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  • Managing Martians

    A Memoir

    by Donna Shirley ...
    Donna Shirley's 35-year career as an aerospace engineer reached a jubilant pinnacle in July 1997 when Sojourner--the solar-powered, self-guided, microwave-oven-sized rover--was seen exploring the Martian landscape in Pathfinder's spectacular images from the surface of the red planet. The event marked a milestone in space, but for Donna Shirley, the leader of the mostly male team that designed and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Breakthrough

    From Pandemic Panic to Promising Practice

    Edited by Shirley Marie McCarther, Donna M. Davis ...
    Series series History of Education
    The History of Education Series presents historical analyses and interpretations of matters of concern to education. Each volume in the series is developed and edited in partnership with the Organization of Educational Historians, who, since 1965, has endeavored to promote the pursuit of educational history through opportunities for presentation and discussion of papers at annual meetings, to ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Ploughshares Winter 2022-2023

    by Ladette Randolph, John Skoyles, Alice Jolly, Natalie Bakopoulos, Carmen Giménez Smith, Grace Li, Sara Elkamel, Mimi Schwartz, Kirsty Gunn, Lily Lloyd Burkhalter, Sarah M. Brownsberger, John Balaban, Sven Birkerts, Kashona Stevens, Serkan Gorkemli, Keith S. Wilson, Jim Whiteside, Donna Vorreyer, Ginny Threefoot, Shirley Stephenson, Matthew Sumpter, Nora Hikari, David O'Connell, Charles Rafferty, D. Nurkse, Deshawn McKinney, Jenny Molberg, Cate Lycurgus, Zach Linge, You Li, Christina Hutchins, David Kirby, Maureen Langloss, Luci Huhn, Kate Gaskin, Melissa Fite Johnson, Edison Dupree, Cara Dees, Nathan Blansett, Bruce Bond, Martyn Crucefix, Nancy Feng Liang, D.M. Aderibigbe, Katie Berta ...
    The Winter 2022-23 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporaryAmerican literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in avariety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton amongminnows.”The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • Making Waves

    My Journey to Winning Olympic Gold and Defeating the East German Doping Program

    by Shirley Babashoff, Chris Epting, Mark Spitz ...
    In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records. Prior to the 1990s, she was the most successful U.S. female Olympian and, in her prime, was widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer in the world.Heading into the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Babashoff was pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated and followed closely ... Read more

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    by Cheryl Strayed ...
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    Curated by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild, this volume shares intimate perspectives from some of today's most acclaimed writers.As Cheryl Strayed explains in her introduction, "the invisible, unwritten last line of every essay should be and nothing was ever the same again." The reader, in other words, should feel the ground shift, if even only a bit. In this edition of the ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2020

    Edited by André Aciman ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2011

    Edited by Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others.In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form—a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today's spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, "when we ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2016

    Edited by Jonathan Franzen ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The National Book Award–winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from ... Read more

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  • Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

    Work from 1970 to the Present

    Edited by Lex Williford, Michael Martone ...
    From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, and more.Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country, this collection ... Read more

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    by Michael Robbins ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
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  • The Best American Essays 2018

    by Hilton Als ...
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  • The Best American Essays 2015

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    Series series The Best American Series
    "22 contributors explore a wide range of experiences" in this "illuminating, invaluable" anthology edited by the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs ( Publishers Weekly).Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water. The writers featured in this volume are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide ... Read more

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