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This less expensive, streamlined edition of Your College Experience presents a straightforward, realistic, and intelligent review of the skills students need to succeed in college. The text focuses on the academic skills taught in college success courses while additional coverage of emotional intelligence, learning styles, diversity, and money help students get off to a great start.While maintaining its hallmark theme of goal setting, the new ...

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Excerpt from Extracts and Sketches From My Journal of a Year's Travel in the Orient and Europe: With the Usual Expense, Hotel Menu, Tailor, Millinery and Shopping Accounts Omitted The notes on the pages of my Journal that are under scored as special, I have selected. As to those you know about (and I assume there are a few that you may not know of), do not waste your time with them. If there are others, on which a new sidelight, either with a...

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Madman. Prophet. Magician. Hippie. Murderer. Who is the Sunlight Man? In The Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner's vision of America in the turbulent 1960s embraces an unconventional cast of conventional citizens in the small rural town of Batavia, New York. Sheriff Fred Clumly is trying desperately to unravel mysteries surrounding a disorderly, nameless drifter called "The Sunlight Man, " who has been jailed for painting the word "LOVE" across ...

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When Gus Keene, one of the best interrogation artists or "confessors" the British Secret Intelligence Service has ever known, is blown to bits in a car explosion, the service calls his friend and former associate "Big Herbie" Kruger out of retirement to investigate. As Kruger delves into his friend's past and the black arts of a "confessor", he discovers a strange fact--the victim was not only a master at uncovering the truth, but of concealin...

Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, "Your College Experience" offers students practical help in making the transition to college and getting the most out of their time there. Speaking with evident respect for students at all kinds of institutions, with all kinds of learning styles, and with all kinds of backgrounds, the authors ask them to consider their own goals, and their purposes for being...

In diesem Klassiker der phantastischen Literatur erscheint die altenglische Sage unter vertauschten Vorzeichen. Gardner schreibt aus der Perspektive Grendels, des Monsters, eines wilden und einsamen Wesens, das mit seiner Mutter in einer Höhle lebt. Grendel ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen seinem wilden, animalischen Tötungstrieb und einem herausragenden Verstand, der ihn zur Sprache und zu einem komplexen Verständnis der Welt befähigt. Er...

This compilation of essays and reviews, gathered posthumously from the "New York Times Book Review" and other publications, solidifies John Gardner's legacy as a consummate teacher and controversial critic with a provocative sense of humor. Writing about his fellow craftsmen, John Gardner offers piercing insights into those whose works he admired and those whose works he didn't. In exacting unapologetic evaluations upon such writers as Saul Be...

Wie proza wil schrijven moet talent hebben. Maar talent alleen is niet voldoende. Gardner, gerenommeerd romanschrijver en schrijfdocent, gaat ervan uit dat een schrijver eerst inzicht moet krijgen in de techniek van het schrijven voordat hij een kunstwerk kan creëren. In het eerste deel van De kunst van het schrijven behandelt hij de vraag wat fictie nu eigenlijk is. Aan de hand van talloze voorbeelden uit de wereldliteratuur laat hij zien wel...

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Professor James Moriarty - arch-enemy of Sherlock Holmes - left the underworld of Victorian London behind several years ago when he was forced to flee to America. Now he has returned home to find that the huge criminal network he set up has been seized by 'gentleman' crime lord Sir Jack Idell, alias Idle Jack. There's no other option: Idle Jack must fall. But the new crime boss is not an easy target and he'll use any method possible to secure ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

So you think you know what Identity Theft is? What if you are wrong? If you think it is about a man talking with a woman's voice and a big joke, you're at risk. The fact is, whether you are a private citizen or a business owner, not knowing what Identity Theft is and what you can do about it may be a dangerous liability. As a private citizen, not knowing about the 5 types of Identity Theft could be putting you and your family at risk. As a bus...

John Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love

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The final novel by John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, originally published in 1982 just months before his untimely death in a motorcycle accident, is a tour de force. The protagonist Peter Mickelsson, a former star philosophy professor at Brown, relocates to Binghamton University. On the verge of bankruptcy, separated from his wife, in questionable mental health, and drinking heavily, Mickelsson decides to buy a country house in northeastern P...