Authors such as Gish Jen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, Ha Jin, Amy Tan, and Maxine Hong Kingston are among the established authors and newly emerging voices profiled in Asian-American Writers. This new volume also discusses their acclaimed works to assist students studying these authors and their writings
Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools into Learning Organizations
How do schools compete with television, computer games, and the Internet to engage the hearts and minds of their students? Phil Schlechty argues that we must develop schools where innovation is encouraged, and students are given work that is truly rigorous, relevant, and exciting. In making this transition, educators must move beyond some of the deeply ingrained and negative conceptions that guide so much of their practice.
The ideal hands–on reference for piano students who want to strengthen their skills and refine their technique––and the perfect companion and next step to the bestselling Piano For Dummies.
AMERICAN WRITERS Supplement XVII Supplement XVII focuses intensely on contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. Fiction writers Max Apple, Charles Baxter, Joanna Scott, Scott Turow, William T. Vollmann, David Markson, Melvin Bukiet, and Anna Quindlen have written substantial novels. They have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, and their fiction has acquired a following of enthusiastic readers, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.
Supplement VII is mostly about contemporary writers, many of whom have received little sustained attention from critics. For example, Julia Alvarez, Tobias Wolff, Sandra Cisneros, Annie Proulx, Jamaica Kincaid, Carol Shields, Richard Bausch, Andre Dubus, and Barbara Kingsolver have been written about in the review pages of newspapers and magazines, and their fiction has acquired a substantial following, but their work has yet to attract significant scholarship.
