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How To Write Great Essays
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How To Write Great Essays
How To Write Great Essays
Every student needs to be able to write essays. How to Write Great Essays stresses the importance of clarity, word choice, and organization in essay writing. This book also helps readers build their knowledge of correct grammar and punctuation and familiarize them with editing, revising, and proofreading essays. Sample writing prompts and essays reinforce what students learn in this book.

 
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What Ifs? of American History
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What Ifs? of American HistoryWhat If?s of American History (What If?)
by Robert Cowley

An all-American collection of essays on the pivotal moments in our nation's history by award-winning historians, the third in the bestselling series.
The 18 contributors to this latest installment of the What If? series are indeed eminent: they include David McCullough, Tom Fleming and Robert Dallek (though series editor Cowley might have found more than one woman for his roster). For historians whose works are bound by facts, there must have been pleasure in letting their imaginations engage instead in speculation, though the "shadow universe" presented here is still rooted in the historical record and reflects back on it. In "Might the Mayflower not have sailed?", for example, Theodore K. Rabb enumerates a series of "strokes of luck" that enabled the Pilgrims to come to America, including Sir Edwin Sandys's propitious takeover of the Virginia Company. And in "What if Watergate Was Still Just an Upscale Address?", Lawrence Malkin and John Stacks wonder what would have happened Nixon hadn't been forced to resign the presidency. Americans would be less cynical, they speculate, and, more surprisingly, the U.S. might have had a national health insurance plan. Other essays ask fascinating questions about the the Civil War and the Cuban missile crisis. A pleasure for history buffs longing to engage in some footloose imagination, this book drives home the fact that even momentous political events can hinge on a few uncontrollable events. Maps and b&w photos.
The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. The essays are chock-full of provocative ideas; they are as accessible to the general reader as they are to the scholar; and they are the perfect gift for the dedicated history buff on anyone's list.

 
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The Follies of Globalisation Theory: Polemical Essays
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The Follies of Globalisation Theory: Polemical Essays
The Follies of Globalisation Theory: Polemical Essays
Rosenberg argues that fashionable preoccupations with spatiality have generated deep intellectual confusions among globalization theorists: the more clearly they attempt to articulate their arguments the more equivocal and evasive those arguments become. After first looking at the broad field of international relations, Rosenberg submits Anthony Giddens's influential The Consequences of Modernity to a thorough, often highly entertaining interrogation, and concludes by drawing out the implications of his critique for globalization theory in general.

 
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