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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays)
The Best American Essays (Best American Essays)
by Mary Oliver
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Edited by the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Edwidge Danticat, author ofBrother, I Am Dying,this classic collection of essays showcases the year's best.... (read more)

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50 Essays: Portable Anthology (3RD 11 Edition)
50 Essays: Portable Anthology (3RD 11 Edition)
by Samuel Cohen
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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don't stop at the price. Its carefully chosen selections include enough classic essays to reassure instructors, and enough high-interest and high... (read more)

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Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics)
Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics)
by Robert J Diyanni
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An affordable reader with 50 classic and contemporary readings.  Alphabetically organized by author, for ease and flexiblity.... (read more)

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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays)
The Best American Essays (Best American Essays)
by Chistopher Hitchens
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The provocative and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens takes the helm of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this perennial favorite that is “reliable and yet still surprising—the best of the best” (Kirkus Reviews).... (read more)

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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) 2007
The Best American Essays (Best American Essays) 2007
by David Foster Wallace (Editor)
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Edited by the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Edwidge Danticat, author ofBrother, I Am Dying,this classic collection of essays showcases the year's best.... (read more)

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The Best American Essays of the Century
The Best American Essays of the Century
by Joyce Carol Oates
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This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of Americas tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group... (read more)

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The Best American Essays (Best American Essays)
The Best American Essays (Best American Essays)
by Adam Gopnik
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Edited by the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Edwidge Danticat, author ofBrother, I Am Dying,this classic collection of essays showcases the year's best.... (read more)

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing)
by Jerome Groopman
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“The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit.”—Jerome... (read more)

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Ordinary Magic: Everyday Life as Spiritual Path
Ordinary Magic: Everyday Life as Spiritual Path
by John Welwood
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Spiritual practice and meditation are often thought of as being the province of priests, monks, and nuns—those few individuals who have returned from the preoccupations of day-to-day life. This inspiring book reveals how the simple practice of... (read more)

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The Best American Magazine Writing (Best American Magazine Writing)
The Best American Magazine Writing (Best American Magazine Writing)
by American Society Of Magazine Editors
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This year's selection includes William Langewiesche's probing investigation in Vanity Fair of the slaughter of twenty-four Iraqis in Haditha; C. J. Chivers's chilling account in Esquire of the 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, which killed 331 people, 186... (read more)

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The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years
The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years
by Outside Magazine
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The editors of the award-winning "Outside" magazine have selected over 30 essays that together compose some of the finest nonfiction gathered anywhere. Authors include Sebastian Junger, Jon Krakauer, E. Annie Proulx, Jane Smiley, and Tim Cahill.... (read more)

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The Best American Science Writing 2002
The Best American Science Writing 2002
by Matt Ridley
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If, as Matt Ridley suggests, science is simply the search for new forms of ignorance, then perhaps it follows that with science's advances come new questions. Will human genetic engineering become commonplace? Will human cloning ever be safe? Are there... (read more)

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Eight Modern Essayists
Eight Modern Essayists
by William Smart
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This in-depth collection represents 8 essential twentieth-century essayists, with 3-5 pieces by each author. Included are Virginia Woolf, George Owell, E. B. White, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, James McConkey, Cynthia Ozick, and Alice Walker.... (read more)

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The Best American Science Writing (Best American Science Writing)
The Best American Science Writing (Best American Science Writing)
by Sylvia Nasar
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Edited by outrageously curious science writer Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk,andPacking for Mars,this collection brings together the best and brightest writers on science and nature.... (read more)

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (Best American Science & Nature Writing)
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (Best American Science & Nature Writing)
by Steven Pinker
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Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").... (read more)

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New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City
New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City
by John Miller
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Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has... (read more)

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Without a Net : the Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (03 Edition)
Without a Net : the Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (03 Edition)
by Michelle Tea
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While many recent books have thoughtfully examined the plight of the working poor in America, none of the authors of these books is able to claim a working-class background, and there are associated methodological and ethical concerns raised when most of... (read more)

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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2007: The Best American Science and Nature Writing
Best American Science & Nature Writing #2007: The Best American Science and Nature Writing
by Tim Folger
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Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").... (read more)

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The Best American Science Writing 2009 (Best American Science Writing)
The Best American Science Writing 2009 (Best American Science Writing)
by Natalie Angier
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Edited by outrageously curious science writer Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk,andPacking for Mars,this collection brings together the best and brightest writers on science and nature.... (read more)

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3 Minutes Or Less : America's Greatest Writers on the Universal Themes of Life (00 Edition)
3 Minutes Or Less : America's Greatest Writers on the Universal Themes of Life (00 Edition)
by Pen And Faulkner Foundation
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An anthology of never-before-published short essays by America's literary greats. Each October at the PEN Gala, well-known authors take the stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Theatre to ponder the meaning of such universal mysteries as "obsession,"... (read more)

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