Real Writing: Modernizing the Old School Essay
Mitchell Nobis, Daniel Laird, Carrie Nobis and Dawn Reed
Book
High-school writing prompts often ask students to provide overly simplified responses to complicated...
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Book
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
Thomas Malthus and Robert Mayhew
Book
Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment...
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History
Book
One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to...
The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas
Charles Coulston Gillispie and Theodore M. Porter
Book
Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as...