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Everything's an Argument by Andrea A Lunsford Publisher Comments This best-selling brief text shows students how to analyze all kinds of arguments — not just essays and editorials, but clothes, cars, ads, and Web site designs — and then how to use what they learn to write their own effective... (read more) List Price $53.25 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings by Donald McQuade Publisher Comments The readings in The Writers Presence are selected exclusively for the quality of the writing. Editors Donald McQuade of the University of California, Berkeley, and Robert Atwan, Series Editor of The Best American Essays scoured hundreds of essays in... (read more) List Price $71.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs Publisher Comments 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing by Gary Colombo Publisher Comments Rereading America remains the most widely adopted book of its kind because of its unique approach to the issue of cultural diversity. Unlike other multicultural composition readers that settle for representing the plurality of American voices and... (read more) List Price $71.00 Your price: $33.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The PhotoReading Whole Mind System by Paul Scheele Publisher Comments You will Photoread the written page at rates exceeding a page per second, directing information into the expanded processing capabilities of your brain. There the information connects with your prior knowledge and becomes useful to accomplishing your... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster Publisher Comments What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface — a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything's an Argument with Readings by Andrea A. Lunsford Publisher Comments This best-selling combination rhetoric and thematically organized reader shows students how to analyze all kinds of arguments — not just essays and editorials, but clothes, cars, ads, and Web site designs — and then how to use what... (read more) List Price $84.50 Your price: $40.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books by J. Peder Zane Publisher Comments Editor Zane asked 125 celebrated authors to choose ten books they loved. The answers revealed some likely suspects, as well as a vast number of books he would never have suspected, including some thoroughly obscure ones. This volume includes a synopsis... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Second Grade Reading Roundup (Fun on the Run) by Christina Wilsdon Publisher Comments Includes 1 copy each of Kindergarten Words Games (Trade Paperback/978-0-307-47947-1), Kindergarten Fun with Numbers (Trade Paperback/978-0-307-47946-4), First Grade Reading Roundup (Trade Paperback/978-0-307-47949-5), First Grade Fun with Numbers (Trade... (read more) Your price: $3.99 New - Mass Market
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Strategies for Successful Writing (Mycomplab) by Robert Von Der Osten Publisher Comments “My Serenity” by Rachel Harvey Critical Edge Chapter 10 Process Analysis: Explaining How Kinds of Process Analysis Papers Ethical Issues Writing a Process Analysis *SAMPLE STUDENT ESSAY OF PROCESS ANALYSIS: “Basic Song Writing... (read more) List Price $102.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blair Reader: Exploring Issues and Ideas by Laurie G Kirszner Publisher Comments The Blair Reader is a thematic reader with over 100 classic and contemporary readings. Themes include family, gender, education, language, and the enviorment. New focus topics include reading on texting and social networking.... (read more) List Price $78.67 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.) by Francine Prose Staff Pick Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The River Reader by Joseph F. Trimmer Publisher Comments THE RIVER READER, 10th Edition (formerly THE RIVERSIDE READER) is a collection of expository essays arranged by rhetorical modes: narration and description, process analysis, comparison and contrast, division and classification, definition, cause and... (read more) Your price: $85.95 New - Trade Paper
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Building Strategies for College Reading: A Text with Thematic Reader by Jane L Mcgrath Publisher Comments This fourth edition remains firmly focused on helping students develop a lame repertoire of reading and study strategies to meet the demands of reading college-level expositor- prose. Features in the fourth edition include: Thematic reading units. Each... (read more) List Price $112.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition (3RD 09 Edition) by Robert Atwan Publisher Comments By pairing essays with other kinds of compositions — a TV show, a news report, a photo, an ad, a cast-off grocery list — Convergences asks students to respond to all kinds of visual and verbal texts. Its organization into six broad... (read more) List Price $75.30 Your price: $54.00 Used - Trade Paper
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10 Days to Faster Reading by Abby Marks Beale Publisher Comments Speed reading used to require months of training. Now you can rev up your reading in just a few minutes a day. With quizzes to determine your present reading level and exercises to quickly introduce new skills, "10 Days to Faster Reading" shows you how... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch Publisher Comments Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren Publisher Comments How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A history of reading by Alberto Manguel Publisher Comments One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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