her duties as lady’s maid for a week, and plans to begin it with attending the hottest and most scandalous show in town...

James Lee Burke has been hailed as a “national treasure” (Tampa Bay Times), and in his ninth Dave Robicheaux thriller, it’s easy to see why. This taut, twisted tale of corruption in the Louisiana bayou truly brands Burke as “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post). No one was...

“A Death of No Importance has such rich historic detail that you feel as if you’ve been transported to early twentieth century New York. Mariah Fredericks is the best at creating compulsively addictive, fresh, twisty reads.”—Meg Cabot Through her exquisite prose, sharp observation and...

The parents say the schools in this district have a legendary 8 to-1 student-to-teacher ration.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from twenty-four of its writers, a more accurate...